I am in a situation where all clients must use the latest version, so the -fv
switch makes sense to me, I'll give that a shot. Thanks for your help
Tony
From: Mike Dimmick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 3:24 PM
To: Tony Wallulis; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Su
ICE43: Component StartMenuShortcuts has non-advertised
shortcuts. It should use a registry key under HKCU as its KeyPath, not a
file.
I really don't understand this message, can anyone tell me what am I doing
wrong ?
Than
Mike,
Thanks for the info - great explanation.
Cheers
Tony
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To: 'Tony Johnson'; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] ICE38 and ICE43 error messages - what am I d
A web forum is a bad idea.. I'd probably just forget about posting as
it's a hassle having to different sites rather than just open my email
client every hour or so. I could live with a newsgroup (Microsoft have
su
Hao Liu wrote:
> 2. I signed my custom actions (a setup dll and a remove dll) and the
> msi as well. But when I run the msi, I still get the UAC prompt like:
>
>
>
> Is there any way to prevent the prompt opened?
>
No. You can't bypass UAC in any way. Tha
AC at all!!
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I'm trying to test out patching based on the following instructions,
http://blogs.msdn.com/pmarcu/archive/2007/06/28/sample-patch.aspx
Are these steps accurate? I get the following error on the final step.
I tried the latest and greatest version and then I went back to
3.0.3106.0 the closest to w
e and one header line. Navigate to the path that is
created during harvest and the file looks good in the source folder.
Contains everything I expect but it is definitely stomped after
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Standa Kunc wrote:
> Where can I get msm file for olepro32.dll? Thank you.
>
You don't need one it exists on the base install of windows.
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de, i.e., the same ProductID and different
> version.
> I was able to install it only by runing the command msiexec /i
> SampleUpgrade.msi REINSTALL=ALL REINSTALLMODE=vomus
Always use major upgrades, or wrap the msi in a .exe that provides the
command line.. which
Bob Arnson wrote:
> so you won't be able to do major upgrades between 1.0.0.40 and 1.0.0.41.
I think you meant minor upgrades there.
Major upgrades uninstall the old product first so there isn't any issue
with version n
Steven Chin wrote:
> Visual Studio 2005 Released version 8.0.50727.42 creates output DLLs
> with a manifest that says it depends upon
>
>version="8.0.50608.0"
>
>
Does version="*" work? Even better would be version="8.0
ng it
might not be a good idea.
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LUSERS=1,
since an uninstall by another user will orphan the data).
ICE57 is assuming that ALLUSERS=0 so that you're modifying the users'
program files directory in a global install (which would be an error).
It can be safely ignored in your case (but check you're not act
turn one MSI
into another one. You can't simply create one to change a variable in
an existing MSI - it would be useful though.
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e's an official capicom installer:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=860ee43a-a843-462f-abb5-ff88ea5896f6&DisplayLang=en
To be 'official' you'll have to chain to that.
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me way as you don't create a new IIS to create a website, you
don't do that with apache... the normal method is to put your website
definition in conf.d and reload the server.
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paths... so you'll have to
statically link your custom action.
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Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job ea
the system in an
installer pretty much guarantees that it won't run on most systems.
custom actions should have minimal dependencies. You can't guarantee
even if you install the library using its merge module that the SxS
registration has happened at that point.
Tony
ly the only one
that makes sense, given comments elsewhere that vista no longer searches
the current directory).
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upgrades.. use the directories already set aside for this.
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Sigurd Stenersen wrote:
> Is it possible to assign a value to a property based on the value of some
> other property ?
>
> E.g. something like
> if ALLUSERS='2' then Root='HKLM' else Root='HKCU'
For th
André Pönitz wrote:
>
> Simply using [StartupFolder]\Programme does not cut it as the 'Programme'
> part is language-dependend.
ProgramMenuFolder
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372057.aspx
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> Tony Hoyle wrote:
>>> Simply using [StartupFolder]\Programme does not cut it as the 'Programme'
>>> part is language-dependend.
>> ProgramMenuFolder
>
> But with ALLUSERS=0 [ProgramMenuFolder] is in the user's hierar
rs since some are inevitable due to
the design of MSI (case in point for our installer is an executable that
can run on the client or as a service.. it gives an ICE because it's in
two components, even though they're mutually ex
USERS=1 is incorrect (since it
gets left behind if the user uninstalling is different to the user
installing).
