[WiX-users] SQL Server version check from WiX without using SQLDMO

2008-02-11 Thread Sajo Jacob
On the installer we used SQLDMO to prepopulate the sql servers on the target machine in a combo box and also added logic to avoid stomping a database on an unsupported version of sql server if the user selects an unsupported sql server from the dropdown but we ran into a problem when SQLDMO wasn't

Re: [WiX-users] Re gasm with WiX

2008-02-11 Thread Schrieken, Rene
From a few days ago... thanks to Karim Michal Peled wrote: I need to get my installation to register a .NET assembly in the way that regasm /tlb does. I saw an example for such a thing in Rob's blog, using the [EMAIL PROTECTED] attribute (set to yes). Hi Michal, You can use heat

Re: [WiX-users] Property set by CA and used in a Condition

2008-02-11 Thread Bob Arnson
Chris wrote: CustomAction Id=CheckArcnet BinaryKey=MsiTools DllEntry=HasArcnet Execute=deferred/ InstallExecuteSequence Custom Action=CheckArcnet Before=InstallFinalizeNOT Installed/Custom /InstallExecuteSequence You're scheduling the custom action for long

Re: [WiX-users] Running admin command on Vista after InstallFinalize

2008-02-11 Thread Bob Arnson
RW wrote: Is there anyway from WiX to run a command with admin privileges on Vista after InstallFinalize? No. MSI doesn't support it; custom actions that require elevation must be transactional. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/

Re: [WiX-users] Adding a custom action (type 6)in a patchpackage(msp)

2008-02-11 Thread Paul Chrzanowski
It's me again. I am still stuck here with my custom action type 6 problem. I was also looking for the new releases of wix v3 but it seems that they do not contain any new changes - I tried them, though. Perhaps somebody could verify my problem whether in using my sample files from the link I

Re: [WiX-users] WiXv3 (3808): error LGHT0204

2008-02-11 Thread Dominik Guder
Peter Jaworski wrote: What does this error mean: c:\tmp\vqbjy0iu\Libs_file.msi : error LGHT0204 : ICE39: PID_WORDCOUNT value in Summary Information Stream is not valid. Source image flags must be 0, 1, 2, or 3. ? Hi Peter, the Summary Info Stream Wordcount property is used to save

Re: [WiX-users] CustomDlg in WixUI_mondo

2008-02-11 Thread Bob Arnson
Marcel Kulicke wrote: yes, this is just the %TEMP% environment variable destination. The subfolders were generated by WiX during the execution of light.exe. Nothing special so far, I just wanted to check, whether the CheckInvalidPath function is probably malfunctioning because of too long

[WiX-users] Re gasm with WiX

2008-02-11 Thread Mark Willems
Hello, I'm a newbie to WIX. I have the following command: regasm AxComp.dll /tlb:AxCompNet.dll /codebase I want to accomplish the same with the WIX installer. Can somebody tell me how to do that? Thanks in advance! Regards, Mark Willems | Consultant Avanade Netherlands BV

Re: [WiX-users] building wix

2008-02-11 Thread Dominik Guder
Frédéric Viollet wrote: -I finally found these files in the binary distribution. I tried from the weekly release sources after copying the files above, I got the following error: 71 errors, all about missing references... because Nant.Core could not be found. :) Is there a way to

Re: [WiX-users] MSMQ

2008-02-11 Thread Dominik Guder
Fitzpatrick, Paul J wrote: Using the latest release, I'm hoping that someone might provide some guidance on the best method to detect the MSMQ installation queue, and create the queue if it doesn't exist. Many thanks. Hi, from my point of knowledge. This is currently not implemented.

