Re: [WiX-users] Download Msi or Exe with Bundle

The only issue I had, and it was minor, was migrating an extension from WiX 3.5 to WiX 3.6. I have had no issues with migration from WiX 3.6 onwards. -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Integration Development Group | Enterprise Notification Service Jack Henry & Associates, I

Re: [WiX-users] GAC PubPolicy Files on Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview?

Are you using GACUTIL or the attributes on the File element to GAC? -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Integration Development Group | Continuing Development Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® | Lenexa, KS  66214 | Ext: 431050 |jocoo...@jackhenry.com -Original Message-

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action Reuse

I either table drive the custom action (usually) or if that doesn't really make sense, I reference the properties in the custom action indirectly (using properties set to properties). -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Integration Development Group | Enterprise Notification

Re: [WiX-users] How to use ProgramFiles64Folder in ConfigurableDirectory

You need to use the remember pattern to persist the value of the property from the initial install to repair, upgrade, and uninstall. -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Integration Development Group | Enterprise Notification Service Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® | Lenexa, KS

Re: [WiX-users] Driver Install with Wix

Shouldn't this: Read as: Remove the Return="ignore" until you have it working right. You should also have a rollback. -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Integration Development Group | Enterprise Notification Service Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® | Lenexa, KS  66214 |

Re: [WiX-users] Doing an Include file for HeatDirectory and HeatFile tasks?

That's because Imports are evaluated at PreBuild. In VisualStudio, that only occurs on Solution load. -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Integration Development Group | Enterprise Notification Service Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® | Lenexa, KS  66214 | Ext: 431050 |jocoo.

Re: [WiX-users] Testing C# Custom Actions

You can do some state testing of immediate custom actions using Lux. If you concentrate on having most of the logic in the immediate custom action, then unit testing of the deferred custom actions can proceed much like ordinary C++ or C# code. Lux mutation can be used to explore immediate cust

Re: [WiX-users] Hiding UpgradeCode Attribute Warning

Provide the UpgradeCode and suppress upgrades in the MajorUpgrade element. -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Integration Development Group | Enterprise Notification Service Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® | Lenexa, KS  66214 | Ext: 431050 |jocoo...@jackhenry.com -Orig

Re: [WiX-users] Deliver File With a Different Name

x and your Deleted Items folders. Ah, thank you. I had tried ShortName but that didn't work. I should have gone further to just Name. What exactly is the difference between Name, ShortName, and LongName? Thank you, Christoph -Original Message----- From: John Cooper [mailto:jocoo...@jack

Re: [WiX-users] Deliver File With a Different Name

Set the Name attribute to the name you want. -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Integration Development Group | Enterprise Notification Service Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® | Lenexa, KS  66214 | Ext: 431050 |jocoo...@jackhenry.com -Original Message- From: Griess

Re: [WiX-users] ServiceDependency - conditional?

Well, it is far from ideal, but you could condition the components of mutually exclusive ServiceInstall elements--one with the ServiceDependency and one without. -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Integration Development Group | Enterprise Notification Service Jack Henry & As

Re: [WiX-users] Overriding WIXUI_INSTALLDIR

WIXUI_INSTALLDIR expects a property. Generally, it is statically set in the Property Table. Probably what you want is to update the value of the property at [WIXUI_INSTALLDIR]. If it runs before InstallDirDlg, you should be able to just update the value of that property with the path. A more

Re: [WiX-users] R: Extend ProductSearch for working with Burn exe Package

I think there is some confusion. 1) util:ProductSearch works with Burn/Bundle. Whether it will do exactly what you want (as pointed out by Phil) is another matter, but it does work. 2) the standard ProductSearch is desiged to work in the WiX schema and is not suitable for Burn/Bundle. 3) As

Re: [WiX-users] How to use RegistrySearch using a searching condition?

