Re: [WiX-users] Setting Install Location

2008-12-23 Thread Scott Sam
Are you sure that the registry key that you are looking for exists on the target machine? -Original Message- From: Colin Fox [mailto:greenene...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 1:39 PM To: wix-users Subject: [WiX-users] Setting Install Location I'm still having no luck settin

[WiX-users] wix and IIS7

2008-12-23 Thread Scott Sam
I have to get our installers to work with IIS7 without classic mode. I know that it is not currently supported with wix. What are my options right now? I've looked through the wix code and I don't think that I can fix it by myself. Does anybody else have to do this? What are you doing? -

Re: [WiX-users] wix and IIS7

2008-12-23 Thread Scott Sam
that the installation will need permissions to open and edit that file. Amy -Original Message- From: Scott Sam [mailto:s...@clearviewecm.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 11:57 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] wix and IIS7 I have to ge

Re: [WiX-users] Display of ComboBox values

2009-01-06 Thread Scott Sam
Do you have the attribute ComboList set to yes? I think that is what fixed it for me. -Original Message- From: Kjartan Þór Kjartansson [mailto:kjar...@eskill.is] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 9:29 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Displa

[WiX-users] Conditional install question

2009-01-06 Thread Scott Sam
I have Office plugins that can be installed. One for office 2007 and one for Office 2003. Each plugin has its own feature. I currently have to registry searches set up to check if either of the two office versions are installed or not. Is it possible to make the feature's visible in the feature tr

Re: [WiX-users] Conditional install question

2009-01-06 Thread Scott Sam
conditions to 0 (exlusivelly). Use Condition element under Feature element with Level="0" and appropriate condition. W dniu 2009-01-06 18:06, Scott Sam pisze: > I have Office plugins that can be installed. One for office 2007 and one > for Office 2003. Each plugin has its own feat

Re: [WiX-users] Admin Install, deploying CustomizeDlg, 'Location' ambiguity

2009-01-07 Thread Scott Sam
I believe that the directory shown in CustomizeDlg for a feature is tied to the ConfigurableDirectory attribute of the feature. I'm guessing that it defaults to TARGETDIR if nothing is specified. If you set the ConfigurableDirectory to some directory/property other than TARGETDIR it should solve

Re: [WiX-users] Launch condition based on feture selection

2009-01-08 Thread Scott Sam
Don't check in a launch condition. Check for the pre req's using properties then use the properties in a condition under each feature. Set the level to 0 if pre-req is not present. That way the feature won't be an option if pre-reqs aren't there. -Original Message- From: Chandra Vuppala

Re: [WiX-users] How to detect program running and display a messagebox

2009-01-09 Thread Scott Sam
Try moving to the . The installUISequence runs before the InstallExecuteSequence. -Original Message- From: Little Forest [mailto:little.for...@ymail.com] Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 2:48 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to det

[WiX-users] refresh combobox without leaving dialog

2009-01-12 Thread Scott Sam
Is this possible? If so how do I do it? This is what I'm trying to accomplish. I have two dialogs, dialog1 and dialog2. Dialog1 contains an edit box. When the use hits the next button a custom action is run that gets a list of items from the server named in the edit box. Dialog2 has two com

Re: [WiX-users] How to add an Operating System specific shortcut

2009-01-20 Thread Scott Sam
Windows installer has a bunch of properties that you have access to that will handle this for you. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372057.aspx [SystemFolder]cmd.exe Should work except that you might need a custom action to set it. -Original Message- From: Alicia Holloway [mailto

[WiX-users] running deffered managed custom actions with elevated privileges

2009-02-26 Thread Scott Sam
I've used dtf to create some custom actions that execute deffered. The problem that I'm having is that these CA's need to be run with elevated privileges. How can I do this? I would prefer not to have a uac prompt for each CA, but I'm ok with it if that's the only way. -

Re: [WiX-users] DTF Debugging

2009-02-27 Thread Scott Sam
Usually, for me, clicking ok on that brings up the code as long as it was compiled in debug. -Original Message- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 1:12 PM To: chr...@deploymentengineering.com; General discussion for Windows Installer XML too

