Re: [WiX-users] Newbie question

2013-07-16 Thread David Watson
'Scheduling.exe' though, so beware of ID clashes. -Original Message- From: Sean Hall [mailto:rhal...@hotmail.com] Sent: 16 July 2013 01:41 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Newbie question Use a .wxi file. For more info, lo

Re: [WiX-users] Newbie question

2013-07-15 Thread Sean Hall
Use a .wxi file. For more info, look at this StackOverflow question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8495903/how-to-define-a-global-variable-in-wix Sean > Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 16:46:13 -0700 > From: kpet...@otaksoft.com > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] Newbie q

Re: [WiX-users] Newbie question

2010-08-06 Thread Blair
Check out the "heat" tool. -Original Message- From: Satyaprakash J [mailto:sat...@smartek21.com] Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 1:00 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Newbie question Hi, Please let me know if automati

Re: [WiX-users] Newbie question

2010-08-06 Thread Satyaprakash J
Hi, Please let me know if automatic updating of wxs file is available. Thanks Satyaprakash J -Original Message- From: Satyaprakash J [mailto:sat...@smartek21.com] Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 8:05 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users

Re: [WiX-users] Newbie question on using content not installed on target machine

2009-06-18 Thread Rob Mensching
If you use the SqlScript element it never installs the files on disk. Unfortunately, it does have a bit of a performance issue so the really big files might run really slowly. Otherwise, I think you're looking at creating a very complex CustomAction. Tom Crozier wrote: > I have several large (1

Re: [WiX-users] newbie question about removing files created by application

2008-09-27 Thread Bob Arnson
kkmca wrote: >> My question is do i need to create a component reference to these files >> created after installation in order to remove them? >> No, you just need a component; it doesn't have to be a component that installed the files. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ --

Re: [WiX-users] newbie question about removing files created by application

2008-09-26 Thread Chad Petersen
versioned files prior to installing the "new" files. Chad -Original Message- From: kkmca [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 1:11 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] newbie question about removing files created by application

Re: [WiX-users] newbie question about removing files created by application

2008-09-26 Thread kkmca
kkmca wrote: > > I have some birt functionality that creates a number of files and > directories under web inf that remain after uninstall. > > I understand that i need to explicitly remove the files. I understand that > the removefiles node requires a component parent and since these files >

Re: [WiX-users] newbie question about uninstalling

2008-06-04 Thread Bob Arnson
Weinstein, Scott wrote: > I've attmpted to add > After="FindRelatedProducts">NEWAPPFOUND > But I have no UI for this package. > > Could that be the problem? > No, with OnlyDetect="yes" there won't be any attempt to uninstall the newer version. But it might be interesting: Try installi

Re: [WiX-users] newbie question about uninstalling

2008-06-04 Thread Weinstein, Scott
e? --Scott I've updated my .wxs to the following - -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Arnson Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 1:05 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer X

Re: [WiX-users] newbie question about uninstalling

2008-06-02 Thread Bob Arnson
Weinstein, Scott wrote: > Here's what the log has: > > MSI (c) (D0:84) [09:55:37:131]: Doing action: FindRelatedProducts > MSI (c) (D0:84) [09:55:37:131]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: ActionText > Action 9:55:37: FindRelatedProducts. Searching for related applications > Action start 9:55:37: FindRelatedPr

Re: [WiX-users] newbie question about uninstalling

2008-06-02 Thread Weinstein, Scott
ussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] newbie question about uninstalling Weinstein, Scott wrote: > For some reason my install packages is not detecting the prior install, > and the upgrade process is not working. I'm unable to see what I've done > w

Re: [WiX-users] newbie question about uninstalling

2008-05-31 Thread Bob Arnson
Weinstein, Scott wrote: > For some reason my install packages is not detecting the prior install, > and the upgrade process is not working. I'm unable to see what I've done > wrong and hoping it's a simple thing. > Generate a verbose log during installation of the upgrade package and see what

Re: [WiX-users] newbie question about uninstalling

2008-05-31 Thread Chris Mumford
One small difference that I can see between yours and mine which is working is that you don't specify the Language in your UpgradeVersion elements. Also, this isn't required to upgrade, but to prevent downgrade: NEWAPPFOUND Just making sure you had that too. On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 9:36 AM,

Re: [WiX-users] newbie question

2008-01-28 Thread Bob Arnson
mark.modrall wrote: I was just wondering what did if not flag missing dependencies. It writes rows into the ModuleDependency table, but WiX doesn't read them at the moment. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ - This SF

Re: [WiX-users] newbie question

2008-01-28 Thread mark.modrall
I was just wondering what did if not flag missing dependencies. Thanks Mark From: Mike Dimmick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 5:36 PM To: mark.modrall; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] newbie question If you&

Re: [WiX-users] newbie question

2008-01-28 Thread Mike Dimmick
If you're merging modules written in WiX, and those modules are not shipped separately to third parties, consider rewriting them as Fragments. You can precompile a fragment into a .wixout file and simply link those together. You can assemble one or more .wixout files into a larger chunk of function

Re: [WiX-users] Newbie Question

2007-09-21 Thread Rob Mensching
DirectorySearch and FileSearch? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jessi Darling Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 13:39 To: wix-users Subject: [WiX-users] Newbie Question Is there a way that I can search for a file that exists on the server without having to hard code

Re: [WiX-users] Newbie question about shortcut uninstall

2007-02-02 Thread Richard.Foster
Mike, Given what you describe, I assume you are using a property for the shortcut name (and that property can be modified by the user interface). Unfortunately, Microsoft installer does not retain any knowledge of properties from one execution to the next, and that is why the value for that prope