Re: [WiX-users] customising dialogs

2010-03-18 Thread subramanyeswari
thanks. It worked. Regards, Subramanyeswari -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/customising-dialogs-tp4749910p4755860.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Download Inte

[WiX-users] installing on windows server 2008

2010-03-18 Thread Shabbir Ahsan
Hi, I am attempting to build an installer which works on different operating systems. A problem I am having is to ensure on a windows 7 and win2008 server machine running IIS7, there is IIS6 compatiblity. I used the following property and condition: >From my understa

[WiX-users] attaching sql db on win 2008 server

2010-03-18 Thread Shabbir Ahsan
Hi, I have a script which attaches a database as part of the install. The script works on an XP machine and windows 2003 server, but when I try it on a windows 2008 box, I get an SQL error saying "failed to eceute SQL string, error : Could not open new database 'mydb'". I think this lo

[WiX-users] MaintenanceWelcomeDlg and InstallUISequence

2010-03-18 Thread Oleksandr Y. Nechyporenko
I've found the following statement in standard WiX MaintenanceWelcomeDlg. Installed AND NOT RESUME AND NOT Preselected It has no attribute Overridable='yes'. I have the following problem with that. I try to remove this dialog in my WiX code in case of Patch mode (a). Al

Re: [WiX-users] MaintenanceWelcomeDlg and InstallUISequence

2010-03-18 Thread Oleksandr Y. Nechyporenko
Sorry, I have specified incorrect information. If I set Overridable='yes' in (a) statement or remove (a) statement, I receive the following dialog sequence when I run msp: (MaintenanceWelcomeDlg -> MaintenanceTypeDlg -> VerifyReadyDlg) -> PatchWelcomeDlg Also I've tried describe it as follows:

[WiX-users] Creating ProgramMenuFolders and COM Server registration

2010-03-18 Thread Sanjay Poria
I am creating a Wix 3.0 installer for a product and have come against a number of issues (migrating from InstallShield). I had a general look around but can’t find the answers so i’m hoping someone can help me: 1) The doc tells me that I should have one component per file and I want to h

Re: [WiX-users] Strange MSI output directory using WiX 3.5.1512.0 on Win2003 R2 SP2 Cruise Control server

2010-03-18 Thread Neil Sleightholm
Did you upgrade from 3.0 to 3.5? I had a similar problem with the targets file and it was due to it not being replaced on upgrade. I fixed it by uninstalling and reinstalling. Neil Neil Sleightholm n...@x2systems.com On 17 Mar 2010, at 13:02, "Brad Cunningham" wrote: > I just installed W

Re: [WiX-users] Detect older version not working?

2010-03-18 Thread Alec Taylor
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Re: [WiX-users] minor issues with WiX installer gui

2010-03-18 Thread Jacek Pospychała
thanks a lot Bob. MSI logs already surprised me in a good way so I'll need to try it out. By any chance, can you tell how to find in log, when a button (e.g. "Repair") have been pressed or when did the progress dialog appeared? thanks Jacek 2010/3/18 Bob Arnson > On 3/17/2010 6:08 AM, Jacek P

[WiX-users] TFS Build and WiX

2010-03-18 Thread Kerber, Cameron
Ok, So I have a preprocessor variable that I want to pass from my TFS Build process to my wix project. I don't know how to do this. I've been scouring the web and trying multiple things but can't get it to work. I have a preprocessor variable called BuildPath used throughout my main wxs file

[WiX-users] install SQL server with mixed mode authentication

2010-03-18 Thread Shabbir Ahsan
HI, I have included SQL server 2005 express via the bootstrapper on my install. The problem I am getting is when the installation is complete, I find the website installed cannot connect to the DB and neither cna the windows service. The reason being that the server has been installed wit

Re: [WiX-users] TFS Build and WiX

2010-03-18 Thread C P
In proj file: In wixproj file: ProductVersion=$(ProductVersion); Then in wxs file: -Original Message- From: Kerber, Cameron [mailto:cameron.ker...@philips.com] Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 5:44 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] TFS Build and Wi

[WiX-users] Deleting files from all users

2010-03-18 Thread Hoyt, David
We have a program that produces some files (it's a cache of some info. it finds when first run) that have to be deleted when the program is either uninstalled or a new version installed. Thus, when the new version is run, it recreates the cache with the updated info. from the new version. The pr

[WiX-users] Service Control / Service Install Wix 3.0/3.5 ICE03 Error

2010-03-18 Thread Michael Schlitt
Does anyone know how to get past the following error in Wix 3.0/3.5 for installing a service. The below code works fine in Wix 2.0. Has there been a major change that I am unaware of? ICE03: Invalid identifier; Table: ServiceControl, Column: ServiceControl, Key(s): Build Service (LGHT0204) -

[WiX-users] error PYRO0260 while building a patch

2010-03-18 Thread Anagha Kothurwar
Hello All, We have RTM version of our product and we are on our way to release update1 (minor upgrade). During this period, a new component was added to the installer which also adds a new entry in DuplicateFile table. When I try to build a patch I see following error error PYRO0260 : Product '

[WiX-users] Storing a Property

2010-03-18 Thread David J. D'Amico
I'm running a database script as part of my installation. There is a text box that the user can type the name of a SQL Server. During the install process a script is run on the server specified by the user. On uninstall I want to run another script that will the undo all the changes to the database