Re: [WiX-users] [Patch] Building from wix3-sources.zip

2008-02-11 Thread Dominik Guder
Bob Arnson-6 wrote: The files are also included in the binaries zip files so they are still available without CVS access. Using zip is ok and keeping (large) binaries out of sources.zip is ok for me. But DIFxApp.wixlib should be added or at least a wixlib project for building it, since

Re: [WiX-users] Weekly build missing WixComPlusExtension.dll in wix3-binaries.zip

2008-02-11 Thread Dominik Guder
alhails wrote: We are also waiting for a new ComplusExtension. I noticed that the source code was still present in the src folder. And attempted to perform a build myself. After negotiating a couple of errors, I have got stuck with this one... [exec] Build FAILED. [exec]

Re: [WiX-users] How to test if user is an administrator

2008-02-11 Thread ramya ragupathy
chk the PRIVILEGED property with condition tag Tom.Chmielenski wrote: Is there an easy way to test for the condition where the user is not an administrator on the machine? Tx. Tom - This SF.net email is

Re: [WiX-users] Weekly build missing WixComPlusExtension.dll in wix3-binaries.zip

2008-02-11 Thread alhails
We are also waiting for a new ComplusExtension. I noticed that the source code was still present in the src folder. And attempted to perform a build myself. After negotiating a couple of errors, I have got stuck with this one... [exec] Build FAILED. [exec]

Re: [WiX-users] CustomDlg in WixUI_mondo

2008-02-11 Thread Marcel Kulicke
Hi Bob, yes, this is just the %TEMP% environment variable destination. The subfolders were generated by WiX during the execution of light.exe. Nothing special so far, I just wanted to check, whether the CheckInvalidPath function is probably malfunctioning because of too long filenames, which

[WiX-users] directory search

2008-02-11 Thread ramya ragupathy
hi..help needed i use a browse dialog box through which i select a custom directory. wat i want to do now is to check whether thrs a directory called 'v62' in the custom directory and proceed with installation only if the directory exists. an error mesg shoul pop up if the directory is not

Re: [WiX-users] Which version to install?

2008-02-11 Thread Schrieken, Rene
If you want to be absolute sure that no breaking changes will occur between today and the release of your MSI and you can live with the missing features go for Wix V2 stable. But if you need features only offered by v3 go for that release because those features will never make it into v2. I would

Re: [WiX-users] building wix

2008-02-11 Thread Bob Arnson
Frédéric Viollet wrote: -I tried from a CVS checkout, I got the following error: c:\temp\wix_cvs\wix.build(64,4): Build file 'C:\temp\wix_cvs\tests\vstests\vstests.build' does not exist. Yeah, sorry, I just noticed this problem last weekend. You can comment out every include of .build files

[WiX-users] Property set by CA and used in a Condition

2008-02-11 Thread Chris
Not to confuse you - in my example in the mail I left the line to define my dll: Binary Id=MsiTools SourceFile=MsiTools.dll/ EBCN(Christian Ebner) wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Sent: Montag, 11. Februar 2008 08:59 To:

Re: [WiX-users] building wix

2008-02-11 Thread Frédéric Viollet
Bob Arnson a écrit : Frédéric Viollet wrote: C:\temp\wix-3.0.2925.0-sourcesmake.bat ship Please try a weekly release from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/ or a CVS checkout. Hi Bob, Thanks again for replying. -I tried from a CVS checkout, I got the following error:

Re: [WiX-users] building wix

2008-02-11 Thread Simon Dahlbacka
Is it really not possible to include all files in the source distribution so that building wix can be automated in a production environment? *why* do you need to build WIX in a production environment? /Simon - This

[WiX-users] WiXv3 (3808): error LGHT0204

2008-02-11 Thread Peter Jaworski
What does this error mean: c:\tmp\vqbjy0iu\Libs_file.msi : error LGHT0204 : ICE39: PID_WORDCOUNT value in Summary Information Stream is not valid. Source image flags must be 0, 1, 2, or 3. ? Generally, msi file has been created and installation is going correctly, but it is interesting because

Re: [WiX-users] building wix

2008-02-11 Thread Christopher Painter
Why not just go to CodePlex?The TFS/MSBuild model kills the CVS/NAnt model, IMHO. I know you guys said you had some issues building unmanaged code but surely it can't be that bad. Bob Arnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frédéric Viollet wrote: -I tried from a CVS checkout, I got the