2. Stick a key in HKCU somewhere to shut it up.. it'll leave keys around
but it'll pass validation.
I'm not sure what the deal is w
use
HKEY_CURRENT_USER or make it an administrative application by marking it
with a manifest. Whichever is 'better' depends on the purpose... see
the vista support groups and MS site for more information (since i
just by the installer running netsh firewall in the background... so
it's probably a lost cause.
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David Thielen wrote:
> In our case the AddIn hits the port as soon as Word starts so we need it
> added on installation.
I'm curious why a Word addin would be listening for incoming
connections? (without giving away any trade secrets of cou
s 'can't find custom action'.
That CustomAction definition looks wrong to me. You haven't defined
what FolderT is and you're trying to run it before the file is actually
installed (I think.. someone will be along to correct me in a minute).
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shortcut per component.
Can't see why it would be true for standard shortcuts though - it's a
regression from wix v2 if so.
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longer work from the app directory).
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rs didn't get it right. Fix your software
> instead IMO.
>
Agreed. Unless the installer is for a very controlled environment (in
which case the machine is likely to be mirrored and have the correct
settings anyway)
that's missing these components will get an
> automated repair on runup (because they won't have the HKCU keypaths
> either) and will have those
Only if you code to check the registry keys and reexec the installer if
you don't find them - again this requires special app support a
uch thing as a per-user add/remove programs (even in
Vista.. maybe Longhorn will add one) there's no way for individual users
to rectify this and just remove their parts - they've either got to
remove the entries by hand or get an admin to do it.
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ting the MSI in Orca fixes the problem, but is rather labour
intensive..
Any clues?
(wix 2.0.5325)
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Bob Arnson wrote:
> Tony Hoyle wrote:
>> I've been tasked with modifying an existing installer to include
>> localised country names. Unfortunately wix seems to be mishandling
>> the registry entries and replacing every extended character with '?'.
>&g
DEXK JAHN, GXbor wrote:
> Windows Installer still doesn't handle Unicode--I can't simply
> understand how the developers got away with this :-)) So, it's not a
> WiX limitation...
>
Maybe MSI 4 wil fix i
close
to release date for that, alas.
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There may be issues that affect features I haven't used.. codepage 65001
isn't 'officially' suported in any way, so YMMV of course.
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if they even said)?
The only issue we've had reported is that the uninstall dialog comes out
in the wrong font (which is really bizarre since the install font is
correct). If it all comes unstuck I've got a couple of custom actions
on the back burner that can be rolled ou
n't do
anything that MSI can't do.
You can create utf8 installers without modifying wix at all just by
specifying codepage 65001, but it's not supported at all and has one or
two minor issues (eg. the uninstall di
changing files in an external CAB file instead?
Then you just have to swap that out.
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OTOH I doubt sourceforge can be configured to do anything that
sophisticated. You probably have the ability to set it to members only
and that's about it.
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sn't
going to work.
You have two options:
1. Make an external exe/batch file/whatever which installs them in sequence.
2. Reverse engineer the jre installer using dark and include it in your
script.
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Newbie - I have a similar need to use support DLLs and action during
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Can somebody please explain or provide a link to a sample on how to use
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e should be no reason to install on one but not the other, even for
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Juricic
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 7:09 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Merge Module system folder Id clash problem
I install some files in Windows System32 using directory declaration
like:
...
Additionally, my project
I've seen sample code in blogs like:
hr = WcaGetProperty(L"SQLSERVERPASSWORD", &pszPassword);
ExitOnFailure(hr, "Failed to get property");
.
LExit:
.
ReleaseString(pszPassword);
and I started following this style in my custom actions. However, I
don't know how ar
I am working on a rather complex project using Wix 3 beta. It is
expected that we will eventually generate frequent patches and minor
upgrades (i.e. hotfixes and SPs) so a stable standard Wix plus patching
functionality would be very desirable. Within next few months, if
possible :)
If MSI SDK bo
I'm using the following standard declaration to show ExitDialog:
How do I display the dialog right before this one?
Or do I have to 'cheat' and put in the example above the dialog that I
want shown before 'the true exit dialog' and then link its Next button
to the
, May 29, 2008 12:11 PM
To: Tony Juricic
Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Show dialog before ExitDialog
Tony Juricic wrote:
> Or do I have to 'cheat' and put in the example above the dialog that I
> want shown before 'the true exit dialog' and
This is most probably not Wix-specific but anyhow:
Uninstall string that is registered for my app is the following:
MsiExec /X{Product code}
However, when uninstall is selected via ARP this causes uninstall to run
at reduced (or basic, not sure) UI level, with no Wizard dialogs. I want
full GUI
lf Of Tony
Juricic
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 15:43
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] How to Uninstall from ARP with full GUI?
