[WiX-users] Bootstrapper step conditional execution

Hello everyone, I think it has been quite a few years since I've posted a question to this forum. I have moved to a new company and I am getting them out of InstallShield hell :) My boss has come to me with a unique requirement for our installer. We would like to wrap a "demo" mode into our

Re: [WiX-users] Bootstrapper step conditional execution

Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 5:41 AM, Tunney, Stephen wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I think it has been quite a few years since I've posted a question to > this forum. I have moved to a new company and I am getting them out > of InstallShield hell :) > > My boss has come to

Re: [WiX-users] Bootstrapper step conditional execution

r ways to accomplish what you are trying to do as well. On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 7:26 AM, Tunney, Stephen wrote: > Hello oh great and powerful Rob :) It is a pleasure to get an email > from you. > > I've been working with a bootstrapper project but I'm curious as to > how

Re: [WiX-users] Is the website wixtoolset.org down ?

The website is still down. I'm trying to get a copy of the latest 3.8 build :( -Original Message- From: Blair Murri [mailto:os...@live.com] Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 5:53 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Is the website wixtoolse

[WiX-users] CA not logging anything on button press

Hey guys, I have a managed CA writing a tonne of messages our and a DoAction call from a pushbutton on my dialog (immediate CA). The CA runs just fine but I get ZERO log entries anywhere in the /l*v log that I'm writing out to. Any thoughts? I remember this being an issue in windows installer

Re: [WiX-users] CA not logging anything on button press

gging anything on button press Known issue with Windows Installer. On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Tunney, Stephen wrote: > Hey guys, > > I have a managed CA writing a tonne of messages our and a DoAction > call from a pushbutton on my dialog (immediate CA). > > The CA runs j

[WiX-users] Error code is 2858

Hello everyone, I'm getting this error as a debug message when attempting to display two GIF images in a UI. I have attached them to this email. Below is the dialog utilizing those files. Some OSes show the images ok. Others do not. Any suggestions would be helpful as I have Google'd and n

Re: [WiX-users] Error code is 2858

static picture file. I see no mention of GIF's. -Original Message----- From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2013 11:20 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Error code is 2858 Hello everyone, I'm getting this

Re: [WiX-users] Error code is 2858

://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa367830(v=vs.85).as px GIF is only supported on Win 8 / Server 2012. What OS are you seeing the error on? From: "Tunney, Stephen" Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2013 11:26 AM To: "wix-users@lists.

Re: [WiX-users] Error code is 2858

BMP instead? I believe dialogs can only use BMP... Steve -Original Message- From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com] Sent: October-09-13 12:20 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Error code is 2858 Hello everyone, I'm getting this error as a

Re: [WiX-users] Error code is 2858

JPG worked but now I get this crappy looking background around my image. Isn't there a way to specify the a specific colour as transparent or do I have to have my background match the colour of the dialog box? -Original Message- From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun...@nuanc

Re: [WiX-users] Error code is 2858

al UI and while it's not the best, I've managed to get some pretty nicely branded MSIs out of it. -------- From: "Tunney, Stephen" Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2013 1:35 PM To: "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset."

[WiX-users] Hiding CustomActionData values in MSI logs

Hello all, I have several deferred CAs in my application and I'm using the CustomActionData to pass in several properties into them. However I am seeing the following in my MSI logs (asterisks added where usernames and passwords exposed for corporate security by hand), obviously I want parts o

Re: [WiX-users] Hiding CustomActionData values in MSI logs

greenheck.com] Sent: October-23-13 1:41 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Hiding CustomActionData values in MSI logs Take a look at CustomActrion/@HideTarget -Original Message- From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com] Sent: Wednesday, Oc

[WiX-users] Purely WiX Patching when a patch family consists of component groups across multiple cabs

Hello All, I've got a rather large project that involves a set of wixlib projects that are referenced by 8 different products. These different wixlibs all use various cab files defined in a wxi file globally. Now I'm in the throes of generating my patching and I would like to use the steps d

Re: [WiX-users] Purely WiX Patching when a patch family consists of component groups across multiple cabs

: Re: [WiX-users] Purely WiX Patching when a patch family consists of component groups across multiple cabs 2013/10/26 Tunney, Stephen : > Hello All, > > I've got a rather large project that involves a set of wixlib projects that > are referenced by 8 different products. These