Re: [WiX-users] running deffered managed custom actions with elevated privileges

2009-02-27 Thread Scott Sam
CustomActions can run non-Impersonated and then they are elevated (assuming the MSI UAC prompt was accepted). Scott Sam wrote: > I've used dtf to create some custom actions that execute deffered. The > problem that I'm having is that these CA's need to be run with elevated >

Re: [WiX-users] Adding system wide module to IIS7 on 64-bit OS

2009-03-11 Thread Scott Sam
I didn't see any replies to this. I'm having the same problem. I figured out the cause, but I'm not sure on what to do for a solution. The problem is that windows does a redirect to the syswow64 folder, and the applicationHost.config file doesn't exist there. So it can't be accessed by anything r

Re: [WiX-users] Adding system wide module to IIS7 on 64-bit OS

2009-03-12 Thread Scott Sam
- From: Scott Sam [mailto:s...@clearviewecm.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 4:11 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Adding system wide module to IIS7 on 64-bit OS I didn't see any replies to this. I'm having the same problem.

Re: [WiX-users] Patch creation problems

2008-09-22 Thread Scott Sam
When I double click on my msp file I get the welcome dialog, followed by the maintenance dialog, giving me the choice to change, repair or remove. Choosing repair or change, will cause the patch to show up in add/remove programs, but the text file does not show the changes that I made. Problem

[WiX-users] problems configuring MSDTC via installer

2008-10-22 Thread Scott Sam
this? Could not write value NetworkDtcAccessAdmin to key \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSDTC\Security. Verify that you have sufficient access to that key, or contact your support personnel. Could not wr Scott Sam Software Developer  Clearview Enterprise Content Manag

[WiX-users] cursor in invalid state

2008-12-08 Thread Scott Sam
I'm trying to get patching working for one of our products. The problem is that there are currently 2 more files in the latest version than were in the original version. This is causing the patch to fail. I read that the new files sequence have to be at the end of the file table. So I'm trying t

Re: [WiX-users] cursor in invalid state

2008-12-08 Thread Scott Sam
s Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] cursor in invalid state Why not just mark the new Files with PatchGroup and let WiX take care of sequencing them for you? -Original Message----- From: Scott Sam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 08:37 To: wix-users@lists.

Re: [WiX-users] cursor in invalid state

2008-12-08 Thread Scott Sam
in the cabinet file." error -Original Message- From: Scott Sam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 1:24 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] cursor in invalid state I tried that. I set the PatchGroup to 1 for th

Re: [WiX-users] cursor in invalid state

2008-12-08 Thread Scott Sam
right cabinets. -Original Message- From: Scott Sam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 10:36 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] cursor in invalid state Well after taking a closer look, using the patchgroup attribute does

Re: [WiX-users] cursor in invalid state

2008-12-08 Thread Scott Sam
toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] cursor in invalid state I was suggesting looking in the base MSI files. -Original Message- From: Scott Sam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 11:16 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users

Re: [WiX-users] cursor in invalid state

2008-12-09 Thread Scott Sam
Hmm, you've hit the (very shallow) depth of my patching experience. All I know is this works for many other people (using the latest tools). -Original Message----- From: Scott Sam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 12:49 To: General discussion for Windows Ins

[WiX-users] Error 2721: Custom action not found in Binary table stream

2008-12-12 Thread Scott Sam
I'm trying to create and apply a patch. I can create the patch without any errors or warnings. When I go to apply it I get the error "Error 2721: Custom action RemoveCasPol not found in Binary table stream". How can I fix this? Here is where I declare my custom action: Here is where

Re: [WiX-users] Error 2721: Custom action not found in Binary tablestream

2008-12-12 Thread Scott Sam
:123]: Note: 1: 2262 2: CustomAction 3: -2147287038 MSI (s) (14:C0) [10:11:59:123]: Note: 1: 2721 2: RemoveCasPol DEBUG: Error 2721: Custom action RemoveCasPol not found in Binary table stream -Original Message- From: Scott Sam [mailto:s...@clearviewecm.com] Sent: Friday, December 12

Re: [WiX-users] Creating config file from scratch

2008-12-12 Thread Scott Sam
I included and empty xml file in the installation then I used xmlfile to write everything I needed to into the file. -Original Message- From: Alex Ivanoff [mailto:alex.ivan...@shavlik.com] Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 3:40 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Su

