How can I then
1) automatically collect all the contents of a (huge) directory, say foo/
2) add foo/ to a destination dir of my choice
?
Thanks in advance
(Please don't start a discussion of the necessity of performing such
an automatic collect: A manual inclusion of all the files in foo/ is
Hi,
[Sorry for asking dumb question]
I want to display warning message in WiX based on some property value. The
closest I find is Condition which will always terminate the installation.
What I want to do is that if property is value is something else than expected,
I want user to decide if he
Hi all.
I am curently trying to create a working .msp with Wix v3
So far I followed the Wix v2 tutorial and created a .msp
that is supposed to replace in file 'a.txt' the contents
'old stuff' by 'new stuff'.
When I run
msiexec '/l*v' PatchLog.txt /p patch.msp REINSTALL=ALL REINSTALLMODE=omus
Hi Ricardo...
The folder is not created unless you install some file in this folder.
Another way to ensure that the folder is created is using the
CreateFolder element. Te folder will be created even if it is empty.
But it will not be removed automaticaly on uninstallation (you need
to specify
I'm not sure how much use this will be to you, but I ran into a large number
of issues with patching, I haven't touched it in a while as we are now
thinking a full re-release is going to be cleaner. I created a self
extracting exe file using iexpress.exe (standard part of windows) and the
command
Hi Stefan,
I suppose that was the case with the App\Documents folder, but what about
the App\Backups ?
It has files and is part of the feature ProductFeature.
On 19/02/07, Stefan Pavlik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Ricardo...
The folder is not created unless you install some file in this
Simon Topley wrote:
I'm not sure how much use this will be to you, but I ran into
a large number of issues with patching, I haven't touched it
in a while as we are now thinking a full re-release is going
to be cleaner. I created a self extracting exe file using
iexpress.exe (standard part
Hi folks,
I'm on the lookout for a simple example that illustrates patching using WIX.
The functionality requried is
Step 1. Apply original application and associated code.
Step 2. Apply a patch to some of the files from step 1
Step 3. Have ability to remove the patch software, leaving the
For clarity.
I should have added that when I ran evertyhing. I installed Error.msp which
laid down my foobar file.
When I applied the patch there were no updates to the Control Panel
Add/Remove programs but the updated foobar file was installed.
When I de-installed Foobar from Add/Remove
Ricardo Lopes wrote:
I don't know why it install one component and not the other
(at least i can't find it) if they belong to the same feature
(and only one).
You could have a look at the installation log (i.e. the file
log.txt produced by running 'msiexec /l*v log.txt /i yourinstaller.msi'
dave_c wrote:
I'm on the lookout for a simple example that illustrates
patching using WIX.
The functionality requried is
Step 1. Apply original application and associated code.
Step 2. Apply a patch to some of the files from step 1
Step 3. Have ability to remove the patch software,
dave_c wrote:
For clarity.
I should have added that when I ran evertyhing. I installed Error.msp which
laid down my foobar file.
When I applied the patch there were no updates to the Control Panel
Add/Remove programs but the updated foobar file was installed.
In this control panel, do you
Doh!!
That was exactly the problem. Once I selected this option I was able to see the
patch and remove it.
Thanks for that.
Dave Cory
P Please consider the environment - do you really need to print this email?
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Create a dialog with 'continue' and 'cancel' buttons. On the continue button
have an event to open
whatever dialog you want to continue your install, and on the cancel button
have this event:
Publish Event=EndDialog Value=Exit![CDATA[1]]/Publish
Rob
Anil Prasad wrote:
Hi,
[Sorry for
I found out the problem.
After looking carefully at the log file i found out that the file were been
copied to the windows fonts folder, because the directory id was
FontsFolder and the value was overridden by the MSI. After changing the
id to something else it worked fine.
Thanks.
On
I'm assuming that you actually mean a regular old COM component written with
ATL, rather than 'COM Interop' which to me means a .NET component registered
with COM.
tallow -c is for use with .NET assemblies. It won't work with unmanaged
components.
tallow -reg is for use with REGEDIT-style
Mike, thanks so much for the reply, your response helped push me in the right
direction.
You are correct I did mean a regular old COM component.
Thanks!
Lindsay Harris
From: Mike Dimmick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 1:28 PM
To: Lindsay Harris;
Anil Prasad wrote:
I want to display warning message in WiX based on some property value.
The closest I find is Condition which will always terminate the
installation. What I want to do is that if property is value is
something else than expected, I want user to decide if he want to
Johan Appelgren wrote:
I don't think WixVariables works for what I'm trying to do. If I try
to use a wix variable candle fails with an error that states that only
integers are valid values for the Control/@Width attribute. Could I be
doing this the wrong way somehow?
Could you show your
On 2/20/07, Bob Arnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Johan Appelgren wrote:
I don't think WixVariables works for what I'm trying to do. If I try
to use a wix variable candle fails with an error that states that only
integers are valid values for the Control/@Width attribute. Could I be
doing
Hi,
I want to create a group called TestUsers in the installer of my Test.dll and
in my Test.wxs, I want to create a folder and grant some permissions to this
TestUsers group.
The problem here was that, Since CreateFolders is executed before
InstallFinalize (Where in my group would be
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