Re: [WiX-users] Purely WiX Patching when a patch family consists of component groups across multiple cabs

.alva...@gmail.com] Sent: October-26-13 12:35 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Purely WiX Patching when a patch family consists of component groups across multiple cabs 2013/10/26 Tunney, Stephen : > Hello All, > > I've got a rather large proj

Re: [WiX-users] Purely WiX Patching when a patch family consists of component groups across multiple cabs

System.IO.FileNotFoundException Stack Trace: at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Tools.Melt.MeltProduct() at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Tools.Melt.Run(String[] args) -----Original Message- From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com] Sent: October-28-13 10:54 AM

Re: [WiX-users] Purely WiX Patching when a patch family consists of component groups across multiple cabs

component groups across multiple cabs I don't think the installer ever puts Wix into the GAC, which is by design. If you've put some of the Wix binaries in the GAC, I could see that leading to all kinds of strange issues. -Original Message----- From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:s

Re: [WiX-users] Purely WiX Patching when a patch family consists of component groups across multiple cabs

-Oct-13 11:21, Tunney, Stephen wrote: > Now I am getting an error in melt.exe. Looks like a path issue or WiX DLLs > not being added to the GAC for some reason. Copying files from the SDK > folder to the bin folder have resolved this issue but this is likely a bug in > 3.7's in

[WiX-users] Purely WiX patching and FeatureRef

Hello again everyone, Ok, so I've finally managed to get a patch generated. Good for me, I get a gold star :) Now I have a few questions 1) It looks as through using FeatureRef in my PatchFamily doesn't work. The result is an empty CAB file and a pyro.exe error PYRO0227 2) If I s

Re: [WiX-users] Purely WiX patching and FeatureRef

Adding DirectoryRef to the same boat as FeatureRef. I've added all directoryRefs, including the one that includes the component that I know has been updated and still no dice. :( -Original Message- From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com] Sent: October-28-13 7:41

Re: [WiX-users] Purely WiX patching and FeatureRef

users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Purely WiX patching and FeatureRef On 28-Oct-13 20:38, Tunney, Stephen wrote: > Adding DirectoryRef to the same boat as FeatureRef. I've added all > directoryRefs, including the one that includes the component that I > know has been u

Re: [WiX-users] Purely WiX patching and FeatureRef

n check the .wixpdbs that Melt produces to make sure the paths are correct. On 28-Oct-13 22:05, Tunney, Stephen wrote: > Ok, good to know. I have thousands of components though spread across > a dozen features. Those features are shared amongst 8 products :) > > When I originally de

Re: [WiX-users] Purely WiX patching and FeatureRef

) /field/@previousData node contains the *correct* path (Latest.wixpdb value) /field/@unresolvedData node contains the *correct* path (Latest.wixpdb value) Thoughts? Would you like me to send you the wixmst file? -Original Message- From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com

Re: [WiX-users] Purely WiX patching and FeatureRef

This strategy works out well as long as you don't mind having a large patch file that patches files that don't need to be patched. What I'm looking for is a way to determine what exactly has changed. I would like to further narrow the patch family down to a 1:1 relationship with a feature as o

Re: [WiX-users] Purely WiX patching and FeatureRef

I love the idea of this but alas we sign and version our files for every build. In essence EVERYTHING changes at this point. Is there a way to get the filtering to ignore certain properties/attributes of a file? -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Sen

Re: [WiX-users] Purely WiX patching and FeatureRef

Tim, can you send me the melt command you are using? I'm still getting failures with invalid paths and I am using melt. Cheers, Stephen -Original Message- From: TimM [mailto:timmay...@smarttech.com] Sent: November-08-13 1:23 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-user

Re: [WiX-users] Purely WiX patching and FeatureRef

Yes, that is the way it looks like we will have to do things. However I would say non-trivial doesn't mean impossible. Someone out there must have thought of this problem before us, otherwise we have a patentable piece of work here in this mailing list :) My name MUST be on the patent! My hop

Re: [WiX-users] Purely WiX patching and FeatureRef

Blair, this sounds really promising! Are there any examples of this that you can share? Stephen Tunney Nuance Communications, Inc. Solutions Architect, Imaging Division Waterloo, Ontario, Canada stephen.tun...@nuance.com 519-880-7463Office NUANCE.COM The experience speaks for itself (tm) -

