Re: [WiX-users] Feature containing merge module always seems to be advertised

2007-11-22 Thread Duncan Bayne
> EDB0, if I recall correctly, is the op-code for LDIR. Yep, > wow, that's sad. http://99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-assembler-(z80)-843.html At least nowadays I have an assembler, unlike when I was 9. - This SF.net email

Re: [WiX-users] Feature containing merge module always seems to be advertised

2007-11-22 Thread Duncan Bayne
> If a feature has no components, it's always advertisable (unless > advertisement has been completely disabled). The hack-around is to add a > dummy component to such features. Bingo! Thank you sir, worked a treat. MSI has to be one of the most arcane technologies I've ever used (and I include

Re: [WiX-users] Feature containing merge module always seems to be advertised

2007-11-19 Thread Duncan Bayne
, after all. Now I'm *really* confused, because I have *no* idea what that Windows Installer dialog is doing at runtime. Yours, Duncan Bayne - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(

[WiX-users] Feature containing merge module always seems to be advertised

2007-11-18 Thread Duncan Bayne
should prevent the user from choosing to have the feature advertised. This works, in that the user can't choose to advertise the feature in the UI. However when the application is run it behaves exactly as though it'd been advertised. Any ideas? Yours, Du

Re: [WiX-users] CA running an executable from a registry string

2007-09-26 Thread Duncan Bayne
On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 20:49 -0700, Bob Arnson wrote: > Duncan Bayne wrote: > > > > > > To have a property specify the .exe to run, you must use the Property > and ExeCommand attributes. ExeCommand contains the command-line arguments. Ahah - thanks :

Re: [WiX-users] CA running an executable from a registry string

2007-09-17 Thread Duncan Bayne
> Well, the log mentions UninstallOldXYZ but the .wxs file has > UninstallOldBPM as the name of the action. Make sure any old versions > of the msi have been uninstalled and that the one you are running is the > correct one. Sorry, that should have been UninstallOldXYZ in all cases. The latter w

[WiX-users] CA running an executable from a registry string

2007-09-17 Thread Duncan Bayne
CustomAction but didn't see anything obvious. TIA for any help. Yours, Duncan Bayne - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005.

[WiX-users] tallow.exe failing to generate fragment for unmanaged shim DLL

2007-09-05 Thread Duncan Bayne
which also contains all the WiX executables), it succeeds: === DllRegisterServer in LicensingClientShim.dll succeeded. === I suspect I'm missing something simple here ... anyone have any suggestions? Yours, Duncan Bayne ---