Re: [WiX-users] Conditionally Show Dialog Button based on Installer action (installed vs. removed vs. repaired, etc)

2010-07-14 Thread Dan Hoeger
INSTALLED is still undefined at the end of the initial install. So you would want the condition below to be "NOT INSTALLED" to be true for the initial install. -Original Message- From: Jeremy Rimer [mailto:jeremyri...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 10:25 AM To: General discu

[WiX-users] COM+ registration for a 64 bit assembly.

2010-03-03 Thread Dan Hoeger
I was trying to use Heat.exe to generate the registry entries but this fails because heat is 32 bit and the assembly I'm trying to get the registry information for is 64 bit. What are we supposed to use to get the right registration entries for this? Also, I see references to a Complus extensio

[WiX-users] Copying a directory for an install

2009-08-06 Thread Dan Hoeger
We are installing a web application and we are dependent on another project that installs to the root web site only. I would prefer to use a merge module from this company but they said we should just copy the files we need from their installed directory. So I'm looking for some advice. Is the

Re: [WiX-users] Verification of user account

2009-01-19 Thread Dan Hoeger
I didn't see a response to this does anyone have a sample of this? -Original Message- From: Anupama Nair [mailto:an0032...@techmahindra.com] Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 1:05 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Verification of user account Hi, Can somebody

[WiX-users] Fix an existing install prior to upgrade

2008-10-21 Thread Dan Hoeger
I've got an issue with an old install on a system that we are upgrading. The issue is that one of the custom actions is depending on a property that is only available during a UI install and when an upgrade is performed the previous install is removed silently and the custom action fails because

Re: [WiX-users] Generate MSI during install

2008-05-16 Thread Dan Hoeger
Check out the windows installer SDK there are api's to allow you to edit an MSI. I would suggest just creating the client MSI and then using a custom action to edit some properties during the server install. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phil Sayers Sent: Friday

Re: [WiX-users] Help with ICE38 and KeyPath installing to a folder on the Desktop

2008-02-21 Thread Dan Hoeger
I can't connect to Rob's Blog archive for some reason and he's Out of the office right now. I'm running into this same error and need to resolve this ASAP. Does anyone have the text? Thanks, Dan From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Arnson Sent: Wednesday, January

Re: [WiX-users] Light giving a System.NullReferenceException

2008-02-20 Thread Dan Hoeger
I believe it is an environment issue because this is working great on every other machine and even on that machine with a different login. From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 12:35 AM To: Dan Hoeger Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX

Re: [WiX-users] Light giving a System.NullReferenceException

2008-02-19 Thread Dan Hoeger
Dan From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 10:18 AM To: Dan Hoeger Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Light giving a System.NullReferenceException Dan Hoeger wrote: We are using Version 3 build 2420 That's a very old build o

Re: [WiX-users] Light giving a System.NullReferenceException

2008-02-19 Thread Dan Hoeger
We are using Version 3 build 2420 From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 9:47 AM To: Dan Hoeger Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Light giving a System.NullReferenceException Dan Hoeger wrote: One of our developers is seeing this on

[WiX-users] Light giving a System.NullReferenceException

2008-02-19 Thread Dan Hoeger
One of our developers is seeing this on his machine when he builds. Unhandled Exception: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. I was able to log into this machine and go to the same directory and build clean. Has anyone seen this before? Is there

Re: [WiX-users] Installing a COM Server EXE

2007-10-04 Thread Dan Hoeger
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 4:37 PM To: Dan Hoeger Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Installing a COM Server EXE Hi Dan, Did you ever receive an answer to this question? I've been having a similar difficulty and I didn't get much more from this mailing list

[WiX-users] Installing a COM Server EXE

2007-09-07 Thread Dan Hoeger
What is the best way to register this Com server Tallow or Heat only seem to work with DLL files that support DLLRegisterServer Do we make a custom action that launches the EXE with the -regserver and a corresponding -unregister for the install, uninstall and rollback? What have other people do

[WiX-users] Heat not generating Wix code that compiles

2007-08-21 Thread Dan Hoeger
I'm getting the following error when I run candle with a file that includes the output from: Heat.exe file Drop2Ctrl.ocx -nologo -out drop2ctrl.wxi 1>d:\enlistment\axmain\source\setup\mmwix\clientmm\Drop2Ctrl.wxi (11) : error CNDL0010 : The Class/@Server attri bute was not found; it is require

[WiX-users] Can Wix V3 be used on a shipping product?

