[WiX-users] Installing files to the My Documents directory

2006-11-06 Thread Nick Johnson
I'm trying to write an installer that installs files into the user's My Documents directory (it doesn't install files anywhere else, for what it's worth). Trying to construct it the obvious way, I get a couple of errors: ICE38, complaining that the KeyPath has to be a registry key under HKCU, and I

Re: [WiX-users] Setting property value with another property value

2006-11-06 Thread Lerudjordet, Morten Minge
Title: Setting property value with another property value Thanks for all the answers!   Ok, so the gist of it is; when setting a property with another property's value use a custom action. So all that is left is to schedule the CA at button push.   But the code below does not seem to work, i

Re: [WiX-users] Setting property value with another property value

2006-11-06 Thread Lerudjordet, Morten Minge
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[WiX-users] Convincing customer to use WiX toolset - is it enterprise ready?

2006-11-06 Thread Jacek Blaszczynski
Hello! I am in process of trying to convince customer who looks for enterprise grade InstallShield installation package improvements. I have proposed to replace it with WiX based installer and pointed him to WiX sourceforge.net site and got a very fast answer with several doubts: 1. " The so

Re: [WiX-users] Convincing customer to use WiX toolset - is it enterprise ready?

2006-11-06 Thread John Watson
MySQL switched to MSI and built it using WiX last year (I believe). http://dev.mysql.com/doc/administrator/en/ch02s02s01.html   --John  On 11/6/06, Jacek Blaszczynski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello!I am in process of trying to convince customer who looks for enterprisegrade InstallShield installa

[WiX-users] How to launch a browser after uninstall

2006-11-06 Thread Andy Pike
Hi, I would like to launch a web browser to a particular url once the uninstall has finished. Is this possible? If so, can you give me an example xml fragment? I'm a bit of a newbie, but I guess there is a custom action for this? Thanks in advance Andy ___

[WiX-users] nant task and WiX

2006-11-06 Thread Pawel Pabich
  Hi,   What is the easiest way of being able to build my WiX installer project taking into account that I’m using task to build my solution?   Thanks   Pawel Pabich - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Ne

Re: [WiX-users] preprocessor variable $(var.Build)

2006-11-06 Thread Friedrich, Oliver
  Alright, just found out, where this variable was set. It is set on the commandline while calling the batch-file to start the compilation of the setup.   The batch-file is called as "Pre-build event command line" in VS2005. The variable "var.Build" is set to the value of "$(ConfigurationName)

Re: [WiX-users] How to launch a browser after uninstall

2006-11-06 Thread John Watson
Hi Andy, The online WiX tutorial has an example of launching things here (http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson3.php#3.2). If you haven't done so yet, you really should study the tutorial in-depth. Regards, John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Beh

Re: [WiX-users] preprocessor variable $(var.Build)

2006-11-06 Thread Lerudjordet, Morten Minge
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[WiX-users] Com LocalServer32 in 8.3 format

2006-11-06 Thread Dyson, Peter
Hi, I am authoring wix version 3 com servers in the 'correct' way as below, but the LocalServer32 @ registry entry is generated in 8.3 format names. This seems to be because of the [!MyServer.exe] generated in the msi. If I use orca to change that to [#MyServer.exe] then I get the long filename a

Re: [WiX-users] nant task and WiX

2006-11-06 Thread Lerudjordet, Morten Minge
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Re: [WiX-users] How to prompt to terminate process on uninstall

2006-11-06 Thread Jeff MacDuff
Ok a follow up question,   Where do I put the uninstall custom action at in the Wix file?   My wix file doesn’t contain any kind of remove / uninstall sections from what I can tell?   -JEff   From: Rob Mensching Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 1:02 PM To: Jeff MacDuff; wix-us

Re: [WiX-users] nant task and WiX

2006-11-06 Thread Justin Rockwood
s the easiest way of being able to build my WiX installer project taking into account that I'm using task to build my solution? Thanks Pawel Pabich -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=wix-

Re: [WiX-users] How to prompt to terminate process on uninstall

2006-11-06 Thread Peterson, Joel
Hi Jeff.   The custom needs be placed in the proper sequence, such as before RemoveAllFiles. WiX, or more accurately MSI, isn’t organized towards stages of installation, but allows you to schedule events based on those stages.   Joel Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED]  

Re: [WiX-users] Convincing customer to use WiX toolset - is itenterprise ready?

