Re: [WiX-users] error while uninstalling

From: Nutesh Garg Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 12:51 PM To: 'wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net' Subject: error while uninstalling Hi, I am getting an error while uninstalling the product that has been patched. The msi log says: DEBUG: Error 2769: Custom Action InstallSqlData did not close 5

Re: [WiX-users] Logging

Sorry I wasn't being clear.. I am using light in a c# app. And this is what is happening: Process light = new Process(); light.StartInfo.FileName = WiX toolset\light.exe"; light.StartInfo.Arguments = "\"" + OutputFolder +.+ \WiXOutput.wixobj" + "\" " + "-out " + "\"" + OutputFolder + .

Re: [WiX-users] Logging

yes, shell redirection does not work in this case. In that case you should use ProcessStartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput / .RedirectStandardError and then you can read the output from light.StandardOutput and light.StandardError /Simon On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Peter Vestergaard <[EMAIL PRO

Re: [WiX-users] german letters

Use: ä ü Full reference here: http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Dieter Janzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > > how is it possible to use ä, ö and ü? > > Pt! Schon vom neuen WEB.DE

[WiX-users] Granting user access to database

Short question, and waiting for (hopefully) a short answer: How to grant grant permissions of db_owner to a certain user on a database? TiA, Eitan - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challeng

Re: [WiX-users] Granting user access to database

For integrated auth, use a sqlstring element containing the following where USERNAME is the domain\username: exec sp_addrolemember N'db_owner', N'[USERNAME]' Dana On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 6:34 AM, Eitan Behar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Short question, and waiting for (hopefully) a short answe

[WiX-users] Heat problem harvesting class from type-library

Hi, I have a problem harvesting a type-library from an executable file (a COM Server) with heat.exe, version 3.0.4513. If I run heat (as normal-user in Vista) I get something a la: ... But it does

Re: [WiX-users] Execute a Custom action only when a specific component is removed

Thanks. -Original Message- From: Alexander Shevchuk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 20:15 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Execute a Custom action only when a specific component is removed Hi Yuval, If you sche

[WiX-users] How do I install an SSL certificate?

Does anybody out there have an EXAMPLE of installing a certificate to enable SSL for a website? The PFX file from Verisign contains 2 certificates, the actual certificate and an intermediate chain and when I try to install it, the wrong certificate is installed and associated with the web site.

Re: [WiX-users] Granting user access to database

Thanks! On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Dana Gutride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For integrated auth, use a sqlstring element containing the following where > USERNAME is the domain\username: exec sp_addrolemember N'db_owner', > N'[USERNAME]' > > Dana > > > > On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 6:34 AM, E

[WiX-users] german letters

hi, how is it possible to use ä, ö and ü? Pt! Schon vom neuen WEB.DE MultiMessenger gehört? Der kann`s mit allen: http://www.produkte.web.de/messenger/?did=3123 -

Re: [WiX-users] german letters

You have to use an encoding that supports German special characters (e.g. To make German special characters readable within an installer (GUI etc) you have to set Codepage and Language attributes of your tag to the according values. For German (Germany) for that would be or Language can be lo

Re: [WiX-users] Logging

Thank you all! Great help! 2008/10/7 Simon Dahlbacka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > yes, shell redirection does not work in this case. > > In that case you should use > ProcessStartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput / .RedirectStandardError > and then you can read the output from > light.StandardOutput and light

[WiX-users] help required laying out a wix dialog

Hi: As I visually impaired user I could do with some help laying out a WiX dialog. Would anybody be prepared to help me with this? I know what elements I need, so you can probably adapt one of the existing dialogues! If you can help please write me off-list. Regards and thanks in advance. Sean. --

Re: [WiX-users] Granting user access to database

Hi Eitan, I do something similar in my install with the following under my SqlDatabase node: The [LOGIN] is entered in a dialog during the course of my install. Amy -Original Message- From: Eitan Behar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 4:35 AM To: General dis

[WiX-users] DTF InstallerException "Invalid handle"

Hi, I have a problem with a CustomAction and DTF. In my CA, which runs as an deferred, commit CA, I try to open and query the MSI database with Database database = new Database("", DatabaseOpenMode.ReadOnly); The constructor returns no InstallerException, so I think everything works fine there

[WiX-users] Uninstall takes 3 times longer timeframe than install

Hello WiX community, My installation source contains 25,000+ files. I used heat.exe to create a WiX authoring out of the root directory. This gave me a *.wxs file with approximately the same number of components, which is claimed to be handled OK by Windows Installer. After some rough tweakin

Re: [WiX-users] Granting user access to database

Thanks to all, Finally, I am "merging" all the concepts, and doing this: On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Amy Rosewater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hi Eitan, > > I do something similar in my install with the following under my > SqlDatabase node: > > SQL="CREATE USER [LOGIN] FOR LOGIN [LOG

