It appears that we are still using version 2 of wix, not 3...and so I do not
see WixUtilExtension.dll
Is there a way to do this in version 2 of wix?
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From: Phil Sayers [p...@cds-am.net]
Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 6:36 AM
To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.'
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Updating web.config field value depending
on if machine's 64bit or 32bit
If you are using the visual studio plugin "Votive"...to link to
wixca.wixlib...add a reference to "WixUtilExtension", the same way you would
add a reference to any 3rd party assembly.
You can find it located here:
C:\Program Files\Windows Installer XML Toolset 3.{some
version}\bin\WixUtilExtension.dll
And at the top of your wxs file...you add to the "<Wix...>" node so it looks
like this:
<Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi";
xmlns:util="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/UtilExtension";>
Which will give you the intellisense auto-completion as you type in the
vs.net text editor.
If you are not using votive, you're going to need to use the -ext switch
when you call light.exe
-----Original Message-----
From: Erica Chang (PROJECT) [mailto:eri...@microsoft.com]
Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 5:44 PM
To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.'
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Updating web.config field value depending on if
machine's 64bit or 32bit
Yes, that make sense for me. But to use xmlFile I have to link to
wixca.wixlib, how do I do that?
Also when I tried to add Platform node to Package Id I got:
The Package element contains an unexpected attribute 'Platform'
Thanks lots.
Erica
-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Sayers [mailto:p...@cds-am.net]
Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 1:28 PM
To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.'
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Updating web.config field value depending on if
machine's 64bit or 32bit
To the best of my knowledge....
As long as your installer is tagged correctly as a 32bit installer by
setting the Platform attribute of the Package node to "x86" like this:
<Package Id="*" InstallerVersion="200" Compressed="yes" Languages="1033"
Platform="x86" InstallPrivileges="elevated" InstallScope="perMachine" />
[PROGRAMFILES] will resolve to "Program Files (x86)" on 64-bit windows, and
"Program Files" on 32bit windows.... This means you can use the value of the
[PROGRAMFILES] property when you write to your web.config file.
I know that xmlfile and xmlconfig has already been not recommended in this
thread, but maybe this wix snippet will show you the light...
<util:XmlFile Id="MyMagicId " Action="setValue"
ElementPath="//root/node1/node2" File="[MyDirectory]settings.xml"
Value="[PROGRAMFILES]" />
Using that... (assuming "C" is where windows is installed)
On 32bit windows.... [PROGRAMFILES] will equal "C:\Program Files"
On 64bit windows.... [PROGRAMFILES] will equal "C:\Program Files (x86)"
This works for me correctly on 32 & 64bit windows.
You don't need to know the exact string value of the [PROGRAMFILES]
property, you just need to know that it will resolve to the correct "real
folder on disk", and always use the property when referencing it.
Does that help?
-----Original Message-----
From: Erica Chang (PROJECT) [mailto:eri...@microsoft.com]
Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 3:51 PM
To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.'
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Updating web.config field value depending on if
machine's 64bit or 32bit
What we are doing is installing sample sites that needs the location of the
install as environment variable in web.config to access a file in the
appsettings section.
However, because our SDK only builds in 32bit, the web.config needs a file
location but I need to detect whether to use %programfiles% or
%programfiles(x86)% in web.config and I was hoping that during install, we
can write some custom action to substitute appropriately. Will
ProgramFilesFolder work appropriately?
Thanks for all the responses so far.
Thanks,
Erica
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Carlson (DEV DIV) [mailto:mica...@microsoft.com]
Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 12:06 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Updating web.config field value depending on if
machine's 64bit or 32bit
Keep in mind it's better to avoid XmlFile / XmlConfig and just rely on
standard IIS custom action functionality, if possible. I don't know enough
about your particular scenario to know if it's possible in this case, but if
you can throw a [ProgramFilesFolder] into your IIS authoring somewhere
instead of relying on Xml modification of web.config, you'll be better off.
I know in some cases modifying web.config with XmlFile / XmlConfig Vista
will result in slightly unexpected behavior, because the IIS custom action
doesn't flush data to disk in 3.0 (so XmlFile / XmlConfig would be operating
on the XML file before it was modified by the IIS custom action, even though
the IIS custom action was earlier in the sequence). A flush operation was
added to the custom action to fix this scenario in 3.5, but 3.5 is still
early on and it's hard to recommend it at this point in time.
Thanks,
Mike Carlson
-----Original Message-----
From: Don Benson [mailto:dbenso...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 11:53 AM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Updating web.config field value depending on if
machine's 64bit or 32bit
Windows Installer automatically handles translating the ProgramFilesFolder
property for 32-bit vs. 64-bit platforms. Are you using an XMLFile element
to set the web.config value? Use the [ProgramFilesFolder] property within
the XMLFile element, and you should get what you want.
- Don Benson -
Tribute Inc.
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Erica Chang (PROJECT) <eri...@microsoft.com
> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a field in web.config that needs environment variable of
> %ProgramFiles% or %ProgramFiles(x86)% depending on if the machine
installing
> is 64 bit or 32 bit.
>
> Is there a way to substitute the values during install time by detecting
> this and setting the appropriate values?
>
> Thanks so much in advance.
>
> Regards,
> Erica
>
>
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