Re: [WiX-users] Something I noticed with ServiceInstall (Wix 3,7)

2013-10-22 Thread Hans ter Horst
Oh, I see, you are referring to the Microsoft Installer internal tables, so nothing can really be done. On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 3:53 AM, Hans ter Horst wrote: > And the keyfile would be the first file in the Component? Wouldn't it make > sense to make the link to the service insta

Re: [WiX-users] Something I noticed with ServiceInstall (Wix 3,7)

2013-10-22 Thread Hans ter Horst
#x27;t have a foreign key join back to the file > table. It's target of the service is always the keyfile of the parent > component. > > -------- > From: "Hans ter Horst" > Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 8:13 PM > To: &quo

[WiX-users] Something I noticed with ServiceInstall (Wix 3,7)

2013-10-22 Thread Hans ter Horst
When I used the Fragment below, I noticed that the Windows service created links to the *web.config* file as executable instead of linking to MyServer.exe which is of course not a proper executable file and the service fails to load understandably. I moved the line to a separate Fragment and Compo

Re: [WiX-users] My posts in your spam....

2013-08-16 Thread Hans ter Horst
Cheers, indeed I could only find your posts in my spam filter, no matter how many times I told GMAIL that it wasn't spam; this time your email got through normally. Hans On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 9:04 PM, Phil Wilson wrote: > Apparently many of my posts are arriving in your spam folders.. There

Re: [WiX-users] Why in Preprocessor the "Not Equal To" is "!=" while in conditional string is "<>".

2013-04-18 Thread Hans ter Horst
Thanks, I think I have it working! On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Alain Forget wrote: > <> is the MySQL (and SQL in general?) "not equal to", so maybe that's > where it came from? > > -Original Message- > From: Pally Sandher [mailto:pally.sand...@iesve.com] > Sent: April 18, 2013 06:

Re: [WiX-users] Tutorial about handling upgrades in Wix 3.7

2013-04-17 Thread Hans ter Horst
> Classification: Public > Sounds like a MajorUpgrade... > > Removes the older version, installs the new version... > > Steve > > -Original Message- > From: Hans ter Horst [mailto:hoshis...@gmail.com] > Sent: April-17-13 3:14 PM > To: General discussion for Win

[WiX-users] Tutorial about handling upgrades in Wix 3.7

2013-04-17 Thread Hans ter Horst
Is there a tutorial or a reference post available that explains the principles of how to write an installer that first uninstalls an older version before installing the version included in the MSI but that would leave newer versions unaffected unless a FORCE parameter is supplied on the interface?

Re: [WiX-users] Running an MSI a second time to install more features or uninstall an already installed feature (while keeping others)

2013-02-15 Thread Hans ter Horst
15, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Hans ter Horst wrote: > Hi, > I have a feature tree based installer that has 4 features. If I install > during a first phase, for example, features A and B, I would like to be > able to run the installer again to install C and maybe uninstall B. At the > mome

[WiX-users] Running an MSI a second time to install more features or uninstall an already installed feature (while keeping others)

2013-02-15 Thread Hans ter Horst
Hi, I have a feature tree based installer that has 4 features. If I install during a first phase, for example, features A and B, I would like to be able to run the installer again to install C and maybe uninstall B. At the moment when I start the installer for the 2nd time, the only option I have i

Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Prerequisites on Windows 2012 Server and the Server Manager requirement

2013-02-01 Thread Hans ter Horst
var p = new Process(); > p.StartInfo = startInfo; > p.Start(); > p.WaitForExit(); > > return p.ExitCode; > } > } > } > > Hope this helps. > > Neil > > -Original Message- > From: Hans ter Horst [ma

Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Prerequisites on Windows 2012 Server and the Server Manager requirement

2013-01-31 Thread Hans ter Horst
I didn't see an answer regarding this question and I'm sort of stuck on this. Does anybody have an idea how to handle the different way Windows 2012 Server behaves if a prerequisite is defined as a server feature? Thanks, Hans On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Hans ter Horst wrote

