Re: [WiX-users] How to change data in VolumeCostList control

2009-06-30 Thread kezhong zhou
The origin calculation is not accurate. Such as an installation of 100M, the actual space taken would be 100.4M. So, I want to tell the user, if he just have merely enough space to pass DiskSpaceCheck step, that he would fail. The simplest way to do this, seems to be use ReserveCost table to add ex

Re: [WiX-users] IIS Application Pool, how to not create if exist?

2009-06-30 Thread Yan Sklyarenko
As far as I can see from the source code, it won't fail if the application pool (or another metabase key) with the same name already exists. It'll just try to create one, and if there's an error, it'll check for the presence of such key and continue with OK status if it is there. I might miss some

Re: [WiX-users] What is a difference TYPICAL Installation and Complete Installation.

2009-06-30 Thread akash bhatia
Thanks for ur replies. i got it. Final conclusion:- if you have 2 or more features and you want some of them not to install(automatically when installer runs) unless user wants to install all the features in CustomizeDlg dialog or if he selects COMPLETE installation. For this you can initially

[WiX-users] Regarding WiX UI customization: Information needed

2009-06-30 Thread karthik.shenoy
I am new to WiX. Recently we migrated to WiX 3. I am in need to customize my Installer UI. Most of the articles available on net points out to editing the .wxs [e.g. WixUI_InstallDir.wxs and InstallDirDlg.wxs.] file present in WiX source to achieve this. However I could not find the wxs files with

[WiX-users] wix3_x64.msi

2009-06-30 Thread Sebastian Brand (Instyler Software)
Hello, I was just installing the x64 version of WiX and noticed the files are identical as in x86. All binaries are "Any Cpu" assemblies. Can someone tell me what (besides the installer) are the differences in the x64 release of WiX? Best regards, Sebastian Brand Instyler Setup - Cr

Re: [WiX-users] Regarding WiX UI customization: Information needed

2009-06-30 Thread Neil Sleightholm
They are in the folder "src\ext\UIExtension\wixlib". Neil -Original Message- From: karthik.shenoy [mailto:karthik.she...@robosoftin.com] Sent: 30 June 2009 12:27 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Regarding WiX UI customization: Information needed I am new to WiX.

[WiX-users] LGHT1076: ICE82: This action ... has duplicate sequence number 1

2009-06-30 Thread John Aldridge
I have a merge module WiX project http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi";>

[WiX-users] MapXtreme 6.8.0 MSM Problems

2009-06-30 Thread Fredrik Kauma
Hi all! I am unable to create an installer that installs the merge modules for MapInfo's MapXtreme 6.8.0. There are a total of 4 merge modules that I need to install: MIFonts_6.8.0.msm MapInfoCoreEngine_6.8.0.msm MapInfoDesktop_6.8.0.msm MapInfoMXTConfig_6.8.0.msm I can install MIFonts_6.8.0.msm

[WiX-users] Using Variables with YesNoType Attributes

2009-06-30 Thread jnewton
I have a scenario where I need to changed the value of a YesNoType attribute based upon a property I specify. In particular, during our beta period, we remove assemblies from the GAC. However, during release, we leak the assemblies to the GAC. This is done by setting the Permanent attribute on a c

Re: [WiX-users] Heat Website Harvester Status?

2009-06-30 Thread Aaron Webster
Brian, The error that you are referring to will occur any time the command string doesn't start with IIS:// Here are some examples... heat website -gg -g1 -sreg /LM/W3SVC/1 -out .wxs heat website -gg -g1 -sreg /LM/W3SVC/1/ -out .wxs as opposed to heat website -gg -g1 -sreg IIS://localhos

Re: [WiX-users] Using Variables with YesNoType Attributes

2009-06-30 Thread Yan Sklyarenko
Try it lowercased: 'yes' and 'no', instead of 'Yes' and 'No'. -- Yan -Original Message- From: jnewton [mailto:jonathan.new...@ni.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 5:46 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Using Variables with YesNoType Attributes I have a scenari

Re: [WiX-users] Using Variables with YesNoType Attributes

2009-06-30 Thread jnewton
Yeah, I meant to put 'yes' or 'no' in the post, but it doesn't matter. The wix compiler always says the value is invalid according to its datatype. -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Using-Variables-with-YesNoType-Attributes-tp3182903p3183321.html Sent from the wix-users mail