See util:ProductSearch. -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Integration Development Group | Enterprise Notification Service Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® | Lenexa, KS  66214 | Ext: 431050 |jocoo...@jackhenry.com -Original Message- From: Marco Tognacci [mailto:mark

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall and util:RemoveFolderEx - not working

You'll need to escape it. It's not showing on this end. -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Integration Development Group | Enterprise Notification Service Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® | Lenexa, KS  66214 | Ext: 431050 |jocoo...@jackhenry.com -Original Message-

Re: [WiX-users] Keep File on upgrade

Look at Component@/NeverOverwrite and Component@/Permanent. -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Integration Development Group | Enterprise Notification Service Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® | Lenexa, KS  66214 | Ext: 431050 |jocoo...@jackhenry.com -Original Message---

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall and util:RemoveFolderEx - not working

What's in the inner text of ? Note that, unless the Component is marked Transitive, that Condition gets evaluated only once. It looks like the Component was not selected, and that would point to the Component-Condition. -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Integration Develo

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall and util:RemoveFolderEx - not working

That is what SetProperty is for. -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Integration Development Group | Enterprise Notification Service Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® | Lenexa, KS  66214 | Ext: 431050 |jocoo...@jackhenry.com -Original Message- From: ronif [mailto:ro...

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall and util:RemoveFolderEx - not working

>From the documentation: The folder must be specified in the Property attribute as the name of a property that will have a value that resolves to the full path of the folder before the CostInitialize action. Note that Directory ids cannot be used. For more details, see the Remarks. Before Cost

Re: [WiX-users] GPO changes

It can be done through C++ https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa374177(v=vs.85).aspx or practically any language with a WMI interface. Nice feature request to implement. -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Integration Development Group | Continuing Development Jack H

Re: [WiX-users] MSI Buttons become Unresponsive on Server 2012R2 and Windows Installer Service 5.0

: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 3:19 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] MSI Buttons become Unresponsive on Server 2012R2 and Windows Installer Service 5.0 Can you upload your fix snippet for inspection? -Original Message- From: John Cooper [mailto:jo

Re: [WiX-users] MSI Buttons become Unresponsive on Server 2012R2 and Windows Installer Service 5.0

Logs don't show much, but I just figured it out. Actually had to do with the Dialog scheduling. Under certain conditions, the wrong dialog was loading--and it was disconnected from everything else. Weird that it only showed itself on 2012 R2, but weird happens. Even weirder is no one in QA n

[WiX-users] MSI Buttons become Unresponsive on Server 2012R2 and Windows Installer Service 5.0

I've got a number of installers that deploy using the Standard Bootstrapper and MSI UI. This hasn't been too problematic (although quite ugly) until testing on Server 2012R2. The Standard Bootstrapper starts up fine, and the MSI UI starts up fine, but one or two pages into the sequence and all

Re: [WiX-users] Burn and chaining multiple MSIs and detecting proper states for each MSI

Is A' a major or minor upgrade of A? Is the ProductCode the same or different for A' and A? What is the difference in version numbers? What does the bundle log say when it is selecting A for removal? -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Integration Development Group | Continu

Re: [WiX-users] burn error 0x800b0100 help

>From the documentation for MsiPackage@SuppressSignatureVerfication: SuppressSignatureVerification YesNoType By default, a Bundle will use the hash of a package to verify its contents. If this attribute is explicitly set to "no" and the package is signed with an Authenticode signature the Bun

Re: [WiX-users] burn error 0x800b0100 help

Which version of the BA? Signature verification for payloads used to be the default. The default is now hash verification which is less troublesome. -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Integration Development Group | Continuing Development Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® | Le

Re: [WiX-users] WiX vs. Microsoft Platform Ready

ocoo...@jackhenry.com -Original Message- From: John Cooper Sent: Tuesday, April 7, 2015 8:28 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WiX vs. Microsoft Platform Ready RBF Files -- Rollback Files. These should be deleted after a successful upgrade. This should

Re: [WiX-users] WiX vs. Microsoft Platform Ready

RBF Files -- Rollback Files. These should be deleted after a successful upgrade. This should take place automatically without any special authoring. Are you running your certification tool while the installer is still active? The temporary directory entries are for each custom action. Never

Re: [WiX-users] [WIX]: How to extract the files in selected folder using MSI dialog.

alog. Please find the log files​ MSI4c6af.LOG <https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B-yxrdSpoNNQR0ZGZ2xXQWdXNjQ/edit?usp=drive_web> ​​ MSI63f67.LOG <https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B-yxrdSpoNNQYmF0MG0tdE1VRzA/edit?usp=drive_web> ​ On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 6:17 PM, John Cooper wrote: > They&#

Re: [WiX-users] [WIX]: How to extract the files in selected folder using MSI dialog.