[WiX-users] Burn: Prerequisites on Windows 2012 Server and the Server Manager requirement

2013-01-30 Thread Hans ter Horst
Hello, My program has a .NET 3.5 prerequisite and I have used Burn and the standard code successfully on Windows Server 2008 SP2. On Windows Server 2012 however, .NET 3.5 and many other prerequisites need to be installed via the Server Manager as features instead and cannot be installed via an MSI

Re: [WiX-users] How to prevent the same MSI file to be executed more than once at the same time?

2012-11-14 Thread Hans ter Horst
sequence, where the system is being > modified. > > -Original Message----- > From: Hans ter Horst [mailto:hoshis...@gmail.com] > Sent: 14 November 2012 15:47 > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: [WiX-users] How to prevent the same MSI file to b

Re: [WiX-users] Change/Modify button doesn't do anything

2012-11-14 Thread Hans ter Horst
In case others run into the same question, I managed to address the problem by adding the following lines to my dialog definition files: 1 Installed On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Hans ter Horst wrote: > Hello, > I am using a treeview based installer and would allow the installation t

[WiX-users] How to prevent the same MSI file to be executed more than once at the same time?

2012-11-14 Thread Hans ter Horst
I get reports that people managed to have our installer open several times at the same time by accidentally clicking on the MSI file again while the same installer was already open. I seem to recall that is normally not possible due to the Microsoft installer MUTEX but somehow that seems to be miss

[WiX-users] Change/Modify button doesn't do anything

2012-11-14 Thread Hans ter Horst
Hello, I am using a treeview based installer and would allow the installation to be modified by starting the installer again and selecting some more features. When I installed a few of my features and then start the installer again, it opens with the Welcome screen and upon clicking Next, it displ

Re: [WiX-users] Feature tree Change button not enabled

2012-10-29 Thread Hans ter Horst
Any suggestions for this issue? On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 6:52 PM, Hans ter Horst wrote: > Hello, I have a feature tree based installation, all working pretty well. > The only issue is that when I have installed a subset of features and I > want to add some more, the "Change"

[WiX-users] Feature tree Change button not enabled

2012-10-26 Thread Hans ter Horst
Hello, I have a feature tree based installation, all working pretty well. The only issue is that when I have installed a subset of features and I want to add some more, the "Change" button is disabled with the mention that there are no independently selectable features in this install. I don't see

Re: [WiX-users] Accessing selected Feature tree features from within acustom action DLL

2012-10-26 Thread Hans ter Horst
stState are the equivalents. > > -Original Message----- > From: Hans ter Horst [mailto:hoshis...@gmail.com] > Sent: 26 October 2012 12:20 > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: [WiX-users] Accessing selected Feature tree features from within >

[WiX-users] Accessing selected Feature tree features from within a custom action DLL

2012-10-26 Thread Hans ter Horst
Hello, I have created a custom action in C# and can run it without problems. However, I would like to access the selected features in the Wix Feature tree in the custom action to make some actions depending on that. They are not available as properties. In the WIX file I can access them via , etc.

[WiX-users] Burn: Are EXE file and Payload content placed in the same directory for an ExePackage?

2012-10-25 Thread Hans ter Horst
Hello. As part of my bundle I have to deploy a SharePoint webpart and I use the tool most people use for this and tool comes with a Setup.exe, an XML file describing the installation and the WSP file to be deployed. I have the following in my Bundle.wxs file: With a Fragment describing the p

Re: [WiX-users] Bootstrapper.Engine.Detect() never calls event?

2012-10-24 Thread Hans ter Horst
Oops, sorry, I think it works fine. I expected to find the PackageGroup Id string, but instead it games me the last part of the SourceFile of the MsiPackage or ExePacke, which is absolutely fine. Hans On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Hans ter Horst wrote: > Hello, > I would like to kn

[WiX-users] Bootstrapper.Engine.Detect() never calls event?