Re: [WiX-users] Problem with Custom Action

2008-12-16 Thread Scott Sam
Are you custom actions executing deferred? No changes are made to the system until the deferred mode. So the files won't be installed on the system until the deferred sequence. -Original Message- From: Steve Oliver [mailto:ste...@one-slip.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 2:46 PM To:

Re: [WiX-users] Problem with Custom Action

2008-12-16 Thread Scott Sam
dle, String entryPoint, IntPtr remotingDelegatePtr) -Original Message- From: Scott Sam [mailto:s...@clearviewecm.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 1:00 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Problem with Custom Action Are you custom acti

Re: [WiX-users] Problem with Custom Action

2008-12-16 Thread Scott Sam
I just set the extra dll's as references and they got pulled in when I compiled my dtf project. -Original Message- From: Steve Oliver [mailto:ste...@one-slip.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 3:47 PM To: chr...@deploymentengineering.com; 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML t

Re: [WiX-users] Referencing a component that is not part of the package.

2008-12-16 Thread Scott Sam
I think a launch condition in product A that will only show if product A is installed and Product B is Installed should work. -Original Message- From: Mark Tempel [mailto:mark.tem...@shavlik.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 3:49 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-us

Re: [WiX-users] Problem with Custom Action

2008-12-16 Thread Scott Sam
discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Problem with Custom Action I am trying to update an xml file with information that is input by the user. My custom action displays a dialog to collect the information. -Original Message----- From: Scot

Re: [WiX-users] Possible bug in Pyro

2008-12-16 Thread Scott Sam
Error 2721: Custom action not found inBinary tablestream Heath, is this maybe related to the Binary bug you're tracking in pyro? -Original Message----- From: Scott Sam [mailto:s...@clearviewecm.com] Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 07:27 To: General discussion for Windows Installer X

Re: [WiX-users] Error 2721: Custom action not found in Binary tablestream

2008-12-17 Thread Scott Sam
anually adding every component into the patch family? http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi";> -----Original Message- From: Scott Sam [mailto:s...@clearviewecm.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 9:47 AM To: General discus

Re: [WiX-users] Possible bug in Pyro

2008-12-17 Thread Scott Sam
list to be able to send to it. When I talked to him he thought it was good odds this is the same bug opened against pyro referring to the BinaryRef. -Original Message- From: Scott Sam [mailto:s...@clearviewecm.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 13:25 To: General discussion for Windows

Re: [WiX-users] Error 2721: Custom action not found in Binary table stream

2008-12-17 Thread Scott Sam
al Message- From: Bob Arnson [mailto:b...@joyofsetup.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 11:35 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Error 2721: Custom action not found in Binary table stream Scott Sam wrote: > I'm trying to create and

Re: [WiX-users] DTF - Using Shell32.dll

2008-12-18 Thread Scott Sam
Why don't you use the BrowseDlg that comes with wix? -Original Message- From: Dale Quigg [mailto:da...@messagegate.com] Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 4:03 PM To: 'wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net' Subject: [WiX-users] DTF - Using Shell32.dll Hi, I'm using DTF to create a custom actio

Re: [WiX-users] CA Control

2008-12-22 Thread Scott Sam
I think that you need to change the return value to asyncWait or check if you want the installer to wait for it. -Original Message- From: Nagaraju Manduri (Sogeti) [mailto:v-na...@microsoft.com] Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 4:35 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-user

Re: [WiX-users] Shortcut/@Icon referencing fails

2008-12-23 Thread Scott Sam
I think that you need a in there somewhere. Also the icon file has to have the same extension as the file the shortcut is for. So it has to be an exe file in this case. -Original Message- From: Bob Lim [mailto:cbasic...@yahoo.com.sg] Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 5:35 AM To: wix-user

[WiX-users] Is there a way to set a property based on a condition?

