Thank for your answer.
I try do this, but my code don't work.
Control Id=databaseNameComboBox Type=ComboBox X=130 Y=80 Width=160
Height=16
Property=SQLDATABASE_UE RightToLeft=yes ComboList=yes
Publish Event=DoAction Value=FillDatabaseCustomAction
Order=11/Publish
!--Publish
Hi all,
I have changed the product install type from per-user to per-machine and
want to uninstall prior per-user installs. According to the archived emails
it seems I need to write an uninstall utilitiy to remove all products
installed by users. My question is How can I find all users who
I believe you'd have to log in as each user and execute the installer as that
user.
-Original Message-
From: hyung [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 23:47
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] uninstall per user product
Hi all,
I have
I get the repair option when right clicked the msi file even though i set
ARPNOREPAIR property to 1..
How do i get rid of repair from the right click menu?
-
Andy
MSI Developer
Schneider Electric:working:
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View this message in context:
ARPNOREPAIR relates to the entry in Add/Remove Programs. The right-click entry
will be based on
Explorer's associations with the .msi extension. Even if you removed it from
your machine, it would
still be there on other people's.
Rob
Andy2k8 wrote:
I get the repair option when right
Howdy gang,
First of all, I have solved the original problem that I described in the
first post:
In my installer I should show licensing dialog at the end of installation.
If the product is removed, the licensing dialog should not be shown though
and user exit dialog should be shown instead.
I
2008/10/23 Nic Barden [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi Sébastien,
I do not want the directories created because, as I said - the other 2
features do NOT add anything to the file system - they are just databases
that are installed to SQL. Therefore it seems a bit weird to have the Program
Files
2008/10/24 Sergey Abakumoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Howdy gang,
First of all, I have solved the original problem that I described in the
first post:
In my installer I should show licensing dialog at the end of installation.
If the product is removed, the licensing dialog should not be shown
If it messes up the build yes.
-Original Message-
From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 22:33
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Building WiX from CVS
Should I raise that as a bug?
-Original
2008/10/24 Andy2k8 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I get the repair option when right clicked the msi file even though i set
ARPNOREPAIR property to 1..
How do i get rid of repair from the right click menu?
Put a LaunchCondition testing the value of the REINSTALL property. Act
accordingly.
It won't
Hi,
I am using the BrowseDlg from WixUI. Instead of displaying this dialog,
the Installer gives a Fatal error Error 2343.Specified path is empty.
Unfortunately, neither the error message nor the verbose MSI log gives a
clue which path might be meant. As far as I see, the only path needed to
set
thank you so much for the responses
I have added a type 19 custom action and conditioned it to run upon repair
What configuration change should i make to the Operating Sysem to remove
repair from the msi right click menu?
Sébastien Mouren wrote:
2008/10/24 Andy2k8 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I get
You are of course correct but I am such a total convert to
SVN that everything in CVS looks so antiquated. I use CVS
tags in another project but have never have the enthusiasm to
understand the command line, in SVN I do everything via the
TortiseSVN interface and I assumed TortiseCVS would be
2008/10/24 Andy2k8 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
thank you so much for the responses
I have added a type 19 custom action and conditioned it to run upon repair
Using a CustomAction for this purpose is like taking a bazooka to
drill a hole...
What configuration change should i make to the Operating
Unfortunately, this doesn't help..Does anyone have any other ideas?
TIA
Richard-45 wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Sergey Abakumoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Publish Property=_BrowseProperty Value=[INSTALLDIR] /
Publish Property=_BrowseProperty
rotf..
I just have to exit the installer before the user runs the repair sequence.
So have sequenced it before InstallValidate/ and the installer exits
saying repair is not supported
Is that really like taking a bazooka to dril a hole ? :)
Sébastien Mouren wrote:
2008/10/24 Andy2k8 [EMAIL
I'm not sure, but I wouldn't recommend doing that. You wouldn't just be
removing it for your MSI
file, but for every MSI file.
Rob
Andy2k8 wrote:
thank you so much for the responses
I have added a type 19 custom action and conditioned it to run upon repair
What configuration change
Hello there
I have a strange problem with the type 19 CA that is used to exit the
installer if repair is chosen.
I run the following CA:
CustomAction Id=ExitOnRepair Error=This installer does not support
repair./
InstallExecutesequence
Custom Action=ExitOnRepair After=LaunchConditionsInstalled
2008/10/24 Andy2k8 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
rotf..
I just have to exit the installer before the user runs the repair sequence.
So have sequenced it before InstallValidate/ and the installer exits
saying repair is not supported
Is that really like taking a bazooka to dril a hole ? :)
Yes, because
All,
In our Wix package plan to have multiple features. We do have number of
Custom Actions in the Package for different features.
When a feature selected how to enable/disable appropriate custom actiions.
Please advice.
Cheers
Senthilraj
Apologies for this being a bit off topic.
It sounds like you know a bit about CVS, do you know if it is possible to view
what has change since you last did a checkout in CVS or TortoiseCVS? I can see
how to do it on a file by file basis but not the whole folder.