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall takes 3 times longer timeframe than install

Yan, Try uninstalling from the command line with the option DISABLEROLLBACK=1. For example, msiexec /x yourmsi.msi DISABLEROLLBACK=1. This might make the uninstall quicker if it does not need to create copies of all the files as it removes them in case you hit the cancel button during uninstal

[WiX-users] Target framework when building WIX v3

Hello, I'm having some trouble building WIX v3. The top of my build log has ... Target framework: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Target(s) specified: inc [property] Target framework changed to "Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0". ... However my

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall takes 3 times longer timeframe than install

Set MSI logging policy and do the uninstall to see what's taking the time. There is, for example, a C runtime custom action called (I think) SxSUninstallCA that runs for a long time. Phil Wilson -Original Message- From: Bryan Turner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 0

Re: [WiX-users] Problem using FirewallException

I removed the Assembly and AssemblyApplication attributes as you suggested. The installer was already running with full UI. This is on x86. Unfortunately, the results were the same: abrupt rollback, no error message to the user, and nothing in the log. -- Paul Lalonde

Re: [WiX-users] How do I install an SSL certificate?

Ok, more information. I took a look at the source for the certificate install code (gotta love open source). The PFX file (binary stream) is passed as a BLOB. The install code decrypts it and installs the first and only the first certificate in the file. (This results in the intermediate certificat

[WiX-users] How Update / Upgrade strategy (small, minor, major) affect file overriding?

I've been trying to develop some upgrade strategy for my program. What I want to achieve is an installer which would be able to install lets say version 1.0.3, but also upgrade the versions 1.0.0 or 1.0.1 to version 1.0.3. To make the things simple lets say that installing is just copying some fi

[WiX-users] Radio Button Group

Using Wix 3.0.4513.0, is there any way to specify a Radio Button Group so that *none* of the items in the group are selected? I'm not finding a way to do this and our software architects are insisting that we do it this way. Thanks! Wendell --

Re: [WiX-users] help required laying out a wix dialog

Maybe you could give a try to visual designer that is a part of wixEdit http://wixedit.sourceforge.net/ You can create/change the dialogs in a very simple way there. Sean Farrow wrote: > > Hi: > As I visually impaired user I could do with some help laying out a WiX > dialog. > Would anybody

Re: [WiX-users] How Update / Upgrade strategy (small, minor, major) affect file overriding?

If you use the Upgrade tag, you are doing a major upgrade. In this case, the old version is removed and the new version is installed. If the files change between the versions then you will get the latest versions after the upgrade. Setting the OnlyDetect parameter to "yes" means that you just wa

Re: [WiX-users] How do I install an SSL certificate?

Import the PFX on to your machine, then export only the certificate you want in a PFX you ship? -Original Message- From: Bjerstedt, Tony [Audatex - Americas] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 10:48 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How do

Re: [WiX-users] error while uninstalling

What version of the WiX toolset are you using? -Original Message- From: Nutesh Garg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 00:29 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] error while uninstalling From: Nutesh Garg Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 12:

Re: [WiX-users] Radio Button Group

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Wendell Joost" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Using Wix 3.0.4513.0, is there any way to specify a Radio Button Group > so that *none* of the items in the group are selected? Are you trying to enforce that no selection is made, or are you trying to provide ano

[WiX-users] really stuck on database uninstall

Hi All, I have posted this once before and so far no response, so I am going to try and do a better job describing my problem. I am using the latest weekly release Wix v3.0.4513 available since Sept. 13. I have an install that creates a database using the SqlDatabase element. I have the Dr

Re: [WiX-users] Radio Button Group

What the designer wants is as follows: The dialog defaults to this state: Radio button has no options selected. Next button is disabled until a radio button option is selected by the user. My understanding of MSI and WiX is that this is not supported (one button in a radio button group MUST be s

Re: [WiX-users] really stuck on database uninstall

I have been researching what could have changed. I think one significant thing I know has changed is that I upgraded my server's version of SQL Server to be 2008 (from 2005). Amy -Original Message- From: Amy Rosewater [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 1:05 PM To:

[WiX-users] backing up old file before removal

Hello! So I am working on a new version of a program already out in the field. Thanks to a finger pointing in the right direction I have gotten the new installer to run when clicked on (before, the old one ran), now I have my upgrade stuff working fine and dandy, though I have just one problem.

[WiX-users] Bug in FeatureRef?

