[WiX-users] Bug in Wix preprocessor?

2007-11-13 Thread John Hancock (HSG)
I'm getting a compile error in a Wix project in the following scenario where a .wxi include file included in another .wxi include file isn't read from a location relative to the outside include but instead relative to the file that included the outer include file. In other words, I've got files

[WiX-users] Wix v3 certificate installation bug?

2007-10-30 Thread John Hancock (HSG)
Invalid Certificate.Attributes" Is this intentional and simply undocumented that the Overwrite and file-based options are incompatible, or is this a bug? Thanks, John Hancock - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splu

Re: [WiX-users] IIS Metabase locator for installed website?

2007-09-11 Thread John Hancock (HSG)
what's the best way for me to submit a code change? John From: Rob Mensching Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 12:27 PM To: John Hancock (HSG); wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: IIS Metabase locator for installed website? Two options: 1. Enhance the existing

[WiX-users] IIS Metabase locator for installed website?

2007-09-07 Thread John Hancock (HSG)
When a website is installed through Wix, is there a way to get the metabase ID/location string if I need to write additional properties to the metabase for the installed website through a custom action at the end of the install? For example, let's say my new website is the 2nd website on the ser

[WiX-users] Bug? InstallCertificates called when it shouldn't be?

2007-08-31 Thread John Hancock (HSG)
I'm working in Wix v3, and I've got a conditional component that is supposed to install a certificate when the property CERTIFICATEPATH is set, but I'm running into problems because InstallCertificates seems to be called regardless of whether the component with the certificate is installed. Inst

Re: [WiX-users] Failure invoking remote custom action

2007-08-30 Thread John Hancock (HSG)
Ah, of course. I was under the impression that an invalid EntryPoint error would have been reported if it couldn't find the exported function. John From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 10:54 AM To: John Hancock (HSG) Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforg

Re: [WiX-users] Failure invoking remote custom action

2007-08-30 Thread John Hancock (HSG)
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 1:39 AM To: John Hancock (HSG) Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Failure invoking remote custom action John Hancock (HSG) wrote: >From what I've been reading it sounds like a missing dependency problem, but >running depend.exe on t

[WiX-users] Failure invoking remote custom action

2007-08-29 Thread John Hancock (HSG)
I'm writing an installer for a website on Server 2003 running IIS 6.0, and I'm having problems running a DLL function from a custom action. The action just seems to fail silently (it doesn't appear to actually run the function) and I get a return value of 3 which starts rollback of the installat

Re: [WiX-users] XmlFile failing to open installed file

2007-08-22 Thread John Hancock (HSG)
failing to load. I'm cc'ing wix-devs so that it can be flagged as a bug if need be. John -Original Message----- From: John Hancock (HSG) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 1:30 PM To: Alexei; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] XmlFile faili

Re: [WiX-users] XmlFile failing to open installed file

2007-08-22 Thread John Hancock (HSG)
been copied over prior to the XmlConfig being run. John Hancock (HSG) wrote: > > Based on some information posted elsewhere, it looked like the double > slash might have been necessary. Regardless, it doesn't work with either > the single slash or double slash. >

Re: [WiX-users] XmlFile failing to open installed file

2007-08-22 Thread John Hancock (HSG)
st 22, 2007 11:42 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net; John Hancock (HSG) Subject: RE: [WiX-users] XmlFile failing to open installed file John, Why the double slashes at the beginning of your element names? Just one slash... Julie Campbell [EMAIL PROT

[WiX-users] XmlFile failing to open installed file

2007-08-22 Thread John Hancock (HSG)
I'm having problems with the XmlFile custom action using Wix 3.0 where the installer says it fails to open the installed XML file. The installer is being run on a Windows Server 2003 machine with SP1. In particular, I have something like the following:

[WiX-users] Setting a YesNoType based on a checkbox control

2007-08-16 Thread John Hancock (HSG)
Is there a way to set a YesNoType value based on the checked status of a checkbox control? For example, I'd like to be able to set a WebAddress's Secure property (which is a YesNoType) based on a checkbox that writes to a property 'WEBSECURE'. The following doesn't work because a YesNoType can

[WiX-users] Change ASP.net status via Wix?

2007-08-13 Thread John Hancock
Does anyone know how to change the ASP.NET Allow/Prohibit status on a Win2K3 Server w/IIS 6.0 through Wix, either via an IIS schema element or via a custom action? I can't find any way to change the status except manually via the Application Server management UI (under IIS/WebServiceExtensions)

[WiX-users] FeatureRefs and ComponentRefs

2007-08-02 Thread John Hancock
I'm having problems with files not getting linked into my .cab when using FeatureRefs with ComponentRefs. Here's a simple example. In different fragments, I define Feature A and then Components B and C which each contain file references. ... define components B and C Then, in a separat