Re: [WiX-users] How to prevent the same MSI file to be executed more than once at the same time?

Windows only prevents a second install from starting the "Install" phase. You can open as many .msi files as you like into the user interface phase. > -Original Message- > From: Hans ter Horst [mailto:hoshis...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, 15 November 2012 2:47 AM > To: General discussio

Re: [WiX-users] Write STX (Start of Text / ASCII 2) to a registry string

Yup, I ended up doing that, I would have liked to keep the value type as string but this will suffice. Thanks, Keith Moore > -Original Message- > From: robert_h_yang [mailto:robert_y...@non.agilent.com] > Sent: Tuesday, 20 December 2011 5:06 AM > To: wix-users@lists.sou

[WiX-users] Write STX (Start of Text / ASCII 2) to a registry string

Is there a way to write a the STX character to the registry? I am using Wix 3.5. I have the registry import file below: - Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SomeKey] "SomeValue"=hex(1):02,00,00,00 --

Re: [WiX-users] UI in WPF

There is an example project in the wix source code. [wix root]\src\DTF\Samples\EmbeddedUI\EmbeddedUI.csproj This is Wix 3.5 but I would imagine it is still in trunk. > -Original Message- > From: Phyx [mailto:loneti...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, 28 November 2011 8:57 AM > To: wix-users@li

[WiX-users] Can someone explain syntax: !(wix.MyVariable=$(var.anotherVariable))

Hello, Can someone explain the syntax below? I understand that !(wix.MyVariable) is a and $(var.anotherVariable) is a but what does the = in the middle mean/do? Thanks, Keith # Attention: The information c

Re: [WiX-users] Bug with Semi colon in Custom action data

I worked around this issue by having a separate custom acction to encode the property values to remove/escape ; The basic way it works is you pass the _names_ of the properties you want to encode, separated by semi-colons. Since semi-colon cannot be used as an identifier it cannot be part of a

[WiX-users] Indirect ComboBox Property

Hello, I have been trying to create a generic dialog box to allow the installing user to specify members of a (install) created group. The dialog allows the installer to enter account names into a multiline edit control. These accounts are then checked by a CustomAction. I also wanted to han

[WiX-users] Dereference Indirect Property within Condition

Hello, I have a generic dialog that uses an indirect property for a username and I would like to enable and disable the Next button depending on whether a username has been entered. MyDialog.wxs ... ... Product.wxs ... ... With this code the button is alw