Re: [WiX-users] Another quick question: Locating %SYSTEMDRIVE%?

Levi: Thanks again, but that would get the value at build-time on the build machine, right? I need the value at install time on the machine the install is being run on. -- Eric Fesh Customer Support Engineer/Software Test Engineer Verari Systems Software, Inc. 110 12th Street North, Suite

[WiX-users] Another quick question: Locating %SYSTEMDRIVE%?

best way to do this? -- -- Eric Fesh Customer Support Engineer/Software Test Engineer Verari Systems Software, Inc. 110 12th Street North, Suite D103 Birmingham, AL 35203 Phone +1-205-397-3141 ext. 3149 Fax +1-205-397-3142 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.verarisoft.com/ The information contained i

Re: [WiX-users] Quick question: How to determine if Windows is64-bit at install time?

Harvey: I use this technique in other projects I have, but in this case I just need to execute an extra custom action if the app is being installed on 64-bit Windows (it's still basically a 32-bit app). I appreciate the feedback, though. -- Eric Fesh Customer Support Engineer/Software

Re: [WiX-users] Quick question: How to determine if Windows is 64-bit at install time?

D'oh! No, you were right. Msix64 will only tell me that the hardware is 64-bit, not that the OS is 64-bit. Thanks once again... -- Eric Fesh Customer Support Engineer/Software Test Engineer Verari Systems Software, Inc. 110 12th Street North, Suite D103 Birmingham, AL 35203 Phone +1-20

Re: [WiX-users] Quick question: How to determine if Windows is 64-bit at install time?

Levi: Thanks... Much appreciated. I also found the Msix64 property, which I think might be a cleaner solution for my purposes. *chuckle* For some reason, it seems that I find answers faster by myself only after I've sent an email asking for help... -- Eric Fesh Customer Support Eng

[WiX-users] Quick question: How to determine if Windows is 64-bit at install time?

g for an answer in the meantime, but if anyone can save me some effort on that I'd really appreciate it. -- -- Eric Fesh Customer Support Engineer/Software Test Engineer Verari Systems Software, Inc. 110 12th Street North, Suite D103 Birmingham, AL 35203 Phone +1-205-397-3141 ext. 3149

Re: [WiX-users] Creating features with lots of components

In the past I've used a perl script to "twaddle" the tallow output into a form that can be used in a feature... These days I've been breaking up my source files and using to collect the components in each file. -- Eric Fesh Customer Support Engineer/Software Test Eng

Re: [WiX-users] VS2005 C++ and Custom Actions

I was in a similar situation and just statically linked the runtime library. Of course, I was running an executable instead of trying to access a DLL, so that might not be helpful information. -- Eric Fesh Customer Support Engineer/Software Test Engineer Verari Systems Software, Inc. 110 12th

Re: [WiX-users] Bootstrapper/Chainer Question

allation (or would at least not ask the user for input)... -- Eric Fesh Customer Support Engineer/Software Test Engineer Verari Systems Software, Inc. 110 12th Street North, Suite D103 Birmingham, AL 35203 Phone +1-205-397-3141 ext. 3149 Fax +1-205-397-3142 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.verarisoft

Re: [WiX-users] MSVC8 redistributables?

John: I was using a custom action to do that until today. I'm now linking the runtime straight into my executable instead of leaving it hanging as a dependency on a DLL. -- Eric Fesh Customer Support Engineer/Software Test Engineer Verari Systems Software, Inc. 110 12th Street North,

Re: [WiX-users] MSBuild Tasks

All: Would anyone happen to have a copy of this version of wix.targets lying around? I've been doing web searches, but the attachment doesn't come up on the SourceForge forums... *frowny* -- Eric Fesh Customer Support Engineer/Software Test Engineer Verari Systems Software, Inc

[WiX-users] Apache Tomcat and WiX?

yet that allows the configuration CA to succeed. Has anyone on the list tried to do this before, and if so, do you have any tips I could use? I'll probably have to brute-force it at some point unless some miracle happens and I figure it out on my own... -- -- Eric Fesh Customer Support

Re: [WiX-users] Odd failure of XmlFile in wix-2.0.4221.0

EAD C:\Program Files\Verari Systems\VCC\OSMon\config\vcc.conf SUCCESS Offset: 0 Length: 4095 45027 12:50:24 PM msiexec.exe:608 QUERY INFORMATION C:\Program Files\Verari Systems\VCC\OSMon\config\vcc.conf PATH NOT FOUND Attributes: Err

