[WiX-users] Condition based on a string in custom action

2011-08-29 Thread Mark
have tried with and without CDATA tags, but can't get the behavior I want regardless of what I do! http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi";> ... ... Installed AND NOT UPGRADINGPRODUCTCODE AND (ARPINSTALLLOCATION >< $(var.ProductName)) ... The installation works beautif

Re: [WiX-users] Condition based on a string in custom action

2011-08-29 Thread Mark
Unless I'm totally off base, the line provided does persist ARPINSTALLLOCATION in the unistall environment (it's being explicitly set after CostFinalize regardless of whether this is an initial installation, repair, an update, or a removal.) Am I mistaken? As for CUSTOMDIR, I didn't provide thos

[WiX-users] Having to click twice to proceed.

2010-09-17 Thread Mark
proceed. If I go back to the SetupType dialog, it's fine, it's always just the first time in a particular installation session, almost like it's having to go away and determine something. Any ideas anyone? Thanks, Mark. ---

[WiX-users] Having to click twice to proceed.

2010-09-17 Thread Mark
proceed. If I go back to the SetupType dialog, it's fine, it's always just the first time in a particular installation session, almost like it's having to go away and determine something. Any ideas anyone? Thanks, Mark. ---

Re: [WiX-users] (Heath Stewart's Blog) : installing ps snapins with wix, not in the GAC

2009-07-30 Thread Mark
Bob Arnson wrote: > Mark Parker wrote: >> Yes, WiX v3.0.5217. >> > > Use the RTM version of WiX: 3.0.5419.0. > Just tried again with 3.0.5419.0, with no change in the results. Any other suggestions? --

[WiX-users] (still) trying to install a PowerShell SnapIn using WiX

2009-09-28 Thread Mark
out, it builds fine (but doesn't register the snapin, of course), and if I leave the AssemblyApplication attribute out, I get an error about strong names (which is expected, it's not strong-named, but I don't want it to go in the GAC)

Re: [WiX-users] (still) trying to install a PowerShell SnapIn using WiX

2009-09-28 Thread Mark
Simon Dahlbacka wrote: > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Mark wrote: > >> I'm (still) trying to install a SnapIn using WiX and PSExtension. I'm >> (still) getting the same error, however, which doesn't make any sense to >> me, and I believe it'

[WiX-users] Contrary to the impression some may get from Inga Saffron's Changing Skyline column in today's Inquirer, Convention Hall is not by any measure a lost cause.

2007-03-25 Thread Mark
Or will Penn press on with final preparations for the total destruction of Convention Hall? The task force has released two draft documents: Historic Preservation Task Force Analysis and Recommendations (pdf) and Preservation Practices in Comparable Cities (pdf). Since its opening in 1930, Con

[WiX-users] ServiceInstall on EXE that is already installed?

2008-02-14 Thread mark
l?id=1009886> http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1009886 (method 2) Thanks, Mark (re-posted using the proper sender) - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http:/

Re: [WiX-users] Does anyone know why the website is down

2013-09-09 Thread Mark Risen
Thanks. It looks like their DNS server is down. Cheers! .Mark -Original Message- From: Philippe Gorley [mailto:gorley.phili...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 1:23 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Does anyone know why the website is down

[WiX-users] Does anyone know why the website is down

2013-09-09 Thread Mark Risen
And/or when it will be back up? -- Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more! Discover the easy way to master current and previous Microsoft technologies and advance your career. Get an incredib

[WiX-users] Changing configuration and/or platform in solution - Configuration Manger does nothing

2013-09-17 Thread Mark Risen
Ok, this one is particularly annoying. I have 3 configurations for my solution - Debug, UAT, and Release. Debug compiles fine and I suspect Release will too. However, UAT, which is Debug with different endpoints, etc., does not compile. The problem is that the WIX projects are all set to Debug/

Re: [WiX-users] Changing configuration and/or platform in solution - Configuration Manger does nothing

