[WiX-users] Help passing properties to Rollback custom action.

Hello, I have a custom action that moves some deprecated files from an old install to a temp directory during a major upgrade and I have another custom action to move them back that runs only during roll back. I am having trouble accessing the two properties set by the first custom acti

[WiX-users] Help with custom action during rollback.

Hello, I have a custom action that removes some deprecated files when upgrading an older InstallShield install, but I can't get my rollback custom action to run and put them back. Below is how I have defined my actions in the WXS file and scheduled them.

Re: [WiX-users] Help migrating Serial number during upgrade

Thank you all for the wonderful answers. I will try them out and see which one we like better. On a side note I agree that this is user data and should be handled differently, but this is one of our older installs that was done prior to my arrival so we haven't done much with it because we are s

[WiX-users] Help migrating Serial number during upgrade

Hello, I have been tasked with creating a custom action that will migrate the user's serial number during a major upgrade. I have a custom action that runs before RemoveExisting that moves the license file, but my problem is that we have a custom dialog if ran in GUI mode that prompts f

[WiX-users] Help Retrieve full File Path for a File from a CustomAction

Hello, We have an installer that installs a website and all of its content including several themes. Now during our system testing they have discovered that since the themes aren't versioned they don't always get upgraded and some of these files are editable by the customer. So what I w

Re: [WiX-users] Burn Multi-Instance Installs with Multiple

I understand that Burn does not support multi-instance transforms atm. I was referring to what Jacob Hoover said quoted below: "Is there a reason you are using instance transforms instead of multiple MSI's? I started with instance transforms (and contributed some changes for them) but have s

[WiX-users] Burn Multi-Instance Installs with Multiple MSI's

Hello, I was doing some googling and found an archived mailing list talking about doing Multi Instance installs with external CABs and multiple MSI's. Could someone elaborate on this a little more like how to handle selecting the correct MSI from Burn etc? Below is the link to the conve

[WiX-users] Component Rules

@Phil Wilson: I like that idea. It seems less destructive than removing the files and I wouldn't have to worry about rollback. Tyler Reid | Operations and Infrastructure | Accenture Software | P&C Insurance 1807 Jones Street | Bolivar, MO 65613| USA Office: +cc.xxx.xxx. | Fax: 417.777.3792 E-

[WiX-users] Component Rules

Thank you all for all of your help. We have decided to use the RemoveFile method for now as we are currently about to release a minor and need this fix in it however at the end of the year we have a major release and may change it to use CompanionFiles then. Tyler Reid | Operations and Infrastr

[WiX-users] Component Rules

@John Ludlow: Ok I was following what I found in a wix email chain by Chad Peterson from 2011. The post is below as well as the url to the entire email chain. Another option is to use the element tied to the same Component as your element. This will always clear out the existing file prior to t

[WiX-users] Component Rules

If I add a to an existing component for a minor upgrade will that violate the component rules? As in one of our minor upgrades a customer ran into a problem of some .js and .xsl files not getting upgraded because they were modified by the version control system they put them in after they insta

[WiX-users] Burn and MultiInstance

Hello, I have been tasked with discovering if I can get Burn to support multi instance installs and was wondering if you all could point me in the direction I should start looking. Tyler Reid | Operations and Infrastructure | Accenture Software | P&C Insurance 1807 Jones Street | Boliva

Re: [WiX-users] Running a repair after install automatically

Phil, I see what you are saying. Thank you I will definitely fix that issue in this current installer so that this problem doesn't happen again. The only reason that I had to ignore the error is that this was occurring in the previous versions installer and was preventing me fr

Re: [WiX-users] Running a repair after install automatically

Hello, I know I need to schedule the REP early that is what I want to do, but due to some bad decisions by my predecessor I was unable to do that because the REP would fail because of the custom action. I have however managed to find a fix and get my REP scheduled early. To fix this i

Re: [WiX-users] Running a repair after install automatically

Hello, Sorry I didn't explain that better. Basically in one of our other installers for a different product I do have the RemoveExistingProducts scheduled early however if I schedule it that early in this installer then the whole install fails because of the custom actions I posted

[WiX-users] Running a repair after install automatically

Hello, I have a problem with an older install that we have restructured to conform to the single file per component rules. However inside of this installer is some custom actions that call the InstallUtil.exe to install some performance counters that we have in a dll that gets installed

[WiX-users] Help hiding Directory selection dialog during major upgrades.

