Re: [WiX-users] Extract files from msi (Msiexec, not WIX issue... .)

2006-06-14 Thread Derek Cicerone
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simon Topley Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 2:58 AM To: 'Christopher Painter'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Extract files from msi (Msiexec,not WIX issue... .)

Re: [WiX-users] Extract files from msi (Msiexec, not WIX issue... .)

2006-06-14 Thread Simon Topley
7;Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.netSubject: Re: [WiX-users] Extract files from msi (Msiexec, not WIX issue... .) I agree about VSI MSM's... unfortunatly I'm stuck with about 700 of them.  I'm also have about 80 MSM's that were statically written using ORCA because it couldn't be done in

Re: [WiX-users] Extract files from msi (Msiexec, not WIX issue... .)

2006-06-13 Thread Christopher Painter
pley'Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.netSubject: Re: [WiX-users] Extract files from msi (Msiexec, not WIX issue... .)   I made this comment because Rob said:"Have you looked at dark (the WiX toolset decompiler)?  Dark v3 is particularly solid.  It will drop all of the files and .wxs author

Re: [WiX-users] Extract files from msi (Msiexec, not WIX issue... .)

2006-06-13 Thread Rob Mensching
opher Painter'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Simon Topley' Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Extract files from msi (Msiexec, not WIX issue... .)   The PID_REVNUMBER thing sounds like a bug in dark. _

Re: [WiX-users] Extract files from msi (Msiexec, not WIX issue... .)

2006-06-13 Thread Rob Mensching
Simon Topley' Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Extract files from msi (Msiexec, not WIX issue... .)   I made this comment because Rob said: "Have you looked at dark (the WiX toolset decompiler)?  Dark v3 is particularly solid.  It will drop all of the files and

Re: [WiX-users] Extract files from msi (Msiexec, not WIX issue... .)

2006-06-13 Thread Christopher Painter
I made this comment because Rob said:"Have you looked at dark (the WiX toolset decompiler)?  Dark v3 is particularly solid.  It will drop all of the files and .wxs authoring in such a way that the compiler and linker can put it all back together."This implied an IJW symbiosis between Dark and Candl

Re: [WiX-users] Extract files from msi (Msiexec, not WIX issue... .)

2006-06-13 Thread Derek Cicerone
hristopher Painter'Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.netSubject: Re: [WiX-users] Extract files from msi (Msiexec,not WIX issue... .) In terms of the files they both yield there is no difference, but as you say the "XML" that comes with it is the real difference. I have not tried to reb

Re: [WiX-users] Extract files from msi (Msiexec, not WIX issue... .)

2006-06-13 Thread Derek Cicerone
PainterSent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 7:59 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Simon Topley'Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.netSubject: Re: [WiX-users] Extract files from msi (Msiexec,not WIX issue... .) Sure, I've tried that.  Unfortunatly Dark and Candle disagreed on what `valid` MSI cod

Re: [WiX-users] Extract files from msi (Msiexec, not WIX issue... .)

2006-06-13 Thread Simon Topley
ness.   Thanks for the help all the same, if anyone has anything further to add to this, please do...   Simon Topley From: Christopher Painter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 June 2006 14:54To: Simon TopleyCc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.netSubject: Re: [WiX-users] Extr

Re: [WiX-users] Extract files from msi (Msiexec, not WIX issue... .)

2006-06-13 Thread Christopher Painter
ase do...   Simon Topley From: Christopher Painter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 June 2006 14:54To: Simon TopleyCc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.netSubject: Re: [WiX-users] Extract files from msi (Msiexec, not WIX issue... .) This open source project MSI2XML does a pretty good job of

Re: [WiX-users] Extract files from msi (Msiexec, not WIX issue... .)

2006-06-13 Thread Christopher Painter
ase do...   Simon Topley From: Christopher Painter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 June 2006 14:54To: Simon TopleyCc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.netSubject: Re: [WiX-users] Extract files from msi (Msiexec, not WIX issue... .) This open source project MSI2XML does a pretty good job of

Re: [WiX-users] Extract files from msi (Msiexec, not WIX issue... .)

2006-06-13 Thread Christopher Painter
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simon TopleySent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 2:26 AMTo: 'Christopher Painter'Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.netSubject: Re: [WiX-users] Extract files from msi (Msiexec, not WIX issue... .)   I have had limited success with MSI2XML. The latest build seems

Re: [WiX-users] Extract files from msi (Msiexec, not WIX issue... .)

2006-06-13 Thread Simon Topley
This guy really does role 20's, I'll give it a spin From: Rob Mensching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 June 2006 10:20To: 'Simon Topley'; 'Christopher Painter'Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.netSubject: RE: [WiX-users] Extract files from msi (Msiexec,

Re: [WiX-users] Extract files from msi (Msiexec, not WIX issue... .)

2006-06-13 Thread Rob Mensching
Topley Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 2:26 AM To: 'Christopher Painter' Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Extract files from msi (Msiexec, not WIX issue... .)   I have had limited success with MSI2XML. The latest build seems to have installer realted issues but

Re: [WiX-users] Extract files from msi (Msiexec, not WIX issue... .)

2006-06-13 Thread Simon Topley
same, if anyone has anything further to add to this, please do...   Simon Topley From: Christopher Painter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 June 2006 14:54To: Simon TopleyCc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.netSubject: Re: [WiX-users] Extract files from msi (Msiexec, not WIX issue... .) This

Re: [WiX-users] Extract files from msi (Msiexec, not WIX issue... .)

2006-06-12 Thread Simon Topley
users@lists.sourceforge.netSubject: Re: [WiX-users] Extract files from msi (Msiexec, not WIX issue... .) This open source project MSI2XML does a pretty good job of exporting an MSI database to XML and extracting all of the streams to a subfolder.  Once you've done this you can see the CABs that

Re: [WiX-users] Extract files from msi (Msiexec, not WIX issue... .)

2006-06-12 Thread Christopher Painter
This open source project MSI2XML does a pretty good job of exporting an MSI database to XML and extracting all of the streams to a subfolder.  Once you've done this you can see the CABs that are stored in the MSI and extract your files from them.  On 6/12/06, Simon Topley <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: [WiX-users] Extract files from msi (Msiexec, not WIX issue... .)

2006-06-12 Thread Vagmi Mudumbai
e that includes it.. From: Vagmi Mudumbai [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 12 June 2006 14:01To: Simon TopleySubject: Re: [WiX-users] Extract files from msi (Msiexec, not WIX issue)  Hi Simon,   Are you sure that the fragment is a part of the Feature/Component hierarchy? Try opening the MSI in or

Re: [WiX-users] Extract files from msi (Msiexec, not WIX issue... .)

2006-06-12 Thread Simon Topley
Component is there when opened in orca yes, as is the feature that includes it.. From: Vagmi Mudumbai [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 June 2006 14:01To: Simon TopleySubject: Re: [WiX-users] Extract files from msi (Msiexec, not WIX issue) Hi Simon,   Are you sure that the fragment

[WiX-users] Extract files from msi (Msiexec, not WIX issue....)

2006-06-12 Thread Simon Topley
Title: Extract files from msi (Msiexec, not WIX issue)   Hello all, I know this isn't really a WIX problem, however it must be an issue others have seen. "Msiexec /a" is used to create an administrative installer (i.e uncompressed into folders). This little gem works pretty well for the