[WiX-users] Files larger than 2 gb

Hi I'm wondering on which approach I should take for files larger than 2 GB in wix. I think these are the possibilities: 1) Splitting cab files, since cab files has a limit of 2 GB. Is it possible? Can WiX somehow do this automagically? 2) Use a custom action to merge in the file, (should be easy

[WiX-users] Pressing ESc Key in the install Finish screen

I have a check box control(checked by default) that launches a web site upon clicking finish button in the final screen of my installer. And its working as expected. My concern is that if I press the ESc key instead of clicking the Finish button, It exits the installer launching the website. Id

[WiX-users] Problem with names in MSIAssemblyName table

Hi, the initial entries for name, version and publicKeyToken are lowercase in MSIAssemblyName table. This breaks the Visual Studio(05,08,10) automatism to add the fitting MergeModule to a Setup Solution. If i change Name, Version and PublicKeyToken to initial uppercase letters, my MSMs are auto

Re: [WiX-users] Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug?

Bob, Thanks for the response. What was confusing me is that the behavior is different depending on whether the package default is compressed or not. I expected to be able to have a default compressed package with specific uncompressed files behave the same as a default uncompressed package with

Re: [WiX-users] Pressing ESc Key in the install Finish screen

Sounds suspiciously like a Windows Installer issue. Have you checked verbose logs when you use the ESC key to exit? What code are you using to launch the webpage? I'd assume it's copied from the "How To: Run the Installed Application After Setup" page at http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/run_

Re: [WiX-users] Files larger than 2 gb

According to Microsoft the CAB file format has an internal limit of approximately 2 GB -> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/836160 There is a manual workaround for splitting files > 2 GB across multiple cabs listed there which you may be able to use in your WiX project if you use the -cc & -reusecab

Re: [WiX-users] Pressing ESc Key in the install Finish screen

I think it sounds like esc is leading to a cancel event. Might disabling the cancel button on the final page fix it? Leif On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Pally Sandher wrote: > Sounds suspiciously like a Windows Installer issue. > > Have you checked verbose logs when you use the ESC key to exi

Re: [WiX-users] Files larger than 2 gb

Thanks for the reply. I guess the only way is to test all options and narrow it down to the best one. Cheers, Leif On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Pally Sandher wrote: > According to Microsoft the CAB file format has an internal limit of > approximately 2 GB -> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/

[WiX-users] Conditional dialog display when uninstalling

Another NOOB alert... After all of my files get installed, I need to prompt for some additional configuration information. I created a custom dialog to do this. It has a couple check boxes on it. I would like to NOT have this dialog run at all if the user is removing the product via uninstal

[WiX-users] Dialogs out of order?

More NOOB stuff follows: The following code doesn't run in the order that I would have expected, based on the "Order=" parameters. I would like to display the ConfigSQLDlg before the ConfigSMTPDlg, but this actually happens in the reverse order... SMTP is first, then SQL. Note that the checkb

Re: [WiX-users] Question about register .net COM object

regasm /regfile doesn't always work because if you have any user defined register functions they will not be in the regfile.   From what I've seen of heat, it's not vunerable to this extraction problem.  InstallShield does have this problem. Personally I wrote a little UI over  heat that watche

Re: [WiX-users] Conditional dialog display when uninstalling

1 - 2 - http://neilsleightholm.blogspot.com/2008/08/customised-uis-for-wix.html and Condition the ExitDialog with "Installed" in the InstallUISequence so they're mutually exclusive. FYI an easier/proper way to do it would be to get the user information out of the user before the InstallExecuteSe

Re: [WiX-users] Dialogs out of order?

See my reply to your other post & try to keep your issues limited to one thread if they are the same topic (which these pretty obviously are) otherwise you're going to confuse yourself & others when you start getting replies to one thread advising you to do x when the other thread is advising you t

Re: [WiX-users] ResumeDlg

It's conditioned with "Installed AND (RESUME OR Preselected)" so anything which sets the Preselected Property (such as patching with MSP's) after your MSI is installed will show it. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370839.aspx Palbinder Sandher Software Deployment & IT Administrator

Re: [WiX-users] Conditional dialog display when uninstalling

The "AND NOT INSTALLED" clause solved that problem - thanks Pally... The reason I can't ask the configuration questions earlier in the install process is that the installer installs a needed file. After this file is installed, I run a DLL function which parses the file and populates some prop

Re: [WiX-users] Dialogs out of order?

Actually, being such a NOOB, I can't see the connection between this post and the previous one... they do seem to be separate problems to me... But that said, I'll review and continue this thread if I can't figure it out. Thanks again! -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-

Re: [WiX-users] Dialogs out of order?