2007-08-21 Thread Dan Hoeger
I remember seeing a statement a while back that said that V3 should not be used on a product that is shipping any time soon. Has that status changed? If so what build should I use? Thanks, Dan - This SF.net email is sponso

Re: [WiX-users] Prevent MSI to be invoked directly

2007-02-21 Thread Dan Hoeger
See below. From: Ricardo Lopes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 9:36 AM To: Dan Hoeger Cc: John Vottero; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: Re: [WiX-users] Prevent MSI to be invoked directly [John] I didn't know about the IExpress, looks nice, shouldn&#

Re: [WiX-users] Prevent MSI to be invoked directly

2007-02-21 Thread Dan Hoeger
Here is what we use: DIRECTEXECUTE = 1 OR REMOVE = "ALL" OR REINSTALL="ALL" OR PATCH OR MSIPATCHREMOVE Then from your bootstrapper you need to add DIRECTEXECUTE=1 to the command line Thanks, Dan From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Vottero Sent: Wednesday, F

Re: [WiX-users] what determines the Icon that shows up in Add Remove Programs?

2007-02-12 Thread Dan Hoeger
That did it. From: Levi Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 3:19 PM To: Dan Hoeger Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] what determines the Icon that shows up in Add Remove Programs? Set the ARPPRODUCTICON property to the name of your icon

[WiX-users] what determines the Icon that shows up in Add Remove Programs?

2007-02-12 Thread Dan Hoeger
I'm trying to figure out how to get my install to use a particular Icon. Most applications use a custom Icon but my installs all contain just the plain Windows Install default Icon. How do I get it to use a specified Icon? I don't see anything in the doc and couldn't find anything on msdn for

[WiX-users] How does Candle or Light determine if an assembly is .Net or Win32?

2007-01-29 Thread Dan Hoeger
We have some .Net files that we are installing in the GAC and even though we specified ASSEMBLY=.net some of them are getting installed in GAC_32 and some are installed in GAC_MSIL. It looks like we can specify ProcessorArchitecture=msil or x86 but I was wondering what is used to determine if i

[WiX-users] NGen uninstall

2007-01-24 Thread Dan Hoeger
I'm using the NativeImage and the custom actions but after uninstall there are still files left on the system. Is there something special we have to do for uninstall? - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join

[WiX-users] Any examples on how to do NGen?

2007-01-18 Thread Dan Hoeger
I would like to include Ngen in our install. It sounds like I can use NetFX but I cannot find this in the documentation and did not see any examples anywhere. Anyone have an example they would care to share? Thanks, Dan -

Re: [WiX-users] Installing service parameters with WiX

2007-01-15 Thread Dan Hoeger
This is how we've done it -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Oliver Robinson Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 8:20 AM To: wix

Re: [WiX-users] What happened to Tallow.exe

2007-01-04 Thread Dan Hoeger
give any kind of error or anything they just don't show up. Thanks, Dan From: Levi Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 4:01 PM To: Dan Hoeger; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] What happened to Tallow.exe I have never tried it with an ocx

Re: [WiX-users] What happened to Tallow.exe

2007-01-04 Thread Dan Hoeger
get any of the dllselfreg registry settings. So I'm guessing that heat is not a complete replacement for Tallow or am I missing something? Thanks, Dan From: Levi Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 3:43 PM To: Dan Hoeger; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subj

Re: [WiX-users] What happened to Tallow.exe

2007-01-04 Thread Dan Hoeger
Where do I find documentation on Heat? How do I use this to extract the registration information the way I could with Tallow.exe? Thanks, Dan From: Cullen Waters Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 3:33 PM To: Dan Hoeger; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] What happened to

[WiX-users] What happened to Tallow.exe

2007-01-04 Thread Dan Hoeger
I'm having trouble with this on Vista so I thought I would download v3.0.2420.0 and it doesn't have this exe. Without this tool what is the recommended way to extract the registration information for a DLL? Thanks, Dan - T

Re: [WiX-users] help with Tallow.exe error on Vista

2007-01-04 Thread Dan Hoeger
I've got it marked as run as administrator and I'm running it from an admin console window. Is there something else I can do? Thanks, Dan From: Peterson, Joel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 6:09 PM To: Mike Dimmick; Dan Hoeger; wix-users@lists.sourc

Re: [WiX-users] help with Tallow.exe error on Vista

2006-12-21 Thread Dan Hoeger
I am running under an Administrator console window and I am able to register the same component with regsrv32 from the same console From: Mike Dimmick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 10:38 AM To: Dan Hoeger; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users

Re: [WiX-users] help with Tallow.exe error on Vista

2006-12-21 Thread Dan Hoeger
I've run across several files with this issue in tallow on Vista but I can register them with regsvr32 on Vista just fine. From: Rob Mensching Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 10:10 AM To: Dan Hoeger; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] help with Tallow.exe error on

[WiX-users] help with Tallow.exe error on Vista

2006-12-21 Thread Dan Hoeger
Does anyone know off hand why this would fail on Vista? This same call works fine on 2003 server. Thanks, Dan Source\Common\CrmFileList>tallow.exe -s Drop2Ctrl.ocx Microsoft (R) Windows Installer Xml Tool version 2.0.3929.0 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 2003. All rights reserved. http://s