[WiX-users] Keyboard shortcut with

Dear all, I am trying to add shortcut key associated with PushButton. For example: However, I found I could use not only but also or < A> directly to push the button. Is it possible to limit the shortcut key to only ? Thanks -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer

Re: [WiX-users] Build order problems Votive vs MSBuild

I have been under the impression that MS hired some guy with 3 PhDs for an R&D group. His project was cancelled and he was looking for work elsewhere within MS. So, he was assigned to write the logger for windows installer and MSBuild. He is so PO'd at being assigned such a trivial task, he want

Re: [WiX-users] Using '*' in Component Guids and Patches

That's not a differential patch. Its a minor upgrade using the msi... -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Wix-Patches-and-using-instead-of-Component-Guids-tp7594909p7594962.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.co

[WiX-users] Uninstall Guidelines - What should be happening

Hello All, I have a question concerning the uninstall of a package. What should happen to the user application runtime generated files of several users? Here is what I got from the MS site for Best practices: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb204770%28v=vs.85%2 9.a

[WiX-users] Uninstall then Reinstall Same Package

I have a requirement to allow 'overwrite' of same version. I've tried various combinations of , here is my current: and in InstallExecuteSequence I have: I think the 'right' thing to do is to require uninstall and then reinstall 'manually', but my requirement is to allow u

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall then Reinstall Same Package

Instead of using the old Upgrade authoring, use the MajorUpgrade authoring and take a look at the AllowSameVersionUpgrades attribute. Note that this is a really bad idea(tm) in the field. -- John Merryweather Cooper Build & Install Engineer - ESA Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® Shawnee Mission,

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall then Reinstall Same Package

I do this in some MSIs that we deploy strictly silently via Microsoft system management stuff. My upgrade block looks like this: And also this, which I think matters: Then I have a wxi file that I include that contains: You don't really need the vars and the .wxi fi

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall then Reinstall Same Package

Thanks, I'll take a look at that. I completely agree, this should not be done but people more important than myself decide such things. On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 12:09 PM, John Cooper wrote: > Instead of using the old Upgrade authoring, use the MajorUpgrade authoring > and take a look at the Allo

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall Guidelines - What should be happening

My interpretation of using a file for user-specific data is that it's being contrasted with using the registry. It is next to impossible to remove HKCU-type registry data for a user that isn't currently logged on. Removing a file in some other user's data folder is much easier. We're talking about

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall Guidelines - What should be happening

Phil, Thanks for the info, it clarified my assumptions... Marc -Original Message- From: Phil Wilson [mailto:phildgwil...@gmail.com] Sent: May-30-2014 12:37 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall Guidelines - What should be happening My inte

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall then Reinstall Same Package

Why is doing this a bad idea? I know that's the common belief, but I don't know the reason. On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 11:09 AM, John Cooper wrote: > Instead of using the old Upgrade authoring, use the MajorUpgrade authoring > and take a look at the AllowSameVersionUpgrades attribute. Note that

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall then Reinstall Same Package

1) Because you lose control over the particular ProductCode that represents your GA/RTM installer. Now ANY installer built by ANYONE can be installed. This exponentially increases the number of combinations you'll need to support in the field. Not good unto itself. Pretty easy scenario too--

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall then Reinstall Same Package

So it all comes down to multiple MSIs with the same version number causing problems. On Friday, May 30, 2014, John Cooper wrote: > 1) Because you lose control over the particular ProductCode that > represents your GA/RTM installer. Now ANY installer built by ANYONE can be > installed. This exp

Re: [WiX-users] Build order problems Votive vs MSBuild

Conveniently timed blog post announcing a tool that sounds like it might show the dependencies as MSBuild sees them: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2014/05/29/solution-dependency-viewer-extension.aspx On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 8:20 AM, John Cooper wrote: > Yes, but it's very messy and you

Re: [WiX-users] how do you create desktop shortcut for certain groups of users?

How do you do it? sample? Thanks -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/how-to-create-desktop-shortcut-for-certain-groups-of-users-tp7594950p7594975.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ---