[WiX-users] Elevating custom bootstrapper application

Hello, I've written a custom WPF bootstrapper application and I need to modify some config files inside the install dir after installation. For easier editing, I want to use the custom BA instead of the WixUtils. Now this works without a problem with UAC disabled, though a disabled UAC thro

[WiX-users] COM Plus uninstallation failure

Dear Wix Experts: I upgrade ASP.NET from v2.0 to 4.0; and also upgrade Wix from 3.0 to 3.5 (i.e. install Wix 3.5 Visual Studio tool set). Then I create a custom installer (*.msi file). The installer installs the application without any problem. But when removing or repairing the application, i

Re: [WiX-users] Elevating custom bootstrapper application

BA's should not modify machine state. Why not property drive your MSI which is installing the config file, and use a custom action (XmlFile, XmlConfig) to modify it? -Original Message- From: Yari Serve [mailto:se...@my-horizon.de] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2015 7:34 AM To: 'General disc

[WiX-users] Any way in WIX to prevent MSI from querying freespace of all mapped drives?

I have a wix-based installer that always gets installed on C: (and therefore it initializes ROOTDRIVE as follows): Even so, MSI apparently still checks all the mapped drives to find which one has the most free space (as it would need to do to automatically set ROOTDRIVE to the drive with the

[WiX-users] WIX Version and Backward compatability

Hello, We are using WIX3.0 for some old applications, and started using mewer version of WIX (3.7). 1. Since all newer WIX's will be installed to 3.x folder, is there a easy way to find WIX Version installed? 2.If we upgrade WIX to 3.9, do we have backward compatability to WIX3.7 and WIX 3.8?

[WiX-users] WiX and App.Config

I have a windows installer project. The app.config in the application consists of some WCF endpoints and some customizable user settings. When I do an upgrade of the application I would like to get those values from the app.config that exists on the system, and replace them in the app.config abou

[WiX-users] How to check an install is already present on a machine before allowing an install

Hi, I am trying to detect if another product is already installed before my product installs and I want to only allow installation if the other product is present. I believed this was quite simple but I have a problem. I used an Upgrade table to detect for the other installed (based on its Upgr

Re: [WiX-users] How to check an install is already present on a machine before allowing an install

On 05-Jan-15 20:58, Kevin Palmer wrote: > This works great during installation and blocks the install if the installer > is not present however when trying to uninstall the application the condition > always blocks. http://www.joyofsetup.com/2008/05/16/make-sure-features-are-always-enabled-so-the

[WiX-users] How to get the WixBundleLog value of "LogPathVariable" attribute ?

Hi, The default value of "LogPathVariable" attribute of MSIPackageElement is "WixBundleLog_[PackageId]". From this I need to get the string value assigned to "WixBundleLog". I've also looked into the BootstrapperApplicationData.xml but no use, there also the same variable name only used. So could