Re: [WiX-users] External UI Samples?

2011-04-10 Thread Matt Siebert
Thanks Tomasz. I didn't mean to imply that Sharp Setup was unstable and when I look back at my previous comment I see that there are a few things I should have added. Specifically, I understand that some add-ins can cause issues in other add-ins - in fact the product I'm working on is an add-in f

Re: [WiX-users] External UI Samples?

2011-04-08 Thread Tomasz Grobelny
On Wednesday 06 April 2011 14:39:14 Matt Siebert wrote: > Thanks Pally, I did look at Sharp Setup earlier today. From memory it > didn't use DTF (but maybe I'm wrong). I'm at home now and have just > installed Sharp Setup here but it keeps crashing VS when it generates the > solution. > Please h

Re: [WiX-users] External UI Samples?

2011-04-06 Thread Matt Siebert
ril 2011 08:27 > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: [WiX-users] External UI Samples? > > Hi all, > > Can anyone point me towards a good example of an external UI using DTF? > I've been googling for a while and still can't piece it toge

Re: [WiX-users] External UI Samples?

2011-04-06 Thread Pally Sandher
XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] External UI Samples? Hi all, Can anyone point me towards a good example of an external UI using DTF? I've been googling for a while and still can't piece it together. Do I just create a standard WinForms / WPF app and t

[WiX-users] External UI Samples?

2011-04-06 Thread Matt Siebert
Hi all, Can anyone point me towards a good example of an external UI using DTF? I've been googling for a while and still can't piece it together. Do I just create a standard WinForms / WPF app and then reference Microsoft.Deployment.WindowsInstaller? Are there any other references / attributes

Re: [WiX-users] External UI Handling FilesInUse

2010-08-11 Thread Andy Glass
Thanks, MsiSetExternalUIRecord is exactly what I needed. -Andy -Original Message- From: Wilson, Phil [mailto:phil.wil...@invensys.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 1:45 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] External UI Handling

Re: [WiX-users] External UI Handling FilesInUse

2010-08-11 Thread Wilson, Phil
al Message- From: Andy Glass [mailto:agl...@laserfiche.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 11:55 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] External UI Handling FilesInUse This isn't technically a WiX question, but I figured there was no harm in

[WiX-users] External UI Handling FilesInUse

2010-08-11 Thread Andy Glass
This isn't technically a WiX question, but I figured there was no harm in asking: I've written a bootstrapper for our various products, one that uses MsiSetExternalUI to hook into the MSIs to retrieve error messages, progress, and the like (I've based off the example handler found here: http:/

Re: [WiX-users] External UI like MS Office 2007

2010-06-11 Thread Blair
I'm very pleased to see the progress. -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 2:07 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] External UI like MS Office 2007 Well, there's don

Re: [WiX-users] External UI like MS Office 2007

2010-06-11 Thread Rob Mensching
Thursday, June 10, 2010 7:42 AM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] External UI like MS Office 2007 > > Nope. Until Burn is done you'll need to write your own to do that (I > don't know if Burn will support that sort o

Re: [WiX-users] External UI like MS Office 2007

2010-06-10 Thread Blair
neral discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] External UI like MS Office 2007 Nope. Until Burn is done you'll need to write your own to do that (I don't know if Burn will support that sort of scenario when it's finished, just speculating since it's still in

Re: [WiX-users] External UI like MS Office 2007

2010-06-10 Thread Pally Sandher
age- From: Sagar [mailto:sagarkavitak...@gmail.com] Sent: 10 June 2010 15:29 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] External UI like MS Office 2007 Thanks Pally for suggestion. I tried with dotNetInstaller, it is only helping me select/deselect and launch my actual

Re: [WiX-users] External UI like MS Office 2007

2010-06-10 Thread Sagar1111
Thanks Pally for suggestion. I tried with dotNetInstaller, it is only helping me select/deselect and launch my actual MSIs in proper sequence. What i want is something like an UI which will ask user for which MSIs to run and then launch the resective MSIs in background and show only the progres

Re: [WiX-users] External UI like MS Office 2007

2010-06-09 Thread Pally Sandher
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[WiX-users] External UI like MS Office 2007

2010-06-09 Thread Sagar1111
i have a set of 5 msi which i would like to install on users machine. However i dont want the user to go and double click each msi individually, But i would like give a UI to the user asking which msis to install and based on this user input execution of other msi would be decided and progress bar

