Re: [WiX-users] writing to console from smoke.exe using customaction

2010-01-05 Thread Blair
Tests in a .CUB are always run from a sequence table (similar to the UI sequence table, but the sequence table is named _ICESequence) and never as control events (there is no UI associated with ICE tests). Why is a control event even an issue? -Original Message- From: nagaram.c [mailto:na

Re: [WiX-users] writing to console from smoke.exe using customaction

2010-01-05 Thread nagaram.c
These CA are called through DoAction, in the msdn it is clearly stated that if MsiProcessMessage invoked through DoAction the function will not work. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368322(VS.85).aspx I think the alternative approach is through automation function Session.Message that ca

Re: [WiX-users] writing to console from smoke.exe using customaction

2010-01-05 Thread nagaram.c
The vbs in darice.cub are specific to ICE it does not contain any generic functions as I taught of earlier. Nag -Original Message- From: nagaram.c [mailto:nagara...@symphony.cc] Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 5:43 AM To: 'Blair'; 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.'; '

[WiX-users] Wix redistributable

2010-01-05 Thread nagaram.c
Hi, I am using just smoke.exe to one of solutions I am working right now, Is there any link by which only this light weight component be downloaded instead of wix toolkit that requires visual studio. Thanks, Nag --

Re: [WiX-users] Wix redistributable

2010-01-05 Thread Rob Hamflett
You could download the binaries and extract smoke from them. Rob nagaram.c wrote: > Hi, > > > > I am using just smoke.exe to one of solutions I am working right now, Is > there any link by which only this light weight component be downloaded > instead of wix toolkit that requires visual studi

Re: [WiX-users] performing actionsonly on remove

2010-01-05 Thread Bob Arnson
On 12/28/2009 1:57 AM, Sean Farrow wrote: > I need to perform certain actions, show a dialog and read registry values > only when Iamremoving a product. Is there a property to help me do this? > REMOVE -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/

Re: [WiX-users] Performance Counters supported for MSP?

2010-01-05 Thread Bob Arnson
On 12/31/2009 6:05 PM, Jeff Perrigo wrote: > I understand that patches cannot be uninstallable if they modify the > CreateFolder table. I can set the patch so it is not uninstallable to get > around this issue, but I'm wondering where CreateFolder comes in since my > component does not use Crea

Re: [WiX-users] How to patch an installer dialog using WIX 3.0?

2010-01-05 Thread Bob Arnson
On 1/4/2010 6:38 PM, Sharat Janapareddy wrote: > > There's a strongly-typed DialogRef element you can use. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon

Re: [WiX-users] writing to console from smoke.exe using customaction

2010-01-05 Thread nagaram.c
Thanks Blair, it took a while for me to understand what is all about, MsiProcessMessage as you suggested works absolutely fine. It's just that formatting that I was attempting was incorrect. I appreciate for all your support. - Nag -Original Message- From: nagaram.c [mailto:nagara...@sy

Re: [WiX-users] Updating XML written with XmlFile

2010-01-05 Thread Kevin Garman
O k, that makes sense from the development side. Ideally I'd like to be able to click the 'change' button and then be able to change settings (xml entries). Any ideas how I could make this happen? -- Thanks, Kevin Garman, Project Engineer SCADAware, Inc. www.scadaware.com Thanks On Mo

Re: [WiX-users] Build time selection of codepage...

2010-01-05 Thread Tony
> The biggest gotcha is that the summary codepage cannot be set to UTF-8 > (unlike the rest of the database) and I tend to force ASCII-7 (and thus NO > localization) for the summary codepage myself (since I have usually had to > deal with "unicode-only" languages). You lost me here. I understood

Re: [WiX-users] Wix redistributable

2010-01-05 Thread Neil Sleightholm
For info the WiX install doesn't require visual studio, it just warns if it is not found. Neil -Original Message- From: nagaram.c [mailto:nagara...@symphony.cc] Sent: 05 January 2010 12:07 To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: [WiX-users] Wix redistributabl

[WiX-users] Problem with mouse disappearing

2010-01-05 Thread Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson
Hi. First, thanks for a cool product. :) I have a problem and I'll get right to it. When the final screen pops up and tells the user that the installation is complete, the mouse has disappeared and doesn't reappear until you move it off of the form. This is from a project that I'm taking over fro

Re: [WiX-users] How to patch an installer dialog using WIX 3.0?

