[WiX-users] Creating shortcut using IWshRuntimeLibrary from custom action fails with unable to find dll

2011-12-11 Thread shanmukha sainath addepalli
Hi, I have written a custom action in c# which creates shortcut to an executable using WshShellClass of IWshRuntimeLibrary. I have referrenced Interop.IWshRuntimeLibrary.dll in my custom action project. But execution of custom action fails with unable to find this dll. How we can make that dll av

[WiX-users] create permanent folder in My Documents but remove its registry key

2011-12-11 Thread Giuliano M. Laudone
Hi all, I am completely new to WIX and to the Windows Installer in general and I have a question that probably just shows how much of a noob I am. I would like the installer to create a folder in My Documents and this folder will be used by the users to save and store their own files. So I would li

Re: [WiX-users] Burn, ManagedBootstrapperApplication, SQL and Custom Detection

2011-12-11 Thread Bob Arnson
On 10-Dec-11 13:43, Roy Chastain wrote: > Is there a mechanism to employ a custom detection in the Burn > ManagedBootstrapperApplication that would affect the install/no install > status of an ExePackage? OnPlanPackageBegin lets you change the request state. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/

Re: [WiX-users] Can't use property expansion in Control->Publish

2011-12-11 Thread Bob Arnson
On 08-Dec-11 02:09, Nevskiy, Alexander wrote: > On executing light.exe I got the following error: > error LGHT0094 : Unresolved reference to symbol > 'CustomAction:[CustomSerialValidateProp]' in section > 'Product:{3E8964C7-5FA5-4740-A3D6-191E2043963C}' > > According to > http://msdn.microsoft.c

Re: [WiX-users] Building Burn

2011-12-11 Thread Bob Arnson
On 07-Dec-11 16:19, Brad Wildenborg wrote: > and am using NAnt 0.91. I'm mostly just after getting access to the Burn > utility, so if anyone could help me get it built or link to where I could > download a prebuilt version, that would be wonderful. It's part of every WiX v3.6 build: x86\burn.exe.

Re: [WiX-users] Admin access for ICEs and NIT

2011-12-11 Thread Bob Arnson
On 06-Dec-11 12:35, Gary Gocek wrote: > Is it correct to say that if LIGHT is allowed to run the internal > consistency evaluators (ICEs, light runs them by default), and if NIT is > used to run unit tests, that the account performing these actions requires > > admin rights? (WIX 3.5, Windows Serve

Re: [WiX-users] Wix Uninstall - MaintenanceTypeDlg, VerifyReadyDlg Dialog sequence is Shown Twice

2011-12-11 Thread Bob Arnson
On 07-Dec-11 11:29, Robert Hermann wrote: > Anybody have any ideas Use Orca to look at the ControlEvent table. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Learn Windows Azure Live! Tuesday, Dec 13, 2011 Microsoft is ho

[WiX-users] Detect VC++ runtime version on target system

2011-12-11 Thread Helge Kruse
The WiX help recommends to deploy the Visual C++ runtime using merge modules. I refer to section "How To: Install the Visual C++ Redistributable with your installer". While this is possible, I don't want to include the MSM in every MSI I will generate. Instead I prefer to add this to the bootst

[WiX-users] How to handle restarts in burn required by dependencies?

2011-12-11 Thread Roy Chastain
I have two restart situations that do not work. 1) - On Windows 7, .NET framework requires a reboot. (Interestingly it does not on XP.) I must do that reboot, because I have managed code that is used later in the install sequence to check if one of the dependencies is installed. I have set the E