[WiX-users] Can't write to PersonalFolder on a network path

Hey I'm wondering if anyone has come across this before and can offer any advice. As part of my installer, we write a folder and a shortcut within that folder to PersonalFolder, which usually maps to "My Documents". I'm getting a report from a customer that the installation is failing with the e

Re: [WiX-users] How to allow 32-bit installer to writetoC:\ProgramFiles

Thanks for the replies. This sounds like a giant pain. It's horrible that I can't tell the installer the exact directory that I want some files in. It just changes it without telling me it's going to, and there is nothing I can do to stop it. Couldn't they have at least made some kind of overr

[WiX-users] How to allow 32-bit installer to write to C:\Program Files

Hi I am creating an installer that needs to install some .war files in a servlet engine directory. In the installer, I am prompting for the location of their installed servlet engine (for example, Apache Tomcat). The problem occurs when they have a 64-bit computer with a 64-bit servlet engine i

[WiX-users] Wait until CostingComplete=1 before showing WelcomeDlg

Hi I am creating an installer using WiX that contains about 13500 files spread across about 720 components. I am not sure if this is a lot or not, but the installer can take quite a while to calculate the costing. The part that makes this annoying is that when the installer starts up, the Prepa