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From: Ansis Māliņš [mailto:ansis.mal...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 7:44 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Can WiX do this for me?
Bump.
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Ansis Māliņš wrote:
If you need something per-user and you can live with the limitations about
what icons/shortcuts you can place, you may want to look at ClickOnce.
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From: Sanjay Poria [mailto:sanjay.po...@xanalys.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 9:11 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.
I knows this is old, but if you haven't resolved this...
Making an assumption that the .Net application in question already has top
level error handlers for the Application.ThreadException event.
Does the application work on the problem machine if you run it as an
administrator? If yes, then go
Bumped into this today.
http://www.cmcrossroads.com/content/view/13160/120/
looks like a decent starting point if you're looking to build an installer
that needs to work with existing websites.
--
Let Crystal Reports h
Have you tried capturing a verbose log file?
To do this... open up a command prompt.
And try this command...
Msiexec /I "Path to your MSI" /lv* "C:\yourlogfile.txt"
Then crack open C:\yourlogfile.tx in notepad and read it.
It can be challenging at first to understand it, maybe some other list
t this? I have some other things I
may need to do during the uninstall. I didn't realize you could have
Custom Action Codes do this.
Thanks very much!
Jim
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From: Phil Sayers [mailto:p...@cds-am.net]
Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 12:23 PM
To: 'General discuss
Wouldn't be complete without the custom action to remove the task for
uninstall.
-Original Message-
From: Phil Sayers [mailto:p...@cds-am.net]
Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 12:19 PM
To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.'
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Cre
Hi Jim,
I think we both found the same wix snippet to manipulate scheduled tasks.
I had to shuffle it around a little, and this is what I ended up with:
I needed the escaped quotes around the label/name you want to give to your
scheduled task.
If you notice the ... "\" ... before the Fu
Package element contains an unexpected attribute 'Platform'
Thanks lots.
Erica
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From: Phil Sayers [mailto:p...@cds-am.net]
Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 1:28 PM
To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.'
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Upd
To the best of my knowledge
As long as your installer is tagged correctly as a 32bit installer by
setting the Platform attribute of the Package node to "x86" like this:
[PROGRAMFILES] will resolve to "Program Files (x86)" on 64-bit windows, and
"Program Files" on 32bit windows This me
XmlFile is your friend.
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From: Erica Chang (PROJECT) [mailto:eri...@microsoft.com]
Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 1:59 PM
To: 'wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net'
Subject: [WiX-users] Updating web.config field value depending on if
machine's 64bit or 32bit
Hi,
I have a field
This should get you moving in the right direction.
Labels, data entry boxes...etc.
http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson2.php#2.5
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From: Adam Schirmacher [mailto:adam.schirmac...@electrolux.com]
Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 3:44 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Do you really want an installer? Or are you looking for a wizard ui to
gather data points?
-Original Message-
From: Adam Schirmacher [mailto:adam.schirmac...@electrolux.com]
Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 3:44 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Ask user for man
Hello everyone,
I have a custom dialog with 3 Controls of type "Edit".
Each one linked to a property..
MYURL, MYUSERNAME, MYPASSWORD
All 3 properties are defined as secure.
Edit boxes defined as :
I have the "Next" button defined as follows:
So when
Correction to the Control's code snippet. copy/paste/cleanse failure.
From: Phil Sayers [mailto:p...@cds-am.net]
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 8:29 AM
To: 'wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net'
Subject: Edit Control, trap textchanged possible?
Hello everyone,
Have you seen the "RegisterFonts" element?
-Original Message-
From: Kim Gybels [mailto:kim.gyb...@metris.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 12:29 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Installing fonts
Hi,
What is the correct way to install fonts using Wix?
I alway
Wix, Vb.net, c#..etc... are supported by #develop.
Just because you don't need to use #develop for its support of the .Net
languages does not mean you cannot use it for Wix development.
At the end of the day windows installer helps you deploy, update, repair &
remove resources on a computer. Wix
If you have a wixproj file, you can use MSBuild and everything should be
taken care of.
