Re: [WiX-users] HeatProject

2009-10-29 Thread Steve Baker
routine. steve Original Message From: "Steve Baker" Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 12:55 PM To: "Brian Rogers" , "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." Subject: Re: [WiX-users] HeatProject yes, i think... what i am looking for, in

Re: [WiX-users] HeatProject

2009-10-28 Thread Steve Baker
s to your the project you are harvesting? If so, heat does not walk the dependency tree to find other files that are required for your project. I believe this is a feature request. If that isn't want you mean, let me know. Thanks, Brian Rogers "Intelligence removes complexity." -

[WiX-users] HeatProject

2009-10-28 Thread Steve Baker
I have setup the following ItemGroup in a wixproj and found that the HarvestProjects target does indeed call heat and the output that is generated is great. Except... It doesn't seem to include any of the dependent assemblies the main dll needs? Am I doing something wrong? I have had a hard ti

Re: [WiX-users] InstanceTransforms and Major Upgrades

2009-09-17 Thread Steve Baker
Thanks for helping out Blair, I'm not actually manually creating the transforms with torch, I am using the element in wix V3. --

[WiX-users] InstanceTransforms and Major Upgrades

2009-09-17 Thread Steve Baker
I have continuous integration build process that automatically deploys a .net web application project as a major upgrade using a wix installer. Normally the installer would first be installed to an integration environment, then another build would "promote" the installation to QA, then to Produc

Re: [WiX-users] Automatically setting version number

2008-07-18 Thread Steve Baker
Neil, Awsome Idea! saves me a ton of work, including overriding Team Builds core target, now that I don't have to pass the version down through the msbuild stack to the wix project. Thanks for sharing it, Steve Baker From: Neil Enns &l

Re: [WiX-users] Testing for existence of a Project Reference

2008-07-18 Thread Steve Baker
Yes it does Rob, thank you. I looked at the documentation for the Preprocessor and do not see any examples of that syntax o_O Steve Baker From: Rob Mensching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 3:25 AM To: "[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [WiX-users] Testing for existence of a Project Reference

2008-07-17 Thread Steve Baker
ue is expanded correctly in the error statement so it must. what am i doing wrong ? Steve Baker From: Bob Arnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 5:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset

[WiX-users] Testing for existence of a Project Reference

2008-07-17 Thread Steve Baker
like this: but this returns false even when the project reference is defined. Is there a way to make this work? Thanks, Steve Baker - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's chal

Re: [WiX-users] using preprocessor variables in pre/postbuild steps in VS2005

2008-07-17 Thread Steve Baker
Where are you defining the preprocessor variables you would like to have access to in the pre and post build steps? In the wixproj file? in a wxs? Steve Baker From: "Antoine, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 4:22

Re: [WiX-users] Component Rules

2008-07-17 Thread Steve Baker
I'm not sure how, but all the closing tags for my components somehow got lost in the copy paste o_O. rest assured that everything is closed correctly and compiles in the original source. Thanks again for the help, Steve Baker From: "S

Re: [WiX-users] Component Rules

2008-07-17 Thread Steve Baker
l leaving one behind as was mentioned earlier. I'm not having a hard time with the basics of component rules, i have read through and have a fairly good understanding of what they are and where i have chosen to violate them. I am having a hard time seeing what may break on my web server if i mak

Re: [WiX-users] Component Rules

2008-07-16 Thread Steve Baker
ple) both with a GUID of 'FOO'; although 'A' and 'B' might be two entirely separate keys, Both will be written. However, at uninstall, only the last to be uninstalled, will be uninstalled. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On B

Re: [WiX-users] Component Rules

2008-07-16 Thread Steve Baker
Steve From: Chad Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 11:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Baker Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 8:19 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourc

[WiX-users] (no subject)

2008-07-16 Thread Steve Baker
Hey all, I find myself in a situation where I need some feedback on component rules. I have over 30 solutions that each have a wix installer project in them. each solution is a web site that is deployed automatically and internally. right now i have a ton of duplication between each of the in

Re: [WiX-users] CAQuietExec in merge module path problem

2007-07-10 Thread steve baker
property you have to use a CustomAction Try mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of steve baker Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 11:22 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] CAQuietExec in merge module path problem i have a merge module that needs to fire off a CAQuietExec

[WiX-users] CAQuietExec in merge module path problem

2007-07-10 Thread steve baker
i have a merge module that needs to fire off a CAQuietExec custom action: my installation fails and rolls back with this error in the log:CAQuietExec: Error 0x80070002: Command failed to execute.CAQuietExec: Error 0x80070002: CAQuietExec Failedi am thinking it is a path problem and it cant

Re: [WiX-users] votive project reference to wixlib

2007-06-29 Thread Steve Baker
houghts, steve From: "Justin Rockwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 9:50 AM To: "'steve baker'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Subject: RE: [WiX-users] votive project reference to wixlib There are actua

Re: [WiX-users] votive project reference to wixlib

2007-06-29 Thread Steve Baker
. From: "Steve Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 12:47 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] votive project reference to wixlib i tried running my solution from msbuild instead of from the ide and get the following e

Re: [WiX-users] votive project reference to wixlib

2007-06-28 Thread Steve Baker
ile is where it is looking for it, i have tried absolute paths as well. thanks From: "Justin Rockwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 9:50 AM To: "'steve baker'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Subject: RE:

[WiX-users] votive project reference to wixlib

2007-06-28 Thread steve baker
I have a wixlib project in my solution that houses my custom UI. When I add a project reference to that wixlib project from my msi project it doesn't resolve. I found that I can add a reference directly to the wixlib file and it works. I was just wondering if that is the expected way to add referen

[WiX-users] Custom Service Registration Dialog - ComboBox type control

2007-06-27 Thread Steve Baker
hi all, i am writing a wix install which will register a service. i have used wix for a while but never had to register a service with it. I have the ServiceInstall element all setup and am using public properties for the user name and password. I would like to put a GUI on top of this so the

Re: [WiX-users] install path parsing?

2007-06-22 Thread Steve Baker
ctionality to work it. i agree though, it probably isn't worth the trouble. thanks, steve From: Bob Arnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 5:39 PM To: steve baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] install pa

[WiX-users] install path parsing?

2007-06-21 Thread steve baker
I have an application that will be installed multiple times on the same machine in a directory structure like: -Company -App -1.1.0 -1.2.0 -1.3.0 I am using WixUI_InstallDir and would like to be able to set the default installation directory of the next installation

[WiX-users] outlook settings not working with the mailing list

2006-07-06 Thread steve baker
i keep getting responses from [EMAIL PROTECTED] when i try to send mail from outlook. it is set to send as plain text. what causes this? TIA, Steve Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job ea

Re: [WiX-users] help convincing management to use wix

2006-06-01 Thread steve baker
L PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of steve baker Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 2:12 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] help convincing management to use wix hi all, i have been a long time wix user. my current employer uses wise to build msi installations.

[WiX-users] help convincing management to use wix

2006-06-01 Thread steve baker
hi all, i have been a long time wix user. my current employer uses wise to build msi installations. i have used wise and installshield extensively and have nothing good to say about either of them. part of my current job is to help rework our installer process. i have proposed wix. our install b