Re: [WiX-users] Odd failure of XmlFile in wix-2.0.4221.0

12) Tried removing everything but the XML header from the file. 13) Tried using an empty file. *shrug* Guess I'll need to find an alternate solution of some sort. -- Eric Fesh Customer Support Engineer/Software Test Engineer Verari Systems Software, Inc. 110 12th Street North, Suite D1

Re: [WiX-users] Odd failure of XmlFile in wix-2.0.4221.0

heck up on the validity of the .conf file. What I don't understand is if it's a parse error, why does it only happen on specific machines...? Weirding me out, I tells ya. -- Eric Fesh Customer Support Engineer/Software Test Engineer Verari Systems Software, Inc. 110 12th Street North, S

Re: [WiX-users] Odd failure of XmlFile in wix-2.0.4221.0

uence ExecXmlFile and ExecXmlRollbackFile? Can I sequence ExecXmlFile explicitly? -- Eric Fesh Customer Support Engineer/Software Test Engineer Verari Systems Software, Inc. 110 12th Street North, Suite D103 Birmingham, AL 35203 Phone +1-205-397-3141 ext. 3149 Fax +1-205-397-3142 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [WiX-users] Odd failure of XmlFile in wix-2.0.4221.0

By the way, the C drive isn't on a RAID after all... I just thought it was because that's what the volume label said. *grimace* -- Eric Fesh Customer Support Engineer/Software Test Engineer Verari Systems Software, Inc. 110 12th Street North, Suite D103 Birmingham, AL 35203 Phone

[WiX-users] Odd failure of XmlFile in wix-2.0.4221.0

s, or with a different type of server machine running the exact same OS... It's quite puzzling to me. Is there anything interesting or unique about the way that ExecXmlFile opens the XML file that might fail on exotic hardware? -- -- Eric Fesh Customer Support Engineer/Software Test Engi

[WiX-users] Modifying Windos hosts file?

27;m surmising that there isn't a utility that can add/remove entries progrmatically...? -- -- Eric Fesh Customer Support Engineer/Software Test Engineer Verari Systems Software, Inc. 110 12th Street North, Suite D103 Birmingham, AL 35203 Phone +1-205-397-3141 ext. 3149 Fax +1-205-3

Re: [WiX-users] InstallUtil considered harmful... What next?

> I hope that helps some. Luckily, you aren't doing perf counters or WMI or > you would be looking at something much more difficult. :) Actually, I may well be... The service in question is an OS monitoring agent. -- Eric Fesh Customer Support Engineer/Software Test Engineer Ver

Re: [WiX-users] Setting a Property based on another Property

Yeah, it would look something like: Or at least I think that's how it should work. It may be that you have to create a new property to hold the final value... -- Eric Fesh Customer Support Engineer/Software Test Engineer Verari Systems Software, Inc. 110 12th Street North, Suite

Re: [WiX-users] Setting a Property based on another Property

It's kinda funny, but you need to use a custom action to set the property. Apparently MSI won't let you assign a property value from another property to keep an infinite regress from happening. -- Eric Fesh Customer Support Engineer/Software Test Engineer Verari Systems Software

Re: [WiX-users] InstallUtil considered harmful... What next?

So tallow works for .NET assemblies? I thought it would only capture that information from COM objects... Or do I need to go to 3.0.x for that? I'd been holding off upgrading until 3.0 stabilized, but I may not have a choice... -- Eric Fesh Customer Support Engineer/Software Test Eng

[WiX-users] InstallUtil considered harmful... What next?

s rude here... I just can't seem to formulate the correct Google search to get at this information. Even pointers on where to look for the information would be useful... And as always, I greatly appreciate any help you all could provide. -- -- Eric Fesh Customer Support Engineer/Software Te

Re: [WiX-users] Request for Advice regarding File Organisation

This gives me a good enough reason to scrap that and start over. Thanks for the quick reply, Rob! -- Eric Fesh Customer Support Engineer/Software Test Engineer Verari Systems Software, Inc. 110 12th Street North, Suite D103 Birmingham, AL 35203 Phone +1-205-397-3141 ext. 3149 Fax +1-205-397-3

[WiX-users] Request for Advice regarding File Organisation

trols everything else. The reason I ask is that two build runs will result in different GUIDS for all of the files in the project. Is this a bad thing if I want to provide upgrades later on? I don't save the .wxs files in my source repository because I see them as intermediate steps... --