Re: [WiX-users] Bug in FeatureRef?

Sounds about right. I've been down this road too. You don't need to end up with any Component* elements in your main feature tree. What I ended up doing was something more like this in your main: And then in your fragments have something like: -Francis On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 4:52

Re: [WiX-users] Running Custom Action Before InstallFiles

I was under the impression that InstallFiles is a single discrete action and can not be broken down per-file. I don't think what you're trying to do is possible with your current approach. Instead, I would consider putting your CA in the Binary table rather than explicitly installing it on the file

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action and InstallExecuteSequence dont work in Fragment.

Using a wxi should work. -Francis On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 10:20 AM, BOB1981 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > Hi Fracis, > > Another IDEA, Do you think putting the Custom Actions and > InstallExecuteSequence in a element rather then Fragment would > work and create a wxi file rather then wxs and

Re: [WiX-users] How to Change Default Install Location

I wouldn't recommend forcing the user to use a specific location (especially a certain drive), but if you must, you can set the ROOTDRIVE property ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa371372(VS.85).aspx) to force the default root drive to E. Obviously you don't need the ProgramFilesFolder Di

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action and InstallExecuteSequence dont work in Fragment.

Product.wxs has to reference the fragment somehow or another for it to get picked up. Assuming that only the contents of the CA are generated on the fly (i.e. you know the names beforehand) one way to do this is to use the CustomActionRef element in your Product.wxs. -Francis On Tue, Sep 16, 20

Re: [WiX-users] Very Simple WIX Msi Installer

The reason why you can't easily find how to install without leaving anything else on the system other than the files is that you're trying to use MSI in a scenario it's not designed for. Here's documention on HTA: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms536496(VS.85).aspx -Francis On Mon, Se

Re: [WiX-users] Very Simple WIX Msi Installer

While I'm sure you *could* technically do so, as Brian says, it doesn't seem like MSI is really a fit for what you want to do. Why create an MSI when you don't want to use MSI features? -Francis On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 11:17 AM, BOB1981 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > Hi Brian, > > Cant we creat

Re: [WiX-users] Always have to relearn Wix every time I use it.

I'd have to say infrequent usage as well. Michael, have you looked at WixEdit (http://wixedit.sourceforge.net/)? I do think more can be done on the design tools front that would certainly make picking it back up easier. -Francis On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 4:55 AM, Michael Putters < [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [WiX-users] WiX version 3 question

WiX v3 is relatively close to v2 in syntax. There are a few things which have been updated to make things simpler, but overall really it's not a huge change. Certainly I think you'll have a pretty easy time learning anything new that's necessary. Stability for me has been for the most part pretty g

Re: [WiX-users] Better XML coding

If you have anything beyond a tiny project, I'd say go ahead and use more than one wxs file. It just helps organization to separate things into different files. I personally tend to put each feature in its own wxs for example. -Francis On 8/31/07, Anidil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In what

Re: [WiX-users] Incorporating vjredist.exe in a WiX Project

Why do you want to run it after? Anyway, you might look into creating a bootstrapper and using that to tie the two installers together. -Francis On 6/29/07, Pierson Lee (Volt) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi- I am having difficulty forcing an installation of vjredist.exe (Microsoft Visual J

Re: [WiX-users] Add a folder to My Documents

Looks like you could consider using AppDataFolder ( http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367565.aspx). -Francis On 6/18/07, Ward, Mike (MED US) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ok, another newbie question. How do I add a folder to "My Documents". I tried the obvious.

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall forms -> removing folders dependent upon user input

There's a property called ARPNOMODIFY that shows/hides the modify button in ARP. There's also ARPNOREMOVE and a bunch of other properties that may be useful. (See the MSDN reference: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370905.aspx). As for removing files/folders that weren't installed by yo

Re: [WiX-users] Bootstrap example

Although you're generating it with the .NET SDK, it doesn't actually create a managed exe fortunately. -Francis On 6/15/07, Nitin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Looks awesome man, can I somehow install the pre-requisites silently and show a custom message like installing "pre-requisites"? Also

Re: [WiX-users] Adding items to IIS: What am I doing wrong?

ting, because in the help documentation for the IIS Schema, it shows that the I don't have a RecycleTime element anymore FYI (and I forgot to post) I'm using v 3.0.2925 *From:* Francis Kam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Friday, June 15, 2007 5:20 PM *To:* Pierson

Re: [WiX-users] Adding items to IIS: What am I doing wrong?