2006-11-06 Thread Mike Dimmick
I know that Microsoft use WiX for at least some parts of the SQL Server 2005, Office 2007 and Exchange Server 2007 installers. Version 2.0.x is considered the stable version. It does get bugfixes, but no major new development. Version 3.0.x is considered the unstable development version. The versi

Re: [WiX-users] nant task and WiX

2006-11-06 Thread Roy Abou Assaly
y WiX installer project > taking into account > > that I'm using task to build my solution? > > > > Thanks > > > > Pawel Pabich > > -- next part -- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://sourceforge

Re: [WiX-users] Installing files to the My Documents directory

2006-11-06 Thread Mike Dimmick
The validation assumes that you're writing something that will add personalized settings when launching an advertised shortcut - you may have seen Office do this if you install it using one user account, then click one of the shortcuts to launch an Office application in a different user accou

Re: [WiX-users] Convincing customer to use WiX toolset - is itenterprise ready?

2006-11-06 Thread Jacek Blaszczynski
Hello! Thnx for replies - they are very helpful. Can someone from MSFT WiX developers confirm which enterprise grade product installers are currently created with help of WiX package? Rgrds Jacek -Original Message- From: Mike Dimmick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 06

[WiX-users] best way to get native COM registry entries into wix

2006-11-06 Thread Lucius Fleuchaus
Hello, I like to know whether there is a tool that given a progid and a registered COM control is able to pre-populate the relevant WIX section? Thanks a lot   - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to suppor

[WiX-users] he cabinet 'setup.cab' does not contain any files. If this installation contains no files, this warning can likely be safely ignored. Otherwise, please add files to the cabinet or remove i

2006-11-06 Thread Ogden Ogly
Hi, I am evaluating Wix (3.0.211.0) and am having a hell of a time… I get the following error when verbose mode is turned on: The cabinet 'setup.cab' does not contain any files.  If this installation contains no files, this warning can likely be safely ignored.  Otherwise, please add files t

Re: [WiX-users] Convincing customer to use WiX toolset - is itenterprise ready?

2006-11-06 Thread Justin Rockwood
Here are some of the Microsoft products and groups that use WiX for their installations: * Office 2007 * Office Server 2007 * Windows SharePoint Server * SQL Server 2005 * Visual Studio * Windows Defender Additionally, there are several non-Microsoft products that use WiX. The biggest one that co

[WiX-users] Question about localizing MSIs generated using Wix

2006-11-06 Thread Aaron Khoo
Hi there, we are using Wix to create the MSI package for our application. I've read the documentation regarding the use of wxl files to generate localized MSIs. However, it seems like this will generate a different MSI per locale. Is it possible to use Wix to generate a single MSI with different lo

Re: [WiX-users] Convincing customer to use WiX toolset - is itenterprise ready?

2006-11-06 Thread Jacek Blaszczynski
Hello Justin! Thnx for this list of references it is really very helpfull to me. Personally I am not worried for WiX stability or robustness and I used it for all my installation packages created during last year. Furthermore, I am a strong advocate of WiX among all my customers. However, I would

Re: [WiX-users] Convincing customer to use WiX toolset - is itenterprise ready?

2006-11-06 Thread Justin Rockwood
1. Good idea. We should probably do that on our home page. 2. I can get to wix.sourceforge.net just fine. Maybe SourceForge was down for a minute? If you keep having problems getting to it, let us know. Justin -Original Message- From: Jacek Blaszczynski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mo

Re: [WiX-users] Convincing customer to use WiX toolset - is itenterprise ready?

