I'm no expert in Window Installer's UI, but it appears to me that you have two different controls using that property. Is it possible that some interaction between them is causing the value to be lost?
-----Original Message----- From: Harvey, John Ctr USAF Warfighter's Edge [mailto:john.har...@wedge.hpc.mil] Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 7:21 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Why is my property deleted Sorry, I forgot to specify. The property is TIER1LIST. I separated out the line that has the delete below. -----Original Message----- From: Harvey, John Ctr USAF Warfighter's Edge [mailto:john.har...@wedge.hpc.mil] Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 8:12 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Why is my property deleted This one has me stumped. I have a dialog. The dialog has a combo box. The list of the combo box is populated in a custom action. When running the install, the list on the combo box has nothing. When looking in the log, I can see where the list is getting populated and also there is a line when creating the dialog that says the property associated with the combo box is getting deleted. I can not figure out why. The setup is created using WiX 3.0.5419.0 and VS 2008. I am deploying to a Win 2003 Server VM that also has SQL Server 2008 Express. Here is the dialog: This has been hacked to bit while debugging. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <Include xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi";> <Dialog Id="dialogTier1Selection" X="50" Y="50" Width="375" Height="287" Title="[ProductName] Select Tier 1"> <Control Id="NextButton" Type="PushButton" X="300" Y="261" Width="66" Height="18" Text="{\VSI_MS_Sans_Serif13.0_0_0}&Next >" TabSkip="no" Default="yes"> <Publish Order="12" Event="NewDialog" Value="[dialogTier1Selection_NextArgs]">PREVIOUSVERSIONSINSTALLED="" AND dialogTier1Selection_NextArgs<>"" AND TIER1FOUND="True"</Publish> </Control> <Control Id="Label1" Type="Text" X="18" Y="108" Width="348" Height="12" Text="{\VSI_MS_Sans_Serif13.0_0_0}Tier 1 Server:" TabSkip="no" /> <Control Id="TIER1LIST" Type="ComboBox" X="18" Y="120" Width="348" Height="18" Property="TIER1LIST" TabSkip="no" Sunken="yes" ComboList="yes"> <ComboBox Property="TIER1LIST"> <ListItem Text="Tier 1" Value="Tier 1"></ListItem> </ComboBox> <Publish Property="TIER1FOUND" Value="False" Order="1">TIER1LIST="" OR TIER1LIST="Other"</Publish> </Control> <Control Id="CancelButton" Type="PushButton" X="156" Y="261" Width="66" Height="18" Text="{\VSI_MS_Sans_Serif13.0_0_0}Cancel" TabSkip="no" Cancel="yes"> <Publish Event="SpawnDialog" Value="Cancel" /> </Control> <Control Id="PreviousButton" Type="PushButton" X="228" Y="261" Width="66" Height="18" Text="{\VSI_MS_Sans_Serif13.0_0_0}< &Back" TabSkip="no"> <Condition Action="disable">dialogTier1Selection_PrevArgs=""</Condition> <Condition Action="enable">dialogTier1Selection_PrevArgs<>""</Condition> <Publish Event="NewDialog" Value="[dialogTier1Selection_PrevArgs]">dialogTier1Selection_PrevArgs<> ;""</Publish> </Control> <Control Id="BannerBmp" Type="Bitmap" X="0" Y="0" Width="375" Height="52" Text="DefBannerBitmap" TabSkip="no" Disabled="yes" /> <Control Id="BannerText" Type="Text" X="9" Y="9" Width="306" Height="33" Text="{\VSI_MS_Sans_Serif16.0_1_0}Tier 1" TabSkip="yes" Transparent="yes" NoPrefix="yes" /> <Control Id="BodyText" Type="Text" X="9" Y="63" Width="354" Height="42" Text="{\VSI_MS_Sans_Serif13.0_0_0}Select the Tier 1 connection." TabSkip="yes" NoPrefix="yes" /> <Control Id="Control289" Type="Line" X="0" Y="252" Width="375" Height="6" Text="{\VSI_MS_Sans_Serif13.0_0_0}MsiHorizontalLine" TabSkip="yes" Disabled="yes" /> <Control Id="Control294" Type="Line" X="0" Y="52" Width="375" Height="6" Text="{\VSI_MS_Sans_Serif16.0_1_0}MsiHorizontalLine" TabSkip="yes" Disabled="yes" /> </Dialog> </Include> Here is some of the log: MSI (c) (78:DC) [16:03:40:666]: Doing action: Install.Sequence.FillTier1List Action 16:03:40: Install.Sequence.FillTier1List. Action start 16:03:40: Install.Sequence.FillTier1List. MSI (c) (78:DC) [16:03:40:666]: Creating MSIHANDLE (40) of type 790542 for thread 2012 MSI (c) (78:D0) [16:03:40:666]: Invoking remote custom action. DLL: C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\MSI53D.tmp, Entrypoint: FillTier1List MSI (c) (78!34) [16:03:40:713]: Creating MSIHANDLE (41) of type 790531 for thread 3380 MSI (c) (78!34) [16:03:40:713]: Closing MSIHANDLE (41) of type 790531 for thread 3380 MSI (c) (78!34) [16:03:40:838]: Creating MSIHANDLE (42) of type 790531 for thread 3380 MSI (c) (78!34) [16:03:40:838]: Closing MSIHANDLE (42) of type 790531 for thread 3380 MSI (c) (78!34) [16:03:40:979]: Creating MSIHANDLE (43) of type 790531 for thread 3380 MSI (c) (78!34) [16:03:40:979]: Closing MSIHANDLE (43) of type 790531 for thread 3380 MSI (c) (78!34) [16:03:41:010]: Creating MSIHANDLE (44) of type 790531 for thread 3380 MSI (c) (78!34) [16:03:41:010]: Closing MSIHANDLE (44) of type 790531 for thread 3380 MSI (c) (78!34) [16:03:41:010]: Creating MSIHANDLE (45) of type 790531 for thread 3380 MSI (c) (78!34) [16:03:41:010]: Closing MSIHANDLE (45) of type 790531 for thread 3380 MSI (c) (78!34) [16:03:41:010]: Creating MSIHANDLE (46) of type 790541 for thread 3380 MSI (c) (78!34) [16:03:41:010]: Creating MSIHANDLE (47) of type 790540 for thread 3380 MSI (c) (78!34) [16:03:41:010]: Creating MSIHANDLE (48) of type 790540 for thread 3380 MSI (c) (78!34) [16:03:41:010]: Creating MSIHANDLE (49) of type 790531 for thread 3380 MSI (c) (78!34) [16:03:41:010]: Closing MSIHANDLE (49) of type 790531 for thread 3380 MSI (c) (78!34) [16:03:41:010]: Creating MSIHANDLE (50) of type 790531 for thread 3380 MSI (c) (78!34) [16:03:41:026]: Creating MSIHANDLE (51) of type 790531 for thread 3380 MSI (c) (78!34) [16:03:41:026]: Closing MSIHANDLE (51) of type 790531 for thread 3380 MSI (c) (78!34) [16:03:41:026]: Creating MSIHANDLE (52) of type 790531 for thread 3380 MSI (c) (78!34) [16:03:41:026]: Creating MSIHANDLE (53) of type 790531 for thread 3380 MSI (c) (78!34) [16:03:41:026]: Closing MSIHANDLE (53) of type 790531 for thread 3380 MSI (c) (78!34) [16:03:41:026]: Creating MSIHANDLE (54) of type 790531 for thread 3380 MSI (c) (78!34) [16:03:41:026]: Creating MSIHANDLE (55) of type 790531 for thread 3380 MSI (c) (78!34) [16:03:41:026]: Closing MSIHANDLE (55) of type 790531 for thread 3380 MSI (c) (78!34) [16:03:41:026]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Adding TIER1LIST property. Its value is 'EVAL'. MSI (c) (78!34) [16:03:41:026]: Closing MSIHANDLE (48) of type 790540 for thread 3380 MSI (c) (78!34) [16:03:41:026]: Creating MSIHANDLE (56) of type 790531 for thread 3380 MSI (c) (78!34) [16:03:41:026]: Closing MSIHANDLE (56) of type 790531 for thread 3380 MSI (c) (78!34) [16:03:41:026]: Closing MSIHANDLE (46) of type 790541 for thread 3380 MSI (c) (78!34) [16:03:41:026]: Closing MSIHANDLE (50) of type 790531 for thread 3380 MSI (c) (78!34) [16:03:41:026]: Closing MSIHANDLE (52) of type 790531 for thread 3380 MSI (c) (78!34) [16:03:41:026]: Closing MSIHANDLE (47) of type 790540 for thread 3380 MSI (c) (78!34) [16:03:41:026]: Closing MSIHANDLE (54) of type 790531 for thread 3380 MSI (c) (78:D0) [16:03:41:213]: Closing MSIHANDLE (40) of type 790542 for thread 2012 Action ended 16:03:41: Install.Sequence.FillTier1List. Return value 1. Action 16:03:41: dialogTier1Selection. Dialog created MSI (c) (78:DC) [16:03:48:947]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Deleting TIER1LIST property. Its current value is 'EVAL'. MSI (c) (78:DC) [16:03:48:947]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Adding TIER1FOUND property. Its value is 'False'. Action 16:03:48: Database.UserDefinition. Dialog created Action 16:03:50: Cancel. Dialog created John Harvey ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. 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