Re: [WiX-users] WiX Check if .NET 4.0 Client Profile is installed

2010-06-29 Thread Thomas Singer
Please don't hijack threads by replying to a message and changing the subject! Instead create a new message if you want to start a new thread. Thanks, Tom On 29.06.2010 16:53, Johannes Hetzer wrote: > Dear WiX Users, > > is there a condition for an installed .NET 4.0 Client Profile? > > Also

Re: [WiX-users] Shortcut's icon and strange path

2010-06-02 Thread Thomas Singer
e with none-the-less, or use a custom action to work around. > -- > Bryan > > > From: Thomas Singer [...@regnis.de] > Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 11:17 PM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Sho

Re: [WiX-users] Shortcut's icon and strange path

2010-06-01 Thread Thomas Singer
e a separate File element from your root exe. In >> the past, when I've authored COM registration and tried to do what you are >> after in that scenario, I had to not use the WIX elements and >> instead had to break them down into their constituent elements >&g

[WiX-users] Shortcut's icon and strange path

2010-06-01 Thread Thomas Singer
I define a desktop shortcut with following line and have defined the icon reference as When I install the application and take a look at the symbol path in the created shortcut, I see a strange entry like %SystemRoot%\Installer\{8AF15DBB-442D-4BBC-A1EF-77B70AD64065}\myexe.exe I can't seem t

Re: [WiX-users] Quick Launch shortcut in Vista and Windows 7

2009-12-23 Thread Thomas Singer
Tony, how do you catch the case, that your user only can install applications elevated as administrator (don't assume everybody is admin on his/her machine)? Wouldn't the quick launch shortcut then only appear on the administrator's quick launch bar and hence is invisible for the normal user(s)? T

Re: [WiX-users] Update fails if files have been modified

2009-11-08 Thread Thomas Singer
According to my understanding, I've tried to summarize all information and the solution in our blog: http://blog.syntevo.net/2009/11/08/125770902.html If something is wrong, please let me know. Thanks in advance. Tom Thomas Singer wrote: > Thanks for the hint to the File Versioni

Re: [WiX-users] Update fails if files have been modified

2009-11-08 Thread Thomas Singer
Thanks for the hint to the File Versioning Rules: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368599(VS.85).aspx Do I understand it correctly, that file versions and languages solely apply to .exe/.dll or similar files, but not to, for example, .jar files which are nothing else than .zip files? Th

[WiX-users] Update fails if files have been modified

2009-11-04 Thread Thomas Singer
We are using Wix to install our (Java) application. Updating works fine, even launched application (and service) are handled gracefully. For providing users who report bugs a very quick bug-fix build we offer a plain zip file containing just the replaced few binary (.jar) files which they can repl

[WiX-users] WiX-expert - preferrable a German/Austrian near Munich/Salzburg searched

2008-09-14 Thread Thomas Singer
menu). This part should be handled some kind of separate, so installing two different major/minor versions should not install two Explorer integrations, but detect an already installed one. If you are interested, please reply to me off-list. Thanks in advance. -- Best regards, Thomas Singer ___

Re: [WiX-users] Keep optional directory on upgrade

2008-07-11 Thread Thomas Singer
ngle MSI to update [what are > essentially] multiple SKUs) > > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas Singer > Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 2:32 AM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. >

Re: [WiX-users] Keep optional directory on upgrade

2008-07-11 Thread Thomas Singer
he user is upgrading to the application > that shouldn't contain the JRE, why does the JRE need to hang around? > (Especially since, if you uninstall the installation w/JRE through ARP you > expect the JRE to be uninstalled?) > > > > > > > __

Re: [WiX-users] Keep optional directory on upgrade

2008-07-10 Thread Thomas Singer
Merge modules? Components you authored yourself into your > package? MSI chaining? etc... (What specifically is meant by "with > embedded Java Runtime Environment"?) > > > > > > ________ > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMA

Re: [WiX-users] Keep optional directory on upgrade

2008-07-10 Thread Thomas Singer
After I received so good feed-back for the file-gets-overwritten-problem - does someone have an idea how to handle this issue? -- Tom Thomas Singer wrote: > Our application is available in two different versions - one with embedded > Java Runtime Environment (JRE) and one without. The

Re: [WiX-users] Prevent overwriting a modified text file when upgrading

2008-07-10 Thread Thomas Singer
e the the action in the sequence, you might see other adverse side > effects. > > > Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog > Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves > attention? E-Mail Me > > > --- On Wed, 7/9/08, T

Re: [WiX-users] Prevent overwriting a modified text file when upgrading

2008-07-09 Thread Thomas Singer
tallInitialize. > > Phil Wilson > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas Singer > Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 12:25 AM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Prev

Re: [WiX-users] Prevent overwriting a modified text file when upgrading

2008-07-09 Thread Thomas Singer
I want to add: I've read in the mailing list archive, that the installer by default should *keep* the file, but for our tests it definitely overwrites/uninstalls the file. -- Tom Thomas Singer wrote: > Our installers install also a configuration (text) file where - if necessary >

[WiX-users] Prevent overwriting a modified text file when upgrading

2008-07-07 Thread Thomas Singer
Our installers install also a configuration (text) file where - if necessary - the user can configure some options to run our application. Unfortunately, it will be overwritten without request when installing an upgrade (different Product Id, different Product Version) using "msiexec /i ". We ar

[WiX-users] Keep optional directory on upgrade

2008-07-07 Thread Thomas Singer
Our application is available in two different versions - one with embedded Java Runtime Environment (JRE) and one without. The JRE is nothing else than a directory in the installation directory (no special registry settings). We don't provide special update packages (containing just the differen