Re: [WiX-users] Documentation Generating Tool

2014-09-19 Thread Phill Hogland
I did not tackle this issue yet, but I also need to come up with a way to generate a build report (or design documentation). I was thinking that one piece of this, as it relates to bundles, might be to try and make use of info in the bundle manifest file, which I noticed in the temporary folder, w

Re: [WiX-users] Documentation Generating Tool

2014-09-19 Thread David Watson
] Sent: 19 September 2014 10:09 To: 'wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net' Subject: [WiX-users] Documentation Generating Tool Hi Guys, Have recently started using Wix... very impressed indeed! :) I was looking to see if there was an Installer documentation generation tool available for Wix?

[WiX-users] Documentation Generating Tool

2014-09-19 Thread Kevin Palmer
Hi Guys, Have recently started using Wix... very impressed indeed! :) I was looking to see if there was an Installer documentation generation tool available for Wix? We would like to develop our installer in an Agile way but we also need to produce documentation on the Features, Components, an

Re: [WiX-users] Documentation for creating a Managed Bootstrapper Application for WiX Burn

2014-05-16 Thread Phill Hogland
>>WiX Extended Bootstrapper Application by Neil Sleightholm https://wixextba.codeplex.com/ This site is not really related to creating a mba. It is about how to extend the WixStdBA in wix 3.7 by creating a BAFunctions.dll. Most of this functionality is integrated into Wix 3.8 (and later), but

Re: [WiX-users] Documentation for creating a Managed Bootstrapper Application for WiX Burn

2014-05-16 Thread Alasdair King
"Custom WiX Managed Bootstrapper Application" by bryanpjohnston http://bryanpjohnston.com/2012/09/28/custom-wix-managed-bootstrapper-application/ On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 10:36 PM, Alasdair King wrote: > So I've found the following sources of documentation and information. Are > there any more

[WiX-users] Documentation for creating a Managed Bootstrapper Application for WiX Burn

2014-04-12 Thread Alasdair King
So I've found the following sources of documentation and information. Are there any more comprehensive sources I'm missing? One "Bootstrapper Application Interface" article in the wix.chm, also at http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/ (Sketch of the API for C++ coders) http://blogs.ms

[WiX-users] Documentation of the complete Namespace Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Bootstrapper

2014-02-28 Thread Seemueller, Armin
We want to develop a Managed Bootstrapper Application, and were looking for a Documentation or Online Help where the complete Namespace Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Bootstrapper is documented. Is there something available like the DTF (Deployment Tools Foundation) which is a good help fo

Re: [WiX-users] Documentation on WIX properties

2013-10-21 Thread Phil Wilson
t; To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Documentation on WIX properties > > Guys, > > > >After going through some of the logs, I decided to use > WixUI_InstallMode property to differentiate the installer from various > modes of instal

Re: [WiX-users] Documentation on WIX properties

2013-10-21 Thread Hoover, Jacob
ailto:swaroop.k...@ifdspercana.com] Sent: Monday, October 21, 2013 9:17 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Documentation on WIX properties Guys, After going through some of the logs, I decided to use WixUI_InstallMode property to differentiate the installer from v

Re: [WiX-users] Documentation on WIX properties

2013-10-21 Thread Swaroop Kare
al discussion about the WiX toolset.' Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Documentation on WIX properties Thanks guys, some of the properties does not behave in the way it is described in msdn. Will it be possible for me to know the condition for execution of custom action that I should use for the fol

Re: [WiX-users] Documentation on WIX properties

2013-10-16 Thread Christopher Painter
bout the WiX toolset." Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Documentation on WIX properties It's unlikely that the docs are wrong - you may be misinterpreting what they mean? For example the Installed property does not have a true or false value. Look at the following properties (case sensitive,