They've been stripped off. You'll need to put them up at a location accessible by URL. -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Integration Development Group | Continuing Development Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® | Lenexa, KS  66214 | Ext: 431050 |jocoo...@jackhenry.com

Re: [WiX-users] Wix bootstrapper only works on .net 4.5

It will run the 4.x that is installed. 4.6 will be a superset of 4.5.2 which is a superset of 4.5.1 which is a superset of 4.5 which is a superset of 4.0. When you have one of these installed, all the earlier versions are superseded and replaced. -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software En

Re: [WiX-users] Wix bootstrapper only works on .net 4.5

[2015-03-30T15:42:51]i000: Setting string variable 'WixBundleName' to value Test' [0CA0:0F74][2015-03-30T15:42:51]i000: Loading managed bootstrapper application. [0CA0:0F74][2015-03-30T15:42:51]i000: Creating BA thread to run asynchronously. [0CA0:0E1C][2015-03-30T15:42:51]i000: La

Re: [WiX-users] General Visual Studio 2013 Help

You need to make sure that the path to the library is in the list of paths searched for libraries, and you need to make sure the library filename is the list of libraries to be linked. Based on the discussion in the stackoverflow link, I suspect the actual file name ("msi.lib") to link is what

Re: [WiX-users] How does heat maintain consistent GUIDs?

I believe it uses an algorithm to generate the GUID based on the KeyPath, but that's just from memory. -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Integration Development Group | Continuing Development Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® | Lenexa, KS  66214 | Ext: 431050 |jocoo...@jackhe

Re: [WiX-users] Wix bootstrapper only works on .net 4.5

Bootstrapper Prerequisite does not equal Product Prerequisite. If you're using a managed bootstrapper (such as the WiX installer), it has its own .NET requirements. If you have a custom bootstrapper written to .NET 3.5, then it's a bug that you hadn't modified the prerequisite of the bootstrap

Re: [WiX-users] Create file share with ready permissions for everyone

+1. I like this approach. >From a security point of view, I would prefer a Local Group instead of >Everyone. Use the local group string in place of "Everyone", and then add >share users to the Local Group. The converse of adding is that is allows you >to also remove users (and access) very e

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action to Read XML value

Yes. It's not very complicated. The specific steps in the innermost custom action (there is another custom action that drives this one from a table) are: 1) load path to XML file from property; 2) load XPATH from property; 3) create an XmlDocument instance 4) use the TrySafeLoad method to see i

Re: [WiX-users] ServiceInstall/ServiceControl name attribute restrictions

You need to have code to remember the value of the property so it is available in uninstall and repair. See http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2010/5/2/the-wix-toolsets-remember-property-pattern/ -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Integration Development Group | Continuing

Re: [WiX-users] using a custom action to read properties from a XML file

XML. -Original Message- From: John Cooper [mailto:jocoo...@jackhenry.com] Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 3:08 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] using a custom action to read properties from a XML file Well, which sequence is

Re: [WiX-users] using a custom action to read properties from a XML file

Well, which sequence is the custom action running? UI or Execute? If in the execute sequence, only public secure properties (properties in all upper case with a Secure="yes" attribute) will be visible in the UI sequence. If in the UI sequence, are you firing this from a button, or is it just

Re: [WiX-users] using a custom action to read properties from a XML file

d for it to be deferred. -Original Message----- From: John Cooper [mailto:jocoo...@jackhenry.com] Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 2:26 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] using a custom action to read properties from a XML file Are you trying to set pro

Re: [WiX-users] using a custom action to read properties from a XML file

Are you trying to set properties from a deferred custom action? It looks like it. Only immediate custom actions can set properties. I have an immediate custom action that reads an XML file and sets a bunch of properties. But a deferred custom action isn't going to have access. -- John Merry

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade issue

Which is why I based my bundle version on one of the MSI's which gets bumped every build. -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Enterprise Service Applications | Continuing Development Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® | Lenexa, KS  66214 | Ext: 431050 |jocoo...@jackhenry.com --

