Re: [WiX-users] IIS Extension - Short File Name?

Bob Arnson wrote: > Use [!fileId] to get the short path of the installed file. > See "Formatted" in the MSI SDK for details. Thank you very much, and for your patience with this kind of "fundamentals" question. Jason --

[WiX-users] IIS Extension - Short File Name?

Hi, The WebApplicationExtension element says for the Executable attribute "usually a Property that resolves to short file name path". http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/iis_xsd_webapplicationextension.htm Am I expecting too much to think that it will automatically determine the short file

Re: [WiX-users] Wix Coder forums

In my experience, the more categories there are for discussion, the less vibrant a community is. Fewer questions are be answered because not everyone follows all of the forums and because, in many cases, developers prefer mailing lists to web interaction. On a couple of the forums I've been in

Re: [WiX-users] CA scheduling question

Brian Rogers wrote: > If you already have custom actions doing this you could > put the files you are looking for into the Binary table in > the MSI and stream them over (immediate CA -> > deferred CA) and then invoke you actions on those files. Thanks Brian, I'll look into that. Jason -

[WiX-users] CA scheduling question

Hi all, I've got an installer that sets up some IIS7 features using appcmd.exe. I am having difficulty finding a way to successfully uninstall these IIS7 configurations on a server with UAC enabled. I'm still fumbling my way into MSI, so this is likely just ignorance on my part... On install

Re: [WiX-users] Trim trailing slash from property to use as physicalPath in IIS7 appcmd?

Bob Arnson wrote: > Jason Birch wrote: > > There was another thread about this a while ago, but I'm wondering if there > > are any new > > CAs available in WiX to manipulate property strings? > > Nobody's volunteered any, no. Ah well... thanks for the u

[WiX-users] Trim trailing slash from property to use as physicalPath in IIS7 appcmd?

Hi all, To create a new application/vdir in IIS7, I'm using a custom action to set a property to an appcmd.exe command line, and then executing that command with CAQuietExec. Here's what the property assignment looks like: This runs without appcmd complaining, but then when I open the web si