2013-09-17 Thread Mark Risen
I'm not sure why, but I had to unload the installer projects and explicitly add the build configurations I needed. Cheers! .Mark -Original Message- From: Mark Risen [mailto:mri...@realtyim.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 3:18 PM To: 'wix-users@lists.sourceforge.ne

[WiX-users] Uninstall previous version with new version

2013-09-19 Thread Mark Risen
I remember using this feature from the past. I would have an .msi that is version 1 and another being version 2. I install version 1 on my machine and then I am able to right click the version 2 .msi and select "uninstall" and have it succeed. Does anyone know how to do this? It's quite conveni

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall previous version with new version

2013-09-20 Thread Mark Risen
ll need to find out how to update that within TFS. Cheers! .Mark -Original Message- From: Blair Murri [mailto:os...@live.com] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 10:43 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall previous version with n

[WiX-users] (no subject)

2011-02-24 Thread Mark Turek
Using the following command 'msiexec /i SampleUpgrade.msi REINSTALL=ALL REINSTALLMODE=vomus' for minor upgrade causes the following rule not to be obeyed FILEEXISTS Is there any way I can do the minor upgrade and have this condition to be respected so that my services does not get

[WiX-users] Error 1316 and browser download

2011-03-02 Thread Mark Turek
If you download an msi file and choose to run the file (rather than save it), Internet Explorer will add a number to the filename in brackets (such as[1] or [2] etc...). Windows Installer saves this filename in the registry and expects the same filename if you run an upgrade/repair or uninstall

[WiX-users] Error 1316 and browser download‏

2011-03-02 Thread Mark Turek
If you download an msi file and choose to run the file (rather than save it), Internet Explorer will add a number to the filename in brackets (such as[1] or [2] etc...). Windows Installer saves this filename in the registry and expects the same filename if you run an upgrade/repair or uninstall

[WiX-users] Using a file from media in a custom action.

2011-03-07 Thread Mark Tempel
would mean I'm including it in my installer twice. I'd like to avoid that. Thanks, Mark Tempel Sr. Software Engineer Shavlik Technologies LLC. -- What You Don't Know About Data Connectivity CAN Hurt You This

[WiX-users] Detecting uninstall or minor upgrade

2011-03-07 Thread Mark Turek
How do I detect uninstall or minor upgrade or first time install. I looked at the values in the table in the following article http://stackoverflow.com/questions/320921/how-to-add-a-wix-custom-action-that-happens-only-on-uninstall-via-msi and I don't think they are correct! Are they? Why do I n

Re: [WiX-users] Using a file from media in a custom action.

2011-03-08 Thread Mark Tempel
ve to live for the product). I was hoping someone here know how to get this file out of the cab and into a temp directory from a custom action. Thanks for the suggestion though. --mark Mark Tempel Sr Software Engineer Shavlik Technologies LLC. On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Wilson, Phil wrote: &g

[WiX-users] Installing MOF files for WMI provider

2011-05-13 Thread Mark Syms
Hello, Can anyone suggest what is the best way of get WIX to install a MOF file for a WMI provider that we’re developing? Currently it looks like we'll need a custom action to call mofcomp but that seems a bit icky if there is a better way. Thanks,

[WiX-users] How to burn petrified wood? Upgrading from VS 2005 to 2010

2011-07-15 Thread Mark Modrall
ill only offered VS 2005 integration. I haven't worked with Windows Server 2008 much and I haven't seen this installer error before. Is this a Wix compatibility issue or an OS issue? Thanks Mark

Re: [WiX-users] How to burn petrified wood? Upgrading from VS 2005 to 2010

2011-07-17 Thread Mark Modrall
t in there. I know this is an ignorant question, but what's the relation between Tallow and light? Thanks Mark -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2011 1:03 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML tools