Re: [WiX-users] Creating Wix Pure patch with Melt.exe and Pyro.exe fails

Tim, Thanks for getting this recognized as a bug :) -Original Message- From: TimM [mailto:timmay...@smarttech.com] Sent: November-14-13 9:19 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Creating Wix Pure patch with Melt.exe and Pyro.exe fails Thanks Blair, I have cre

Re: [WiX-users] Creating Wix Pure patch with Melt.exe and Pyro.exe fails

That is the same set of symptoms I have been describing. We may be on to something here :( Stephen Tunney Nuance Communications, Inc. Solutions Architect, Imaging Division Waterloo, Ontario, Canada stephen.tun...@nuance.com 519-880-7463Office NUANCE.COM The experience speaks for itself (tm)

[WiX-users] Using a property for a NewDialog value

Greetings one and all, I have a simple question / error I need assistance with. I'm trying the following However I now get the following error in my logs: DEBUG: Error 2803: Dialog View did not find a record for the dialog The installer has encountered an unexpected error installing this p

Re: [WiX-users] Using a property for a NewDialog value

maging Division Waterloo, Ontario, Canada stephen.tun...@nuance.com 519-880-7463Office NUANCE.COM The experience speaks for itself (tm) -Original Message----- From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com] Sent: November-18-13 2:53 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset

[WiX-users] Immediate Custom Action to detect current UI dialog shown

Anyone have any ideas as to find out within a custom action what UI dialog it is currently executing from? Even the exact control that invoked the DoAction automatically would be fantastic. I'm just trying to eliminate having a half-dozen specialized public properties in several pushbuttons th

[WiX-users] UI Tricks - "Double Dialog" still required? :(

Hey guys, Just got myself into a bit of an issue here where the publish and condition values for controls are not evaluated until control focus has changed within an MSI UI. Other than the dreaded "double dialog" fix, is there anything else I can do? Background: http://windows-installer-xml-wi

Re: [WiX-users] UI Tricks - "Double Dialog" still required? :(

I am a sad panda today... From: Blair Murri [os...@live.com] Sent: December 2, 2013 10:44 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] UI Tricks - "Double Dialog" still required? :( "tab a lot"? dividing controls across dialog

Re: [WiX-users] Creating Wix Pure patch with Melt.exe and Pyro.exe fails

I'm bringing a dead horse back from the grave :) I've gotten a little further in my patching quest. Now I've hit a stumbling block in Pyro.exe (v3.8) PatchTransform.Validate() is reporting WixErrors.InvalidRemoveComponent My product has thousands of components, my Patch.wxs only lists two(2)

Re: [WiX-users] Creating Wix Pure patch with Melt.exe and Pyro.exe fails

I'm bringing a dead horse back from the grave :) I've gotten a little further in my patching quest. Now I've hit a stumbling block in Pyro.exe (v3.8) PatchTransform.Validate() is reporting WixErrors.InvalidRemoveComponent My product has thousands of components, my Patch.wxs only lists two(2)

[WiX-users] Can't add a comment to an existing bug on wixtoolset.org

Anyone else having this problem? I'm running Chrome on win7 pro x64. Stephen Tunney Nuance Communications, Inc. Solutions Architect, Imaging Division Waterloo, Ontario, Canada stephen.tun...@nuance.com 519-880-7463 Office NUANCE.COM The experience speaks for

Re: [WiX-users] Can't add a comment to an existing bug on wixtoolset.org

--Original Message----- From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com] Sent: December-09-13 2:31 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Can't add a comment to an existing bug on wixtoolset.org Anyone else having this problem? I'm running Ch

Re: [WiX-users] Can't add a comment to an existing bug on wixtoolset.org

...@robmensching.com] Sent: December-09-13 5:13 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Can't add a comment to an existing bug on wixtoolset.org Which issue are you talking about? -Original Message- From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun...@nuanc

Re: [WiX-users] Can't add a comment to an existing bug on wixtoolset.org

ug on wixtoolset.org Which issue are you talking about? -Original Message- From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com] Sent: Monday, December 9, 2013 11:43 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Can't add a comment to an existing bug on wixt

Re: [WiX-users] Can't add a comment to an existing bug on wixtoolset.org

l be gone when moved. For now, if you refresh, you'll see your comment is there. -Original Message- From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com] Sent: Monday, December 9, 2013 3:05 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Can&#x