WiX release 3.0.4513.0 When I use a ComponentRef inside a FeatureRef inside a Fragment file, the File in my single Component doesn't end up in my MSI. However, if I move the FeatureRef into the main Product file, it works as I expect. Confused? Me too. Here's a tiny WiX project that gives the w

Re: [WiX-users] Component condition ignored during Upgrade

The property is being set correctly Action 17:11:37: RemoveExistingProducts. Removing applications Action start 17:11:37: RemoveExistingProducts. RemoveExistingProducts: Application: {D2E3C4E8-F835-42BF-9871-DC2AF481361B}, Command line: UPGRADINGPRODUCTCODE={F8B81715-3E66-4462-ADF8-2610EBC52BB8}

Re: [WiX-users] really stuck on database uninstall

Hi A couple of thoughts 1. How are you resolving [DATABASENAME] and [SQLSERVER] - are they correct during uninstall 2. I noticed you are using User="InstallationSqlUser" - has this been effected by the 2008 upgrade 3. I am not particularly familiar with 2008, but in doing the upgrade has the SQL

Re: [WiX-users] Bug in FeatureRef?

References start at the Product and work down. If a Fragment does not get a reference into it, it will never be included in the build. Would that explain the behavior you are seeing? -Original Message- From: Brian Gillespie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 15:1

Re: [WiX-users] How do I install an SSL certificate?

The PFX file includes the complete certificate chain. (The PFX file actually includes 3 certificates including an updated root cert for Verisign.) Thus all of the embedded certificates need to be installed. When I use the IISAdmin tool to import the file (Website properties->Directory Security Tab-

Re: [WiX-users] How do I install an SSL certificate?

Sure, you can open a feature request. There might be one open already... -Original Message- From: Bjerstedt, Tony [Audatex - Americas] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 15:23 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How do

Re: [WiX-users] backing up old file before removal

Sounds like you should probably schedule CopyFiles before RemoveFiles and/or InstallFiles (not sure of their default sequencing relative to one another), and re-schedule RemoveExistingProducts to just before or after InstallFinalize (instead of InstallInitialize). This is all done in the Instal

Re: [WiX-users] Component execution based on condition

Re sending my query... -Regards Sandeep -Original Message- From: Sandeep Gautam (HCL Technologies Ltd) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 12:40 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Component execution based on condition Hi

Re: [WiX-users] Component execution based on condition

Seems like someone answered this one earlier. You have spelled your property two different ways in different locations: INSTALLLSFILES INSTALLPSFILES -Original Message- From: Sandeep Gautam (HCL Technologies Ltd) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 3:59 PM To: Gene

Re: [WiX-users] Component execution based on condition

Sorry This is a typo error. Correcting my error. I have some component which are executing based on some property. I am declaring my property like that: I am assigning values to this property on some button click event: 1 But my component is not executing. If I will assign value

Re: [WiX-users] Component execution based on condition

Since switching to wix, I haven't worked yet on any installers with UI so I haven't used that particular element yet. However, have you checked the log file to see if the property is being set? What does the "1" in between the Publish tags do? -Original Message- From: Sandeep Gautam (HC

Re: [WiX-users] Bug in FeatureRef?

Hi Rob, > References start at the Product and work down. If a Fragment does > not get a reference into it, it will never be included in the build. > Would that explain the behavior you are seeing? Probably. Maybe I'm trying to organize my XML files in a way that WiX isn't designed to handle

Re: [WiX-users] Bug in FeatureRef?

Sounds about right. I've been down this road too. You don't need to end up with any Component* elements in your main feature tree. What I ended up doing was something more like this in your main: And then in your fragments have something like: -Francis On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 4:52

Re: [WiX-users] Bug in FeatureRef?

Well, you can break your Features out into separate Fragments and have those Features contain the ComponentRefs. Then you just need FeatureRefs in the Product. There are lots of permutations but they start at the "entry section" (Product / Module / Patch) and work down as deep as necessary.

Re: [WiX-users] Component execution based on condition

http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2007/04/13/2106139.aspx -Original Message- From: Sandeep Gautam (HCL Technologies Ltd) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 3:59 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Component

Re: [WiX-users] really stuck on database uninstall

Hi Michael, Thanks for your reply: I do have DATABASENAME and SQLSERVER at the time of uninstall. The InstallationSqlUser is set by the following User node in my wix source: http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/UtilExtension"; /> SQLLOGIN and SQLLOGINPASSWORD are also both available during uninsta

Re: [WiX-users] really stuck on database uninstall

Hello Amy, I don't normally use the user ID, so I'm not sure if it shows up in a verbose MSI log, but I might do - the verbose log normally shows things like property changes, which includes something like this for database actions -Original Message- From: Amy Rosewater [mailto:[EMAIL P

Re: [WiX-users] really stuck on database uninstall

Hello Amy, (Sorry hit the wrong key combination) I don't normally use the user ID, so I'm not sure if it shows up in a verbose MSI log, but I might do - the verbose log normally shows things like property changes, which includes something like this for database actions MSI (s) (44!D0) [11:53:0

