Re: [WiX-users] Documenting installation packages

+1 on this... something like C#'s XML Documentation or Sandcastle for WiX would be huge. Seeing that WiX projects are just XML files, probably the solution would involve some sort of XSL translation. DexterSinister wrote: > > How are folks here documenting their installation packages ? > > Ar

[WiX-users] Letters in ProductVersion

Our product versions mostly conform to the major.minor.build convention specified by the MSI standard, but sometimes we have to put letters in the strings to indicate an update or "hotfix", i.e. 1.0.5.U1 or 2.4.16.HF02. Obviously this is a big no-no to have letters in ProductVersion property. Wor

Re: [WiX-users] Letters in ProductVersion

here that has to deal with weird product versions... lesterbangs wrote: > > Our product versions mostly conform to the major.minor.build convention > specified by the MSI standard, but sometimes we have to put letters in the > strings to indicate an update or "hotfix", i

[WiX-users] Optimal structure of a wxs file

Per the howto in the v3 helpfile, I've been first defining the folder structure of a project then adding the files via DirectoryRef's. Now that I am adding more functionality to my projects, I find it much easier to work with if I separate the file into logical chunks, such as IIS configuration

[WiX-users] Accessing Oracle via ODBC

Our products run on an Oracle 9i/10g backend; one of the requirements for installation is to verify a particular version of a DB schema on the server. Right now this is accomplished via running "sqlplus.exe @scriptname.sql", logging the output to a file, then parsing the result. In order to ma

Re: [WiX-users] How to GAC .Net assemblies the correct way?

Using WiX 3.0.5106.0, I'm not seeing this behavior; Inside a fragment, I am specifying file entries under a directory ref like so: etc... When the product is installed, the assemblies appear in both MyFolder, and the GAC. This is contrary to what Eitan is saying (Ass

[WiX-users] Looping through registry keys

Our products require Oracle. The default Oracle Home on the target machine needs to be determined in order to configure the product. This value is stored in the registry but unfortunately it is not easy to retrieve due to the convoluted way Oracle configures multiple homes. Basically the proced

[WiX-users] LaunchConditions + Bootstrapper

I am using the Bootstrap Manifest Generator to build a bootstrapper which will search for and install third-party prerequisites on the target machine (Flash, Acrobat, etc). Since BMG-- and most other bootstrapper builders I have encountered-- leave the bare MSI exposed in the same location a

[WiX-users] Cleaning up a messy InstallShield

I am converting an installer written in InstallShield 12 (non-MSI based) to WiX. The InstallShield one manages to violate nearly every best practice, so even forcing the end-user to do a complete uninstall of it before running the MSI leaves the system in a potential mess. Some of the things I h

Re: [WiX-users] how to suppress the batch file dos prompt in wix?

Hi Hukum, you can achieve this using "QtExec". Look in the WiX.chm help file under Advanced WiX Topics->Standard Custom Actions->Quiet Execution Custom Action for more info. Hukumchand Shah wrote: > > Hi All, > > I am executing some batch files from wix custom actions. I want to > suppress >

Re: [WiX-users] Cleaning up a messy InstallShield

again for your help, and Chris too! Richard-45 wrote: > > > In article <1240352013685-2672846.p...@n2.nabble.com>, > lesterbangs writes: > >> In this case, is it ok to run this cleanup procedure as an immediate >> action? >> What are the potential pitfalls