How do I hide the directory selection dialog during any upgrade. I have tried using a lot of different approaches and it shows every time. Below is the relevant code for the ui that does not work. LicenseAccepted = "1" AND UPGRADINGPRODUCTCODE LicenseAcc

[WiX-users] Help with component not installing.

Hello, Basically I have a component group in my installer that will not get installed when doing an upgrade. Now we have found that the upgrade only doesn't work when we upgrade from a version that didn't previously contain these components. In our example the initial install is version

Re: [WiX-users] Using Microsoft.Deployment.WindowsInstaller Followup

Phil, Thank you for the quick response I have pasted a more thorough example of the components below. Basically what I think I need to do is make sure every is in their own component with a keypath?

[WiX-users] Using Microsoft.Deployment.WindowsInstaller.

Hello, I am currently using the Microsoft.Deployment.WindowsInstaller to check some components for an install that I have done. However I have noticed that a lot of my components are coming up with the InstallState.Absent state. They are mostly images, aspx, and css files, but since the

Re: [WiX-users] Where can I find the installer that was used

Phil, Thank you so much I got all those functions PInvoked and working like a charm. Again thank you to everyone for all your wonderful help it is greatly appreciated. Tyler Reid | Operations and Infrastructure | Accenture Software | P&C Insurance 1807 Jones Street | Bolivar, MO 65613|

Re: [WiX-users] Where can I find the installer that was used.

Thank you all so much for the wonderful answers. As many of you have pointed out this may be more trouble that it is worth. However the main reason we are doing this is not to validate that the correct files were laid down, but to validate that the correct files were upgraded to the correct vers

[WiX-users] Where can I find the installer that was used.

Hello all, I am trying to write an application that will go through the file table in an msi and make sure the files on the system are the same version and location. Basically a regression test for our installers. I have everything good except I have no idea how to find the installer th

[WiX-users] Burn and MultiInstance installs

I doubt I'd be much help coding this, but I have talked to my tester and I am willing to code up one of our products to test burn multi-instance and he is willing to test it. Tyler Reid | Operations and Infrastructure | Accenture Software | P&C Insurance 1807 Jones Street | Bolivar, MO 65613| U

Re: [WiX-users] Burn and MultiInstance installs

Ok that answers my question thank you very much. Tyler Reid | Operations and Infrastructure | Accenture Software | P&C Insurance 1807 Jones Street | Bolivar, MO 65613| USA Office: +cc.xxx.xxx. | Fax: 417.777.3792 E-Mail: tyler.w.r...@accenture.com | www.acce

[WiX-users] Burn and MultiInstance installs

Hello everyone, We currently have a custom boot strapper that collects the instance from the user and then we have a custom action in the install that will transform the Product and upgrade code for the install based on that instance. We are getting ready to convert another of our produ

[WiX-users] Multi-Instance Flag on Components

Hello, According to the documentation the MultiInstance attribute causes a new Guid to be generated for each instance. Due to this should I still place a Guid and MultiInstance attribute on each component or is it sufficient to just have the MultiInstance and let the linker handle the G

[WiX-users] Updating an old Install without Major version change.

Help. We have some installs that we have already released and on some of the components the multinstance="yes" flag was not set. However we have now found and fixed this error, but the new installers with the same major version will not update the old installs that were installed without the mul

[WiX-users] Upgrade old installs with burn install.

Hello, I have some products that we are installing with wix, but now I am rewriting the installs to be more modular and am using burn to chain them together. If I use the same upgrade codes will the files installed before burn get updated when burn does its install? Tyler Reid | Operat