IIRC Microsoft Update only truly supports one MSP per "Product" which is defined as a ProductCode/ProductLanguage/ProductVersion combo when using the MSP-based rules. If you are willing to completely "free-form" your publishing XML (not base it on the MSP file itself) you can get around that.
The problem is that you will have to resort to your build creating/tweaking your publishing XML if you are publishing to your test pubsuite from your build or your test automation since you must update your IsInstalled and other applicability rules in that XML. You will get more success working with your liaison from the WUS team than from this list, since they know about MSI and most on this list can't make use of Microsoft Update. -----Original Message----- From: Lian Jiang [mailto:lji...@microsoft.com] Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 6:53 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Microsoft Update and MUI-based MSI/MSP Hi, My installer is MUI-based MSI file. In other words, the user can use this MSI file to install the product on machines having different locales and the installer wizard will show localed text. For example, the installer shows english string for a machine having en-US locale and shows japanese string for a machine having ja-JP locale. Here is how we make this MUI-based MSI file: Step 1: Build en-US (1033) loc locale msi Step 2: Build ja-JP (1041) locale msi Step 3: Generate MSI Transform files which transform en-us locale to other locales (using torch.exe). Step 4: Create MUI-based MSI using the transform files. The process of building the MSP file is standard which builds PCP file first and then generates the MSP file using msimsp.exe. Since the MSI file is MUI-based, I think the MSP file is not also MUI-based. It means this MSP contains multiple language IDs. We created a software update in Microsoft Update author client using this MSP file, But when submitting it to our pubsuite server of Microsoft Update, I got below xml validation error. Microsoft.UpdateServices.Publishing.PublishingXmlException: Invalid schema error in Publishing XML. ---> The 'http://www.microsoft.com/msi/patch_applicability.xsd:TargetLanguage' element is invalid - The value '1033,1041' is invalid according to its datatype 'http://www.microsoft.com/msi/patch_applicability.xsd:ValidateLanguage' - The string '1033,1041' is not a valid Int32 value. Server stack trace: at Microsoft.UpdateServices.Publishing.PublishUpdate.LoadXmlWithSchemaCheck(Str ing xmlUpdates, XmlSchemaSet xsc, String errorSyntax, String errorSchema) at Microsoft.UpdateServices.Publishing.PublishUpdate.StartSubmission(String updatesXml) at Microsoft.UpdateServices.Publishing.Server.PublishingServer.StartSubmission( String updatesXml) at System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.StackBuilderSink._PrivateProcessMessage(In tPtr md, Object[] args, Object server, Int32 methodPtr, Boolean fExecuteInContext, Object[]& outArgs) at System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.StackBuilderSink.PrivateProcessMessage(Run timeMethodHandle md, Object[] args, Object server, Int32 methodPtr, Boolean fExecuteInContext, Object[]& outArgs) at System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.StackBuilderSink.SyncProcessMessage(IMessa ge msg, Int32 methodPtr, Boolean fExecuteInContext) Exception rethrown at [0]: at Microsoft.UpdateServices.Publishing.AuthoringClient.AuthoringBackend.SubmitU pdate() at Microsoft.UpdateServices.Publishing.AuthoringClient.WorkingArea.SubmitButton _Click(Object sender, EventArgs e) I don't know whether Microsoft Update supports this kind of MUI-based MSI/MSP? Does anybody have experience on making Microsoft Update work with a MUI-based MSP? Appreciate so much! Thanks Lian ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