[WiX-users] Feature request

Hello all, Ok, I finally have Pure WiX Patching working on my projects. I have a small issue though. Melting all of our "RTM" products takes about 35 minutes to complete. What I have found is that if I zip up this collection of goodies and stick it on the network share ONCE, I can copy it do

Re: [WiX-users] Feature request

toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Feature request I think rebasing a wixpdb is a great feature request. If it hasn't already been filed, please add one. Blair From: Tunney, Stephen Sent: ‎Thursday‎, ‎December‎ ‎12‎, ‎2013 ‎11‎:‎57‎ ‎AM To: General discussion for Windows Installe

Re: [WiX-users] Signing all DLLs and EXEs in project

Make sure you set the number of files in the item group to under 1000, there is a limit to the length of the command line that signtool (and windows) will accept :) Stephen Tunney Nuance Communications, Inc. Solutions Architect, Imaging Division Waterloo, Ontario, Canada stephen.tun...@nuance.co

[WiX-users] ManagedBootstrapperApplication - sans UI

Hey guys, I'm trying to use the managed bootstrapper and all I want the bootstrapper to is elevate privileges and have the MSI embedded in the EXE. What would be the fastest way to do this? So far I can't seem to get around having the .net prerequisite UI showing up for some reason. Stephen

Re: [WiX-users] Strange problem with printer driver installation

Another might be the fact that you have a x64 and x86 version of the your driver being installed? -Original Message- From: Carter Young [mailto:ecyo...@grandecom.net] Sent: December-27-13 10:05 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Strange problem with printer d

[WiX-users] Possible bug in CAs when uninstalling a patch

Hey guys, I've got a couple of custom actions set in InstallExecuteSequence that has no conditions. I want these CAs to execute when modifying a feature to do some "backup" and "restore" functionality. The CAs run fine for normal install, patch install, feature uninstall etc. However the CAs

Re: [WiX-users] how to pass values from command line to wix installer

And please excuse the poor formatting of my message :) -Original Message- From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com] Sent: February-11-14 9:56 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] how to pass values from command line to wix installer

Re: [WiX-users] how to pass values from command line to wix installer

This looks like an issue (perhaps not a bug) with WIX schema validation during compliation of the wxs file. It is checking your .wxs file against an xsd schema that limits the possible attribute values for @AnonymousAccess to the literals "yes" and "no". I've hit this before with other items a

Re: [WiX-users] how to pass values from command line to wix installer

o wix installer Thank you Tunneyit worked :) On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Tunney, Stephen wrote: > And please excuse the poor formatting of my message :) > > > -Original Message----- > From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com] > Sent: February-11-1

[WiX-users] Code signing issue and soon-to-be-released patch

Everyone should be aware of the issue and be prepared to re-sign their binaries and installers :( http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2013/12/10/ms13-098-update-to-enhance-the-security-of-authenticode.aspx -- Android

Re: [WiX-users] Debugging Managed Bootstrapper Application

System.Diagnostics.Debugger.Launch() at the beginning of your CA will do the job nicely :) -Original Message- From: gowri.malas...@non.agilent.com [mailto:gowri.malas...@non.agilent.com] Sent: March-24-14 3:24 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Debugging Managed

Re: [WiX-users] [WiX-devs] Is anyone adding outbound firewall exceptions?

You are correct, Rob. I reply blindly at times. Both mailing lists get placed in the same folder with my outlook rules set up as such. -Original Message- From: TimM [mailto:timmay...@smarttech.com] Sent: April-29-14 9:44 AM To: wix-d...@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-devs] Is

Re: [WiX-users] Localized strings not in Wix Extensions

It is better to have everything in your wxl file, then you can change presentation strings in one spot, and leave your code alone :) You could use a hardcoded string but you will find in the long run it just isn't worth it. en-US is default (case-insensitive I think). Enjoy. -Original Mes

[WiX-users] HeatDirectory MSBuild task dying with BadImageFormatException

Hey everyone, Ok, I've added a BeforeBuild target in my wixproj to run heat on a directory using the HeatDirectory task. I see in my logs that msbuild is successfully calling lit, candle, etc. successfully but I get the following error from heat :( Thoughts? I get this whether I run msbuild