Re: [WiX-users] Documentation on WIX properties

2013-10-16 Thread Phil Wilson
> 4)CA to be executed only on major uninstall. > > > > Regards, > > > > > > -Original Message- > From: Pally Sandher [mailto:pally.sand...@iesve.com] > Sent: 16 October 2013 16:50 > To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-us

Re: [WiX-users] Documentation on WIX properties

2013-10-16 Thread Swaroop Kare
October 2013 16:50 To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Documentation on WIX properties WiX doesn't have any such thing. Some WIX extensions such as NetFx have some defined which are listed in their respective schemas but there's nothing in 'vanilla

Re: [WiX-users] Documentation on WIX properties

2013-10-16 Thread Pally Sandher
land Science Park, Glasgow G20 0SP Email Disclaimer -Original Message- From: Swaroop Kare [mailto:swaroop.k...@ifdspercana.com] Sent: 16 October 2013 16:10 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Documentation on WIX properties Hi, Is

Re: [WiX-users] Documentation on WIX properties

2013-10-16 Thread Christopher Painter
ion for Windows Installer XML toolset." Subject: [WiX-users] Documentation on WIX properties Hi, Is there a comprehensive list and behaviour of WIX properties that we can use during component/Custom action install conditions? For e.g. if I am correct, "INSTALL" property is

[WiX-users] Documentation on WIX properties

2013-10-16 Thread Swaroop Kare
Hi, Is there a comprehensive list and behaviour of WIX properties that we can use during component/Custom action install conditions? For e.g. if I am correct, "INSTALL" property is false until the completion of "ExecuteAction" of "InstallUISequence" and then it changes to true.

Re: [WiX-users] Documentation on website...

2013-09-13 Thread Rob Mensching
I believe there is a feature request (in the issue tracker that is down) out there to be able to mark parts of documentation as "introduced in vX.x". No one has implemented that feature, yet. On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 12:58 AM, Tobias Erichsen wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I just noticed that the burn

[WiX-users] Documentation on website...

2013-09-13 Thread Tobias Erichsen
Hi everyone, I just noticed that the burn-documentation on the website already includes many references to features that are only available with the 3.8 branch. Perhaps I have overlooked a hint clarifying that, but this might be a bit misleading if people try to use that with the released 3.7 re

Re: [WiX-users] Documentation for Votive - How to pass parameters to LIT?

2011-10-23 Thread Rob Mensching
Not all options are exposed through Votive so sometimes you have to use the general pass items on the command-line. Ultimately, the wix20??.targets lists all the options available. The documentation is okay. On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 12:03 PM, John Bergman < john.berg...@xpedienttechnologies.com>

[WiX-users] Documentation for Votive - How to pass parameters to LIT?

2011-10-18 Thread John Bergman
The information on the Wiki is sparse; can someone provide a pointer to any existing documentation as it relates to passing parameters to LIT from inside the Tool Settings page? Do I use the options on the command line? Or do I use the parameter names as documented in the MSBuild Task Referenc

Re: [WiX-users] Documentation for Burn

2011-06-29 Thread Dan Puza
users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Documentation for Burn I've been googling the net, off and on, for 3 weeks now, and I can't find any documentation for Burn.exe anywhere. I understand that it is still under development (and has been for almost a year now), but unless the developers a

[WiX-users] Documentation for Burn

2011-06-29 Thread Dane Anderson (Wicresoft)
I've been googling the net, off and on, for 3 weeks now, and I can't find any documentation for Burn.exe anywhere. I understand that it is still under development (and has been for almost a year now), but unless the developers are planning to wait till the last minute (BIG mistake in my opinion)

Re: [WiX-users] Documentation links are broken

2010-11-05 Thread Castro, Edwin G. (Hillsboro)
for Rob/Bob. > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Richard [mailto:legal...@xmission.com] > > Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 11:20 AM > > To: WiX Users > > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Documentation links are broken > > > > > > In article