Re: [WiX-users] How to burn petrified wood? Upgrading from VS 2005 to 2010

2011-07-17 Thread Mark Modrall
s are (unavailable). I'm not prompted for upgrade nor does VS appear to do them. It 2.0 => 3.5 just too big a jump for automated upgrade? Thanks Mark -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2011 1:03 PM To: General discussio

Re: [WiX-users] How to burn petrified wood? Upgrading from VS 2005 to 2010

2011-07-18 Thread Mark Modrall
"1" off, it says it's required. Warnings are better than errors, but I'm trying to understand what's driving them. Thanks Mark -Original Message- From: Pally Sandher [mailto:pally.sand...@iesve.com] Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 7:00 AM To: General discussion f

Re: [WiX-users] How to burn petrified wood? Upgrading from VS 2005 to 2010

2011-07-18 Thread Mark Modrall
n* the msi are instead peer directories to it in MyProduct\bin\Release\. Seems like there's some 2.0/3.5 incompatibility speed bump I haven't internalized yet... Any tips? Thanks Mark -Original Message- From: Mark Modrall [mailto:mmodr...@mzinga.com] Sent: Monday, Jul

Re: [WiX-users] How to burn petrified wood? Upgrading from VS 2005 to 2010

2011-07-19 Thread Mark Modrall
sion and the root Directory Id="TARGETDIR" instead of INSTALLDIR. I've found some 3.5 sample projects, and the biggest difference I can see is a lot more use of DirectoryRef and ComponentRef in . Does anyone see if I'm doing something obviously wrong in a 3.5 sen

Re: [WiX-users] How to burn petrified wood? Upgrading from VS 2005 to 2010

2011-07-19 Thread Mark Modrall
to the machine. To run things that need more serious access, I take it I should have an attribute Impersonate="no"? Thanks mark -Original Message- From: Bob Arnson [mailto:b...@joyofsetup.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 10:33 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re

Re: [WiX-users] How to burn petrified wood? Upgrading from VS 2005 to 2010

2011-07-19 Thread Mark Modrall
ode is done, it sets that registry flag to show it's been done. As I said a lot that stuff just used to slide by in Windows Server 2003 when running as an administrator... Thanks Mark -Original Message- From: Bob Arnson [mailto:b...@joyofsetup.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 11

Re: [WiX-users] How to burn petrified wood? Upgrading from VS 2005 to 2010

2011-07-20 Thread Mark Modrall
ing devenv.exe on the command line instead? Thanks Mark Compile: C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Installer XML v3.5\bin\candle.exe -d"DevEnvDir=*Undefined if not building from within Visual Studio*" -dSolutionDir=C:\svn\trunk\Installation\Wix\ -dSolutionExt=.sln -dSolutionFileName=Al

Re: [WiX-users] How to burn petrified wood? Upgrading from VS 2005 to 2010

2011-07-20 Thread Mark Modrall
result the outputs are not the same. It does work if I use devenv.exe from the command line so I guess I'll stick with that... Thanks Mark -Original Message- From: Tobias S [mailto:tobias.s1...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 11:37 AM To: General discussion for Windows Instal

Re: [WiX-users] How to burn petrified wood? Upgrading from VS 2005 to 2010

2011-07-20 Thread Mark Modrall
that extra directory declaration? Obviously there's something I'm missing. Thanks Mark Included in http://www.prospero.com"; InstallerVe

[WiX-users] Accessing system32 folder on 64bit machines

2011-08-09 Thread Mark Simonetti
;t help on Windows 32. Thanks, Mark. -- uberSVN's rich system and user administration capabilities and model configuration take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it.