Re: [WiX-users] HeatDirectory MSBuild task dying with BadImageFormatException

? Stephen Tunney Nuance Communications, Inc. Solutions Architect, Imaging Division Waterloo, Ontario, Canada stephen.tun...@nuance.com 519-880-7463Office NUANCE.COM The experience speaks for itself (tm) -Original Message- From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com] Sent

[WiX-users] Managed Bootstrapper application - internal msi UI appearing *behind* the bootstrapper UI

Does anyone know how I can fix this? We are hitting this with an internal UI is being displayed on the screen. Doesn't look too good :( Stephen Tunney Nuance Communications, Inc. Solutions Architect, Imaging Division Waterloo, Ontario, Canada stephen.tun...@nuance.com

Re: [WiX-users] Managed Bootstrapper application - internal msi UI appearing *behind* the bootstrapper UI

bootstrapper UI I'm assuming you have this in your value in your MsiPackage chain? DisplayInternalUI="yes" On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Tunney, Stephen wrote: > Does anyone know how I can fix this? We are hitting this with an internal > UI is being displayed on the scre

[WiX-users] Bug in torch - wixmst output is not in XML format

Hey everyone, I've got the following command line for torch after applying melt to a WiX-built MSI. It is a fairly large MSI (500 megs with cabs embedded). Starting 'C:\Program Files (x86)\WiX Toolset v3.8\bin\torch.exe -nologo -p -xo -xi "C:\dev/out/Patch/RTM/Melted/MyMSI.x64/wixpdb/MyMSI.x64.

Re: [WiX-users] Is it possible to add an existing file to Visual Studio WiX Setup project without it making a local copy?

You can also do this by right clicking on the project and Add --> "Existing Item.." When you find the file you want, don't double click, go down to the Add button and you will notice a tiny arrow to the right, click and then select "Add As Link". That should do it, and eliminates having to mod

Re: [WiX-users] Bug in torch - wixmst output is not in XML format

etup.com] Sent: June-08-14 10:37 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Bug in torch - wixmst output is not in XML format On 6/8/2014 11:13 AM, Tunney, Stephen wrote: > Re: [WiX-users] Bug in torch - wixmst output is not in XML format -xo doesn't produce a text fil

Re: [WiX-users] Bug in torch - wixmst output is not in XML format

n 6/9/2014 9:06 AM, Tunney, Stephen wrote: > It might be a case of "The Mondays" but I'm at a loss at what you are getting > at :( What are these other files that might get output by torch? How can I > supress their output? Rename the .wixmst to .cab and open it in explore

[WiX-users] Build warning request

Hey WiX team, Can we perhaps put a compiler warning in if a bindpath isn't used? And perhaps also add a build error when a user tries to use pure wix patching method without a bindpath? Would be thrown during the light.exe phase when outputting a wixmsp file. Thoughts? Stephen Tunney Nuance

[WiX-users] Torch output, how to force wixmst XML output instead of CAB

Hey Bob, I had posted this question earlier but I guess it got lost in the piles of emails going out to your adoring fans ;) In my torch command I have -xi -xo set, and I'm still getting a cab file with a .wixmst extension? How do I force this to be the expected XML file? What causes the con

Re: [WiX-users] Build warning request

ifferences. From: Bob Arnson [b...@joyofsetup.com] Sent: June 12, 2014 6:48 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Build warning request On 6/12/2014 1:15 PM, Tunney, Stephen wrote: > Can we perhaps put a compiler warning in if a bindpath isn

Re: [WiX-users] Torch output, how to force wixmst XML output instead of CAB

instead of CAB On 6/12/2014 3:40 PM, Tunney, Stephen wrote: > I had posted this question earlier but I guess it got lost in the piles of > emails going out to your adoring fans ;) No, I'm just busy. :) > In my torch command I have -xi -xo set, and I'm still getting a cab fil

Re: [WiX-users] Torch output, how to force wixmst XML output instead of CAB

Also, I have been looking at this file in more detail. The file itself is encoded with ANSI, but the XML header tag states that the XML is in UTF-8. Is this intentional? -Original Message- From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com] Sent: June-12-14 9:01 PM To: General

Re: [WiX-users] Build warning request

e more or fewer executors based on available disks. So an MSI generated on E:\\ will not melt properly without bindpaths when melted on D:\\ or even a different path on the same disk. ____ From: Tunney, Stephen [stephen.tun...@nuance.com] Sent: June 12,

Re: [WiX-users] Main MSI with sub-msi's

A bundle can contain a collection of executables, MSIs, MSPs. They can all be compressed within the bundle. Read up on Burn and WixStdBA and WixManagedBootstrapper. Stephen Tunney Nuance Communications, Inc. Solutions Architect, Imaging Division Waterloo, Ontario, Canada stephen.tun...@nuance.