Re: [WiX-users] Documentation links are broken

2010-11-05 Thread Rob Mensching
ovember 05, 2010 11:20 AM > To: WiX Users > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Documentation links are broken > > > In article , >Blair writes: > > > The docs in the sources are in source-code form, distributed between > various > > .XSD files in various direc

Re: [WiX-users] Documentation links are broken

2010-11-05 Thread Blair
That I don't know. That's a question for Rob/Bob. -Original Message- From: Richard [mailto:legal...@xmission.com] Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 11:20 AM To: WiX Users Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Documentation links are broken In article , Blair writes: > The docs i

Re: [WiX-users] Documentation links are broken

2010-11-05 Thread Richard
In article , Blair writes: > The docs in the sources are in source-code form, distributed between various > .XSD files in various directories and the code under src\chm. OK, I'll have a look. > As I understand it, the failures in "formatting" the docs on the web site > come from processing

Re: [WiX-users] Documentation links are broken

2010-11-05 Thread Blair
Friday, November 05, 2010 8:49 AM To: WiX Users Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Documentation links are broken In article , Richard writes: > In article , > Blair writes: > > > Current sources are all on Codeplex now. Anything still on SF is stale. > > OK, but trunk on c

Re: [WiX-users] Documentation links are broken

2010-11-05 Thread Richard
In article , Richard writes: > In article , > Blair writes: > > > Current sources are all on Codeplex now. Anything still on SF is stale. > > OK, but trunk on codeplex is essentially empty. Also -- I don't see any docs in the wix35 branch, but maybe I'm just missing it. My intention

Re: [WiX-users] Documentation links are broken

2010-11-05 Thread Richard
In article , Blair writes: > Current sources are all on Codeplex now. Anything still on SF is stale. OK, but trunk on codeplex is essentially empty. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download

Re: [WiX-users] Documentation

2010-11-05 Thread Pally Sandher
d in Scotland No. SC151456 Registered Office - Helix Building, West Of Scotland Science Park, Glasgow G20 0SP Email Disclaimer -Original Message- From: Derrick Petzold [mailto:dpetz...@gmail.com] Sent: 05 November 2010 04:03 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-u

[WiX-users] Documentation

2010-11-04 Thread Derrick Petzold
Hello, I understand the docs are broken on the website (not the links but the content). So I am curious what is the recommended way to view the documentation? I downloaded the source and the only file in the doc directory is example. Unfortunately I cannot build the source as I do not have Windows

Re: [WiX-users] Documentation links are broken

2010-11-04 Thread Blair
Current sources are all on Codeplex now. Anything still on SF is stale. -Original Message- From: Richard [mailto:legal...@xmission.com] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 9:22 AM To: WiX Users Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Documentation links are broken In article , Rob Mensching writes

Re: [WiX-users] Documentation links are broken

2010-11-04 Thread Richard
In article , Rob Mensching writes: > Correct, the website publish process is really flimsy. It's been in place > since 2005 and heavily based on XSL which Fredrik (who built the process) > loves but I hate debugging. Some XML escape character is probably missing. I tried to look at the code

Re: [WiX-users] Documentation links are broken

2010-11-01 Thread Rob Mensching
Correct, the website publish process is really flimsy. It's been in place since 2005 and heavily based on XSL which Fredrik (who built the process) loves but I hate debugging. Some XML escape character is probably missing. On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Richard wrote: > > In article < > 68c3161

Re: [WiX-users] Documentation links are broken

2010-11-01 Thread Richard
In article <68c3161b99102f4ab682cfe6aa27c7f414cea...@ru-exstrcl1.ru.corp.acronis.com>, "alexander.nevs...@acronis.com" writes: > All links on documentation page (http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/main. htm) are broken! Is documentation moved somewhere else? Technically the links are n

[WiX-users] Documentation links are broken

2010-11-01 Thread alexander.nevs...@acronis.com
Hi All! All links on documentation page (http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/main.htm) are broken! Is documentation moved somewhere else? Thanks. Alexander Nevskiy | Development Acronis, Inc | 127566, Москва, Алтуфьевское шоссе 44, бизнес-центр <Альтеза> E: alexander.nevs...@acronis.com

Re: [WiX-users] documentation pages down?

