tation:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370905.aspx
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372057.aspx
And a place I've been collecting information:
http://wix.mindcapers.com/wiki/WiX_Properties
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s.com/wiki/Localization, might be worth a look.
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Perhaps this is a v2/v3 nuance?
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emp directory is the TEMP or TMP env variable path + ???. It seems
to be VSD.tmp. Without parsing the entire temp directory and
taking the VSD.tmp directory with the newest timestamp, is there
a way to determine this programmatically?
Julie Campb
See this example, .zip file with sources:
http://wix.mindcapers.com/wiki/CANotepadTest_Example
Replace notepad.exe with you batch file.
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Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 21:00:14 -0800 (PST)
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is not intended
to replace this mailing list of the official Source Forge site in any way,
shape or form.
Consider this an official invitation :)
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product" .msi that only runs the custom action. There is an example of that
on my wiki too, http://wix.mindcapers.com/wiki/CANotepadTest_Example . It
runs notepad.exe, but you should be able to tweak it to run your action with
little effort.
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, at 4002. Try
searching for "return value 3" in your log file and backtrack from there.
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Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:36:50 +0100
From: "INRO\(Robert Inzinger\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action after XmlConfig
To:
Message-ID:
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You custom action isn't running because the inner text of this element
determines whether or not to run it. You have no inner text. If you always
want to run it, use:
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of a property to be passed to a custom action, schedule a Type 51
custom action (set property value) right before it:
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Windows Installer custom action types at MSDN:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372048.aspx
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I'm running an older WiX v3 build, but I see this in my wix.chm file:
.
The command line needs to be set to a property, not in the Value attribute.
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Look for "REMOVE" in both of the logs. Notice that it is only in the
uninstall. You can use this as a condition for the element for
your dialog that only appears upon uninstall. Looking at the log files is a
good way to figure out what properties are available.
Julie Campb
The file you specify must be in a directory light is looking in for files.
Use the -b switch to add directories.
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Here is the switch I use personally:
-dWixUILicenseRtf="lang\en-us\License.rtf"
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Fadi,
This information has been put onto my wix wiki as a working example. Here
is the link:
http://wix.mindcapers.com/wiki/XmlConfig_Example
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For anyone interested, I just converted the last e-mail I sent to a page on
wix.mindcapers.com for future reference (and better readability):
http://wix.mindcapers.com/wiki/Localization
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"Packages\en\prod_v1.0.msi"
As I mentioned, many steps, but worth the refactoring if you need to
localize to several languages
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Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:42:11 +0800
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not when repairing. The
second will not run when removing the entire package.
Hope this helps!
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You're working way too hard at this, there is an attribute on the
element that takes care of this for you. Here is an example:
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Subject: [Wi
ith a real live publisher about this, but the
financial reward for writing a WiX book wasn't much more than I just got
paid at my fulltime job for composing this e-mail. ;)
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Sorry for the confusion John, thanks for the correction Bob. I renamed the
wiki page title to correct.
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John,
Why the double slashes at the beginning of your element names? Just one
slash...
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that wiki. When I get time, I plan to clean it up,
but for now, the wiki is just semi-organized wix-users tidbits. I was
thinking of trying this in the next couple days myself.
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From:
For WiX v3, the syntax is:
Still regular (), not curly braces.
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ownloading:
ents,
etc.), and any lowercase character in the property name makes it private.
Personally, I always do all uppercase unless I have a good reason not to.
This seems to be a common cause of newbie grief.
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I did something similar by writing a custom action. I was planning to clean
it up and post it on my website as a simple example. I haven't had time,
but that is the way to go about it.
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Woops, my bad, sorry!
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Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WiX-users] ConfigurableDirectory being ignored
ample from my current project, it
sets the property CAKE_WRITE_TSB_INI to a combination of 3 other properties:
...
TSBDIR
That may or may not fix the original problem, but it should fix some
problem.
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Dat
Thank you so much Rene! These two lines solved my problem:
[assembly: AssemblyCulture("en-US")]
[assembly: NeutralResourcesLanguageAttribute("en-US",
UltimateResourceFallbackLocation.MainAssembly)]
Thanks again!
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gac'd and regasm'd with the /tlb flag. I can get the
end user application to behave correctly by doing all the regasm and gac
work by hand after the main install, but obviously I can't deploy that.
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Thank Neil, it looks like this element could have solved a problem I was
dealing with a couple weeks ago and finally started looking for other ways
to resolve. Good to know!
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Thanks for the answer Bob!
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To: Julie Campbell
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Subject: Re: [WiX-users] If , Assembly added but
file not installed
Using WiX v3.0.2813, If I set the Assembly attribute on a File element to
'.net', like this:
The assembly gets gac'd, but the actual file does not get installed. Is
this the expected behavior?
