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

Is it at all possible that the new ICE900 test you wrote uses the C++ runtime DLL? In your C++ build settings you need to make sure you link to the static runtime library AND that you build Release (not Debug) for the version you run away from the developer's box. -Original Message- From:

[WiX-users] Installing WiX 3.5

Hi all, are there any gotchas when installing WiX 3.5 alongside or over 3.0? I'd like to add the IIS7 capabilities to my installer from the WiX IIS extension. I've read some mailing list posts that suggest there are issues when opening Votive projects made with 3.0 in WiX 3.5. Any suggestions? Pe

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

Hi, With the release DLL I am getting these below errors, I am using VS2008 for creating this C++ DLL, can you please suggest which of the linker setting I have to select in the project properties dialog for to specify Static Runtime Library setting. smoke.exe : error SMOK0217 : Error executing I

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

Blair, The merge modules are internal only. At this point I am expecting to convert all merge modules to wix, but initially leave the msi projects in Wise. The merge modules are simple, only a few have more than payload and resources. The msi projects are significantly more involved and will requi

Re: [WiX-users] Installing WiX 3.5

WiX v3.5 will upgrade v3.0. Installing the MSIs side by side is not supported (you can download the binaries.zip and use the tools side by side, of course). WiX v3.5 is still very much under development so there will be bugs. It'd be great if you want to help us work through them but do know that

[WiX-users] Passing installation parameter to exe

Hi, Here is the relevant lines from the wxs file: How do I pass installtion parameters to preagent.exe? For example "preagent.exe -d d:\tmp" Thanks, Shlomi -- This SF.Net email is

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

The default build settings for native C++ code generation is to use the runtime DLLs that come with VS2008 (which are NOT resident by default in any OS). For Custom Action use, that isn't the build setting you want. Open the project properties dialog, navigate to Configuration Properties --> C/C++

Re: [WiX-users] Installing WiX 3.5

If you use the MSI, it only allows one installation of WiX at a time (installing 3.5 will replace 3.0). Other than that, I have not yet used 3.5 with VS2008, so I wouldn't know of any issues with opening the files, but you can always disable building the 3.0 WiX project before you install 3.5 and

Re: [WiX-users] Passing installation parameter to exe

Preagent.exe is a file you are installing, using for configuration, or both? You need to call it with those parameters as the installing user or elevated? It needs to be visible to the user when it runs or not? It should have those parameters every time it runs or just once? Can you do the same thi

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

I'll have to let those people on this list that are more knowledgeable than I about merge modules guide you as to whether there are better ways for you to proceed. With my limited knowledge what you have looks fine. I would recommend you convert the merge modules to wixlibs at the time or shortly t

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

Bill, if what you have is working then I'd say go with that and know that the warnings are trying to point you in a "more correct" direction (as defined by the MSI SDK). If you have to interop with older tools (my understanding from others is that Wise tools haven't really been keeping up with the

[WiX-users] Name in add remove programs

I'm using Wix 3.0 RTM. Using the tag the Name attribute value is used in the add/remove programs list to identify the program. It is also used in the Window bar of the MSI UI. The problem is that we would like to use a longer more descriptive name in the add/remove programs list, and a shorte

[WiX-users] Building Votive

I would like to add some functionality to Votive (3.5 codebase), yet I am finding it rather difficult getting it to build in Visual Studio 2008. Is the environment setup documented anywhere? Thanks Adam Langley -- This

Re: [WiX-users] Name in add remove programs

Modify your UI to not use [ProductName] as the title. On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Marc Greisen wrote: > I'm using Wix 3.0 RTM. > > Using the tag the Name attribute value is used in the add/remove > programs list to identify the program. It is also used in the Window bar of > the MSI UI. > >

Re: [WiX-users] Building Votive

This documents what you need for 3.0, it might help: http://neilsleightholm.blogspot.com/2008/10/how-to-create-wix-build-mach ine.html. The other thing to watch is that the last time I checked the CVS source didn't contain the binary files saved correctly. Neil -Original Message- From:

[WiX-users] Building a multi-language msi....

I think we are doing this right, but I want to be sure as it seems painfully tedious. Here is a high-level sequence of what we are currently doing to build a single msi that supports 8 languages (en-us, 4 euro, Japanese and 2 Chinese scripts)... 1. Compile all component binaries. 2. Build a few

Re: [WiX-users] Name in add remove programs

Doh! Thanks. -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 12:21 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Name in add remove programs Modify your UI to not use [ProductName] as the titl

[WiX-users] WiX Team Build Across Multiple Solutions

Hi, I am new to WiX and am having trouble getting started with integrating it into our tfs team build process. I read the directions on http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/msbuild.htm regarding this but this sounds like for 1 solution. I was going to use WiX to create an install packa

Re: [WiX-users] WiX Team Build Across Multiple Solutions

If you have multiple solutions already then perhaps you just need one more solution of the wix project(s). You would naturally want that solution to be the last solution you build. All your dependencies are build output from the other solutions so you may need to have relative paths to the build

Re: [WiX-users] Building Votive - Email found in subject

Neil The url does not work; whats the new url for this. thnx -Original Message- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 3:38 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Building Votive - Email found in

Re: [WiX-users] Building Votive - Email found in subject

Look closely; some of the link was cut off and placed in the next line, and this portion was excluded from the hyperlink. If you include the "ine.html" from the next line in the part that's hyperlinked, the link works for me. -Original Message- From: Jahanzeb Khan [mailto:jk...@commondes

Re: [WiX-users] Building Votive - Email found in subject

Works for me as long as I correct for the line wrapping. > -Original Message- > From: Jahanzeb Khan [mailto:jk...@commondesk.com] > Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 9:32 PM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Building Votive - Email fou

Re: [WiX-users] Bootstrapper with Custom GUI

T hat's kinda what I gathered, I look forward to giving that a go. In the mean time I guess I'll make up a 'works for now' solution. -- Thanks, Kevin Garman, Project Engineer SCADAware, Inc. www.scadaware.com On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 19:23 -0800, Rob Mensching wrote: > Burn will support

[WiX-users] Wix bug when converting class/progID set from advertised="yes" to advertised="no"?