2012-10-24 Thread Hans ter Horst
Hello, I would like to know the individual names of the packages installed and one of the first things I do is to register the event handlers: this.Bootstrapper.ApplyComplete += this.OnApplyComplete; this.Bootstrapper.DetectPackageComplete += this.OnDetectPackageComplete;

Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Specifying PackageGroup Id on button click

2012-10-23 Thread Hans ter Horst
gt; and depending on the button you use to start the install, set the state of > a package to "ignore it" - e.State = RequestState.None). > > > > > > From: Hans ter Horst > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset

Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Specifying PackageGroup Id on button click

2012-10-22 Thread Hans ter Horst
cks. > > On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 5:19 AM, Hans ter Horst > wrote: > > > Hello, i have several simple installers that I would like group behind a > > Burn interface and start depending on the button clicked from the > > Bootstrapper interface I am designing which will have

[WiX-users] Burn: Specifying PackageGroup Id on button click

2012-10-19 Thread Hans ter Horst
Hello, i have several simple installers that I would like group behind a Burn interface and start depending on the button clicked from the Bootstrapper interface I am designing which will have several buttons. For a simple bootstrapper I know I can use Bootstrapper.Engine.Plan(LaunchAction.Install)

Re: [WiX-users] Getting started writing a custom Bootstrapper interface

2012-10-19 Thread Hans ter Horst
y VS2010) after > pressing F5, because of how Burn works. To facilitate this, I created a > function like this that I call at the very beginning of my > BootstrapperApplication.Run method: > > [Conditional("DEBUG")] > private void ShowDebugMessageBox() > { > MessageBo

Re: [WiX-users] Getting started writing a custom Bootstrapper interface

2012-10-19 Thread Hans ter Horst
Just in case others are wondering how to get started, this site did get me started: http://bryanpjohnston.wordpress.com/2012/09/28/custom-wix-managed-bootstrapper-application/ Hans On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Hans ter Horst wrote: > Hello, I would like to add an interface to the

Re: [WiX-users] Getting started writing a custom Bootstrapper interface

2012-10-19 Thread Hans ter Horst
Hello, could you please help me get started building my own bootstrappe DLL? It is a Wix bootstrapper newbie question, but I guess there are plenty of us around :-) Thanks, Hans On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Hans ter Horst wrote: > Hello, I would like to add an interface to the

[WiX-users] Getting started writing a custom Bootstrapper interface

2012-10-18 Thread Hans ter Horst
Hello, I would like to add an interface to the Wix bootstrapper and started Googling around but found few examples to get started. I have the following basic questions: - What project template would be best to use in VS 2010 or VS 2012? I am thinking of a WPF based interface, should I selec

Re: [WiX-users] Web.config connection string: Failed to find node (Wix 3.5)

2012-05-29 Thread Hans ter Horst
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Re: [WiX-users] Web.config connection string: Failed to find node (Wix 3.5)

2012-05-29 Thread Hans ter Horst
Thanks Peter, unfortunately that space is not in the real code, it was introduced when I copied/modified it in my email client. Is there a way to get util:XmlFile to trace what it is actually doing? Thanks, Hans On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Hans ter Horst wrote: > Hello, I have goog

[WiX-users] Web.config connection string: Failed to find node (Wix 3.5)

2012-05-28 Thread Hans ter Horst
Hello, I have googled left and right and cannot find why I get a "Failed to find node" error on this piece of code: Summary of the existing web.config file: Thanks for your help. -- http://monochrome.me.uk/blog/

[WiX-users] Selected features of a CustomizeDlg

2012-05-24 Thread Hans ter Horst
Hello, I have successfully added my own dialogue to what would normally be the * WixUI_FeatureTree* user interface but I do have a problem finding out *what *features have been selected in the *CustomizeDlg *dialogue. I do need to call different custom actions depending on what has been selected. C