2006-11-06 Thread Justin Rockwood
1. Good idea. We should probably do that on our home page. 2. I can get to wix.sourceforge.net just fine. Maybe SourceForge was down for a minute? If you keep having problems getting to it, let us know. Justin -Original Message- From: Jacek Blaszczynski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [WiX-users] How to prompt to terminate process on uninstall

2006-11-06 Thread Jeff MacDuff
Ok thank you for the info.   From: Peterson, Joel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 12:25 PM To: Jeff MacDuff; Rob Mensching; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] How to prompt to terminate process on uninstall   Hi Jeff.   The cust

Re: [WiX-users] Localization of WixIIsExtension

2006-11-06 Thread Bob Arnson
KURZE, Uwe wrote: is there a way for Localization of messages hosted in the WixIISExtension DLL. In source code i only found an en-us.wxl file. Currently, it's available in English only. Nobody's contributed any translations for other languages. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org -

Re: [WiX-users] preprocessor variable $(var.Build)

2006-11-06 Thread Bob Arnson
Friedrich, Oliver wrote: Alright, just found out, where this variable was set. It is set on the commandline while calling the batch-file to start the compilation of the setup.   The batch-file is called as "Pre-build event command line" in VS2005. The variable "var.Build" is set

Re: [WiX-users] Com LocalServer32 in 8.3 format

2006-11-06 Thread Bob Arnson
Dyson, Peter wrote: > This seems to be because of the [!MyServer.exe] generated in the msi. If > Which version of WiX are you using? I believe that WiX v3 was changed some time ago to use LFNs. WiX v2 wasn't changed because it would break patching for products already released with v2. -- s

Re: [WiX-users] Setting property value with another property value

2006-11-06 Thread Bob Arnson
Lerudjordet, Morten Minge wrote: > I use [#ConfigFile] to reference the file defined this should work right? > Yes. >Value =".\Deploy.Tools\XmlPreprocess.exe /i > "[#ConfigFile]" /s "[FILEPATH]" /NoLogo" /> > DllEntry="CAQuietExec" Execute="immediate" Return="ch

Re: [WiX-users] he cabinet 'setup.cab' does not contain any files. If this installation contains no files, this warning can likely be safely ignored. Otherwise, please add files to the cabinet or remo

2006-11-06 Thread Bob Arnson
Ogden Ogly wrote: > Keywords="Installer" > Description="Acmes Foobar 1.0 Installer" > Comments="Foobar is a registered trademark of Acme Ltd." > Manufacturer="Acme Ltd." > InstallerVersion="150" > Languages="1033" > Compressed="no" >

Re: [WiX-users] Question about localizing MSIs generated using Wix

2006-11-06 Thread Bob Arnson
Aaron Khoo wrote: Hi there, we are using Wix to create the MSI package for our application. I've read the documentation regarding the use of wxl files to generate localized MSIs. However, it seems like this will generate a different MSI per locale. Is it possible to use Wix to generate a sin

Re: [WiX-users] best way to get native COM registry entries into wix

2006-11-06 Thread Bob Arnson
Lucius Fleuchaus wrote: I like to know whether there is a tool that given a progid and a registered COM control is able to pre-populate the relevant WIX section? Heat (v3) and Tallow (v2) support deciphering self-registration code given a DLL that supports Dll[Un]RegisterSe

Re: [WiX-users] INSTALLDIR Problem

2006-11-06 Thread Bob Arnson
Please keep wix-users on the thread so everyone can participate. Petrut Andrei wrote: The problem is that I want that message to appear in an UI, not at the beggining of the setup. I want to push a button and after that I want that message to appear and the setup to finish. You can u

Re: [WiX-users] preprocessor variable $(var.Build)

2006-11-06 Thread Justin Rockwood
The variable $(Configuration) is set by most MSBuild scripts automatically (C#, VB, VJ#, WiX, etc.). Also, $(ConfigurationName) is usually set as well, but I’d probably go with $(Configuration). You won’t be able to know what the configuration is outside of MSBuild, but assuming that you’re

Re: [WiX-users] nant task and WiX

2006-11-06 Thread Lerudjordet, Morten Minge
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[WiX-users] fail exit launching browser.

2006-11-06 Thread exit launching
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