2006-06-09 Thread Scott Sam
Something along the lines of If (&Feature1 = 3) FEATURE1INSTALLED = "Feature1" The problem is that I need to write out which features are being installed to an xml file so that a program I call later in the install will know what Databases need to be created. -Original Message- From: [E

[WiX-users] Another Sequencing issue

2006-06-16 Thread Scott Sam
I have a custom action that runs and executable, called dbinstallation.exe, which is installed in the installation.  The executable updates/creates the databases our software uses.  Dbinstallation reads an xml file the is created with the SchedXmlFile action.  In the installation we also in

Re: [WiX-users] Another Sequencing issue

2006-06-16 Thread Scott Sam
2.0   From: Derek Cicerone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 11:49 AM To: Scott Sam; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Another Sequencing issue   Are you using WiX 2.0 or 3.0?  I’m pretty sure this should work in 3.0 but probably

Re: [WiX-users] Another Sequencing issue

2006-06-16 Thread Scott Sam
Next early next month.   From: Derek Cicerone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 12:38 PM To: Scott Sam; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Another Sequencing issue   In 2.0 you’ll need to manually change the wixlibs to change the

Re: [WiX-users] Another Sequencing issue

2006-06-16 Thread Scott Sam
I didn’t see it anywhere in the wixca.wxs file.  What sources files do I need to edit?   From: Derek Cicerone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 1:38 PM To: Scott Sam; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Another Sequencing issue

Re: [WiX-users] Another Sequencing issue

2006-06-22 Thread Scott Sam
s)   C:\wix\wixsource\directories.include(68,6): Please install the PlatformSDK version 3790.1830 or higher.   Total time: 0.1 seconds.       From: Derek Cicerone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 2:34 PM To: Scott Sam; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject:

[WiX-users] Custom Action problem

2006-07-12 Thread Scott Sam
I'm trying to create a type 50 custom action, when I check the type with orca it show as a type 1202. I can't find anything on a type 1202 custom action. When I change it to type 50 using orca the install fails, which leads me to believe I'm doing something wrong. Here is how I set my property,

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action problem

2006-07-13 Thread Scott Sam
execommand attribute. Did I set it up incorrectly? Here is how I scheduled it. -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 8:01 PM To: Scott Sam; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-use

[WiX-users] Putting files in wwwroot folder

2006-07-19 Thread Scott Sam
 I’m trying to get some files into the c:\inetpub\wwwroot folder.  We have a few virtual directories, but we still need to get certain files into that directory.  I have the directories set up in wix like this:                      Now, I’m testing th

Re: [WiX-users] Putting files in wwwroot folder

2006-07-20 Thread Scott Sam
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Sam Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 1:05 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Putting files in wwwroot folder  I'm trying to get some files into the c:\inetpub\wwwroot folder.  We have

Re: [WiX-users] Putting files in wwwroot folder

2006-07-20 Thread Scott Sam
folder There may be a better way to do this, but to force installation to C: I would: _ Bob Rafuse -Original Message- From: Scott Sam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 20

Re: [WiX-users] Putting files in wwwroot folder

2006-07-20 Thread Scott Sam
, but to force installation to C: I would: _ Bob Rafuse -Original Message- From: Scott Sam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 12:56 PM To: Rafuse Robert; wix-users

Re: [WiX-users] conditions

2006-07-27 Thread Scott Sam
I have a component that looks like:                   From my understanding, it should right out Feat1 if the Feature1 feature is being installed, and it is not an upgrade.  That is not what is happening.  What am I doing wrong?  What is the

Re: [WiX-users] conditions

2006-07-28 Thread Scott Sam
I need to write out to a config file what features are being installed, so that the program that update/creates the database knows what database to create/update if any at all.   From: Derek Cicerone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 6:12 PM To: Scott Sam

Re: [WiX-users] conditions

2006-07-29 Thread Scott Sam
I have a component that looks like:                   From my understanding, it should right out Feat1 if the Feature1 feature is being installed, and it is not an upgrade.  That is not what is happening.  What am I doing wrong?  What is the

[WiX-users] setting up caspol policy

2006-08-03 Thread Scott Sam
I want to set up caspol policy for .net 2.0, if they are installed on the target machine. I have this to check if it is installed. Then I use this custom action to execute it. I'm getting this error in the log file. Action 9:36:00: CreateCaspol20CA. MSI (s) (00:50) [09:

[WiX-users] WixUI_Minimal without license agreement

2006-08-03 Thread Scott Sam
I want to use the Minimal wixui because I want the user to be able to just click next and have the install go, but I don’t want eula in it.  Is there any way to use the regular welcomeDlg in place of the WelcomeEulaDlg.  I get an error 2803 when I click the next button when I tried just cha