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade issue

Is the UpgradeCode the same for each bundle or different? I keep it the same and I have no problems. -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Enterprise Service Applications | Continuing Development Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® | Lenexa, KS  66214 | Ext: 431050 |jocoo...@jackh

Re: [WiX-users] Using a WiX Selection Tree control, when I select Feature 1, I want Feature 2 to be selected automatically

Agreed. Laid out that way, INSTALLLEVEL and the rest of the machinery will work correctly. -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Enterprise Service Applications | Continuing Development Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® | Lenexa, KS  66214 | Ext: 431050 |jocoo...@jackhenry.com

Re: [WiX-users] File sometimes not installed

What are the file versions of the previous version and the upgrade version for the files that are missing? Also, look in a verbose log--you will see entries where the WIS has decided not to replace because the upgrade would result in a "downgrade" by version. If you use an aggressive upgrade sc

Re: [WiX-users] Read xml content before creating iis:WebAppPool

1) This would be much easier to execute using Custom Tables. 2) Your ReadServiceAccount details is probably going to result in a subsequent custom action that modifies machine state somehow. By scheduling ReadServiceAccount after InstallFinalize, you aren't going to be able to do much since a d

Re: [WiX-users] ServiceControl Component - Uninstall condition

Have you considered instead using a shared component? -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Enterprise Service Applications | Continuing Development Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® | Lenexa, KS  66214 | Ext: 431050 |jocoo...@jackhenry.com -Original Message- From: psim

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action not be called

n] before. It was just a mistake I was too close to see. ________ From: John Cooper Sent: 30 January 2015 13:41 To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action not be called It is essential that managed custom actions have an

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action not be called

It is essential that managed custom actions have an [CustomAction] attribute for each method call that will be used as a custom action. E.g., [CustomAction] Public static ActionResult DoSomething(Session session) { // code here } By having the Return attribute set to "ignore", the errors that

Re: [WiX-users] Patching and null KeyPath

Generally, I put my service authoring in the same component as the File element referencing the service binary. That way, the KeyPath is the service binary, and I don't have these issues. -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Enterprise Service Applications | Continuing Develo

Re: [WiX-users] Patching and null KeyPath

Need more information. What is the authoring for the component installing the file? What is the actual path to the file in both A and B cases? In the authoring, is the file the KeyPath, or is another file or registry entry the KeyPath? -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | E

Re: [WiX-users] Updating/Replacing existing MSI with Burn bundle

I have one product that has both x86 and x64 versions. They can be installed side by side. Hence, I have two upgrade codes--one for the x86 and one for the x64. The x64 upgrade only upgrades the x64 side, and the x86 only upgrade the x86. I've been advocating for a bundle-driven install, but

Re: [WiX-users] How to use dism.exe in WiX ExePackage for IIS feature activation?

For server OS's, there is a PowerShell interface which can be wrapped in a C# DTF custom action. This would be far preferable to running DISM directly. -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Enterprise Service Applications | Continuing Development Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.®

Re: [WiX-users] Two Mutually Exclusive Products

Because PROPERTY <> "" implies the property exists but has no value, but with the Windows Installer Service, the property will be removed if it is empty. Hence, NOT PROPERTY is the test that should be used. -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Enterprise Service Applications |

Re: [WiX-users] "Dark" a WiX StdBA or MBA?

Yes. Dark can be used to extract the payload. -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Enterprise Service Applications | Continuing Development Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® | Lenexa, KS  66214 | Ext: 431050 |jocoo...@jackhenry.com -Original Message- From: Tunney, Ste

Re: [WiX-users] Extra Dir Created When Install Dir Has Spaces

valid to provide a Name attribute on a well-known folder. _ Short replies here. Complete answers over there: http://www.firegiant.com/ -Original Message- From: John Cooper [mailto:jocoo...@jackhenry.com] Sent: Friday, January 9, 2

Re: [WiX-users] Extra Dir Created When Install Dir Has Spaces

which you can still override via the UI. -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Enterprise Service Applications | Continuing Development Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® | Lenexa, KS  66214 | Ext: 431050 |jocoo...@jackhenry.com -Original Message- From: John Cooper