I am seeing the following: Previously there was: This was working fine. When installed, the class had entries for the prog ID that was first in the list of progIDs that were its children. Each progId had a clsid that was its class parent. This is what we want. For reasons I won't

Re: [WiX-users] Building Votive

Fantastic, Thanks Neil, I'll check this out. -Original Message- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] Sent: Thursday, 7 January 2010 9:38 a.m. To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Building Votive This documents what you need for

Re: [WiX-users] Wix bug when converting class/progID set from advertised="yes" to advertised="no"?

On 1/6/2010 7:42 PM, Bryan Reich wrote: > What is happening is that WIX, while turning these ProgIds into their > constituent registry keys, does NOT use the heuristic of "first progID under > the Class element becomes the CLSID\{myGUID}\ProgID key value" that is used > when advertise is yes. I

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

On 1/5/2010 12:39 PM, Sharat Janapareddy wrote: > 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

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

Hi Bob, I'm fairly new to WiX/Windows Installer, but I think things are starting to click. The keypath is set at the component level for the counters component. This one has been a little confusing since the component itself doesn't specify a directory. There is an include in a DirectoryRef

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

Your keypath is 'DT.MyDir' (as you have authored it). -Original Message- From: Jeff Perrigo [mailto:jeff.perr...@microsoft.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 5:18 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Cc: Bob Arnson Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Performance Counters

Re: [WiX-users] performing actionsonly on remove

Please keep /wix-users/ on the thread so everyone can participate. On 1/5/2010 10:22 AM, Sean Farrow wrote: > Just to clarify, is that aproperty? > are there any examples? > Yes. See the MSI help file that's included in the WiX installer. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ ---

Re: [WiX-users] Wix bug when converting class/progID set from advertised="yes" to advertised="no"?

I was looking into that very question, but I don't think it yields the same affect. For one thing, when you nest a progID thusly: This indicates that MyProgId is the version independent ProgId for MyProgId.12. The wix documentation for the ProgId Element: ... Chidren Sequence (min: 1

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

On 1/6/2010 8:17 PM, Jeff Perrigo wrote: > I'm fairly new to WiX/Windows Installer, but I think things are starting to > click. The keypath is set at the component level for the counters component. > This one has been a little confusing since the component itself doesn't > specify a directory.

[WiX-users] Wix 3.5 Votive with Visual Studio 2008.

Hi I don't understand which Wix 3.0 or WiX3.5, because I use Visual Studio 2008, and it is written "WiX v3.5 Votive integration with Visual Studio 2010 available" in . Does it work Wix v3.5 Votive and is it supported with Visual Studio 2008? Thanks, -

Re: [WiX-users] Wix bug when converting class/progID set from advertised="yes" to advertised="no"?

I can confirm that not only does nesting the progIDs not solve the issue, it actually produces a build failure. Firstly, it appears the wix documentation's claims that nesting of more than a single ProgId under another progID creates COM aliases is incorrect (or perhaps doesn't apply to advertis

Re: [WiX-users] Wix 3.5 Votive with Visual Studio 2008.

Votive is the Visual Studio integration in the WiX toolset. WiX v3.0 supports VS2004 and VS2008. WiX v3.5 supports VS2008 and VS2010Beta2. WiX v3.5 is under development so you may find bugs in the regular weekly drops as we add new functionality. On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 8:11 PM, wrote: > > Hi >

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

This works, Thank you - Nag -Original Message- From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 10:09 AM To: nagara...@symphony.cc; 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: RE: [WiX-users] getting win32 exception while running the newly added c

Re: [WiX-users] Wix bug when converting class/progID set from advertised="yes" to advertised="no"?

Yeah, this is a bug in WiX v3.0 and WiX v3.5. This is the busted logic: if (null != parent) // if this is a version independent ProgId { if (YesNoType.Yes == firstProgIdForClass) {

Re: [WiX-users] Building a multi-language msi....

Fundamentally, yes. You can optimize a bit by building a .wixout at step 3 then running light with a different .wxl to generate each MSI from the .wixout. That'll save some linking time. On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Tony wrote: > I think we are doing this right, but I want to be sure as it

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

The issue still exists for Release build, however works ok with debug build, below is the error log smoke.exe : error SMOK0217 : Error executing ICE action 'ICE900'. The most common cause of this kind of ICE failure is an incorrectly registered scripting engine. See http://wix.sourceforge.net/faq.

Re: [WiX-users] Wix bug when converting class/progID set from advertised="yes" to advertised="no"?

New member to the community. How do I file a bug? -- Bryan -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 9:35 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Wix bug when converting class/progI

Re: [WiX-users] Passing installation parameter to exe

1. Preagent.exe is an instalation file of Novell ZenWorks agent. 2. I need to call it with parameters as the installing user(the system account in this case). 3. It will run unatennded, enforced by a machine GPO. 4. It should have those parameters every time it runs. "Can you do the same thing to

[WiX-users] Update imported registry entries

I use a custom action during an upgrade to export and import the existing registry entries. Previous registry setting are getting imported successfully but now i need to change hive version from 1.0 to 2.0 and add few extra keys that is part of the 2.0 version. I have tried sequencing the CA be