I haven't worked with these extensions really, but judging from the documentation (http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix2/wix_xsd_webapppool.htm) the child RecycleTime element is required. Have you tried specifying that? Off-topic: I don't suppose you happen to be the Pierson Lee that I knew back

Re: [WiX-users] Files not being installed to WIXUI_INSTALLDIR

Try this instead: // components go here -Francis On 4/9/07, Doug Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, [Please include me directly in your responses, as I'm not on this list.] I am using Wix version 3.0.2420.0 I'm using WIXUI_INSTALLDIR

Re: [WiX-users] DSL Designers

If I remember correctly, there was a brief blog convo about it with Gareth (from DSL Tools), and it seemed there was some interest/it was a good idea. Someone just has to step up and do it. :) Found the posts: hereand here

Re: [WiX-users] WiX-users Digest, Vol 8, Issue 121

If you're doing it over email and you get everything in digest format, you probably can't directly. If I remember correctly SourceForge has a way to reply directly on there, but I would venture to guess that most of the people who do a lot of back and forth emails to a particular message don't use

Re: [WiX-users] Shouldn’t WiX be Production/Stable instead of Beta?

Rob actually wrote a post on his blog about this in December: http://robmensching.com/blog/archive/2006/12/19/Drive-to-a-WiX-v2-toolset-final-release.aspx -Francis On 1/8/07, Mike Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: WiX is currently shown with a Development Status of 'Beta' on the WiX Project

Re: [WiX-users] MSBuild generated bootstrapper and quiet mode

I'm not really sure what the answer is to this, but to me it doesn't seem the ideal approach. The point of the bootstrapper is to make it easier for the user to install without having to figure out the exact dependencies and so on. For unattended installs, the admin usually knows the dependencies,

Re: [WiX-users] Comparing two MSIs

I seem to remember Wise for Windows Installer 5 & 6 have a visual diff tool for MSI. -Francis On 12/6/06, Cullen Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there a tool out there to compare two MSIs? I'm moving our MSIs to wixv3, and I want to verify that the built MSIs are the same as previousl

Re: [WiX-users] MSBuild Tasks

ly distributed doesn't work with > multiple wsx files? > > Neil > > PS Thanks Michael Luke you saved me lots of time! > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Luke > Sent: 12 May 2006 09:22 > To: [EMA

Re: [WiX-users] group policy

Package GUID should always be changed.  That's what the whole -- GUID-like thing is for. It's to generate the new GUID automatically for you every time.  You shouldn't need to change the product GUID (though you could). -FrancisOn 8/5/06, Standa Kunc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: J

Re: [WiX-users] Add/Remove Program Icon on Windows 2000

I remember this same issue coming up in one of my projects. I couldn't find the defect at a glance through our database, but I seem to remember it having to do with the extension. I believe you can't use the .ico extension (either that or you have to use the .ico extension). Something weird like th

Re: [WiX-users] Install the same file into multiple directories

Actually, (someone correct me if I'm wrong here), but it's actually the exact opposite.  If you use a shared directory with the same GUID/components, then assuming you've followed component rules, everything should work fine. It's not bad to share with the same fragment, that's what wixlibs are for

Re: [WiX-users] .NET Installation

This is probably the sort of thing best handled by a bootstrapper.  Do a search on the archives for info about it.   -Francis   On 7/8/06, X Y <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All,I am new to wix and was wondering if there was anexample out there that does the following: 1. Detect .NET (found in tutor

Re: [WiX-users] Suggestion

From an email long ago: > Is there an IRC channel for WiX?Yes, #wix at irc.freenode.net. There aren't too many people over there,though.Frederik-Francis Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job

Re: [WiX-users] Referencing merge modules

Ah...  thanks for the clarification.   -Francis     On 6/19/06, Derek Cicerone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The Id used in Merge and MergeRef is completely arbitrary.  It's used by wix to match up the Merge and MergeRef elements.  It can be whatever you want it to be.   The Id used in the Module

Re: [WiX-users] Referencing merge modules

It's probably related to this:   http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/msi/setup/authoring_modulesignature_tables.asp   -Francis     On 6/13/06, Zhong Xinyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all,I have a question regarding the way to reference amerge module. Based on a wix tutorial i saw on the web,

Re: [WiX-users] Product clashes

Oh man, that's hilarious.  Unfortunately, it was long enough ago that I can't remember the product that it tried to uninstall.-FrancisOn 6/16/06, Rob Hamflett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:After a lot of testing and talking to ATI, it seems the problem is that the ATI uninstaller is indiscriminately r

Re: [WiX-users] Registering help files and deploying them to thehelp collection

We use the Help Integration Wizard that's part of VS 2005 SDK.  Might be worth a look.-FrancisOn 6/13/06, Kalappa Pattar < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi,     Yes, I was talking about Help 2.0 Hxs files. I implemented the functionality by modifying MSHelp2_RegTables__RT

Re: [WiX-users] FW: 2 exlusive features

An alternative approach that may be possible (not sure since I don't have details on your situation) is to not use the feature tree.  Assuming the user doesn't need as fine-grained control as the feature tree, you could have a different selection mechanism (like a radio button group) and you can se