Re: [WiX-users] Extra Dir Created When Install Dir Has Spaces

r you confirm installation via the UI. Also, the application installs correctly in C:\Program Files(x86)\protop3 or c:\My Apps\protop3. Everything works as expected EXCEPT this additional directory that is created. Paul -Original Message----- From: John Cooper [mailto:jocoo...@jackhenry.com] S

Re: [WiX-users] Extra Dir Created When Install Dir Has Spaces

How are you passing it to the installer? If on the command line, the directory path needs to be "" delimited. -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Enterprise Service Applications | Continuing Development Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® | Lenexa, KS  66214 | Ext: 431050 |jocoo

Re: [WiX-users] CustomAction built for AnyCPU does not read 64-bit registry hive

This is also necessary when accessing x64 areas of the file system. I have 64-bit versions of some of my custom actions when this is necessary. -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Enterprise Service Applications | Continuing Development Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® | Lenexa

Re: [WiX-users] Access files in CustomAction without installing the files

Yes, using the Binary Table. That's how sql:SqlScript does it. -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Enterprise Service Applications | Continuing Development Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® | Lenexa, KS  66214 | Ext: 431050 |jocoo...@jackhenry.com -Original Message-

Re: [WiX-users] Heat over 64 bit dll

From: sampat magi [mailto:ssmcs...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 11:23 AM To: John Cooper Subject: Re: Heat over 64 bit dll Ahh!! okay. Thanks for the extended information. Please have a look at my below query if you have time. Recently i was creating a prototype of a 32-bit C++ COM+

Re: [WiX-users] Heat over 64 bit dll

for both architectures, so massaging the 32-bit output a little should be all that's required. --- Phil Wilson On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 8:21 AM, John Cooper wrote: > Well, the general problem is that COM registry entries are going to be in the > 32-bit hive (traditionally, COM

[WiX-users] FW: Heat over 64 bit dll

From: John Cooper Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 10:44 AM To: sampat magi Cc: WiX toolset developer mailing list (wix-d...@lists.sourceforge.net) Subject: Re: [WiX-devs] Heat over 64 bit dll I used to do something like that when I worked at Microsoft. You need to be careful that ID’s can

Re: [WiX-users] Heat over 64 bit dll

ssociates, Inc.® | Lenexa, KS  66214 | Ext: 431050 |jocoo...@jackhenry.com -Original Message- From: ssmcs...@gmail.com [mailto:ssmcs...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 10:08 AM To: John Cooper Subject: Heat over 64 bit dll Hi Sir, Can heat harvest a dll file which is a

Re: [WiX-users] CustomAction to run powershell script

Note that you are subject to PowerShell execution policy. Before Server 2012 R2, the default was Restricted which will block all PowerShell execution outside of a PowerShell Concole or ISE. Many networks have GPO that will detect changes to the ExecutionPolicy and revert it back. With Server

Re: [WiX-users] How can i use variables in SqlString?

You need to escape them. Replace '[' with '[\[]' and ']' with '[\]]'. -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Enterprise Service Applications | Continuing Development Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® | Lenexa, KS  66214 | Ext: 431050 |jocoo...@jackhenry.com -Original Messag

Re: [WiX-users] Long lasting Installation process. Why?

I believe you're running into a change in Windows Installer Service behavior caused by a Windows Security Update associated with KB2918614. -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Enterprise Service Applications | Continuing Development Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® | Lenexa, KS 

Re: [WiX-users] WiX toolset EXE Wrapper installer with no files

Registry will definitely work. I have a bundle with two MSI's--one of which is pure registry. No problem. -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Enterprise Service Applications | Continuing Development Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® | Lenexa, KS  66214 | Ext: 431050 |jocoo...

Re: [WiX-users] CheckBox control state modified by user

s read only on the installer side. Meanwhile if I set my property via code it works fine. The problem is that after that I can't modify the state of the control during install. Any clue? Thanks -Original Message- From: John Cooper [mailto:jocoo...@jackhenry.com] Sent: Monday, Dece

Re: [WiX-users] How to create a feature set that installs an msi and a bundle exe

If you're looking for a nested MSI, that had not been support by the Windows Installer Service for a long time. If you want a Feature Tree interface on a bootstrapper, you'll need a custom BA. -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Enterprise Service Applications | Continuing De

Re: [WiX-users] CheckBox control state modified by user

Check boxes are NOT set to "0" when unchecked. Effectively, the property is set to string.Empty which undefines it. The property will be set ONLY if the check box is "checked." To check for the property being unset, use NOT VS2012CHECKED. -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action - Should I return ActionResult.Failure or thrown an exception?