If you don't have VS.Net, then sharpdevelop is free and supports creating
wixproj files.
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From: Reuss, Matthias [mailto:matthias.mr.re...@siemens.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 9:
FirewallException element
-Original Message-
From: Chris Lord [mailto:chris.l...@atterotech.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 10:44 AM
To: wix-users
Subject: [WiX-users] Setting a Vista Firewall rule
My application uses a .NET object that requires the use of TFTP.
Unfortunately, on a Vis
pear under the COM+ Applications folder
or under the DCOM Config Folder?
Thx
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From: Phil Sayers [mailto:p...@cds-am.net]
Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 11:42 AM
To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.'
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How wo
register a COM+ serviceusing
Wix(DCOMCNFG)
Phil, Thanks for the info. I'll give this a try but let me ask. When
you say COM+ is this going to appear under the COM+ Applications folder
or under the DCOM Config Folder?
Thx
-Original Message-
From: Phil Sayers [mailto:p...@cds-am.net]
I use something like this to create a COM+ app...
I think my need for CreateFolder comes from something else in my wxs that I
haven't had time to work out, but I found that I needed it for my situation.
This works for me,using Wix 3.0.4603
At the top of your wxs file... include...
xmlns:compl
I don't have a solution for you, but I know that the smarter people here
will want to know the versions of the tools you are using.
[1]wix/votive
[2]visual studio edition & service pack level.
[3]operating system service pack level.
-Original Message-
From: Adam Langley [mailto:alang...@
I'm not in a position to help, but clarification about whether the original
poster meant to say
"Click Once"
Or
"Click Through"
would be helpful before this discussion goes a lot further.
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From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2
you could use the subversion "export" command to create a copy of just
y"your" files, and none of the "hidden" files that svn uses for
housekeeping.
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From: Rob Mensching [mailto:rob.mensch...@microsoft.com]
Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 8:35 PM
To: General discussion f
+1 for Phil's book.
It significantly helped me start to think about deployment
scenarios/problems in terms of windows installer concepts. I blame Phil for
my conversion from VS setup projects to wix.
(the other Phil)
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From: Jody Belka [mailto:lists-...@pimb.org]
Sent: T
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From: Phil Sayers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 3:08 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] file placement struggles.
hello,
I'm repackaging a 3rd party product that we have purchased and integrating
some of our own additional files so w
hello,
I'm repackaging a 3rd party product that we have purchased and integrating
some of our own additional files so we can get our deployment down to a
1-click process and not have to rely on people not making mistakes.
The files that we provide are webservices and get dropped into the
WebServi
anyone else received this message almost 10 times today?
-Original Message-
From: Peter Vestergaard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 6:47 AM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Logging
I am using the command line
This may get you going in the right direction.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/apps/user/usapvb02.msp
x?mfr=true
to install on a remote machine it's all about how you execute the msi file,
there's not much you can do once the msi has started to be processed by the
installer
reate 2 separate WiX projects, for a server, and for a client.
Than add a Custom Action to the first one (server), which will launch a
batch file for compiling and linking the second one (client).
MBR,
Yuri
-Original Message-
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 10:05:47 -0400
From: "Phil Sayers&quo
I'm doing some planning for moving from our existing xcopy based deployment
to msi (hopefully with wix) based installs.
Our application is written in .net framework 2.0
We have a client & server that need to be deployed with separate MSI's.
The server side of the application consists of a bunch of
At the moment in visual studio a "Setup Project" only builds in "Release"
configuration by default. (at least thats how it works on my system here)
I can see having wix projects match this beahavior to keep consistency with
the "installer building project types", but that is only one scenario for
I've had the exact same idea slowly fermenting in my head. Interested in
how you make this work and any hiccups along the way.
We still need to do some work with our product before we can make time to
spend on the install story, but med-long term this is definitely of interest
here.
-Origin
is this a .net 2.0 product?
If so, can't you package the .mdf and .ldf sql database & log files with
your app and use the new connection string options on the
System.Data.SqlClient to point to the database files and use those as your
sql database instead of needing an installed instance?
lower pe
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