[WiX-users] having trouble validating server port for IIS websites

2009-06-08 Thread Michal Peled
Hi all, As a part of my installation, I give the user the option to create a new website. For this, I have a control in which the user can specify the new website port. Using a "MaskedEdit" type control, I was able to limit this field to 5 numeric characters, but found out that this has a coup

Re: [WiX-users] two different applications using shared folders

2008-04-08 Thread Michal Peled
ouble work? From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 6:22 PM To: Michal Peled Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] two different applications using shared folders Michal Peled wrote: I want to create a situation where one a

[WiX-users] two different applications using shared folders

2008-04-07 Thread Michal Peled
Hi all, I'm creating 2 installers for 2 different applications. A user can purchase and install each application by itself, but he is able to install them both as well. If they are both installed together, they share a couple of folders which both of them are using (so if one application gets upg

Re: [WiX-users] Installing an assembly to the GAC - how does it actinupdates?

2008-02-17 Thread Michal Peled
EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 11:57 PM To: Michal Peled; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Installing an assembly to the GAC - how does it actinupdates? GAC assemblies are inherently side-by-side, if you change the assembly version. However, th

Re: [WiX-users] ServiceInstall on EXE that is already installed?

2008-02-14 Thread Michal Peled
Bob Arnson replied to your previous sender: " No. See the MSI ServiceInstall table doc: Component_ External key to column one of the Component Table. Note that to install this service using the InstallService table, the KeyPath for this component must be the executable file for the service. "

Re: [WiX-users] Creating a new IIS website with an existing port

2008-02-14 Thread Michal Peled
David, Thank you for the very informative answer, it made things much clearer for me. All the best, Michal. From: david adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 5:01 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Michal Peled

Re: [WiX-users] Installing an assembly to the GAC - how does it act inupdates?

2008-02-14 Thread Michal Peled
_ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michal Peled Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 2:58 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Installing an assembly to the GAC - how does it act inupdates? Hi all, I have a component with this line:

[WiX-users] Installing an assembly to the GAC - how does it act in updates?

2008-02-14 Thread Michal Peled
Hi all, I have a component with this line: That installs "YadaYada" to the GAC. It seems to work fine, by I'm not fully convinced that minor updates of our product update the assembly in the GAC as well. The assembly file (DLL) is being changed quite regularly nowadays (it's in devel

Re: [WiX-users] Creating a new IIS website with an existing port

2008-02-14 Thread Michal Peled
Still a problem. Insights, anyone? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michal Peled Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 10:44 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Creating a new IIS website with an existing port

Re: [WiX-users] How to run Conditions only on install and not onuninstall

2008-02-05 Thread Michal Peled
Per, Change your condition to : COMPANYDIR AND NOT Installed Note that this way the message will only appear if your current product is not installed on the machine (this means it won't show the message in minor upgrades and uninstalls). If you wish to evaluate the message on minor

Re: [WiX-users] wix 3.0 : what should I use instead of "AssemblyRegisterComInterop" ?

2008-02-04 Thread Michal Peled
ubject: Re: [WiX-users] wix 3.0 : what should I use instead of "AssemblyRegisterComInterop" ? Michal Peled wrote: > > I need to get my installation to register a .NET assembly in the way > that "regasm /tlb" does. > > I saw an example for such a thing in Rob'

Re: [WiX-users] RegistrySearch more than once?

2008-02-04 Thread Michal Peled
Tris, What you're looking for is, as far as I know, impossible. The registry search for properties is done once in the "AppSearch" action, if I'm not mistaken. However, there are other ways to achieve your goal: 1. If the user enters a text that describes a value of a constant registry key, you

Re: [WiX-users] Adding a custom action (type 6) inapatchpackage(msp)

2008-02-04 Thread Michal Peled
-so-very-smart solutions, but I thought I should give it a go, considering the fact that I already gave you a wrong one :) MP. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michal Peled Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 1:46 PM To: Paul

Re: [WiX-users] Adding a custom action (type 6) in apatchpackage(msp)

2008-02-04 Thread Michal Peled
Paul, You configured the Binary, but you have not created a custom action out of it. You cannot reference a Binary as a custom action, instead you should create a custom action that uses this binary and then call that custom action. An example to that would be something like: (VB

Re: [WiX-users] wix 3.0 : what should I use instead of"AssemblyRegisterComInterop" ?

2008-02-04 Thread Michal Peled
I saw some reference to Tallow regarding that issue, but Tallow is no longer present in Wix 3.0, so I'm still hitting a dead end. MP. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michal Peled Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 11:28

[WiX-users] wix 3.0 : what should I use instead of "AssemblyRegisterComInterop" ?