Re: [WiX-users] External UI

2010-01-29 Thread Wilson, Phil
x27;s possible to take an external UI a long way, so it's going to be about how much you want to put into it! Phil Wilson -Original Message- From: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@deploymentengineering.com] Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 1:42 PM To: General discussion for Wind

Re: [WiX-users] External UI

2010-01-29 Thread Christopher Painter
wrote: > From: Wilson, Phil > Subject: RE: [WiX-users] External UI > To: "chr...@deploymentengineering.com" , > "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." > > Date: Friday, January 29, 2010, 11:31 AM > Those actions are duplicated in the &g

Re: [WiX-users] External UI

2010-01-29 Thread jhennessey
I just fired up my old project and it looks like it is working (of course I'm not sure if this is the best way way of doing it). Here's a snippet of how I did it: Installer.SetInternalUI(InstallUIOptions.Silent); session = Installer.OpenPackage(Path.Combine(Environment.Cu

Re: [WiX-users] External UI

2010-01-29 Thread Christopher Painter
sey > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] External UI > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Friday, January 29, 2010, 11:53 AM > > Awhile ago I started playing around with external ui and > found that if the > MSI doesn't actually have an appsearch table then I got the > same e

Re: [WiX-users] External UI

2010-01-29 Thread jhennessey
Awhile ago I started playing around with external ui and found that if the MSI doesn't actually have an appsearch table then I got the same exact error. Try opening an MSI that you know for a fact has a search and see if that works. Also, if you end up developing a good external ui it would be gre

Re: [WiX-users] External UI

2010-01-29 Thread Wilson, Phil
7:57 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] External UI I'm playing with the DTF / WPF embeddedUI sample. Being new at writing external UI's, something has me puzzled. I've read before that when you run with an external UI that you basically have to drive t

[WiX-users] External UI

2010-01-28 Thread Christopher Painter
I'm playing with the DTF / WPF embeddedUI sample. Being new at writing external UI's, something has me puzzled. I've read before that when you run with an external UI that you basically have to drive the whole ui sequence yourself. That said, what if I want to leverage say AppSearch? I trie

Re: [WiX-users] External UI and end of installation

2009-06-11 Thread Tomasz Grobelny
Dnia czwartek 11 czerwiec 2009 o 18:45:40 Wilson, Phil napisał(a): > The short answer is that you call MsiInstallProduct and when it returns > you're finished. Does that mean you're not doing this? > I'm using MsiDoAction and I had an impression that it returns immediately and is doing installatio

Re: [WiX-users] External UI and end of installation

2009-06-11 Thread Wilson, Phil
ussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] External UI and end of installation Dnia czwartek 11 czerwiec 2009 o 07:19:37 Rob Mensching napisał(a): > Rob Mensching wrote: > > Same way. The MSI SDK has an example with a full external UI handler. > > Might chec

Re: [WiX-users] External UI and end of installation

2009-06-11 Thread Tomasz Grobelny
Dnia czwartek 11 czerwiec 2009 o 07:19:37 Rob Mensching napisał(a): > Rob Mensching wrote: > > Same way. The MSI SDK has an example with a full external UI handler. > > Might check that out. > > Yes, I've seen it. Even copied it adapting from C to C#. But it doesn't seem to work as I expect it to

Re: [WiX-users] External UI and end of installation

2009-06-10 Thread Rob Mensching
And I keep forgetting that the burn code is available. That's a full external UI handler (and more) you can see in the WiX v3.5 code base. Rob Mensching wrote: > Same way. The MSI SDK has an example with a full external UI handler. > Might check that out. > > Tomasz Grobelny wrote: > >> I inst

Re: [WiX-users] External UI and end of installation

2009-06-10 Thread Rob Mensching
Same way. The MSI SDK has an example with a full external UI handler. Might check that out. Tomasz Grobelny wrote: > I install external UI handler through MsiSetExternalUI. I get messages > concerning progress just fine. But how do I get information about when the > installation is finished? > --

[WiX-users] External UI and end of installation

2009-06-10 Thread Tomasz Grobelny
I install external UI handler through MsiSetExternalUI. I get messages concerning progress just fine. But how do I get information about when the installation is finished? -- Regards, Tomasz Grobelny http://grobelny.oswiecenia.net/ ---