[WiX-users] Forcing uninstall with different InstallScope?

2009-12-22 Thread Evan Beeton
Hello, We're building a WiX installer to replace an old one built with InstallShield; the original is authored as per-user, but we think that per-machine is more appropriate. Our understanding is that you can't perform an upgrade when the InstallScope is different, so we tried just forcing an unin

Re: [WiX-users] SendTo shortcut for default and alluser profileson multiple OS's - Email found in subject - Email found in subject

2009-11-02 Thread Evan Beeton
data, and a whole slew of other issues. -Original Message- From: Evan Beeton [mailto:ebee...@informasoftware.com] Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 6:04 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] SendTo shortcut for default and all user profileson multiple OS&#x

Re: [WiX-users] SendTo shortcut for default and all user profileson multiple OS's - Email found in subject

2009-11-02 Thread Evan Beeton
g profiles in a really bad way (which may be why the initial release of Vista didn't include in Windows Installer the permission required to load profiles). -Original Message----- From: Evan Beeton [mailto:ebee...@informasoftware.com] Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 12

[WiX-users] SendTo shortcut for default and all user profiles on multiple OS's

2009-10-29 Thread Evan Beeton
Hello, Does anyone know of a concise way to create a "SendTo" shortcut for the default user and all existing user profiles on XP, Vista and Windows 7? Our current approach uses a VBScript custom action to look for hard-coded paths in %USERPROFILE%. We have one script for Vista and one for XP, and

Re: [WiX-users] Prevent install from failing if XmlFile elementdoesn't exist - Email found in subject

2009-10-08 Thread Evan Beeton
blank out the attribute value instead? What other alternatives do you have? What happens if you never remove the element or the attribute? -----Original Message- From: Evan Beeton [mailto:ebee...@informasoftware.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 11:28 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.ne

[WiX-users] Prevent install from failing if XmlFile element doesn't exist

2009-10-07 Thread Evan Beeton
Hello, I'm very new to WiX and Windows Installers in general. I'm writing an installer that's a new add-on for an existing product. The existing product has an XML file that I need to update. The new installer uses XmlFile setValue to "rename" a specific attribute in that XML file upon installation