Re: [WiX-users] Accessing system32 folder on 64bit machines

2011-08-10 Thread Mark Simonetti
Surely that only sets the variable at compile time? Mark. -- On 10/08/2011 08:17, maksim.vazhe...@emc.com wrote: > You can simply use [SystemFolder] for 32-bit package and [System64Folder] for > 64-bit package. > > > > > > > >Id="

[WiX-users] Installers on the newer, fussier OS'es

2011-08-12 Thread Mark Modrall
he box or something? Thanks Mark -- Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich system, user administration capabilities and model configuration. Take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and t

[WiX-users] question in Wix 2.0

2011-08-22 Thread Mark Modrall
Am I doing something obviously wrong? Thanks mark -- uberSVN's rich system and user administration capabilities and model configuration take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and

Re: [WiX-users] question in Wix 2.0

2011-08-23 Thread Mark Modrall
all system services. I'm an admin on the box so the latter portion of the message doesn't seem to apply, but it didn't seem to like either of the alternatives... Thanks mark -Original Message- From: Michael Osmond [mailto:mosm...@baytech.com.au] Sent: Monday, August 22,

Re: [WiX-users] question in Wix 2.0

2011-08-23 Thread Mark Modrall
ing Wix 3.5. So now I can tell the people who want this fixed that they'll need to take the newer Wix and I can stop pestering people here for debugging help on the Dead Sea Scrolls :) Thanks Mark -Original Message- From: Mark Modrall [mailto:mmodr...@mzinga.com] Sent: Tuesday, Au

[WiX-users] Dependency warnings I don't quite get...

2011-09-23 Thread Mark Modrall
ke things should be okay, so what am I missing? Thanks Mark -- All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraud

[WiX-users] Build vs rebuild with wix

2011-09-23 Thread Mark Modrall
ask whether the wixproj's remembered enough state to make a good differentiation between build and rebuild? Just asking because our Wix project is taking 20 minutes to run rebuild and if it could take a good stab as build it might reduce the build

Re: [WiX-users] Dependency warnings I don't quite get...

2011-09-24 Thread Mark Modrall
rs. I mean, it *looks* like PTCoreModule is declaring the same language and version as all the Dependencies, but the errors are coming anyway. That's what i don't get... Thanks Mark From: Rob Mensching [r...@robmensching.com] Sent: Saturday, Sept

Re: [WiX-users] Dependency warnings I don't quite get...

2011-09-24 Thread Mark Modrall
Thanks Bob and Ed... Actually installing the msi on a machine, I see that the merge module did, in fact, get into the package. It's there post install and nothing would run without it. That's among the things that puzzles me about the warning. T

Re: [WiX-users] Dependency warnings I don't quite get...

2011-09-25 Thread Mark Modrall
etting the warning. Thanks Mark -Original Message- From: Bob Arnson [mailto:b...@joyofsetup.com] Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2011 3:21 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Dependency warnings I don't quite get... On 24-Sep-11 15:06, Mark Modrall wrote:

Re: [WiX-users] Dependency warnings I don't quite get...

2011-09-26 Thread Mark Modrall
Thanks Bill... I just checked the man page for the Dependency element (http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/wix_xsd_dependency.htm) and I don't see a GUID attribute on the node. Is it just missing from the documentation? Mark -Original Message- From: bpackard [mailto:bill

Re: [WiX-users] Dependency warnings I don't quite get...

2011-09-26 Thread Mark Modrall
D'oh... The html encoding of your example threw me... I get it now. Guid goes *in* the RequiredId... Thanks mark -Original Message- From: bpackard [mailto:bill.pack...@kepware.com] Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 9:45 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-

Re: [WiX-users] Dependency warnings I don't quite get...

2011-09-26 Thread Mark Modrall
Thanks Bill, adding the guide to the dependency id seems to have done the trick! Mark -Original Message- From: bpackard [mailto:bill.pack...@kepware.com] Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 9:45 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Dependency warnings I don&#

Re: [WiX-users] Strange behavior with date modifying of installed files

2011-09-28 Thread Mark Modrall
n was FDR's last Fireside chat?" shouldn't be "Depends... what day is it today?" Mark -Original Message- From: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@iswix.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 10:59 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.; General dis

[WiX-users] Dealing with ICE48 warning

2011-09-28 Thread Mark Modrall
ny guesses why some directories would seem to work and others not? Seems like I should just live with the warnings until I figure out how to do it right... Thanks mark -- All the data continuously generated in your I