[WiX-users] xmlconfig error

Hi All, I am using wix v3.0.4513. I have an install in which I would like to add nodes to config files. I have the following xml in my install which always results in the same error: Error 25542. Failed to find node: CreateVirtualDirectoryApplicationNode in XML file: c:\Windows\system32\i

[WiX-users] Problem on Heat.exe

Hi guys, The registry entries generated by heat.exe writes to HKCR\CLSID, while RegAsm actually writes them to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID and so on. Any plans to fix this? Or any workarounds other than manually replacing them ourselves? Thank you very much! Best regards, Shao Voon -

[WiX-users] Using AND in a condition statement

Hi I am trying to work out how to test two conditions in one go I know that "TWAIN =0 AND SERVERPC ="Server" is wrong as it is not working Could someone please help me on the right way of doing it? Thanks Marty _ ---

Re: [WiX-users] Problem on Heat.exe

What's the difference? -Original Message- From: Wong Shao Voon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 19:56 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Problem on Heat.exe Hi guys, The registry entries generated by heat.exe writes to HKCR\CLSID, while RegA

Re: [WiX-users] Problem on Heat.exe

Okay. Should be a pretty simple script to replace "HKCR" with "HKLM\Software\Classes\CLSID". From: Wong Shao Voon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 20:54 To: Rob Mensching Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Problem on Heat.exe No difference which I can detect of. But I notice .Net

Re: [WiX-users] Problem on Heat.exe

No difference which I can detect of. But I notice .Net COM assembly goes to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID while native COM dll goes to HKCR\CLSID . I only want the behaviour to be as close as RegAsm as possible, I believe RegAsm has a reason to do that which I do not know of. Best regards, Shao Voon

Re: [WiX-users] Problem on Heat.exe

Though I do not know the reason, I happen to found this link below, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370810(VS.85).aspx When a user uses RegAsm, he/she does not have to care where RegAsm writes to but using Heat.exe, we have to be aware of the registry location. Anyway, it is not just

[WiX-users] Custom Action is not running

Hi All, I have written the below custom action . http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi";> My Exe is also returning the exit co

[WiX-users] How can I control the Order of Component Installation.

Hi All, I have a scenario where I need to take Backup of already existing files. Remove the files. Copy new files into the above location. Copy back only the Web.Config file from the backup location. I have written seperate components for each step in WIX .wxs file. When

Re: [WiX-users] error while uninstalling

I am using Wix 2.0 -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 12:29 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] error while uninstalling What version of the WiX toolset are you using? -O

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action is not running

Madhavi, You don't need to include the path and executable name in the ExeCommand attribute's value. Only parameters for the executable: If the source you provided below is complete, I suspect that the real issue is that you don't have any features, nor components to install. Try to add

Re: [WiX-users] error while uninstalling

Can you be more specific about the version. Running "candle -?" will show you the full version. It is very possible you have an old build and this is already fixed. -Original Message- From: Nutesh Garg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 22:07 To: General discussi

Re: [WiX-users] How can I control the Order of Component Installation.

Windows Installer doesn't work that way. -Original Message- From: MadhaviAthota [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 21:18 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] How can I control the Order of Component Installation. Hi All, I have a scenario where

Re: [WiX-users] Custom action dll function is not executed

Hello, anyone can answer my question? I found that this question has zero views in the forum. Thank you. Best regards, Shao Voon - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build

Re: [WiX-users] Problem on Heat.exe

Heat.exe needs significant work to be generally useful. However, there currently isn't an active owner so it hasn't made real progress in about a year now. It would be great if you would ensure there is a Feature Request tracking the issue if you think it is important. -Original Message--

Re: [WiX-users] How can I control the Order of Component Installation.

Hi Rob, Thank you for the reply. How can this be achieved. I have seen in one of the forums that this can be done with custom actions. I am trying to write a custom action in the following, but it is not working. I am not able to figure out the mistake. http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/

Re: [WiX-users] error while uninstalling

The exact version which we are using is: 2.0.3628.0 Thanks, Nutesh -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 11:30 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] error while uninstalling Can y

Re: [WiX-users] How can I control the Order of Component Installation.

Getting that series of steps working in the Windows Installer will take some pretty complicated CustomActions. I'd really have to sit down for a while to design it. Upgrading and patching plus rollback in those scenarios would be particularly interesting to account for. I'd also promote a mor

Re: [WiX-users] error while uninstalling

That version of the WiX toolset is almost two years old. You need to upgrade to get the bug fixes. I'm pretty sure this one is fixed. -Original Message- From: Nutesh Garg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 23:39 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML too