[WiX-users] Installing a binary in context of current logged in user

2006-07-21 Thread Bahar Shah
Hi,I need information on how do we install and run any binary in the context of the currenlty logged in user.My problem is since msiexec runs as LocalSystem all my binaries are installed with LocalSystem privieedges. I need to tweak few binaries to run as currently logged in user context.

Re: [WiX-users] Installing a binary in context of current logged in user

2006-07-21 Thread Derek Cicerone
Set the Impersonate attribute to yes for that CustomAction element but then the CA doesnt run as LocalSystem so it doesnt have elevated privileges. Derek From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bahar Shah Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 11:56 PM To:

Re: [WiX-users] What use, WiX 2 or WiX 3 ?

2006-07-21 Thread Derek Cicerone
When will you be shipping to your customers? The current recommendation is to only use 3.0 if your product ships in 2007 or later. That being said, we've begun slowing down the pace of changes to the WiX 3.0 core tools for a few months now, but breaking changes are still being made and I'd

Re: [WiX-users] Installing a binary in context of current logged in user

2006-07-21 Thread Bahar Shah
Thanks.Could you ellaborate a bit more.Do you mean to say that just setting a impersonate attribute to 'yes' the installer would know who the current logged user is and install under that priveldge ?Regards BaharOn 7/21/06, Derek Cicerone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Set the Impersonate

Re: [WiX-users] Installing a binary in context of current logged in user

2006-07-21 Thread Derek Cicerone
The installer will run that particular custom action as the user, yes. Im afraid to ask, but what action will you be performing as the user? (Im afraid of the answer because doing anything per-user during setup is very dubious since it would likely only work for the user performing the

[WiX-users] Uninstall progress messages unreadable

2006-07-21 Thread Torsten Rudnick
Today I have tried to get uninstall progress messages if an user uninstalls the software from Control Panel - Software. For this I added UIRef Id=WixUI_ErrorProgressText / to my main wxs file inside of the product element. Now the uninstall progress messages will be displayed but there are only

[WiX-users] Uninstall progress messages unreadable

2006-07-21 Thread DE�K JAHN, G�bor
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 12:14:38 +0200, Torsten Rudnick wrote: Torsten, inside of the product element. Now the uninstall progress messages will be displayed but there are only squares an not words or characters. ... What did I in a wrong way? Most probably you forgot to specify *both* language

[WiX-users] Installing ATL 8.0 and CRT 8.0

2006-07-21 Thread John Ludlow
Hi, all I'm battling with getting ATL 8.0 and CRT 8.0 installed. They're Win32 assemblies going into the WinSxS folder. This is my component: Component Id=' atl80.dll' DiskId='1 ' Guid='25C6258C-7D97-41B7-A9F0-5A733D5BEE32 ' File Id=' atl80.dll' Name='atl80.dll ' KeyPath='yes ' src='C:\Program