Re: [WiX-users] Dealing with ICE48 warning

2011-09-29 Thread Mark Modrall
I re-read some of the posts I found on Google, and in them they say to move the custom action to "before CostFinalize" where I had before CostInitialize. I made the change, and it worked. Not clear why it seemed to work partially when done before CostInitialize, though. T

Re: [WiX-users] Dealing with ICE48 warning

2011-10-03 Thread Mark Modrall
our little utility using WMI instead of running it manually on the spot. So again, anyone have any clue why running the msi locally with TARGETDIR set in a custom action would result in the directories being placed in the wrong spots? And why running the same msi through WMI would put them in t

Re: [WiX-users] Dealing with ICE48 warning

2011-10-04 Thread Mark Modrall
Thanks for the response... I tried replacing my type 51 with After CostFinalize, but now I get an error "The folder path '?' contains an invalid character" when I run the installer locally. Not sure where the ? is coming from... Mark -Original Message--

Re: [WiX-users] Dealing with ICE48 warning

2011-10-04 Thread Mark Modrall
Nope... The actual path is just as vanilla as the example below. Straight 7-bit ascii... Thanks mark -Original Message- From: Peter Shirtcliffe [mailto:pshirtcli...@sdl.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 10:24 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject

Re: [WiX-users] Dealing with ICE48 warning

2011-10-04 Thread Mark Modrall
aling with ICE48 warning Could it be the file's encoding ? Declared as UTF-8 but written in something else maybe ? -Original Message----- From: Mark Modrall [mailto:mmodr...@mzinga.com] Sent: 04 October 2011 15:17 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re:

Re: [WiX-users] Dealing with ICE48 warning

2011-10-04 Thread Mark Modrall
51 approach Before CostFinalize, now some saying type 35 after. I'm wondering if just avoiding the specific case of TARGETDIR would push one way or the other? Thanks Mark -Original Message- From: Peter Shirtcliffe [mailto:pshirtcli...@sdl.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 11:

Re: [WiX-users] Dealing with ICE48 warning

2011-10-04 Thread Mark Modrall
tFinalize appeared to do the trick. Things got installed where I expected when running the msi locally. Thanks Mark -Original Message- From: Peter Shirtcliffe [mailto:pshirtcli...@sdl.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 12:10 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Su

Re: [WiX-users] Dealing with ICE48 warning

2011-10-05 Thread Mark Modrall
e else. A lot of the binary modules had a inside the module's , so all those INSTALLDIRs are differentiated by the guid... Thanks Mark -Original Message- From: Peter Shirtcliffe [mailto:pshirtcli...@sdl.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 4:38 AM To: General discussion for Wi

[WiX-users] ConfigureIIs7Exec: Error 0x8007000d: Failed get sites section

2011-11-16 Thread Mark Capaldi
this package will not install on the W2K8 server? Thanks in advance! Regards, Mark Capaldi -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application

[WiX-users] multiline edit control type

2009-12-16 Thread Mark Athay
X or in the underlying Windows Installer? The way it is we don't feel that customers would know how to use the UI unless we spelled it out for them in help text, and we obviously are not anxious to do that either. I'd appreciate any feedback anyone might have. Thank you! Mark

[WiX-users] missing install files

2010-02-22 Thread Mark Pietras
In short: when I install my newer msi package over an older existing install, the old files are deleted but are not replaced with their newer versions. I end up with all "overlapping files" gone, and only newly-added files remain. For example: Old WXS: New WXS:

Re: [WiX-users] missing install files

2010-02-23 Thread Mark Pietras
advice on if/when/how I should transition to a single-File-per-Component strategy? Thanks, Mark. From: Blair To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Sent: Mon, February 22, 2010 6:30:28 PM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] missing install files The

[WiX-users] Using Microsoft CRT 8.0 and 9.0 merge modules in the same MSI

2010-03-23 Thread Mark Simonetti
icy_9_0_Microsoft_VC90_CRT_x86.msm'. This action is likely colliding with an action in the database that is being created. The colliding action may have been authored in the database or merged in from another merge module. If this is a standard action, it is likely co

[WiX-users] Error 1923 when installing service

2010-03-28 Thread Mark Simonetti
must use a custom account created by the installer. Any thoughts? Thanks! Mark. -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune ap

Re: [WiX-users] Error 1923 when installing service

2010-03-28 Thread Mark Simonetti
Windows XP and Windows 7 just fine. Thanks, Mark. -- On 28/03/2010 14:23, Mark Simonetti wrote: > Hi all, > I'm getting an error 1923 when trying to install a service. It works > fine if a use the "NT AUTHORITY/NETWORK SERVICE" username, but I'm > trying to use

[WiX-users] Problem with build order under MSBuild 4.0

2010-04-14 Thread Sironi, Mark
s manager) and 3.5.1602 (the most recent build). Can anyone offer any help? -- Mark Sironi -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tun

Re: [WiX-users] Problem with build order under MSBuild 4.0

2010-04-14 Thread Sironi, Mark
ayers of recursive MSBuild calls somewhere. -- Mark -Original Message- From: Sironi, Mark Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 4:15 PM To: 'wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net' Subjec

[WiX-users] A couple of Wix 2.0 questions

2010-04-20 Thread Mark Modrall
Manager, but none of the methods I found with Google appeared to work. None of the supposed pre-defined variables existed, and I couldn't put a group in a 2.0 wix project. Are there any preprocessor variables in 2.0 that will tell you what configuration you&#x

Re: [WiX-users] A couple of Wix 2.0 questions

2010-04-21 Thread Mark Modrall
I noticed that it's legal to have and as a child of any of the sequences... Can you put InstallFiles and InstallFinalize in one sequence (say the AdminExecuteSequence) and run InstallUtil from another? And which order do the Sequences get run in? Thanks Mark -Original Me

Re: [WiX-users] A couple of Wix 2.0 questions

2010-04-21 Thread Mark Modrall
Another thing I just noticed... In Wix 2.0, doesn't seem to work on env variables... I have things like When I ran the Wix project when $(env.TheBuildFolder) was defined, it still went to the else... Is there a way to really test for env variable definitions? Thanks

Re: [WiX-users] Windows 7 x64: Windows application x64 is looking for MSVCR71.dll

2010-04-27 Thread Mark Modrall
(both .net and unmanaged). Their unmanaged dll didn't depend on msvcr71 (though I forget which rev the x64 build was on). Same thing with the Oracle drivers (and the .Net wrapper). Thanks Mark -Original Message- From: Wilson, Phil [mailto:phil.wil...@invensys.com] Sent: Tuesday, Apri

[WiX-users] Building merge module - The language of this installation package is not supported by your system

2010-05-30 Thread Mark Sargent
Hi all, First time caller, long time listener. I am migrating a merge module from Wix 2.0 to 3.5. I used the WixCop to perform the migration. Unfortunately I keep striking the "The language of this installation package is not supported by your system". The merge module contains some is localis

[WiX-users] ServiceInstall/ServiceDependency

2010-06-29 Thread Mark Modrall
t run until the other dependency is installed) or b) Is there any way to make the msi conditional (i.e. either Sql Server *or* SqlExpress are there)? Thanks Mark -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What wi

[WiX-users] warning CNDL5153: The PerfCounter element has been deprecated

2013-03-03 Thread Mark Weaver
vide translations of the counter names, but PerformanceCounter seems to be limited to a single language (that's not actually a problem for me, but it seems to be missing from the model). Am I just misunderstanding how it's

[WiX-users] How to make a "Normal" program shortcut?

