Windows Installer is part of the operating system, rather than a wix tool. It
doesn't understand Burn concepts such as burn variables. Therefore you have
to pass the bootstrapper variables to the MSI by using elements
in the MSI Package. This will add them to the command line (or rather API
call)
Hi,
We use WMI in our custom bootstrapper (not currently burn) to check these. In
fact we have a wizard page that does lots of similar checking based on what
options you have chosen.
You could also make a custom action to be run from msi as you suggest.
Dave
Previously dwat...@sdl.com. Any jo
I want to supply some extra information on this defect as requested but it
seems to have gone missing. Anyone know what has happened to it?
Neil
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From: Henning Krause [mailto:m...@henningkrause.eu]
Sent: 08 August 2012 5:49 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Install
Hi Neil,
Bob asked me to add my bundle authoring to it. As it's full of work stuff I had
to mark it private.
I have investigated the issue further and come to the conclusion that it
happens during an upgrade of an existing installation. It tries to do something
to the existing pacakage and loo
That matches what I am seeing, if more information is required I can also
supply the data Bob requested.
Neil
-Original Message-
From: Henning Krause [mailto:m...@henningkrause.eu]
Sent: 09 August 2012 2:03 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-u
I am trying to give everyone permission to start and stop my Windows service.
This works fine when installed under English Windows but not for German.
Problem is with util:PermissionEx User="Everyone". util:PermissionEx
User="Jeder" works for German. Is there some way to make it language
independen
I don't know if the element will take it, but this would be a perfect place for
a localized string to build localized installers.
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John Merryweather Cooper
Build & Install Engineer - ESA
Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.(r)
Shawnee Mission, KS 66227
Office: 913-341-3434 x791011
jocoo...@jackhenry
Hey,
Been trying to create a dialog in C++ Custom Action project so that I can
call it in one of my functions which my WIX msi will call. Is this possible
as I've been trying to do it and am getting nowhere and now I'm thinking
that I could be wasting my time if WIX does not support this.
K
All I can think to say is "don't do it"! If this dialog is to show an error or
to gather more user input, then how would this work in an unattended install?
What if the installer is invoking this custom action from an elevated state? If
you need a custom UI, then I would highly suggest in invest
Hi Jacob,
The dialog I want to display is the key dialog, the user has to enter the
correct key for the software. This is all been created as we used it on our
installshield wizards but now my job is to change all our installers to WIX.
I was thinking of just re using the same dialog as it is all
I have a button that was previously using the WixShellExec custom action to
launch a URL in the browser. Now I'd like to change it to launch an RTF file
I've stuck in the Binary table. I've played with it some, but I can't get it
to work. What's the best way to do this?
-J
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I hope you aren't under the illusion that scheduling the Key CA is at all
going to prevent someone without a key from installing your software. It would
not take much to use Orca or similar tools to remove your CA from the sequence
and allow the install to continue. I believe the recommendatio
On 09-Aug-12 09:02, Henning Krause wrote:
> I have investigated the issue further and come to the conclusion that it
> happens during an upgrade of an existing installation. It tries to do
> something to the existing pacakage and looks up the package in the current
> bundle using its id. When i
Thanks for the update. That does sound plausible as I found that when it
crashed both the old and new version were in ARP, to uninstall you have to
manually remove the oldest version first, if you try to remove the newer one it
crashed again.
Neil
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From: Bob Arnson [m
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