Neil
Neil Sleightholm
X2
2008/10/23 Sébastien Mouren [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You delivered few information.
From what I gathered from your pseudo-doings and your pseudo-log, your
pseudo-log represent requested action before execution and these
diverge from what you expressed in your pseudo doing: Because A isn't
touched
Hi,
our application has the feature minimize to tray. In this mode there
ist no entry in die Taskbar, only in the Traybar.
When I make an update in this mode, MSI don't detect the running
application and does't show the FileInUseDialog, but it promt to reboot
after the installation.
Is this an
Trying to download the from the links on the Wix website:
http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/
An error has been encountered in accessing this page.
1. *Server:* wix.sourceforge.net
2. *URL path:* /releases/
3. *Error notes:* NONE
4. *Error type:* 403
5. *Request method:* GET
6. *Request query
It seems that action is required by the wix devs:
*NOTE: As of 2008-10-23 directory index display has been disabled by
default.
This option may be re-enabled by the project by placing a file with the
name
.htaccess with this line:
Options Indexes
*
Is there another way to get the
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 6:20 AM, Sébastien Mouren
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, because instead of your CustomAction you already have a
StandardAction called LaunchConditions. It comes earlier in a normal
setup and you only have to put your Condition / action element here.
Your MSI must be
2008/10/24 Andy2k8 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hello there
I have a strange problem with the type 19 CA that is used to exit the
installer if repair is chosen.
I run the following CA:
CustomAction Id=ExitOnRepair Error=This installer does not support
repair./
InstallExecutesequence
Custom
Ok I get your point..
I have the following options now
1.Use a condition/ element and condition it based on REINSTALL=ALL
2.Use a Type19 CA in the Install UI sequence and condition that based on
REINSTALL=ALL
Sébastien Mouren wrote:
2008/10/24 Andy2k8 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hello there
I
2008/10/24 Andy2k8 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Ok I get your point..
I have the following options now
1.Use a condition/ element and condition it based on REINSTALL=ALL
2.Use a Type19 CA in the Install UI sequence and condition that based on
REINSTALL=ALL
I wasn't speaking about the Install UI
Back when I wrote my installer using Visual Studio's setup project, there was
a flag RemovePreviousVersions that would allow future versions of my program
to update previous versions simply by removing the previous version and
installing the new one overtop of them.
My first question is how to
I am seeing the same problem.
Neil
Neil Sleightholm
X2 Systems Limited
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Jason Horner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Fri 24/10/2008 15:24
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Releases Link
no, i don't think so. i'm pretty sure I checked that initially, but I could
be wrong.
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 7:21 PM, Jason Ginchereau [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
The entrypoint names are case-sensitive. Is it possible you had a case
mismatch before?
-Original Message-
From: Tina
Thanks for the answer.
Any hints on how I can find who installed? I need to provide an uninstall
utility which removes prior versions.
Thanks,
Hyung
Rob Mensching-2 wrote:
I believe you'd have to log in as each user and execute the installer as
that user.
-Original Message-
This should get you started:
http://blogs.technet.com/alexshev/archive/2008/02/15/from-msi-to-wix-part-8-major-upgrade.aspx
Also, when a major upgrade runs the UPGRADINGPRODUCTCODE property is passed
into the version being uninstalled.
-Original Message-
From: chaiguy1337 [mailto:[EMAIL
MSDN topic on REMOVE property
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa371194(VS.85).aspx) states:
...the REMOVE property may not equal ALL until after the InstallValidate
action.
On the other hand, instead of saying if not fresh install and not uninstall
and not patch and not upgrade just
An error has been encountered in accessing this page.
1. Server: wix.sourceforge.net
2. URL path: /releases/
3. Error notes: NONE
4. Error type: 403
5. Request method: GET
6. Request query string: NONE
7. Time: 2008-10-24 17:25:28 UTC (1224869128)
Reporting this problem: The problem you
Excellent. So I should be able to set the condition for my uninstall CA to
something like this:
Custom Action=UninstallCA Before=RemoveFilesREMOVE = ALL AND NOT
UPGRADINGPRODUCTCODE/Custom
...and it will only run when an explicit uninstall (and not a major upgrade)
is performed?
One more
Sounds very difficult to do correctly. Lots of complicated stuff in there from
what I've heard.
-Original Message-
From: hyung [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 09:18
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] uninstall per user product
Thanks
SourceForge just enacted the .htaccess and we don't have those on the server
yet. I'm working on it.
-Original Message-
From: Jason Horner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 07:24
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Releases Link Broken?
Fixed.
-Original Message-
From: Rob Mensching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 10:37
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Releases Link Broken?
SourceForge just enacted the .htaccess and we don't have those on the
CloseApps can help here too.
-Original Message-
From: Michael Urman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 07:49
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Don't detect running application
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:53 AM, Paul
I've used a custom action to do something similar in the past. A stripped down
version of the code is below. I can't guarantee 100% effectiveness but it
worked for my needs at the time.