2010-01-05 Thread Sharat Janapareddy
Hey Bob, the DialogRef element is not a part of the patch schema. I am looking at http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/wix_xsd_patchfamily.htm. It is a child of UI element which can only be used to define UI elements for an MSI's WXS file. Thanks, Sharat Janapareddy ~ 40269 -Original M

Re: [WiX-users] Build time selection of codepage...

2010-01-05 Thread Blair
If you notice there are two places in the authoring where you set codepages (once in the Product element for the database, and once in the Package element for the "SummaryCodepage"). While there are warnings in MSDN against using utf-8 for the database, experience has demonstrated a prohibition (at

Re: [WiX-users] Problem with mouse disappearing

2010-01-05 Thread Blair
The sourceforge group email system often strips attachments. Please consider posting the wxs file to a server somewhere and include a URL in the email to retrieve it. Thanks. -Original Message- From: Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson [mailto:he...@binary.is] Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 7:29 AM

Re: [WiX-users] Updating XML written with XmlFile

2010-01-05 Thread Blair
During your "change" transaction set the REINSTALL property to include the feature(s) that include the components you would like to change. -Original Message- From: Kevin Garman [mailto:gar...@scadaware.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 6:19 AM To: General discussion for Windows Instal

[WiX-users] Passwords, hidden and the log file

2010-01-05 Thread Balu Swaminathan
Hello All: I have: and the value passed on PASSWORD is written to the log file when the .msi is invoked with msiexec ... /l*v msilog.log ... Investigation starts... In the log file it appears as and it appears in the log file as MSI (s) (BC!80) [10:39:39:772]: PR

Re: [WiX-users] Wix redistributable

2010-01-05 Thread Jeremy Farrell
Really? Why? I'm still using an old version of WiX which didn't include such a warning - why was it added? Does something not work properly with more recent versions of WiX if Visual Studio isn't present? > -Original Message- > From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] > Sent: T

Re: [WiX-users] Passwords, hidden and the log file

2010-01-05 Thread Blair
Add To your authoring -Original Message- From: Balu Swaminathan [mailto:bswa...@hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 10:55 AM To: wix user list Subject: [WiX-users] Passwords, hidden and the log file Hello All: I have: and the value passed on PASSWORD is writt

Re: [WiX-users] Wix redistributable

2010-01-05 Thread Neil Sleightholm
Yes Votive doesn't work, everything else works fine. I assume it was added as it is not common to install it without VS (I only noticed it because I install to a build server that doesn't need VS). This is the message: "Votive, the WiX project and editor package for Visual Studio, cannot be instal

Re: [WiX-users] Wix redistributable

2010-01-05 Thread Jeremy Farrell
Thanks Neil, that makes sense - it would be impressive if Votive worked without VS ;). It's more a "common-sense informational" than a warning I suppose ... The discussion had me worried that some dependency on VS had crept into WiX itself. > -Original Message- > From: Neil Sleightholm [ma

[WiX-users] Shortcut path for Merge modules

2010-01-05 Thread Bill Packard
I am evaluating whether I can port our installations from Wise to Wix. We have several merge modules, each of which contains a set of files and a couple of shortcuts. In the Wise definition we use a global property to define the shortcut path for the merge modules. I can use the substitution tables

[WiX-users] Bootstrapper with Custom GUI

2010-01-05 Thread Kevin Garman
Hi, I've been looking for a bootstrapper that will manage multiple instances for me (install, modify, update). The dotNetInstaller was suggested to me, and while that looks like a pretty sweet app, it seems like it won't take care of my custom gui needs. I also have considered just a simple VB.n

Re: [WiX-users] Build time selection of codepage...