This is most probably not Wix-specific but anyhow:
Uninstall string that is registered for my app is the following:
MsiExec /X{Product code}
Ho
I would like to see all custom actions and wcautil functions documented
*with an example*.
One can argue that they are just the wrappers around MSI functions and
thus : read the documentation!
However, initially one approaches these functions in the hope of making
sense out of SDK documentation and
Is there any reason why WcaIsPropertySet takes ASCII string, i.e.
BOOL WIXAPI WcaIsPropertySet(
__in LPCSTR szProperty
);
while all the rest of API uses wide character strings?
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ppwzCustomActionData come from? From the call MsiGetProperty
(hInstall, "CustomActionData",..)?
If that is the case I guess what is confusing me is that
ppwzCustomActionData is of type inout.
Any comments would be appreci
stored strings and
integers in the order that I've written them. So it does what is
reasonable to expect from it.
Thanks, Tony
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To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XM
Interesting! I am porting InstallShield project to Wix and I see that IS
keeps leading 0s.
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To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WiX and Suppo
Yes, you can create custom action that sets one property to the value of
another. And you can Publish multiple DoAction events on button press.
Examples:
MY_PROP_SOMETHING=1
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Build and Tool Settings pages for my existing project in VS 2008 now
show red icon and say:
An error occurred trying to load the page. Value does not fall within
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I am searching for Notepad in 2 locations like this:
On most systems Notepad is in both locations so property is initialized
to the location of the last find,
As shown here in MSI log:
AppSearch: Property: NOTEPADEXE, Signature: NotepadFile
I have ported InstallShield (version 12) project to Wix 3. InstallShield
has msi embedded in exe and the whole setup.exe is 50 MB large. Wix
creates MSI with embedded compressed CAB which takes 70 MB.
20 MB is a pretty large difference! Am I missing something obvious or is
InstallShield compressio
I closed VS 2008 before installing new WiX version. The problem appeared
as I restarted VS, loaded solution containing the existing WiX project
(among other Custom Action C++ DLL projects) and then clicked on
project's Properties context menu.
I recreated the project from scratch and the problem i
Custom Action scheduled after InstallFinalize do work. I have one that
invokes DLL exported function and, using __asm { int 3 } in my CA C++
code I get JIT debugger started.
I think your problem may be that you are expecting the action to start
the executable, while your action is just assigning o
Beyond that I have to ask the obvious question: are you sure the set of
payload files is the same?
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--- On Thu, 6/26/08, Tony Juricic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Tony Juricic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users]
This suggestion touches the question I was thinking to ask for a long
time:
I want to perform file/registry key/etc. copy/removal at various times
during install.
I would prefer to use standard actions for that to gain automatic
rollback.
So I have to schedule standard actions to run multiple
I had similar things happen to me and solved them by using CA like:
In this case above dialog title contained [ProductName] which was not
resolved. Then you schedule CA very early and insert the property name
where you need resolved string.
The only way I can understand this is that MS
I picked this dialog from some Wix UI scheme and it is now compiled into
my project. However, I have no idea how to use it or how to get the
system to invoke it !?
Namely, during my testing, some other, system-provided dialog (i.e. not
part of any UI that I added) pops up and offers to close the
a
I have 10 bitmaps that I would like to cycle among FileInstall and my
custom action that follows FileInstall.
My execute sequence looks like this:
Bitmaps are split between these two actions like in this example:
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Hi,
Thank you for the feedback
Regards
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On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Rob Mensching wrote:
> Yes, all that and more.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Tony Jose Mampilly [mailto:kooltonyj...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 6, 2013 10:03 PM
Hi,
When I try to compile the wxs file generated by decompiling an existing
working msi of a website it shows error LGHT0094 : Unresolved reference to
symbol 'CustomAction:WEBCA_CreateURLs' in section . Somebody please
help me with this issue.