Re: [WiX-users] Using Variables with YesNoType Attributes

2009-06-30 Thread Castro, Edwin G. (Hillsboro)
That smells like a bug to me. The validation code for Component/@Permanent _probably_ validates the literal attribute value rather than expanding preprocessor variables first and then validating. I've noticed this problem with other attributes too. From a toolset architecture perspective, which

Re: [WiX-users] wix3_x64.msi

2009-06-30 Thread John Robbins
The x64 installer also installs the MSBuild target files into C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft\WiX so if you do a command line build using MSBUILD.EXE from the Framework64 directory it works. >-Original Message- >From: Sebastian Brand (Instyler Software) >[mailto:wix+us...@instyler.com

Re: [WiX-users] wix3_x64.msi

2009-06-30 Thread Castro, Edwin G. (Hillsboro)
I was under the impression that the C++ custom actions are also built as 64-bit DLLs. Is that not the case? Edwin G. Castro Software Developer - Staff Electronic Banking Services Fiserv Office: 503-746-0643 Fax: 503-617-0291 www.fiserv.com Please consider the environment before printing this e-

Re: [WiX-users] wix3_x64.msi

2009-06-30 Thread John Robbins
Doh! Yes, the CA's have x64 versions too. The x64 version will also get the dutil_*_x64.lib files as well. >-Original Message- >From: Castro, Edwin G. (Hillsboro) [mailto:edwin.cas...@fiserv.com] >Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 9:44 AM >To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML tools

Re: [WiX-users] wix3_x64.msi

2009-06-30 Thread Mike Carlson (DEV DIV)
The x64 CA's also come with the x86 version of WiX. I believe the only difference between the x86 and x64 releases of WiX is the MSBuild difference mentioned below. Also, to be clear, while some of the custom actions are also built as 64-bit DLLs, others are not, and support 64-bit scenarios th

[WiX-users] Product is unregistered even though uninstall failed? (Repost)

2009-06-30 Thread Karl Denning
sorry for the repost. Lian Jiang hijacked my thread and it got buried so here I go again. Any ideas anyone? -- I rigged one of my MSIs to fail immediately after IntallInitialize (a deferred CA that with impersonate="Yes" is rigged to return an

[WiX-users] VS2010 / Wix 3.5.0605 Build issue

2009-06-30 Thread John H. Bergman (XPedient Technologies)
I receive this error for each of the MergeModules my install projects reference. I have been unable to find any information as to what the cause of this could be. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what this might be? Error 391 The target "GetResolvedReferencePaths" does not exist in

[WiX-users] Visual Studio 2010 beta, Wix 3.5, and Server 2008 x64

2009-06-30 Thread Erik Garcia
Howdy gang, On my Windows Server 2008 x64 box, I've got Visual Studio 2010 beta 1 installed and tried to open a project which was barking because: "...Installer.wixproj' cannot be opened because its project type (.wixproj) is not supported by this version of the application." Well, I (think I) kno

Re: [WiX-users] Visual Studio 2010 beta, Wix 3.5, and Server 2008 x64

2009-06-30 Thread John H. Bergman (XPedient Technologies)
You have to convert the project by hand. Basically what I did was create another project, and then I believe you can simply copy the other files in. Once you have done one, you can diff the old and the new, there are only a few minor changes between them. -Original Message- From: Erik

[WiX-users] Boolean paramaters

2009-06-30 Thread sandun css
Hi, I have some conditions in my msi, like the following, But I need to run these conditions only if a certain parameter is set to 'true'. (i.e. msiexec /i installer.msi MYFLAG=true) Are there boolean parameters, or do I need to treat 'true' and 'false' valuse as strings? Thanks, Sandun

Re: [WiX-users] wix3_x64.msi

2009-06-30 Thread Sebastian Brand (Instyler Software)
Thanks for all the replies. My problem is that our tool is calling the WiX compiler, binder and linker directly, without light.exe - light.exe is 32-bit only, probably because winterop.dll (interop to Windows CabBuilder) is 32-bit only. Now calling the WiX binder directly from our 64-bit tool, i