2010-01-05 Thread Tony
Thanks. While looking a quite a few msi with Orca, I see many have their code page set to 0. Which you mentioned means "ASCII" (7-bit). However, many of these same msi have dialogs which contain multi-byte characters when installed on multi-byte OS platforms (like Chinese and Japanese), how is t

Re: [WiX-users] Passwords, hidden and the log file

2010-01-05 Thread Balu Swaminathan
Thank you. That works in hiding that (most of it) instance. There is one instance of the password in this line MSI (s) (98:68) [13:39:08:958]: Executing op: CustomActionSchedule(Action=ConfigureIIsExec,ActionType=3073,Source=BinaryData,Target=ConfigureIIsExec,CustomActionData=ConfigureIIs

Re: [WiX-users] Build time selection of codepage...

2010-01-05 Thread Blair
Do those MSIs have embedded streams? Might those streams contain transforms? Transforms can change the codepage of a database. I don't know if Orca shows the summary-codepage. I believe it just shows the database codepage. There also do exist many non-Unicode multi-byte codepages (there are somet

Re: [WiX-users] Shortcut path for Merge modules

2010-01-05 Thread Blair
What you don't say is whether what you ship are the merge modules themselves or if you simply use them as internal "global" libraries for the MSIs you build. You also don't say whether you are porting all at once or in stages. -Original Message- From: Bill Packard [mailto:bill.pack...@kepw

[WiX-users] How to create extension and a new schema ?

2010-01-05 Thread Akihiro.Shibuta
HI, I develop a new extension. And I written a new schema in xsd file. I create a new setup project on Visual Studio, But it show display message that "Id" attribute cannot found on the message view of Visual Studio . How to import a new schema file and use on Visual Studio? something wrong

Re: [WiX-users] How to create extension and a new schema ?

2010-01-05 Thread Blair
I know that the WixVsExtension defines properties like VS90_SCHEMAS_DIR that would be the directory you would need to place the .xsd file into. Use the appropriate property for the version of Visual Studio you are targeting. Beyond that, either MSDN or the forums on MSDN would have much more infor

Re: [WiX-users] How to create extension and a new schema ?

2010-01-05 Thread Rob Mensching
Did you return the schema from your extension's Schema property? You might check out the source code for the other extensions in wix at src\ext\*\wixext. On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 6:16 PM, wrote: > HI, > > I develop a new extension. And I written a new schema in xsd file. > I create a new setup pr

Re: [WiX-users] Bootstrapper with Custom GUI

2010-01-05 Thread Rob Mensching
Burn will support that when it is available... which, unfortunately, is a few months away. On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Kevin Garman wrote: > Hi, > > I've been looking for a bootstrapper that will manage multiple instances > for me (install, modify, update). The dotNetInstaller was suggeste

Re: [WiX-users] How to create extension and a new schema ?

2010-01-05 Thread Akihiro.Shibuta
Thanks. I put the .xsd file into "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Xml\Schemas". And it works. > Did you return the schema from your extension's Schema > property? How to create an instance of extension's Schema ? I found method LoadXmlSchemaHelper. Is it good in this method? thi

Re: [WiX-users] How to create extension and a new schema ?

2010-01-05 Thread Rob Mensching
Yes. Again, take a look at the other extensions in the WiX toolset. They show exactly how to use this (and build it). On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 8:57 PM, wrote: > Thanks. > > I put the .xsd file into "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio > 9.0\Xml\Schemas". > And it works. > > > Did you return t

[WiX-users] getting win32 exception while running the newly added custom ICE

2010-01-05 Thread nagaram.c
Hi, I am getting below exception to my newly added ICE, whereas the same works fine in the developer environment but fails in the tester environment, both are XP machines. To the tester environment I have deployed the below files smoke.exe wconsole.dll wix.dll darice.cub (containi