Re: [WiX-users] WixUI_Minimal without license agreement

2006-08-03 Thread Scott Sam
o can't agree on anything much less whether or not to accept some licensing terms. ;)   Brian   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Sam Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 1:12 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] WixUI_Minima

Re: [WiX-users] WixUI_Minimal without license agreement

2006-08-03 Thread Scott Sam
quot; button and find a way to make the license screen disappear.  My installer is for our field techs who can't agree on anything much less whether or not to accept some licensing terms. ;)   Brian   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Sam Se

[WiX-users] Custom actions

2006-08-07 Thread Scott Sam
I'm trying to create a custom action that executes the caspol.exe file that already exists on the target machine. I can't figure out what I am doing wrong. Does anyone have any suggestions? I want to set up caspol policy for .net 2.0, if they are installed on the target machine. I have this to c

Re: [WiX-users] Custom actions

2006-08-07 Thread Scott Sam
[16:44:44:150]: Note: 1: 1721 2: CreateCaspol20CA 3: 4: -m -addgroup 1 -site localhost FullTrust -name "Xenware 2.0" -Original Message- From: Brian Simoneau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 12:59 PM To: Scott Sam; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sub

Re: [WiX-users] Custom actions

2006-08-08 Thread Scott Sam
That worked. I had the Property="[NET20]" and it was supposed to be Property="NET20". -Original Message- From: Brian Simoneau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 7:51 AM To: Scott Sam; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users]

Re: [WiX-users] Shortcut + hyperlink 2

2007-04-24 Thread Scott Sam
This is what I do. Basically make a shortcut to internet explorer and pass the web address as the argument. I do it this way so that it always opens another instance of ie when you use the shortcut instead of opening it the current window. This was a big problem with ie6.

[WiX-users] How do you have a component work only on an install?

2007-04-27 Thread Scott Sam
I have a component that updates an XML file using the XmlFile element. I only want this to be ran on a clean install, and not on an upgrade. I'm using wix v3. Here is what my component looks like: Not Installed I thought that the condition eleme

Re: [WiX-users] How do you have a component work only on an install?

2007-04-27 Thread Scott Sam
Thanks. I had to change it to this: NOT (&WinClient = 3) AND (!WinClient = 3) To get it to not run during the upgrade, but it worked. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 4:14 PM To: Scott Sam; wix-users@lists.sourceforge

Re: [WiX-users] How do you have a component work only on an install?

2007-05-01 Thread Scott Sam
he component runs in both cases). How is that possible? Now when I use: And In one situation the component is installed, and the other it is not. This makes no sense to me. Can anyone explain to me how this works? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: [WiX-users] How do you have a component work only on an install?

2007-05-02 Thread Scott Sam
regardless of the condition? And if so is there any way around this? -Original Message- From: Scott Sam Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 3:57 PM To: Scott Sam; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] How do you have a component work only on an install? Upon

[WiX-users] Localizing in Wix 3.0 with Votive

2007-05-07 Thread Scott Sam
I want to have one msi in English and one in French. I need to add to the current English .wxl file for the custom dialogs that we have. And I have to create one for French. After I do this how do I get it to use the new .wxl files? I'm using msbuild to build the solution. --

Re: [WiX-users] Localizing in Wix 3.0 with Votive

2007-05-07 Thread Scott Sam
Well I've figured this part out. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Sam Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 11:15 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Localizing in Wix 3.0 with Votive I want to have one msi in English and one in Frenc

[WiX-users] Votive Localization question

2007-05-08 Thread Scott Sam
I'm using votive in wix 3.0. We have to make an install in French and English. Is it possible to make one project create two msi's when built, one in each language? If so how? If not what is the best way to accomplish my goal, which is to have two msi's, one French and one English? -Origin

Re: [WiX-users] problem scheduling custom actions

2007-07-18 Thread Scott Sam
PROTECTED]> then delete this email from your system. From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 11:17 PM To: Scott Sam Cc: Mike Dimmick; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] problem scheduling custom actions Scott Sam wrote: So I di

[WiX-users] intalling a microsoft office plugin with wix v3.0

2007-10-29 Thread Scott Sam
I saw in the FAQ that it is supposed to be easier to do this, but I couldn't find anything in the documentation about it. Is this something that hasn't been added yet? If not, where can I find info on it? If so, does anyone know what is necessary to accomplish this? Like what registry entries ar