I think it is more important to be consistent. If it is my intent to trigger a rollback, then I trap and log the exception and return ActionResult.Failure. Otherwise, I generally log and rethrow. Sometimes, I am only interested in setting or clearing a property. In that case, I trap everythi

Re: [WiX-users] Failure to Repair, Uninstall, or Upgrade using WixStdBa and Wix 3.9

es/4609/ > > _ > Short replies here. Complete answers over there: > http://www.firegiant.com/ > > > -Original Message- > From: John Cooper [mailto:jocoo...@jackhenry.com] > Sent: Wednesday, December 3, 2014 10:31 AM &g

[WiX-users] Failure to Repair, Uninstall, or Upgrade using WixStdBa and Wix 3.9

I'm seeing a weird error on three products that all use the WixStdBa to install a single MSI. Install goes fine. However, attempts to Repair, Uninstall, or Upgrade result in: "0x80070057 - the parameter is incorrect." This has only cropped up in the past two days, and the bundle authoring has

Re: [WiX-users] Need to support Downgrade installs

You need to change your MajorUpgrade@Schedule attribute to something like afterInstallInitialize. This will ensure that the previous version is removed before the downgrade version is installed. A downgrade like this won't allow you an overlapped upgrade. -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior So

Re: [WiX-users] [SPAM] Re: Writing to 64-bit registry hive from 32-bit msi

Indeed it is a Microsoft Windows constraint. A 32-bit process is not permitted to modify 64-bit resources. For example, I want to set some ACLs in the C:\Windows\System32 tree. This is a 64-bit location on a 64-bit OS. From a 32-bit custom action, the files in that 64-bit are all but invisi

Re: [WiX-users] WixStdBA Does not allow to modify the chained msi features in maintenance mode

1) you'll need a custom boostrapper to support that functionality. The standard bootstrappers have no idea what to do with a feature; 2) along those lines, you would suppress the MSI UI and have the bootstrapper handle the feature selection; 3) features are a pain. For my own work, I am creat

Re: [WiX-users] Assigning User rights (Security Policies) to the application user

Yes, but at a much lower level. See util:PermissionEx For users, some permissions are set in the util:User element. I don't set or clear GPO during an install because: 1) they'll generally roll right back in; and 2) removing a GPO doesn't necessarily remove the restrictions it imposes. -- Jo

Re: [WiX-users] .wixpdb usage

They can be used in patch generation. Other than that, I haven't found them very useful. -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Enterprise Service Applications | Continuing Development Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® | Lenexa, KS  66214 | Ext: 431050 |jocoo...@jackhenry.com

Re: [WiX-users] Assigning User rights (Security Policies) to the application user

What are the remaining ACL's to assign? -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Enterprise Service Applications | Continuing Development Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® | Lenexa, KS  66214 | Ext: 431050 |jocoo...@jackhenry.com -Original Message- From: ssmsam [mailto:ssm

Re: [WiX-users] Define AssemblyProduct in BeforeBuild

you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. - Albert Einstein On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 9:02 AM, John Cooper wrote: > Yes, with MSBuild.ExtensionPak (4.0.9.0 is current). It's also not > hard to write an MSBuild task that will do it easily. > >

Re: [WiX-users] Define AssemblyProduct in BeforeBuild

Yes, with MSBuild.ExtensionPak (4.0.9.0 is current). It's also not hard to write an MSBuild task that will do it easily. -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Enterprise Service Applications | Continuing Development Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® | Lenexa, KS  66214 | Ext: 431

Re: [WiX-users] not working when kept out of

No, if you have a deferred custom action (and all your custom actions that modify machine state should be deferred), then you only need to provide a matching rollback custom action (and proper scheduling) to provide that functionality. -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Ente

Re: [WiX-users] How to register all the dlls in a folder and sub folder to GAC using heat.exe