Re: [WiX-users] Service Control / Service Install Wix 3.0/3.5 ICE03 Error

2010-03-18 Thread Sanjay Rao
make a separate one more component having "servicecontrol' element only. On 18-03-2010 10:30, Michael Schlitt wrote: > Does anyone know how to get past the following error in Wix 3.0/3.5 for > installing a service. The below code works fine in Wix 2.0. Has there been > a major change that I a

Re: [WiX-users] Storing a Property

2010-03-18 Thread Wendell Joost
Write the property to the registry hklm\software\[company]\[productname]\[version]\DatabaseName=Value Read the property during uninstall. If property isn't found, don't execute the uninstll script. Wendell On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 2:46 PM, David J. D'Amico wrote: > I'm running a database script

Re: [WiX-users] Creating ProgramMenuFolders and COM Server registration

2010-03-18 Thread Sanjay Poria
You can ignore issue (2), I figured that one out. Any help on the COM registration issue would be much appreciated. sanjay > -Original Message- > From: Sanjay Poria [mailto:sanjay.po...@xanalys.com] > Sent: 18 March 2010 13:21 > Subject: [WiX-users] Creating ProgramMenuFolders and COM Se

[WiX-users] XmlConfig results in ICE27 failure

2010-03-18 Thread Jacques Eloff
Hi I'm using Wix v3.5.1512.0. I've been playing with XmlConfig to modify the root web.config file, but ran into a strange issue today. I originally had the following in a component: When I tried to build the project, I received the following error: Error 2

[WiX-users] ServiceControl and Component

2010-03-18 Thread Zachary Young
Hi all, I have a WAR file that I need to install in a pre-installed Tomcat directory. Does the following mean: "Stop Tomcat, install or uninstall the WAR file, Start Tomcat."? I have checked the event logs and see Tomcat is stopped and started, and I have looked at verbose logs

Re: [WiX-users] MaintenanceWelcomeDlg and InstallUISequence

2010-03-18 Thread Bob Arnson
On 3/18/2010 8:06 AM, Oleksandr Y. Nechyporenko wrote: > I've assumed that since I haven't published NewDialog event for Next button > in PatchWelcomeDlg, and have published EndDialog event with value "Return", > it will not show MaintenanceWelcomeDlg when I click Next. That's not how it works: It

Re: [WiX-users] Service Control / Service Install Wix 3.0/3.5 ICE03 Error

2010-03-18 Thread Bob Arnson
On 3/18/2010 2:30 PM, Michael Schlitt wrote: > ICE03: Invalid identifier; Table: ServiceControl, Column: ServiceControl, > Key(s): Build Service (LGHT0204) - C:\Users\mschlitt\Documents\SharpDevelop > Projects\SetupProjectService\SetupProjectService\Files.wxs:6 > Like it says, you have an in

Re: [WiX-users] Strange MSI output directory using WiX 3.5.1512.0 on Win2003 R2 SP2 Cruise Control server

2010-03-18 Thread Brad Cunningham
Thanks for the feedback Neil. I installed WiX on another build server (a clean install, no previous version of WiX) and it appears to have fixed the problem. I need to go back and un-install and re-install WiX on the original server and see if that fixes the original issue. Thanks again, --Brad

Re: [WiX-users] minor issues with WiX installer gui

2010-03-18 Thread Bob Arnson
On 3/18/2010 10:26 AM, Jacek Pospychała wrote: > By any chance, can you tell how to find in log, when a button (e.g. > "Repair") have been pressed or when did the progress dialog appeared? > I'd use the timestamps. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ ---

Re: [WiX-users] XmlConfig results in ICE27 failure

2010-03-18 Thread Bob Arnson
On 3/18/2010 8:28 PM, Jacques Eloff wrote: > When I tried to build the project, I received the following error: > Error 2 ICE27: Action: 'DuplicateFiles' in InstallExecuteSequence table must > come after the 'InstallFiles' action. > > If I add a bogus element in the component everything compiles a

Re: [WiX-users] Deleting files from all users

2010-03-18 Thread Bob Arnson
On 3/18/2010 12:18 PM, Hoyt, David wrote: > We have a program that produces some files (it's a cache of some info. it > finds when first run) that have to be deleted when the program is either > uninstalled or a new version installed. Thus, when the new version is run, it > recreates the cache w

Re: [WiX-users] ServiceControl and Component

2010-03-18 Thread Bob Arnson
On 3/18/2010 9:10 PM, Zachary Young wrote: > I have checked the event logs and see Tomcat is stopped and started, and I > have looked at verbose logs from the installer, but I am not sure of the > exact sequencing of the three events: stop, install/uninstall file, start. I > have also looked at the

Re: [WiX-users] XmlConfig results in ICE27 failure

2010-03-18 Thread Jacques Eloff
Filed as 2972975. Thanks, Jacques On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Bob Arnson wrote: > On 3/18/2010 8:28 PM, Jacques Eloff wrote: > > When I tried to build the project, I received the following error: > > Error 2 ICE27: Action: 'DuplicateFiles' in InstallExecuteSequence table > must > > come af