I think you'd better off using Fragments and using *Ref elements.
Rob
Jared Hughes wrote:
> My group is producing two products: a Runtime and an SDK. Since there is a
> lot of similarity between the two products (a lot of the same files, reg
> keys, shortcuts, custom actions, etc) there is a push
I guess my problem is very similar, i.e. includes the one mentioned above...
I'm struggling with a forthcoming a product which has three optional
components. It is OK to have a single installation containing these as
different features. In reality we should obtain packages combining
these three com
Hi Salome,
to save the value of your Control, you could use a line like the following:
For accessing it you'll have to use a registry search with a property:
As far as I rember, the property you read the regvalue into and the property of
your control should not be the same, that's why
Well, I do have the same problem, specially when it comes to votive.
The files must be duplicate, to be used in two projects, linking to files in
another project is not possible.
That leads to much redundant code and a big overhead for maintaining that.
In our Solution we have a client and a ser
I think I have something working in my solution so thought I should create
a complete working samplefirst 3.0 here (in case it can actually help
someone with the same dilemma). It does exactly what I wanted it to -
creates shortcuts in a folder off All Programs pointing to the installed
components.
Hi WiX-Team,
I am new to WiX and testing it for about a week, because we need to customize
the standard Setup of Visual Studio for our webapplication. The problem is that
we got a pretty big webapplication (about 3000 files and 200 folders to deploy)
and we are using VS 2005 with Team Foundatio
I have a previous version of the software installed using installshield and i
do not have any (upgrade) GUIDs associated with the package other than the
one which gets created under
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Uninstall\{GUID}..How do i make my new WiX 2.0
installer to detect this package? What GU
I have a WIX Msi install almost working fully now. I also have the
bootstrapper installing the prerequisites then launching the msi without a
hitch this all works great. btw im using the GenerateBootStrapper task for
msbuild to generate the bootstrapper, however i have 2 major issues left.
the fir
Are you using TFS TeamBuild? If not, I would certainly suggest you do since
it's a very important piece of the TFS system.
If you are using TFS, just set the WorkspaceMapping.xml InternalMapping
elements in your TeamBuildType to teach TeamBuild how to do the CoreGet. You
can also overr
Hi,
Where can I find some information of having a WiX project check for
prerequisites like .Net2 and SQL Compact Edition and download them from
MS and install them if not already on on a users machine.
Thanks,
Glen.
-
Th
You can do this by using the GenerateBootStrapper task in MSBuild, it already
has a few prerequisites built for you including .Net 2 and SQL CE
Documentation is here
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms164294.aspx
Glen Harvy wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Where can I find some information of havi
conkerjoe wrote:
>
> the first being, i do not want the user to launch the msi standalone, this
> is easy, now the MSI is expecting a parameter RUNFROMEXE=1 before it will
> run. my issue is i cannot get the setup.exe to pass this to the msi when
> launching it.
>
Hi,
I couldn't find any wa
Glen,
Some of the prerequisites you mention (specifically the .NET runtime)
are packaged using Microsoft Installer technology themselves. As a
result, you cannot automatically install them from within your MSI - all
you can do is make your MSI verify that they have been installed.
The archi
Peter,
If Heat is exiting with an ArgumentNullException it seems likely that
you have caught a bug. I suggest making sure it is added to the tracker
(at
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=642714&group_id=105970&func=browse
- I haven't checked to see if there is one entered already).
WiX i
Im sorry i dont quite understand what you are suggesting.
If i remove the RUNFROMEXE the user can launch the msi without the exe.
which is not what i want. And .Net is not my only prerequisite.. i have over
10 custom prerequisite.. which i have working perfectly. my only issue is
modifying the set
Hi Richard,
I appreciate your comments. So far I have always used the Setup &
Deployment project in VS20005 to create my msi and setup files. I have
always configured VS2005 to check and download the prerequisites and
they work fine.
I need now to become a bit more "professional" and find t
Put it on a share and let them browse to the MSI file and run it.
Phil Wilson
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I'm not sure about the WiX syntax but in MSI terms: if the component
condition evaluates to FALSEthe component will NOT be installed. And if it
was True in the first time install and then becomes False in the upgrade,
that component will be REMOVED - but only if the component has the
transitive
Ok. This isn't really the behavior I'm looking for.
I managed to solve my problem by using Components with empty GUIDs to
install and modify the config files.
In that way, the component is not managed. Since it cannot be updated or
removed, my config files are not overwritten on upgrades any more
Glen,
I agree, documentation on this is all over the place. Unfortunately like
many open source projects any work people do on WiX is almost invariably
in their "spare" time.
My understanding is that your understanding is correct. Your MSI should
include checks (coded in Wix as as elements
I would suggest considering
http://www.devage.com/Wiki/ViewArticle.aspx?name=dotnetinstaller&version=0
dotNetInstaller . In addition to supporting prerequisite installations of
the .NET Framework, it also supports installing other prerequisites such as
SQL Express. There is also a GUI to help w
Actually SMS can push support files like bootstappers out with the msi to the
distribution points and invoke them as part of their package definition. In
fact, SMS doesn't really even require MSI's although MSIs generally behave
nicer.
The scenario you describe is a limitation of GPO sinc
Thanks for the clarification Christopher!
It was my (apparently inaccurate) understanding that most SMS users
preferred using MSI's directly (and managing dependencies themselves)
because of the risks associated with a bootstrapper potentially doing
something that could not easily be repared an
Hi,
I would like to install some files into Microsoft Excel startup directory. I
decided to use WiX. I created a msi package according to available
documentation and it seems well. However, I think that my solution isn't
correct.
Destination path depends on installed version of MS Office. I can c
Hi,
We're using Wix3, and just added some code to try to patch an XML config file
which we install. The code wix code for attempting the patch is below:
When linking we get the following error:
light.exe : error LGHT0126 : The extension
'Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Extensions.UtilEx
HI,
I'm trying to see if I can insert a dialog into the WixUI_InstallDir sequence,
the docs say you can do
1
1
1
1
LicenseAccepted = "1"
But aren't really clear about where that should happen.
I tried doing this, but I never see my dialog...
[DialogFont]
We've been exploring WIX a bit and found it's developer friendly
compile/link process and the votive wixlib project system to be a
fantastic improvement over all other tools we've used. Even with as
little documentation as there is on WIX we've been able to get
productive quite quickly. However, th
Hi,
How can I make installed files go into other than predetermined locations. In
V2, I used to write Public property
With this property, V3 gave me the following warning,
warning LGHT1076 : ICE48: Directory 'SETUPDIR' appears to be hardcoded in the
property table to a local drive.
hi all,
I has a windows installer package and i want to install the feature "sooa"
when it is on Windows 2008 Server, so i write the component condition like
this, but it doesn't work at all and on any operating system the sooa will
be installed. Does any one know what's wrong with it.
Thanks ver
> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:24:57 +0200
> From: "Schrieken, Rene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] The Wix Book
> To: "Thomas Leigh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,"Peter Wone"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>
> AFAIK Julie Campbell is doing the same (with almost the same rationale)
> at
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