[WiX-users] Using XmlFile to update an existing attribute

2006-08-31 Thread Scott Sam
I'm trying to set the value of an attribute to the machine name. this is a snippet of the xml file. . . . When I use the //Configuration/Companyname[1]/vals[1]/add[2] for the ElementPath it updates value1 no matter what add I reference. Any ideas why this happens? How can I update the

Re: [WiX-users] Using XmlFile to update an existing attribute

2006-09-01 Thread Scott Sam
? -Original Message- From: Chesong Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 6:13 PM To: Scott Sam; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Using XmlFile to update an existing attribute I have to correct my statement. [] also can be an indexer. But it shou

Re: [WiX-users] Using XmlFile to update an existing attribute

2006-09-01 Thread Scott Sam
You do have to escape the [ This worked. /configuration/Xenysys/Vals/[EMAIL PROTECTED]'value2'[\]] Thank you very much for your help. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Sam Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 3:23 PM To: Cheson

[WiX-users] Installing files to wrong drive

2006-09-06 Thread Scott Sam
In our installation, we put out files to two directories.  One set of files gets put in the program files directory (INSTALLDIR), depending on how many drives are available the other set gets put on the drive of their choice (INSTALLDIR2).  Installdir2 defaults to the drive with the most sp

Re: [WiX-users] string replacement in xml files

2006-09-15 Thread Scott Sam
I do something quite similar as well.   We use nant for our builds, and in the build file I set an environment variable,  then use it in the wix file.  Src="" I wasn’t able to use the var. for some reason I had to set the variable to an environment variable before I could access it.   So

[WiX-users] getting an error with the upgrade tag

2006-10-03 Thread Scott Sam
I added this upgrade tag, And I schedule RemoveExistingProducts with this I'm still getting the unresolved reference to symbol CustomAction:RemoveExistingProducts in section Product. What else am I missing? -

[WiX-users] minor upgrade not upgrading all files

2007-01-17 Thread Scott Sam
I'm trying to upgrade version 3.0 of our software to version 3.1. there are at least 2 files that do not get upgraded when I do a minor upgrade. They are version 3.0 and need to be replaced by the 3.1 version. If I uninstall the 3.0 version then install the 3.1 version the correct files are put o

[WiX-users] minor upgrade not upgrading all files

2007-01-18 Thread Scott Sam
I'm trying to upgrade version 3.0 of our software to version 3.1. there are at least 2 files that do not get upgraded when I do a minor upgrade. They are version 3.0 and need to be replaced by the 3.1 version. If I uninstall the 3.0 version then install the 3.1 version the correct files are put

[WiX-users] How to apply hotfixes

2007-01-19 Thread Scott Sam
Our dll's are strongly typed (I think that's what its called). So we can't have dll's of different versions talking to each other. What is the best way to apply a hotfix for when you only need to replace a couple files. We can rebuild the new dll's to be the same version as the old ones, but how

[WiX-users] Wix 3.0 and Votive?

2007-02-01 Thread Scott Sam
I was thinking of trying out votive. We are using Visual Studio Team Edition for Developers with Team Foundation Server. We are also using WIX v2 for the msi. I was wondering, is Wix v3 stable enough to use if we are deploying our next version of our product in about 3-5 months. Has anyone used

Re: [WiX-users] Wix 3.0 and Votive?

2007-02-07 Thread Scott Sam
will change based on whether or not it is a debug or release build. From: Cullen Waters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 1:54 PM To: Scott Sam; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Wix 3.0 and Votive? I just moved my whole team from v2

Re: [WiX-users] Wix 3.0 and Votive?

2007-02-07 Thread Scott Sam
Sorry I'm kind of new to this. Is that the msbuild file for the specific project correct? Is there a way to edit that in VS/TFS? From: Cullen Waters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 1:01 PM To: Scott Sam; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-

[WiX-users] Heat. Can it not generate registry entries?

2007-03-09 Thread Scott Sam
I want to you use heat to create the wix files for the latest version of our product, but I can't find any documentation for it. Is there any out there? The problem I'm having is that heat automatically generates registry entries for any dll in the directory, but I don't want it to. Anyone know

Re: [WiX-users] Heat. Can it not generate registry entries?