2008-02-04 Thread Michal Peled
Hi all, I need to get my installation to register a .NET assembly in the way that "regasm /tlb" does. I saw an example for such a thing in Rob's blog, using the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" attribute (set to "yes"). However, in my version of Wix 3.0, Candle fails with the error: error CNDL0004 : The

[WiX-users] how to double-check a maskedit text control?

2008-02-03 Thread Michal Peled
Hi all, I have a "maskedit" text control field which allows the user to input up to a 5 digits number. It goes something like that: This worked great, until one of our QA personnel decided to get smart and did a copy-paste of an invalid string (e.g "abc") to that field. Surprisingly, th

[WiX-users] Creating a new IIS website with an existing port

2008-02-03 Thread Michal Peled
Hi all, My installation allows the user to create a new web site during installation, providing the new site Description (name), and bindings (port number, host header etc.). The installation takes place on IIS 6.0 only, and the new website is being created using iis:website controls and compilin

Re: [WiX-users] Service installed but not started

2008-01-16 Thread Michal Peled
Hi, Could you please attach the XML code of the related component? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of SaiTeja Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 5:57 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Service installed but not started

[WiX-users] waiting for CostingComplete

2008-01-14 Thread Michal Peled
Attached is a bit of my XML code for the " MaintenanceWelcomeDlg" dialog: CostingComplete = 1 1 . . . You can see that while Costing is not complete, the " WaitForCostingDlg" dialog is spawned. This dialog, ap

Re: [WiX-users] Two questions on SelectionTree and Features.

2008-01-09 Thread Michal Peled
Brad, You could also try: Of course, that requires you to set the modified feature as a "leaf" (child) of the feature you want its state to follow. MP. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron Shurts Sent: Wednesday, Ja

Re: [WiX-users] SetTargetPath event before CustomizeDlg

2008-01-06 Thread Michal Peled
ng the "_BrowseProperty" seems like the correct way to go. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michal Peled Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 7:46 PM To: dB.; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] SetTargetPath ev

Re: [WiX-users] SetTargetPath event before CustomizeDlg

2008-01-06 Thread Michal Peled
nt you probably have). Tell me if that works... From: dB. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 6:43 PM To: Michal Peled; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] SetTargetPath event before CustomizeDlg I tried this before. Whatever p

Re: [WiX-users] How do I change a directory name below INSTALLDIR?

2008-01-06 Thread Michal Peled
Use a custom action after your custom UI that'll look something like that: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dB. Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 7:24 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] How do I change a

Re: [WiX-users] SetTargetPath event before CustomizeDlg

2008-01-06 Thread Michal Peled
I believe that the problem lies in your "SetTargetPath" event. What you're actually doing ,say the website name is "MyWebsite", is to set the target path to be "MyWebsite"... That's not what you want. What you should do is: 1 Hope that'll fix the error. MP. ___

Re: [WiX-users] Features as parameters

2008-01-06 Thread Michal Peled
Yes, use command line to launch the MSI with the "ADDLOCAL" parameter. For example: >msiexec /I my.msi /qb ADDLOCAL=FEATURE1,FEATURE3 Will install Features 1 and 3. The "/qb" qualifier will make the installation silent (you'll only see the progress bar). Hope that's what you need. MP.

Re: [WiX-users] Problem Starting service on XP

2008-01-02 Thread Michal Peled
The error message you receive implies that the service was installed but failed to start. Once getting this error (before canceling the installation or anything else), if you go to Windows Service Manager, can you start the service manually, right there in that minute? I use Wix to install and sta

[WiX-users] Wix 3.0 : website and virtual directory created with Wix are not removed on uninstall

2008-01-02 Thread Michal Peled
In my installation, I give the user the ability to create a virtual directory (under an existing website) or to create a new website, giving the name, port number, IP and header value. All works just fine, but when I'm uninstalling, the virtual dir or the website, if created, are not removed and ar

Re: [WiX-users] Wix 3.0 and IIS 7.0

2008-01-01 Thread Michal Peled
PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2007 6:33 PM To: Michal Peled; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Wix 3.0 and IIS 7.0 You have to turn on IIS6 Metabase Compatibility, and rollback is not supported - because in their infinite wisdom the IIS team didn't implem

[WiX-users] Wix 3.0 and IIS 7.0

2007-12-30 Thread Michal Peled
Hi all, Quite new to Wix, but already done some great things with it. I'm using the WixIIsExtension external and the elements (iis:website, iis:WebVirtualDir etc.) to allow the user to configure IIS for use with web UI we supply in our software (by creating a web site or virtual directory). Tha