Re: [WiX-users] Torch output, how to force wixmst XML output instead of CAB

as the neat side effect that English text looks > exactly the same in UTF-8 as it did in ASCII, so > Americans don't even notice anything wrong. > > -Original Message- > From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com] > Sent: Thursday, June 12

Re: [WiX-users] Build warning request

I do believe the sample I gave for the last bug I fixed can show this exact behaviour. I will work on fixing this next week when I'm back from business travel. Think I have time to squeeze this in for 3.9? Stephen From: Bob Arnson [b...@joyofsetup.com]

Re: [WiX-users] heat throws error on Windows 7

Does "./MyFolder" exist? From: eric [eric.bu...@lmco.com] Sent: June 21, 2014 11:14 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] heat throws error on Windows 7 I ran heat from the commandline with a command in the following form: heat di

Re: [WiX-users] heat throws error on Windows 7

That sounds like a permissions problem to me. Check your windows-based ACLs for all files and folders involved in your process. Did you install WIX from a Cygwin command line? -Original Message- From: eric [mailto:eric.bu...@lmco.com] Sent: June-23-14 9:06 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourc

Re: [WiX-users] heat throws error on Windows 7

Just happy to be of assistance :) From: eric [eric.bu...@lmco.com] Sent: June 30, 2014 10:07 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] heat throws error on Windows 7 Thanks for the help, scubasteve! In my hunt, I realized that it was

Re: [WiX-users] How to mix hand-generated and auto-generated .wxs content

Sounds like you need to give a component group name in your heat call -cg MyComponentGroup Add the wxs file generated from heat to your project. Add the a ComponentGroupRef to your feature or another componentgroup depending on your preferences to the "hand rolled" wxs file. Done -Origina

Re: [WiX-users] How do I create a FirewallException for a port range?

Pre-processor loop Still kind of ugly but saves a LOT of XML -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@firegiant.com] Sent: July-10-14 3:14 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How do I create a FirewallException for a port ran

[WiX-users] Manager Bootstrapper issue with "requirement for .net framework"

Hello everyone, I'm attempting to write my first bootstrapper (YAY) and I've decided that the managed bootstrapper would be ideal for our organization. I'm trying to get a quick and dirty sample up and running with a dummy MSI inside that installs its own WXS file. Running WiX 3.8 RTM with VS

Re: [WiX-users] Manager Bootstrapper issue with "requirement for .net framework"

set. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Manager Bootstrapper issue with "requirement for .net framework" The configuration file must be named BootstrapperCore.config. The easiest thing to do is just add Name="BootstrapperCore.config" to the Payload of your config file. On Mon, Aug 18,

Re: [WiX-users] Burn to MSI -- Secure password -- Best Parctice

Is there a wiki article or anything on security best practices where this stuff could be captured a little more formally? -Original Message- From: Sean Hall [mailto:r.sean.h...@gmail.com] Sent: August-27-14 6:44 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Bu

Re: [WiX-users] What should i sign (digitaly)?

A signature doesn't just say "this is something I wrote" though. Authenticode *should* be used to ensure that what you have provided to your customers hasn't been modified in any way (malicious or not). Authenticode also assists with code getting around annoying anti-virus behaviour as well. W

Re: [WiX-users] LGHT0284: Support for more than 260 characthers in Path?

Does prepending the path with " \\?\" help out at all? http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bclteam/archive/2007/02/13/long-paths-in-net-part-1-of-3-kim-hamilton.aspx Stephen Tunney Nuance Communications, Inc. Solutions Architect, Imaging Division Waterloo, Ontario, Canada stephen.tun...@nuance.com 519-880-7

Re: [WiX-users] LGHT0284: Support for more than 260 characthers in Path?

are mostly SOL. > > _ > Short replies here. Complete answers over there: > http://www.firegiant.com/ > > > -Original Message- > From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com] > Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 7:15 AM > To: General discussion abou