2007-03-09 Thread Scott Sam
AM To: Scott Sam Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Heat. Can it not generate registry entries? I'm not sure about having heat *not* generate registry entries, but here is an article that was written about heat that might be useful: http://installing.blogspot.com

Re: [WiX-users] Heat. Can it not generate registry entries?

2007-03-09 Thread Scott Sam
We don't need them, and I don't want to put anything into the registry that I don't have to. From: Levi Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 10:26 AM To: Scott Sam Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Heat. Can it not generate r

Re: [WiX-users] Heat. Can it not generate registry entries?

2007-03-09 Thread Scott Sam
om the wxs files. I was really hoping there would be a better way though. From: Levi Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 10:43 AM To: Scott Sam Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Heat. Can it not generate registry entries? Typically th

Re: [WiX-users] Heat. Can it not generate registry entries?

2007-03-09 Thread Scott Sam
t that big of deal I guess, it just seems like it would be easier to read if they were grouped together. From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 11:02 AM To: Scott Sam Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Heat. Can it not generate regist

Re: [WiX-users] Heat. Can it not generate registry entries?

2007-03-14 Thread Scott Sam
of having them separately linkable? From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 11:48 AM To: Scott Sam Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Heat. Can it not generate registry entries? Scott Sam wrote: Thanks that is exactly what I was l

Re: [WiX-users] Heat. Can it not generate registry entries?

2007-03-14 Thread Scott Sam
Thanks for answering my questions. That makes sense now. Heat creating the componentgroup would be very helpful to me. What version/build is it in? From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 10:53 AM To: Scott Sam Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject

[WiX-users] Shared files question?

2007-03-14 Thread Scott Sam
In our product, we have a bunch of features that are usually all installed on the same machine, but were designed to be able to be installed as stand alone programs on separate machines. As a result, there are a bunch of files that are shared between the different features. Currently I have all o

Re: [WiX-users] Shared files question?

2007-03-14 Thread Scott Sam
me file in more than one place. Am I on the right track so far? Regards, Richard From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Sam Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 11:12 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-user

[WiX-users] failed to initialize xml utilities

2007-03-29 Thread Scott Sam
I'm having problems with my install, on just one machine. It goes along fine, then just starts rolling back. It doesn't give an error message or anything. I logged the install, and found the following error in the log, just before it starts rolling back. MSI (s) (D4:B8) [13:09:25:454]: Invokin

Re: [WiX-users] failed to initialize xml utilities

2007-04-04 Thread Scott Sam
What version of MSXML does wix 2.0 work with? -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 5:09 PM To: Scott Sam; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: failed to initialize xml utilities MSXML busted? -Original Message

Re: [WiX-users] failed to initialize xml utilities

2007-04-04 Thread Scott Sam
I can tell from the code. And it needs to be present on the target machine. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Sam Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 4:55 PM To: Rob Mensching; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] fail

[WiX-users] getting variables from nant to votive wix project

2007-04-10 Thread Scott Sam
We have nant create the version number during the build. I would like to use this in various places in the wix projects. Is there a way to do this without setting environment variables? I'm using votive and just using nant's msbuild task to build the solution. I don't want to use environment va

Re: [WiX-users] getting variables from nant to votive wix project

2007-04-10 Thread Scott Sam
EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 10:05 AM To: Scott Sam; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: getting variables from nant to votive wix project Use preprocessor variables $(var.) instead? candle -dVariable=Value The Preprocessor topic in the WiX.chm has a lot more inform

Re: [WiX-users] getting variables from nant to votive wix project

2007-04-10 Thread Scott Sam
This sounds like the way to go for us. Thanks for all of the help. -Original Message- From: Brett Kapilik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 11:37 AM To: Justin Rockwood; Jeff Paulsen; Scott Sam Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] getting

[WiX-users] Votive and Visual Studios 2008

2007-12-17 Thread Scott Sam
I am using the latest version of Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition. I just upgraded to this last week. I tried installing Wix version 3.0.2925 but it doesn't recognize that VS is installed on my machine. Is there anything I can do to get votive to work with VS 2008? ---

Re: [WiX-users] Votive and Visual Studios 2008

2007-12-17 Thread Scott Sam
://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:wix-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Sam > Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 3:51 PM > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] Votive and Visual Stud

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