Hi Pally (et. al.), I don't see how this post and the other (previous on from me) are related, so this question still stands... TIA Greg -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Dialogs-out-of-order-tp5177864p5178373.html Sent from the wix

Re: [WiX-users] Conditional dialog display when uninstalling

What's stopping you asking the user questions in the InstallUISequence & running the DLL function in the InstallExecuteSequence as is standard practice? Your custom action doesn't need to run immediately as soon as you gather information from the user, you can still schedule it after InstallFiles o

Re: [WiX-users] Conditional dialog display when uninstalling

"What's stopping you asking the user questions in the InstallUISequence & running the DLL function in the InstallExecuteSequence as is standard practice? Your custom action doesn't need to run immediately as soon as you gather information from the user, you can still schedule it after InstallFiles

[WiX-users] XmlFile

I have the following node (file.dtsConfig): \\convs07\Historical Integration\DataFarm\WIT\Files\ Wix code: … ... When I installed, the following error occured: Failied to find node: /DTSConfiguration/configurati...@path=’\package.variables[user::path].Properties[Value]’]/Co

[WiX-users] Converting Reg File(s) to WXS

I have found a few indications online that heat.exe does not support converting a .reg file to the WiX .wxs format. The suggestions I ran across show to use tallow.exe from WiX v2. Is it true that v3+ does not support this any longer? Also, the download for v2 is broken. Thanks. ---

Re: [WiX-users] Pressing ESc Key in the install Finish screen

Here are the verbose log snippets: MSI (c) (CC:94) [22:29:34:875]: Doing action: ExitDialog Action 22:29:34: ExitDialog. Action start 22:29:34: ExitDialog. Action 22:29:34: ExitDialog. Dialog created MSI (c) (CC:FC) [22:29:44:828]: Doing action: LaunchURL Action 22:29:44: LaunchURL. Action sta

Re: [WiX-users] Converting Reg File(s) to WXS

That is correct Heat in WiX 3 doesn't convert reg files. The only route is to use tallow and then wixcop. It would be nice to get this back, may one day I'll get around to writing a heat extension to do this. Neil -Original Message- From: Andy Clugston [mailto:clug...@gmail.com] Sent: 14

[WiX-users] Detecting MSI dependencies

Hi there, Is there a way, during uninstall of an MSI, to detect presence of some other MSI and if so, stop/abort uninstallation informing users of presence of the dependant MSI ? In other words, given MSI's A and B, is there a way to express dependency between A and B so that A cannot be u

Re: [WiX-users] Detecting MSI dependencies

I think you should be able to do this with the Upgrade element: You can then use the OTHERAPPDETECTED property in conditions to block the uninstall. Neil -Original Message- From: Mandar [mailto:amazi...@rediffmail.com] Sent: 14 June 2010 21:21 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [WiX-users] Detecting MSI dependencies

Upgrade table is not checked during uninstall, so that won't work. You will need some other means of detecting the dependent installation(s). -Original Message- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 1:42 PM To: General discussion for Windows Instal

Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.0 error with .net 4

Right. But the problem appears the sfxca is doing .net 4 activation using deprecated APIs. A separate path will be required. -john On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Bob Arnson wrote: > On 6/9/2010 9:04 PM, John Ketchpaw wrote: > > Using this config file, > > > > WiX v3.5 contains an updated .

Re: [WiX-users] Unable to use msiexec /i /qn

If it works using "/qb" compare the InstallUISequence table versus the InstallExecuteSequence table. There may be a CA that runs in the InstallUISequence that needs to the InstallExecuteSequence. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Unabl

[WiX-users] shortcuts

Hi, I have 6 shortcuts for 6 files and they are in the order 1,2,3,4,5,6. But on installing 3 is coming after 1st instead of 2. Should we specify the order? Please do let me know what's going wrong here? Regards, Subramanyeswari -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-

Re: [WiX-users] Detecting MSI dependencies

Ah I didn't realise that, shame really 'cos it would work really well. On uninstall "FindRelatedProducts" is run doesn't that populate the upgrade table? Mandar, You could use a registry search for the product/upgrade code but it is not easy in my experience. Neil -Original Message- From

Re: [WiX-users] shortcuts

Do you mean the display order in the program file group? If so there isn't any documented why to control that order (I think it is in alphabetical order). Neil -Original Message- From: subramanyeswari [mailto:sravi...@yahoo.com] Sent: 15 June 2010 06:03 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.ne

Re: [WiX-users] Pressing ESc Key in the install Finish screen

Look at this control: It says whatever the localized "WixUIFinish" string is (I assume "Finish") and is the button "clicked" if you press the Enter key and the button "clicked" if you press the "Esc" key. So, pressing Esc will cause all of the actions that subscribe to this key to happen.