2009-11-16 Thread Bob Arnson
Matt Ryan wrote: > Is this a known issue, or am I doing something wrong? > Works for me. Might have been a transient error on SF.net. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting

[WiX-users] documentation pages down?

2009-11-16 Thread Matt Ryan
Hi, I'm just learning about WiX and am learning about the dialog sets. When I click on the WixUI_FeatureTree or WixUI_InstallDir links on http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/WixUI_dialog_library.htm, I get this response: An error has been encountered in accessing this page. 1. Server: wix

Re: [WiX-users] Documentation for writing Managed Custom Actions in Wix ?

2009-08-28 Thread Christopher Painter
bor > Subject: [WiX-users] Documentation for writing Managed Custom Actions in Wix ? > To: "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." > > Date: Friday, August 28, 2009, 2:13 PM > On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:08:34 -0700, > Kiran Challa wrote: > > Kiran,

[WiX-users] Documentation for writing Managed Custom Actions in Wix ?

2009-08-28 Thread DE�K JAHN, G�bor
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:08:34 -0700, Kiran Challa wrote: Kiran, > I have been searching for some good documentation on writing .NET > Managed Custom Actions in Wix...but haven't found any good links... There are two DTF help files in your installed WiX tools package (in the "doc" folder). Bye,

[WiX-users] Documentation for writing Managed Custom Actions in Wix ?

2009-08-28 Thread Kiran Challa
Hi, I have been searching for some good documentation on writing .NET Managed Custom Actions in Wix…but haven’t found any good links… Can anybody please provide any links having good documentation about this? Thanks, Kiran Challa

[WiX-users] Documentation for Writing Managed Custom Actions in Wix ?

2009-08-28 Thread Kiran Challa
Hi, I have been searching for some good documentation on writing Managed Custom Actions in Wix...but haven't found any good links... Can anybody please provide any links having good documentation about this? Thanks, Kiran -

Re: [WiX-users] Documentation

2008-12-30 Thread Neil Sleightholm
t. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Documentation Neil Sleightholm wrote: > There is a bit more you need to know. First you need to compile the > DocCompiler, Not strictly necessary: It ships in the WiX binaries in the SDK directory. -- sig://boB http:

Re: [WiX-users] Documentation

2008-12-30 Thread Bob Arnson
Neil Sleightholm wrote: > There is a bit more you need to know. First you need to compile the > DocCompiler, Not strictly necessary: It ships in the WiX binaries in the SDK directory. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/

Re: [WiX-users] Documentation

2008-12-30 Thread Neil Sleightholm
16:36 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Documentation See "Adding to the WiX Documentation" in the WiX help file. That is what I used to work out how to add to it, I think you then need to submit a CVS diff file to get it added to the WiX

Re: [WiX-users] Documentation

2008-12-30 Thread Neil Sleightholm
@gmail.com] Sent: 30 December 2008 16:29 To: WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Documentation All, Continuing the thread on Rob's request for documentation. Rob gave two places to add documentation. If I wanted to add something to the CHM, what and where do I need to go to com

[WiX-users] Documentation

2008-12-30 Thread Frank Cohen
All, Continuing the thread on Rob's request for documentation. Rob gave two places to add documentation. If I wanted to add something to the CHM, what and where do I need to go to commit this? Also looks like there is some good documentation online, but no easy way to edit it as I mentioned. W

[WiX-users] Documentation generation for WIX files

2008-07-29 Thread Moradi, Ari
Hi, Our team uses doxygen to create html documentation for our C++ source, and it works really well. I'm just curious if anyone out there is aware of a similar tool that will generate documentation from wxs files. I'd like to be able to put comments in some format in each wxs file and then ha