Re: [WiX-users] and relative paths

2013-03-22 Thread Andreas Mertens
] Sent: March 22, 2013 11:42 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] and relative paths With Wix 3.6.1922, I manually add the , and to my .wixproj file. If I use absolute paths, there's never any problem. However, due to build servers not having Wix installed, I mus

[WiX-users] and relative paths

2013-03-22 Thread George Fleming
With Wix 3.6.1922, I manually add the , and to my .wixproj file. If I use absolute paths, there's never any problem. However, due to build servers not having Wix installed, I must use relative paths, and that's where I run into all kinds of problems, especially with . If I use a relative p

Re: [WiX-users] and question

2010-07-01 Thread Blair
users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] and question Hi Blair, Would you please help me to understand why I need to make the CA as deferred without impersonation? Since I want the install to success no matter whether the service started successfully or failed, I just run StartMyService CA

Re: [WiX-users] and question

2010-07-01 Thread Elfe Xu
Hi Blair, Would you please help me to understand why I need to make the CA as deferred without impersonation? Since I want the install to success no matter whether the service started successfully or failed, I just run StartMyService CA after InstallFinalize. Do you see any problem of doing so?

Re: [WiX-users] and question

2009-10-13 Thread Blair
neral discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] and question Thanks Blair. In that case, I think I will start the service with a CA. What would be the proper sequence point to do this? Thanks, Dave -Original Message- From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.

Re: [WiX-users] and question

2009-10-13 Thread Dave Kolb
r XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] and question To reduce reboot prompts many of us set @Stop to "both". Windows Installer assumes that if you want the service started during the installation, it is a failure if it doesn't. It uses the built-in action StartServices, which can

Re: [WiX-users] and question

2009-10-13 Thread Blair
condition it, which isn't what you are asking). -Original Message- From: Dave Kolb [mailto:d...@dotnetcodeslingers.com] Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 11:32 PM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: [WiX-users] and question I use and and n

[WiX-users] and question

2009-10-12 Thread Dave Kolb
I use and and noticed that if my service failed to start [a bug in my code], then the install failed. Is there a means to try to start the service and have it install even if it fails to start? P.S. Also, fwiw, I noticed that if I used two elements, one for install and one for uninstall,

[WiX-users] [Personal note: goodbye to Wix-Users, and thanks]

2008-03-25 Thread Daryn Mitchell
I'm changing jobs in two weeks, and with the change in responsibility I'll be leaving the Wix-users community. I subscribed to the list last year and was able to successfully - and relatively painlessly - change our products from InstallShield to Wix. Almost all of that invaluable knowledge came f

[WiX-users] and

2008-01-15 Thread Floris Bruynooghe
Hi [wix v2] We're trying to create a merge module of an app that can have file extensions assosiated with it, so the app and the file extensions need to be in different features. The only way we found to do this with merge modules is by creating a separate merge module for the app and the file e

Re: [WiX-users] and external file?

2007-05-13 Thread Kevin Burton
nt: Sunday, May 13, 2007 4:40 AM To: 'Kevin Burton'; 'Rob Mensching'; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] and external file? I don’t think you should rely on the working directory. You can use property substitutions (e.g. directory locations) in , but not i

Re: [WiX-users] and external file?

2007-05-13 Thread Mike Dimmick
__ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Burton Sent: 13 May 2007 07:16 To: 'Rob Mensching'; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] and external file? The specific script that I am trying to use is BULK INSERT Table

Re: [WiX-users] and external file?

2007-05-12 Thread Kevin Burton
what is the working directory? From: Rob Mensching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2007 12:09 PM To: Kevin Burton; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] and external file? Didn't know you could write a SQL script that had dependencies outsid

Re: [WiX-users] and external file?

2007-05-12 Thread Rob Mensching
place when your script executes. Other things may not be in place (for example, GAC'd files definitely won't) so beware. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Burton Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 6:47 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-user

[WiX-users] and external file?

2007-05-11 Thread Kevin Burton
I have a need to generate a SQL script that references an external file. My question is when the script is executed can I depend on the file that it references to be "there" with the same file name? Should this file be included as a or as a ? I don't want to install this file I just want it to be

Re: [WiX-users] and escape sequences.

2007-05-08 Thread Dhaval Patel
error message was during a CREATE PROCEDURE which has nothing to do with the table creation and the existing table does have that column defined. *From:* Mike Dimmick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Monday, May 07, 2007 4:38 AM *To:* 'Kevin Burton'; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net *

Re: [WiX-users] and escape sequences.

