Re: [WiX-users] Testing Framework

2010-01-13 Thread Jordan Fitzgibbon
Deployment Tools Foundation (DTF) which ships with WiX provides APIs for working with MSIs (among other things) and querying machine state. From: Kyle Huey [ksh...@ufl.edu] Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 7:17 PM To: General discussion for Windows Instal

Re: [WiX-users] Angle brackets as property value

2008-04-14 Thread Jordan Fitzgibbon
You can do it in the inner text of a Property element as CDATA, eg: Angle Brackets: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roger Yen Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 1:32 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Angle brackets as property value Hi, I

Re: [WiX-users] format of wix project "suppress specific warnings" text box

2008-04-11 Thread Jordan Fitzgibbon
outside of VS. Is there a problem that these warnings are causing you or do you just want to be clean? From: Robert O'Brien Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 1:58 PM To: Jordan Fitzgibbon; 'wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net' Subject: RE: [WiX-users] format of wix project "suppress speci

Re: [WiX-users] format of wix project "suppress specific warnings" text box

2008-04-11 Thread Jordan Fitzgibbon
ermine the warning number for the warnings that you want to suppress and then add them to the 1079 field. From: Robert O'Brien Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 12:57 PM To: Jordan Fitzgibbon; 'wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net' Subject: RE: [WiX-users] format of wix project "suppress spe

Re: [WiX-users] format of wix project "suppress specific warnings" text box

2008-04-10 Thread Jordan Fitzgibbon
The format is supposed to be: (;)* In your case, just put 9 in the text box. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert O'Brien Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 6:01 PM To: 'wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net' Subject: [WiX-users] format of wix project "suppress specific war

Re: [WiX-users] Reverse engineered VS2003 MSI

2008-04-08 Thread Jordan Fitzgibbon
What errors did you get when you tried to build your MSI *with* the 3 CAs listed below? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Butcher Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 9:13 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Reverse engineered VS2003 MSI

Re: [WiX-users] InstanceTransforms with wix 3

2008-04-02 Thread Jordan Fitzgibbon
Torch is used to create transforms (.mst files) by diffing two MSIs but not used for instance transforms. If you want to create an MSI with instance transforms, you can do this in your product authoring with the and elements. See wix.chm for more details. Example:

Re: [WiX-users] case-insensitive comparison in include file

2008-03-31 Thread Jordan Fitzgibbon
According to wix.chm, comparisons are case-sensitive. You'll have to use 'Or', eg. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stas Klyachkovsky Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 12:53 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] case-insensitive comparison in inclu

Re: [WiX-users] Inbuilt variable for identifying preprocessor

2008-03-28 Thread Jordan Fitzgibbon
I'm not sure how Buildtracker works but I can see a few solutions (in priority order). 1. The ideal way is to use Candle's -platform switch which sets the preproc system variable sys.PLATFORM. So you would do something like: - -Then call >candle.exe product.wxs -platform [x86|x64|ia64] Unfortuna

Re: [WiX-users] how does preprocessor suppose to work

2008-03-24 Thread Jordan Fitzgibbon
The syntax for ifdef is , not . So, it would appear that ifdef only checks for preprocessor variables and not environment variables. Even if you had or any other existing environment variable, the ifdef wouldn't be working as you'd expect it to. Your other approach, won't work because the p

Re: [WiX-users] Pyro and .mst File

2008-03-21 Thread Jordan Fitzgibbon
Can you elaborate a bit more on what "UI elements" you would like to change? Is that the purpose of creating your patch? Or is it to patch an existing product? To answer your question on how to use Pyro, Peter Marcu has some blog entries on how to build an MSP with WiX. You could start here: ht

Re: [WiX-users] Location of SourceDir?

2008-03-20 Thread Jordan Fitzgibbon
You probably want to use the File/@Source attribute. This tells Light where to pick up your file when it's building the MSI. The file will still get installed to c:\Program Files\RRHome\RRFoo because your component is nested under that directory structure. -Original Message- From: [EM

Re: [WiX-users] wix and the preprocessor...

2008-03-19 Thread Jordan Fitzgibbon
I would suggest logging a bug on this. I think that this type of XML validation shouldn't happen until after pre-processing. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 11:12 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [

Re: [WiX-users] How to generate a shortcut with Start In property being specified

2008-02-06 Thread Jordan Fitzgibbon
I think you need to either set the INSTALLDIR property or have WorkingDirectory point to a Directory that you have defined. Eg. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of YungWei Chen Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 6:38 PM To: WixUser Subject: [WiX-users] How to generate