2013-05-22 Thread Mark Ransom
I have a problem with the shortcuts generated by our current Wix setup - when a user right-clicks the desktop icon and pins it to the taskbar, that taskbar icon is lost when they upgrade to the next version. I presume it's because the old shortcut is invalidated and a new one replaces it, rendering

Re: [WiX-users] Installing files in second directory chain?

2013-06-12 Thread Mark . Itzcovitz
Alan, Instead of using your "ConfigDir" try using "CommonAppDataFolder" - this is a known Windows Installer property. Regards, Mark -Original Message- From: Alan Y. Balkany [mailto:alank...@yahoo.com] Sent: 11 June 2013 23:16 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [WiX-users] App-pool creation

2013-06-14 Thread Mark . Itzcovitz
The answer is here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11687870/wix-installer-always-changes-apppool-to-enable-32bit-app Mark Itzcovitz VISTA Technology Consultant Publishing Technology plc T: +44 1865 397849 mark.itzcov...@publishingtechnology.com www.publishingtechnology.com Publishing

[WiX-users] Newbie x64 msi question

2010-08-04 Thread Mark Modrall
make all the entries in both since the msil code could run in either circumstance... Thanks Mark -- The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm

[WiX-users] running ngen from an msi?

2010-08-06 Thread Mark Modrall
after next reboot or something? Thanks Mark -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev __

Re: [WiX-users] Having to click twice to proceed.

2010-09-17 Thread Mark Simonetti
PS - it only seems to do it when the LEGACY_APPDATA is not set (i.e. the registry search fails). Thanks, Mark. -- On 17/09/2010 10:36, Mark wrote: >Hi all, > I've made a copy of the wixui_mondo.wxs file to customize. I've changed > the SetupType dialog to goto on

Re: [WiX-users] Having to click twice to proceed.

2010-09-17 Thread Mark Simonetti
Hi Pally, Thanks for your response. It hasn't made any difference though :-( Nothing extra appears in the log between the first click and the second click.. Mark. On 17/09/2010 12:53, Pally Sandher wrote: > Try changing your conditions to > (LEGACY_APPDATA) AND (WixUI_

Re: [WiX-users] Having to click twice to proceed.

2010-09-20 Thread Mark Simonetti
fails (i.e. the registy value is not set), and it only does it on the SetupTypeDlg - I have the same check in CusomizeDlg. Mark. On 17/09/2010 16:29, Pally Sandher wrote: > I didn't expect that to help much to be honest. WiXUI_InstallMode isn't > being set until you click the bu

Re: [WiX-users] Having to click twice to proceed.

2010-09-20 Thread Mark Simonetti
No I was not dismissing your advice at all, just trying to understand the problem more fully. I've changed it now as per your advice and now it seems to work. Thanks for your help. Mark. On 20/09/2010 10:55, Pally Sandher wrote: > > From WiXUI_Mondo.wxs > >

[WiX-users] heat.exe runtime error (r6034)

2010-09-21 Thread Mark Simonetti
ar ago with postgres 8.3, but I think using a slightly earlier version of the WiX toolset, and I do not remember getting this problem. Does anyone have any ideas about what might be causing this? Thanks, Mark. --

[WiX-users] Component installation status not affected by condition?

2010-09-23 Thread Mark Simonetti
(via the checkboxes) the component installation status does not change. Is their a way I can make this work or will I have to have them as "features" instead? Thanks, Mark. -- Start uncovering the many adv

Re: [WiX-users] Component installation status not affected by condition?

2010-09-23 Thread Mark Simonetti
is what I have: INSTALLDESKTOPSHORTCUT And in the feature: .. .. I must be missing something. Thanks, Mark. -- On 23/09/2010 12:19, Pally Sandher wrote: > Set Transitive="yes" on those Components -> > http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/wix_xsd_c

[WiX-users] WiX 3.0 to 3.5 issue

2010-09-26 Thread Mark Simonetti
this from searching around. Can anyone help? Thanks, Mark. -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud comput

Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.0 to 3.5 issue

2010-09-26 Thread Mark Simonetti
Okay thanks :-) Mark. On 26/09/2010 15:53, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 15:22:26 +0100 > Mark Simonetti wrote: > >> I've just upgraded to Visual Studio 2010 from 2008, so installed WiX >> 3.5 instead of WiX 3.0. >> When I try and build my custom act

[WiX-users] Application registry keys best practise

2010-10-08 Thread Mark Simonetti
be removed if the application is uninstalled keeping it clean. Thanks, Mark. -- Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend

Re: [WiX-users] heat.exe runtime error (r6034)

2010-10-12 Thread Mark Simonetti
Still get the same problem here too. Not sure that there's a solution at the minute. Anyone got any ideas on this? Thanks, Mark. On 12/10/2010 08:20, zero51 wrote: > Hi, > > I got the same problem. I am trying to harves by using heat a whole > installation of SQL Server 20

[WiX-users] Unset property on command line?

2010-10-12 Thread Mark Simonetti
Is it possible to unset a property, i.e. do the *opposite* of this: setup.msi SOME_PROPERTY=1 Reason being, if I set SOME_PROPERTY=0, the checkbox that sets this value in the installer remains ticked because it requires the property to be unset, not set to 0. Thanks, Mark

Re: [WiX-users] Unset property on command line?

2010-10-12 Thread Mark Simonetti
Yep that worked, thanks :-) Mark. On 12/10/2010 21:41, Christopher Painter wrote: > try: > > setup.msi SOME_PROPERTY="" > > > Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog > Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that

[WiX-users] Include question.

2010-10-13 Thread Mark Modrall
form would resolve to something like Why wouldn't Web.config, etc get installed as a result? There are no errors in the msi build... Thanks Mark -- Beautiful is writing

Re: [WiX-users] Include question.

2010-10-18 Thread Mark Modrall
Thanks for the reply... I'm not adding any ComponentRef, so that's probably it. Just out of curiosity, adding a under a is automatically included but file references (bundled under a ) won't? Thanks Mark -Original Message- From: jhennessey [mailto:jack.hennes...@hy

Re: [WiX-users] Include question.

2010-10-20 Thread Mark Modrall
I did make sure that the msi wix file did actually have a and for the modules being produced... Thanks Mark -Original Message- From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 1:21 AM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.&#

Re: [WiX-users] Include question.

2010-10-21 Thread Mark Modrall
or with as a child of but it won't include it either... I may just have to upgrade as you say... Probably long overdue... Thanks Mark -Original Message- From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 8:00 PM To: 'General discussion

[WiX-users] bypass fileinuse

2011-02-04 Thread Mark Turek
I have a requirement where installation needs to proceed even if the exe (actually any installable component) is running and loaded in the memory. The installation should be silent and whenever currently running executable is closed the next startup should proceed with the newly installed one. T

Re: [WiX-users] bypass fileinuse

2011-02-04 Thread Mark Turek
a new copy and runs that. Of course you still need a core launcher app to deal with, but overall I find this works reasonably well. Andreas Mertens NVision Ideas Inc. - Original Message - From: Mark Turek Date: Friday, February 4, 2011 1:28 pm Subject: [WiX-users] bypass fileinuse >

[WiX-users] Wix and "tricky" environment variables

2011-02-09 Thread Mark Modrall
oo, so I'm not sure if I have to declare what phase the custom action will be executed in, etc. Am I on the right track? Thanks Mark -- The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio

Re: [WiX-users] Wix and "tricky" environment variables

2011-02-10 Thread Mark Modrall
syntax and function and Wix would act on them pretty much the same way. Mark -Original Message- From: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@deploymentengineering.com] Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 6:50 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [W

Re: [WiX-users] Wix and "tricky" environment variables

2011-02-10 Thread Mark Modrall
stalling our stuff across a farm of ~100 of our servers. We're not a re-seller or SDK vendor. We're just trying to manage our farm. Thanks Mark -Original Message- From: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@deploymentengineering.com] Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 8:50 AM

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