Thank you
Re
Thank you all
Tony
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 1:12 AM, Phil Wilson wrote:
> That particular CA is generated by Visual Studio and calls a proprietary
> Microsoft Dll related to web site creation. You need to use some other WiX
> based CA to do your website creation. That VS Dll and int
Thats exactly what I want. Is there any other way to do this without using
custom action. As I am new to wix writing a custom action might be
extremely difficult for me. Thank you for the help.
Regards
Tony
On 22 Nov 2013 09:54, "Blair Murri" wrote:
> I believe that see what you
directory is getting listed in Iis. I dont want this. Is there any
way to dynamically set the installdir and set the same name provided by
user for installdir??
Any help appreciated.
Thank you
Regards
Tony
On 22 Nov 2013 10:27, "Nick Ramirez" wrote:
> Are you trying to make a virt
Thank you so much for your help and spending some time for this. The
solution you provided works perfectly. It was exactly what I wanted. I had
already solved the problem using a custom action, but thank you for
providing me a better solution.
Rigards
Tony
On 22 Nov 2013 20:31, "Blair
Thank you for the solution and it works perfectly.
On 22 Nov 2013 20:42, "Nick Ramirez" wrote:
> You can dynamically set an install directory with the SetDirectory element.
> The WebVirtualDir element, in the IIS extension, uses the Directory
> property
> to point to a Directory element. So if yo
There is one more issue. On uninstallation all the files are getting
removed but I will have to manually remove the virtual directory from iis.
Is there any way to remove this on uninstallation of application??
Thank you for the help.
On 24 Nov 2013 02:07, "Tony Jose Mampilly" wrote:
&
Yeah, thank you so much for helping and now it is working perfectly.
Regards
Tony
On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Blair Murri wrote:
> Search for "Remember Property Pattern".
>
> During uninstall the IIS custom action needs to know the value of
> VIRTUALDIR used d
that
text box shows the name of that virtual drectory, else it displays
correctly. Can somebody help me this issue? Its very urgent.
Thank you
Regards
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Please if somebody have a solution, please help me with this.
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Tony Jose Mampilly wrote:
> Hi,
> I have created a websetup for one website whch installs it into IIS.
> During installation it installer prompts user to give virtual directory
> name. B
correctly. If I am uninstalling the first website, then it works fine.
Somebody please help me with this issue, its urgent. Any help appreciated
The codes can be accessed at
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B1gCMqS-Y9BFcFVPaEFVZjQwdFk&usp=sharing
Thank you
Regards
Hi Blair,
Yeah I was able to sort out the problem, I was using same name for all and
so the problem was occurring. Thank you so much for your help.
Regards
Tony
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Blair Murri wrote:
> When you use the property remember pattern, all packages that
>
way to get registered automatically after installation using some third
party softwares? It should not be done manually, we need it to be
automated. Please help. Any helps appreciated.
Thank you
Tony
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, it
contains path to those folders, so I guess problem is from WiX. Is there
any way to include empty folders on installation. Any helps appreciated.
Thank you
Regards
Tony Jose
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Hi,
Thank you for the response and let me try the method you have mentioned
Thank You
Regards
Tony
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 3:28 AM, Phill Hogland wrote:
> CreateFolder in the chm?
>
>
>
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tried elevating install privileges, and installscope
set to per machine. I guess custom controls are stopping from elevating
privileges as some of the custom controls are sequenced and hence execute
cannot be set to deferred. Can someone help me with this issue as it is
little urgent.
Regards
Tony J
application when installed under a different website.
The code can be obtained from the above link.
Any help appreciated. Thanks in advance
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Hi All,
Anyone have any idea about how to do this? Please someone help me. All
helps appreciated.
Thank you
Regards
Tony
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Tony Jose Mampilly wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I created a web setup referring to article at
> "*http://www.wintellect.com/b
Hi,
Any update on this issue? I am not able to sort it out in any way. Can
someone update me on this with some light in right direction.
All helps appreciated
Thank you
Best Regards
Tony.
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Tony Jose Mampilly
wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Anyone have any idea
Hi Carter,
Thank you so much for the update. I will look into this and will try to
resolve the issue.
Thank you again.
Regards
Tony Jose
On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 6:53 PM, Carter Young wrote:
> The Problem is Here:
>
> {
> Site site = iisManager.S
Regards
Tony Jose
On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Tony Jose Mampilly
wrote:
> Hi Carter,
>
> Thank you so much for the update. I will look into this and will try to
> resolve the issue.
> Thank you again.
>
> Regards
> Tony Jose
>
>
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