[WiX-users] IIS website search

2011-10-06 Thread Glenn MacGregor
it works fine. The problem is when it doesn't find the site the installer seems to finish normal with no error or message at all but nothing gets installed. I am thinking of using appcmd in a custom action to verify site existence. Any thoughts would be helpful, thanks Glenn Glenn MacG

[WiX-users] ServiceInstall tag question

2009-05-26 Thread Glenn Macgregor
Hi All, I am using the ServiceInstall tag to install my service, this works great. This service needs to run as a specific user so I set the Account/Password attributes which works no problem. The msi I am creating needs to run with no user interaction so I want to hardcode the username/passwor

Re: [WiX-users] DTF and selfreg dll

2009-05-26 Thread Glenn Macgregor
just prints a log entry. I have no clue what I need to do in my customaction to get the dll registered. Any help is greatly appreciated. Glenn -Original Message- From: Glenn Macgregor [mailto:gmacgre...@pocketkings.ie] Sent: 26 May 2009 14:17 To: General discussion for Windows Installer

[WiX-users] DTF and selfreg dll

2009-05-26 Thread Glenn Macgregor
Hi All, I have created a custom action in C# I want this CA to "install" the selfreg information from a dll I have created. Does anyone know what classes I need to use in the DTF to make this happen. Thanks Glenn --

Re: [WiX-users] Wix & installutil question

2009-05-26 Thread Glenn Macgregor
must use managed code for a CustomAction (native code is better) use DTF instead of InstallUtil. InstallUtil is just a glorified self-reg and self-reg is well known to be bad for installation. DTF is included as part of the WiX toolset. Glenn Macgregor wrote: > Hi All, > > I am new to wix

[WiX-users] Wix & installutil question

2009-05-25 Thread Glenn Macgregor
Hi All, I am new to wix, from what I have seen thus far it is great. I have a windows service which I install using the ServiceInstall and ServiceControl tags. That part works fine, the service gets installed as expected. Along with the service exe file I also install a dll which has WMI instru