[WiX-users] WiX 3.9 RTM

Hey Rob, Bob Just curious as to how you feel about the stability of 3.9.901.0 (RC3). Do you feel that it will become the RTM? Thanks, Stephen Tunney Nuance Communications, Inc. Solutions Architect, Imaging Division Waterloo, Ontario, Canada stephen.tun...@nuance.com

[WiX-users] WiX 3.x Installs are mutually exclusive. Why? :)

Hey guys, Just ramping up to upgrade from 3.7 to 3.9 and it appears as though I can only have 1 version installed (via the installer) at a time on my development box. This has me a touch concerned. I would really like to maintain older versions of our product with the version of WiX that gene

Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.x Installs are mutually exclusive. Why? :)

h)Wix.targets $(WixToolPath)wixtasks.dll in your project to point it at the desired WiX version. -Original Message- From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com] Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2014 1:29 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Wi

[WiX-users] Directory ID character case - Does it matter

essor foreach. There are hundreds of files, components, and directories that match this exact pattern for us, and the list of languages we are going to be supporting going forward will only get larger. Thanks! Stephen Tunney Stephen Tunney Nuance Communications, Inc. Solutions Architect, Imaging Div

Re: [WiX-users] Directory ID character case - Does it matter

this exact pattern for us, and the list of languages we are going to be supporting going forward will only get larger. Thanks! Stephen Tunney Stephen Tunney Nuance Communications, Inc. Solutions Architect, Imaging Division Waterloo, Ontario, Canada stephen.tun...@nuance.com<mailto:st

Re: [WiX-users] Directory ID character case - Does it matter

.com -Original Message- From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 11:15 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Directory ID character case - Does it matter Thank you for your fast response, John. Now the next ques

Re: [WiX-users] Generate mst files based on wixout instead of MSIs (to reduce build time)

Rule #1: You must use bindpaths in your RTM msi. -Original Message- From: SE [mailto:evensi...@gmail.com] Sent: November-12-14 1:59 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Generate mst files based on wixout instead of MSIs (to reduce build time) Hi Tobias, I'm

[WiX-users] .wixpdb usage

Hello Everyone and good day, As part of our automated build process I back up all generated .wixpdb files. I'm just wondering how useful these are when debugging a crash or hang of an MSI when given a dump file from a customer. Can they be used at all? I need the .wixpdb files for generating

Re: [WiX-users] .wixpdb usage

t.com/ -Original Message- From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 10:32 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] .wixpdb usage Hello Everyone and good day, As part of our automated build process I back u

Re: [WiX-users] Patch sequencing problem - Small update + a supseding hotfix

I'm going to assume that you have the binaryref tag in your patch family. The "pure WiX" patching method has a bug in torch that doesn't update the path for binary entries in the upgrade path. Nor does melt extract the binary file for you. You will need to do these things manually at the momen

Re: [WiX-users] Patch sequencing problem - Small update + a supseding hotfix

Superseding really *should* mean that the update you are providing is meant to include the fixes from all previous fixes. If the result is a file gets "rolled back" as part of a hotfix then so be it. Stephen Tunney Nuance Communications, Inc. Solutions Architect, Imaging Division Waterloo, Onta

[WiX-users] Unhandled exception when launching MBA

Hey everyone, Trying to create an MBA based on .NET 4.5. Everything compiled correctly but when I launch the exe I get an unhandled exception: "An unhandled Microsoft >NET Framework exception occurred in ExpressMBA.exe [4400]." When I attach the VS 2013 debugger the breakpoint is sitting at t

Re: [WiX-users] Unhandled exception when launching MBA

Bingo! That did it :) Thank you for the heads up Phill!!! -Original Message- From: Phill Hogland [mailto:phogl...@rimage.com] Sent: December-02-14 2:15 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Unhandled exception when launching MBA I'm not sure if this comment wi

Re: [WiX-users] What is this code doing?

It is ensuring that an empty directory named "Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Help" It seems a bit odd that DirectoryRef elements aren't being used. We would need to see more of the Fragment/file to know EXACTLY where this directory structure will land. is created. Stephen Tun

Re: [WiX-users] Creating patches using wixout (-bf flag deprecated)

You need to start using the bindpath variables in your wxs sources. Melt will take care of pointing the wixpdb to the new location. -Original Message- From: Nick Ramirez [mailto:nickra...@hotmail.com] Sent: January-08-15 2:39 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-user

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