[WiX-users] Installing shell extensions - please complain :)

2007-09-02 Thread James Finnigan
Hi all, I'm trying to collect complaints with shell extensions and the various setup/registration issues that fall out of them. I hope to fix some of them, and provide tools to make some others easier. I'm going to keep the main discussion up on by blog starting with http://blogs.msdn.com/jam

[WiX-users] Execution order of launch condiitions

2007-09-02 Thread Werner, Harvey D
In our product installs we have several launch conditions set, but the order is not from the top down. Is there any way in WiX to set the order of execution? For example, we would like them to check them machine architecture and privileged settings before checking for other support packages to

Re: [WiX-users] Execution order of launch condiitions

2007-09-02 Thread Schrieken, Rene
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Aa369752.aspx says: "You cannot guarantee the order.." They suggest to author a CustomAction type 19, in wix that would be a custom action with the Error attribute set, but I have never done that. Rene From: [EMAIL

Re: [WiX-users] Execution order of launch condiitions

2007-09-02 Thread Christopher Painter
I always thought that it was silly that MSI SQL didn't have a functioning ORDER BY statement and that many tables where order would be useful don't have ORDER columns to allow useful traversing of the record sets. I once wrote a very sweet custom LaunchConditions pattern. I write about i

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Re: [WiX-users] SelectionTree Control

2007-09-02 Thread Bob Arnson
Alan Frye wrote: I am using a selection tree control and pushbutton on a dialog and need to determine which features are selection to be installed after selecting the pushbutton. Use &FeatureId to determine the feature's action state. See "Conditional Statement Syntax" in the MSI SDK doc

Re: [WiX-users] SelectionTree Control

2007-09-02 Thread Bob Arnson
Alan Frye wrote: I am using a selection tree control and pushbutton on a dialog and need to determine which features are selection to be installed after selecting the pushbutton. Have you tried using the &FeatureId condition? -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ --

Re: [WiX-users] force upgrade

2007-09-02 Thread Bob Arnson
Frédéric Viollet wrote: > product's version is already installed, nothing happens. There isn't > even a notification to tell that the installation won't start because > the product is already up to date. What I would like is start the > installation process even if I'm trying to install the same

Re: [WiX-users] To goto prod. reg. website at the end of installation

2007-09-02 Thread Bob Arnson
Anidil wrote: > How do i customize my ExitDialog UI dialog (Last UI Dialog) to include a > checkbox which takes the user to product registration url when clicked > "Finish" > If you're using WiX v3, it's built in: See "ShellExecute CustomAction" in WiX.chm. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com

Re: [WiX-users] MSI building problem...

2007-09-02 Thread V K Gangwar
Hello Rene, Thanks a lot !! I have few more doubts. Actaully I got one .msi file which has some problem. My job is to add few more features in that and fix the problem. This .msi file is developed on MS Visual Studio 2005. I have source files (.exe and dlls) also. When I open this project in S