Re: [WiX-users] What does Repair do?

e and component states. Hope this helps, Don Pratt little.forest wrote: > Just a general question: what does Repair do? > > > I know "Repairs errors in the most recent installation by fixing missing and > corrupt files, shortcuts, and registry entries". But odd something

Re: [WiX-users] Understanding component states

lp. > http://msdn.microsoft.com/hi-in/library/aa368007(en-us,VS.85).aspx<http://msdn.microsoft.com/hi-in/library/aa368007%28en-us,VS.85%29.aspx> > > > Ranganatha > > > On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 4:55 AM, Don Pratt wrote: > > >> Thanks Blair and Phil. &g

Re: [WiX-users] Understanding component states

; install, so it's applying update rules. In some cases you might see a > message something like "{guid} will not be installed because the same or a > higher-versioned keyfile is already installed", the same situation. > > Phil Wilson > > > -Original Mes

[WiX-users] Understanding component states

stand why the action for this component is getting set to 'Null'? Thanks, Don Pratt -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration

Re: [WiX-users] Reading WIX XML schema from web?

ith the XML documents that use that namespace. Regards, Don Pratt DONG LEE wrote: > Dumn novice question here. So I understand what XML schema is and that we > need to specify one on every wxs sources, like > > http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi";> > > But I was wondering

Re: [WiX-users] move from wix2.0 to 3.0

Hi Karen, We have a similar build routine here (use mallow to update files/components, followed by candle and light) and decided to make the jump to v3 some months back. I couldn't find a v3 replacement for mallow, so I decided to try modifying it. Since it's (unobfuscated) .NET code, it was e

Re: [WiX-users] zip program for bootstrapper & msi

We're using WinRAR here. It's easy to setup a batch file and integrate into a build process. You can't specify a version number. but you can customize the icon and title (among other things). Don Prat David Thielen wrote: >I took a look at 7Z but according to it's docs it doesn't even have

Re: [WiX-users] WiX v3, VS2005, and Preprocessor Environment Variables

every compiler and linker is probably at the mercy of Visual Studio’s environment variables I think that's probably an accurate assessment.  Take a look at the documentation for the Win32 CreateProcess function.  There's a parameter (lpEnvironment) that let's the calling process customize the

Re: [WiX-users] Prevent Registry Removal

(directed to the list at large...) If you put the registry value in it's own component and use the same component GUID for al of your installs, shouldn't MSI's reference counting keep the key around until all of the apps that need it are uninstalled? Don BrianG wrote: >My company has differen