[WiX-users] Still not able to show Dialog from Managed CA

2009-02-21 Thread Jacob, Christian
Hi there, Although some people already tried to help me, I am still not able to get this working. I am writing a managed Custom Action and need to be able to show a messagebox that for instance tells the user that a specified password does not match the policies. However, no matter what way I

[WiX-users] removing files created during uninstall

2009-02-21 Thread Sean Farrow
Hi: I run a custom action during installation. This CA creates files are these files deleted during uninstall, if not how do I do this? Any help appreciated. Sean. -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 20

Re: [WiX-users] Parsing a version string in WiX

2009-02-21 Thread greenaj
Probably the easies thing to do is to use an immediate Custom Action that gets called before LaunchConditions to set a property indicating if the version is retrieved from the registry is high enough. You can use good old C/C++ or WIX DTF Custom Actions written in .NET. Typically I use C++ f

Re: [WiX-users] removing files created during uninstall

2009-02-21 Thread Brian Rogers
Hey Sean, Any files created outside of the file list in the File table or not listed in the RemoveFile table (not sure, might be another place as well) will not be managed by Windows Installer. Of course it would be best if your custom action removed the files it created before during uninstall b

Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.0: How to CopyFile

2009-02-21 Thread Brian Rogers
Hey Brian, Per your example, remove CopyFile/@SourceName and CopyFile/@SourceProperty. Add CopyFile@/FileId and set it to the File/@Id which equals app.ico. OR, move the under the and then remove the CopyFile/@FileId. According to documentation ( http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/wix_xsd_c

Re: [WiX-users] DTF - install, rollback and uninstall

2009-02-21 Thread Bob Arnson
Neil Sleightholm wrote: > I think I understand the component state approach but I am not sure this is > possible with the current implementation of custom tables as I can't see how > they can be associated with a component. > WiX's custom tables have a foreign key into the Component table (or

Re: [WiX-users] DTF - install, rollback and uninstall

2009-02-21 Thread Bob Arnson
Thomas S. Trias wrote: > I've noticed that design pattern in the IIS extensions as well; their > modus operandi in the most recent WiX code I have is to include the > install state and install action of the related component as part of > their wrapped query data in the CustomActionData. I'm no