Julie Campbell
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ram Files\Keithley Instruments\KETSP\bin"
c:
cd ""\Program Files\Keithley Instruments\KETSP\bin"
regasm KeithleyTSPLib.dll /tlb
gacutil /i KeithleyTSPLib.dll
Help? I am not a GAC expert by any means. In fact, I
I've got some preliminary notes/sample code/links about how to actually
create a bootstrapper here that could be of help:
http://mindcapers.com/wiki/Bootstrapper
It's under construction, so a bit of a mess, sorry.
Julie Campbell
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David,
If the file lived in SourceDir (which is set to TARGETDIR), you would want
to use
not
in your fragment.
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Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 11:56:54 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: [WiX
x27;s version is provided by the file
'cvirte.dll1.0A12B0D3_94AF_489F_AA01_DDC6E268E50A'.
The corresponding .wxs source:
Any help appreciated!
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om action within the
InstallExecuteSequence, like so:
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Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 18:06:08 -0600
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Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Problem using Action attribute on Custom
element
To: "
Are you really setting that property to the text value of "0" or "1", or are
you setting it to an integer? You might want to try:
AuthBASE = 0
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Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 14:08:50 -0400
From: "Lewis Hen
Better? (Works anyway)
Z AND NOT REMOVE~="ALL"
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Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 10:11:40 -0700
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Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Error on uninstall? - FIXED
To: Aaron Feng <[EMAIL
issue
some brainwaves.
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Julie Campbell wrote:
> Here
the source
GUIDs now.
(Rene, thanks for your effort too!)
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tarted
property. Its current value is '1'.
Action ended 14:02:55: InstallFinalize. Return value 3.
Action ended 14:02:55: INSTALL. Return value 3.
Property(S): IVIDIRPROP = C:\Program Files\IVI\
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From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL
en-us/library/aa372835.aspx, numbers in log):
1302: Please insert the disk: [2]
1725: Removal failed.
1709: Product: [2] -- [3]
Any guidance on where to start looking?
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here: http://www.mindcapers.com/wiki/Custom_Actions when
I am done to help someone else later!
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Sub
e, as that directory should exist long before it tries to
execute my custom action.
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Su
fprintf writes to the file pointed to by cchIniName.
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From: Mike Dimmick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: 'Julie Campbell'; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Custom Ac
at #4501, right
after CreateShortcuts as expected. The fopen_s error that I get under Win2K
indicates the folder doesn't exist (2). I used message boxes to pause the
custom action and checked, and despite being past that point in the log file
and sequence, the directory indeed was non-
nd offering to assist with the help files, but never received a response.
I have no idea whether that was due to my lack of "karma" or a bit-bucket
e-mail address.
Anyway, enough babbling from me. What would you like to see? I seem to be
set of creating or improving *something
"After" attribute to specify when you
want your action to be executed, i.e.:
NOT Installed
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa369500.aspx
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372038.aspx
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You could just create a component under that directory that only contains
the RemoveFile element, i.e.,
Julie Campbell
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Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:50:37 -0700
From: "Quinton Tormanen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Where to install samp
Kevin, just ideas I haven't tried but could be a workaround(s) for you:
Reset the PRODUCTLANGUAGE property yourself (hokey, but perhaps useful in
the short term). Look at where in the install sequence the other thing is
setting it, that might give you a clue as well.
Julie Campbell
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Thanks Rennie and Bob! That took less time to implement and test than it
would have to explain to the marketing guys why they were in the wrong
order. ;)
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E37xx
If not, can anyone tell me what the ordering is based on so I can manipulate
whatever accordingly?
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I feel your pain. I'm going to have to setup another Perforce depot and do
a lot of explaining for these packages unless perhaps someone else can shed
some light on the matter.
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From: Ch
I got the same error doing the same thing until I added the
element as shown below:
Hope this helps!
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My apologies, my finger was faster on the "Send" button than my eyes were at
noticing I forgot to change the subject line.
Julie
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er source file something like this, however you got there:
http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003";>
To build from the command line:
Msbuild /val mybootstrapper.xml
Hope this helps!
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My apologies if this has already been answered, but I did skim all the
digests since the one this was in looking for an answer. With the caveat
that I setup the localization to the default (en-us), this works for me
(simplified here):
light -cultures:en-us -loc "lang\en-us\prod_en-us.wxl" -ext
(Continued, sorry, hit the send key accidently)
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Personally, I ...
* Use 4-space indenting on any child
* If the attributes get to unwieldly to have on a single line, I put each
one on a separate line, indented 8-spaces from the tag start.
* I match the indentation of the close tag with the open tag.
A snippet:
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Did you define a Directory with @Id ProgramMenuFolder?
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I am trying to add shortcuts to my WiX Installer (WiX V3.0.2420.0). These
shortcuts are both in a fragment .wxs file. The file candle's and lit's
with no errors or warnings.
This works:
This does not:
The error I get is:
C:\PlatformESP\TSB\WiX\Frag_KTSB.wxs(19) : error LGHT0094
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