[WiX-users] Replacing .Net v.3 Assemblies with .Net v.4 Assemblies during Major Upgrade

2011-10-13 Thread Gregory Swanson
Hello: I have an MSI developed with WIX, which packages (among other things) a few .Net DLLs. Recently, these .Net v.3 DLLs have been updated to .Net v.4. I noticed that after running an upgrade, the .Net v.3 Assemblies remain in the .Net 2 GAC (I noticed this after upgrades on Windows Ser

Re: [WiX-users] Replacing .Net v.3 Assemblies with .Net v.4 Assembliesduring Major Upgrade

2011-10-18 Thread Gregory Swanson
Follow up - I implemented a custom action that uses gacUtil.exe to uninstall the old assemblies and scheduled it just after CostFinalize in the InstallExecuteSequence. -Original Message- From: Gregory Swanson [mailto:gswan...@athoc.com] Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 3:50 PM To: wix

Re: [WiX-users] Replacing .Net v.3 Assemblies with .Netv.4Assembliesduring Major Upgrade

2011-10-18 Thread Gregory Swanson
#x27;ed files it is responsible for. -Original Message- From: Gregory Swanson [mailto:gswan...@athoc.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 10:44 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Replacing .Net v.3 Assemblies with .Net v.4Assembliesduring Major U

Re: [WiX-users] Replacing .Net v.3 Assemblies with.Net v.4Assembliesduring Major Upgrade

2011-10-18 Thread Gregory Swanson
place? We use lots of GAC'ed files and have not run into a given installer not uninstalling the GAC'ed files it is responsible for. -Original Message- From: Gregory Swanson [mailto:gswan...@athoc.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 10:44 AM To: General discussion for Window

Re: [WiX-users] Replacing .Net v.3Assemblieswith.Net v.4Assembliesduring Major Upgrade

2011-10-18 Thread Gregory Swanson
riginal Message- From: Gregory Swanson [mailto:gswan...@athoc.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 11:28 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Replacing .Net v.3 Assemblieswith.Net v.4Assembliesduring Major Upgrade They're installed using the Wix F

Re: [WiX-users] Replacing .Net v.3Assemblieswith.Net v.4Assembliesduring Major Upgrade

2011-10-18 Thread Gregory Swanson
(s) (38:38) [17:05:07:710]: Component: component80; Installed: Local; Request: Absent; Action: FileAbsent; Client State: Local Thanks, Greg -Original Message- From: Gregory Swanson Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 6:19 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset

Re: [WiX-users] Replacing .Net v.3Assemblieswith.Net v.4Assembliesduring Major Upgrade

2011-10-19 Thread Gregory Swanson
trol Panel only shows the newest one when you are done installing it? -Original Message----- From: Gregory Swanson [mailto:gswan...@athoc.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 11:28 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Replacing .Net v.3 Assemblies

Re: [WiX-users] Replacing.Netv.3Assemblieswith.Net v.4Assembliesduring Major Upgrade

2011-10-19 Thread Gregory Swanson
if youre using * for the guid. -Original Message- From: Gregory Swanson [mailto:gswan...@athoc.com] Sent: 19 October 2011 02:37 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Replacing .Netv.3Assemblieswith.Net v.4Assembliesduring Major Upgrade I want to cl

Re: [WiX-users] Replacing .Netv.3Assemblieswith.Net v.4Assembliesduring MajorUpgrade

2011-10-19 Thread Gregory Swanson
he problem, are the components in the same place in the directory hierarchy in all installers ? I imagine that is what gives the "location" of the components, even though the files go in the GAC. That could matter if youre using * for the guid. -Original Message- From: Gregory S

Re: [WiX-users] Validating Web site in IIS7 - WiX 3.5

2011-10-21 Thread Gregory Swanson
Using the IIS 7 API you would do something like this (http://www.iis.net/ConfigReference/system.applicationHost/sites): Function CheckWebSiteExists(name) Set adminManager = CreateObject("Microsoft.ApplicationHost.WritableAdminManager") adminManager.CommitPath = "MACHINE/WEBROOT/APP

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall on Windows 2008 Server

2009-02-25 Thread Gregory Swanson
Thanks for the reply Joe. Here is an excerpt from InstallExecuteSequence. I use a CA to drop the databases (ATDropDB), and at the point the CA is executed the service is no longer running. In fact I watch the services manager, refreshing as the uninstall begins, and the service is stopped ea

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall on Windows 2008 Server

2009-02-25 Thread Gregory Swanson
I discovered the cause. First, thanks - if you didn't reassure me that the service is not stopped by Windows Installer on 2008 I wouldn't have found the cause as soon. We use WMI in the ATShutDownProcessor CA to shut down all processes that have our standard name. In an unfortunate decisi

Re: [WiX-users] No reboot prompt but log shows reboot scheduled

2009-03-03 Thread Gregory Swanson
Ah - I see. The difference between my test scenario and the broken update is that the log for the broken update shows an Info 1903 line scheduling a reboot to delete the DLL file, not the .RBF file. Thanks - Greg > Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 14:36:16 -0800 > From: b...@joyofsetup.com > To: wi

[WiX-users] How do I uninstall "backup" files

2008-07-24 Thread Gregory Swanson
Our installer includes a folder with backup copies of three .NET dlls. During installation the three dlls are added to the GAC by the MSI, but the backups are put in a "DotNet" folder under the install directory. However, when testing the uninstall we discovered that the folder and the backup

[WiX-users] Missing reference ConfigureSql ?

2008-07-28 Thread Gregory Swanson
Our upgrade test for WIX version 2.0.5805.0 failed with a missing reference: error LGHT0112 : Unresolved reference to symbol 'CustomAction:ConfigureSql' in section 'Product:87987744-2DCA-4262-B0A2-57B2EEA3FBE9'. We copied our build files from version 2.0.2912.0 and simply tried to compile with

Re: [WiX-users] Missing reference ConfigureSql ?

2008-07-28 Thread Gregory Swanson
ssing reference > ConfigureSql ?> > What is the command line you are building with? Sounds like > you need> sca.wixlib passed as an arg to light.exe (or maybe it's > wixca.wixlib).> > Dana> > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Gregory Swanson > <[EMAIL

Re: [WiX-users] Missing reference ConfigureSql ?

2008-07-28 Thread Gregory Swanson
.exe (or maybe it's > wixca.wixlib).> > Dana> > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Gregory Swanson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:> > > Our upgrade test for WIX version 2.0.5805.0 > failed with a missing> > reference:> > error LGHT0112 : Unresolv

Re: [WiX-users] Missing reference ConfigureSql ?

2008-07-29 Thread Gregory Swanson
ssing reference > ConfigureSql ?> > IRCC, the ConfigureSql action was renamed somewhere in > there. Did you rebuild everything?> > -Original Message-> From: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gregory Swanson> > Sent: Monday, July 28, 20