2007-05-08 Thread Albert van Peppen
2007 15:56 Aan: 'Mike Dimmick'; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Onderwerp: Re: [WiX-users] and escape sequences. Thank you for your response. I will look into adding "GO" statements. I was just taking the script generated by SMO. Maybe it needs to be modified. As far as

Re: [WiX-users] and escape sequences.

2007-05-07 Thread Kevin Burton
his error message was during a CREATE PROCEDURE which has nothing to do with the table creation and the existing table does have that column defined. From: Mike Dimmick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 4:38 AM To: 'Kevin Burton'; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.

Re: [WiX-users] and escape sequences.

2007-05-07 Thread Mike Dimmick
f Of Kevin Burton Sent: 07 May 2007 01:05 To: 'Mike Dimmick'; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] and escape sequences. I also get errors like: Error 26204. Error -2147217900: failed to execute SQL string, error detail: Must declare the scalar variable "@Birth

Re: [WiX-users] and escape sequences.

2007-05-06 Thread Rob Mensching
ke Dimmick'; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] and escape sequences. I am using 2.0.5280. The scripts don't work and I get some weird error messages. The reason that I think Wix is do some substituitions is I see lines like: ExecuteSqlStrings: Error 0x80040e14: f

Re: [WiX-users] and escape sequences.

2007-05-06 Thread Kevin Burton
(N'P', N'PC')) Like I said these errors don't make any sense so I am assuming the script that is executing is different from what I expect. This script runs fine with SQL Server Management Studio. Kevin From: Mike Dimmick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: S

Re: [WiX-users] and escape sequences.

2007-05-06 Thread Kevin Burton
ot right? Kevin From: Mike Dimmick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2007 12:53 PM To: 'Kevin Burton'; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] and escape sequences. What version of WiX are you using? I'm looking at the CA code for SqlScr

Re: [WiX-users] and escape sequences.

2007-05-06 Thread Mike Dimmick
Burton Sent: 06 May 2007 01:12 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] and escape sequences. I have a task in my Wix file (.wxs) and as best as I can tell it treats all of the [xxx] as properties so the SQL script does not run. Does anyone have a solution on how I can run a vali

Re: [WiX-users] and escape sequences.

2007-05-06 Thread Rob Mensching
The SqlScript is sent "as is". Only SqlStrings are processed for Properties and thus must be escaped. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Burton Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2007 5:12 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] and escape

Re: [WiX-users] and escape sequences.

2007-05-06 Thread Kevin Burton
to ? -Original Message- From: Sebastian Brand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2007 10:52 AM To: Kevin Burton Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] and escape sequences. Hello Kevin, As far as I know you can add a backslash to the bracket (-> \[

Re: [WiX-users] and escape sequences.

2007-05-06 Thread Sebastian Brand
Hello Kevin, As far as I know you can add a backslash to the bracket (-> \[xxx\] ) to avoid the handling as properties. It may also be required to enclose the sql command into a CDATA block. Best regards, Sebastian Brand Instyler Software - http://www.instyler.com On May 6, 2007, at 2:11 A

[WiX-users] and escape sequences.

2007-05-05 Thread Kevin Burton
I have a task in my Wix file (.wxs) and as best as I can tell it treats all of the [xxx] as properties so the SQL script does not run. Does anyone have a solution on how I can run a valid SQL script with WIX? Ideally I would like Wix to send the stream as is to the SQL engine and execute it withou

Re: [WiX-users] and simple math

2007-03-08 Thread Rob Hamflett
I don't think you can do that in WiX. Your best bet is probably to have a script like Python do the calculation and then call candle with -dSequenceStart= on the command line. Rob Ashish Premaraj wrote: > Need to do the below calculation or a variation of it for every build > our team genera

[WiX-users] and simple math

2007-03-07 Thread Ashish Premaraj
Need to do the below calculation or a variation of it for every build our team generates.   I want to calculate the sequence start number of each patch we generate in a variable called SequenceStart.     How do i do this operation in wix? if it  is not possible is there any alternate ways of ach

[WiX-users] And just like that, I was the rube.

2007-01-12 Thread artificially
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[WiX-users] And I thank you for your hospitality.

2006-11-25 Thread Sadie Z. Bird
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