Google is your friend . . . Although what is being done with the transform is the height of silly (setting KeyPath="no"), the principles are the same: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8034798/wix-installer-using-xslt-with-heat-exe-to-update-attributes -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Soft

Re: [WiX-users] How to register all the dlls in a folder and sub folder to GAC using heat.exe

Hmmm. You shouldn't have to harvest file by file for heat. The usual practice is to harvest part or all of a tree. You can use an XSLT transform passed to Heat to add the assembly attribute if this is necessary. That being said, it is very unusual to push the majority of a product's assembli

Re: [WiX-users] not working when kept out of

Pre- and Post-BuildEvents are for people that are afraid of XML. You have far better control, and it will be ultimately much more reliable, if you use a BeforeBuild target and just build it in to your csproj. The main thing you have to be careful of is that the exact timing when two given pro

Re: [WiX-users] not working when kept out of

My suggestion is simple: don't use Heat for production work. It's great for prototyping, but when it comes time to patch your product, you'll wish you hadn't. It also tends to hide versioning errors that will come back to bite you on upgrades. -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engi

Re: [WiX-users] not working when kept out of

Yes, you could do that. Or you could put them in wixlibs and link those in. All of my custom actions live in two wixlibs. -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Enterprise Service Applications | Continuing Development Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® | Lenexa, KS  66214 | Ext: 4

Re: [WiX-users] [SPAM] Re: WixStdBA launches 32-bit msiexec.exe for a 64-bit MsiPackage

That is the technique I use and it is necessary when access 64-bit-only file system locations and the like. -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Enterprise Service Applications | Continuing Development Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® | Lenexa, KS  66214 | Ext: 431050 |jocoo...

Re: [WiX-users] Domain Admin check in wix installer

1) immediate custom action since it does not change machine state (and you want to set properties); 2) have an input property containing either the possible domain account or a reference to a property containing the possible domain account; 3) use C# in the usual manner -- you can adapt code like

Re: [WiX-users] Domain Admin check in wix installer

Yes, with a custom action. -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Enterprise Service Applications | Continuing Development Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® | Lenexa, KS  66214 | Ext: 431050 |jocoo...@jackhenry.com -Original Message- From: Sourabh Bhandari [mailto:sourab

Re: [WiX-users] MSI built with Wix requiring MS Office 2003 PIA

How is this installer assembled? Is there a merge module involved? -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Enterprise Service Applications | Continuing Development Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® | Lenexa, KS  66214 | Ext: 431050 |jocoo...@jackhenry.com -Original Message--

Re: [WiX-users] [SPAM] Re: setting permissions when creating folder... [GB]

November-12-14 12:10:52 PM. The above classification labels were added to the message by TITUS Message Classification. For more information visit www.titus.com<http://www.titus.com/>. From: John Cooper-2 [via Windows Installer XML (WiX) toolset] [mailto:ml-node+s687559n7597875...@n2.

Re: [WiX-users] [SPAM] Re: setting permissions when creating folder...

These properties in the Util extension may also be useful: -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Enterprise Service

Re: [WiX-users] setting permissions when creating folder...

Probably because a German Windows 7 has a localized "NETWORK SERVICE". What is the name of "NETWORK SERVICE" on the German machine? Should be pretty obvious from just looking at running services. -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Enterprise Service Applications | Continuin

Re: [WiX-users] Adding Registry Entries in both 32 and 64 Bits

No. Has to with the way WOW and the Windows Installer Service was implemented. It's not Wix-specific at all. At run time, the VersiontNT64 Burn variable is only defined on 64-bit OS's and you can use this to choose which MSI's to run out of a chain. -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software

Re: [WiX-users] FW: Correct method for modifying a built-in UI?

The property can be defined only once per link job if a duplicate symbol error is to be avoided. So, yes, this could be the source of your problem. Perhaps moving the definition of WixUI_Mode into a common file and using PropertyRef's to bring in the definition could work. Probably would need

Re: [WiX-users] FW: Correct method for modifying a built-in UI?

n so they cannot be reused? Before I modified both the flow and a few dialogs for the minimal UI. -Original Message- From: John Cooper [mailto:jocoo...@jackhenry.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 5, 2014 4:11 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] FW:

  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   >