Re: [WiX-users] uninstall: removing elements added by

Thu, 19 Oct 2006 08:11:18 -0700

The XmlFile element wasn’t quite powerful enough to handle all the scenarios people were hitting.  K recently finished working on the XmlConfig element (in WiX v3, I believe) to be much more powerful.  I don’t think he’s written down much about how to use it… unfortunately, but you might take a look at that.  It hopefully removes the need to write specialized CustomActions (_vbscript_? Ick) for modifying XML files.

 

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Turton
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 11:09 PM
To: Crouch, John; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] uninstall: removing elements added by <xmlfile>

 

Thanks John, I’m looking into doing something similar.

 

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Crouch, John
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 10:32 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] uninstall: removing elements added by <xmlfile>

 

Stephen,

There were some challenges to over come with xmlfile about amonth ago – I forget the bug trackinh numbers but I too had many problems uninstalling xml for web, exe and machine.config files.  I gave up and used a customaction vbs – to my eternal shame.

 

br

John Crouch
Software Engineer/Developer

National Oilwell Norway AS

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Turton
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 8:54 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] uninstall: removing elements added by <xmlfile>

 

Hi,

I want to add some config handlers to machine.config during setup so I’m using <xmlfile>.

This works fine when I install: the expected elements are added to machine.config. However, I want these elements to be removed when I uninstall and I can’t figure out how to do this. My <xmlfile> component looks like this:

 

          <Component Id='MyComp' Guid='4406c78a-0b49-4b0b-b63a-e088089d50ca' Permanent='no'>

                <XmlFile  Id='topElement'

                      File='C:\test.xml'

                      Action=''

                      Name='topElement'

                      Sequence='1'

                      Permanent='no'

                      ElementPath='//configuration'/>

                <XmlFile  Id='extensions'

                      File='C:\test.xml'

                      Action=''

                      Name='extensions'

                      Sequence='2'

                      Permanent='no'

                      ElementPath='//configuration/topElement'/>

            </Component>

 

Am I doing something wrong here? (apart from writing to C:\test.xml – I’m not quite ready to actually edit my machine.config file yet)

 

 

Thanks,

Stephen

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