UINT __stdcall FunctionName (MSIHANDLE hMsi)
{
UINT uiStatus = ERROR_SUCCESS;
WriteToLog( hMsi,
It sounds like you know a bit about CVS, do you know if it is
possible to view what has change since you last did a
checkout in CVS or TortoiseCVS? I can see how to do it on a
file by file basis but not the whole folder.
Neil,
On the commandline, you can do 'cvs -n update', which shows you
Only when admin right? And this won't uninstall right? I think you'd need to
load all the user's profiles to uninstall per-user applications. Loading user
profiles is tricky from what I've heard.
-Original Message-
From: Ian Elliott (Excell Data Corporation) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can you just use the native MSI functionality to remove the application data?
-Original Message-
From: chaiguy1337 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 08:52
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Run CA on uninstall, but not when updating
It won't uninstall. Just detects then allows you to put a message up and advise
the user to uninstall the old per-user app then re-run setup.
I think you are correct that user needs to be admin to run this.
-Original Message-
From: Rob Mensching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday,
Rob Mensching-2 wrote:
Can you just use the native MSI functionality to remove the application
data?
No, the path is determined at runtime based on the user's AppData directory
(and is theoretically customizable, though I haven't added ui to do that)
and moreover I want to either:
a)
Remember that UPGRADINGPRODUCTCODE is set by RemoveExistingProducts action. For
your condition for UninstallCA to work properly, RemoveExistingProducts must be
scheduled before your custom action.
REMOVE=ALL means complete uninstall.
-Original Message-
From: chaiguy1337
Aha! Thanks for the warning; that would have surely caused headaches as
currently my custom action is scheduled before RemoveExistingProducts.
Do I need to also schedule FindRelatedProducts in order for
RemoveExistingProducts to work?
Alexander Shevchuk wrote:
Remember that
The condition looks correct. Remember, it has to be in the msi that will get
uninstalled by the major upgrade.
The REMOVE property actually contains the features and not the components to
uninstall. During a major upgrade it will be set to ALL. The same thing is
true if being uninstalled via
HI,
I have developed one c# file browse dialog box. This Ca is invoking from one
WIx Dialog box contains(text box, browse button, next button and Back
button).In Text box, I am take property which will get value from file browse
dialog CA. On Click event of browse button, I m invoking file
1. Windows Installer can remove files based off a property. So you can prompt
and set a property appropriately to remove the files or not.
2. I don't think files go into the recycle bin. So you may have to have a
CustomAction for that. Too bad, since it means you'll have to think through
Ideally I prefer the simplicity of a messagebox over a wizard for
uninstalling, since a yes/no answer is all that is needed, but I think I
might just move the data directory to the recycle bin and not bother the
user with a question at all, since this still gives them the ability to
restore it if
You don't have to worry about FindRelatedProducts (and MigrateFeatureStates).
Wix will schedule them for you.
-Original Message-
From: chaiguy1337 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 10:56 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Run CA on
Is it possible with Wix to write a brandable installer that takes info
from an INI or XML file and displays the logo of another company,
without having to make custom builds of the installer?
Currently our software installer looks to see if a branding.ini file
exists, and if it does, reads it
Hi,
I want to enter some values from my c# custom action to Wix UI text box. Can i
access this text box in my c# CA?
Regards
Sandeep
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I'm having a problem: turns out the removal is not taking place at all. I
guess I didn't notice this before. When I install my update overtop of an
existing installation and look at add/remove programs, there are two
entries: one for each version.
Can someone give me a clue as to what's wrong?
Sure, MsiSetProperty(hinstall, PROP, PROPVALUE) I would think, then you
could take that PROP and put and use it in your UIText element,
while scheduling to run immediate.
I'm thinking that would work.
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Sandeep Gautam (HCL Technologies Ltd)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Toss up a log if you can.
I'd say check your ALLUSERS property between the 2 msis (see if
they're different).
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 4:58 PM, chaiguy1337 [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
I'm having a problem: turns out the removal is not taking place at all. I
guess I didn't notice this before. When
Hi Chad,
Thanks for quick response. Actually I am using c# custom action. I have
assigned the property value in my ca itself.
Session[PROP]= PROPVALUE
With this code Value are assigning corrretly. But this value is not coming in
text box directly. If I am changing UI then coming back to that
Hello,
How do I disable a feature (set level to 0) and still show it (with a X and
unselectable) in the feature tree? I tried setting Display option explicitly
but no help.
Please help.
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Sergey Abakumoff wrote:
The executable I use reads some values from the application configuration
file(.NET exe and standard config file). If I use executable from the
binaries table, then the application can't find it's config file. I am not
sure whether it can be fixed..since as I understand
Sergey Abakumoff wrote:
Unfortunately, this doesn't help..Does anyone have any other ideas?
Please explain how it doesn't work. Do you get an error message?
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David Bartmess wrote:
Is it possible with Wix to write a brandable installer that takes info
from an INI or XML file and displays the logo of another company,
without having to make custom builds of the installer?
Windows Installer supports replaceable text (via formattable property
If I want to update multiple products in a single MSP do I have to create
multiple families, one for each product?
Alex
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Nghi Nguyen (CSD) wrote:
How do I disable a feature (set level to 0) and still show it (with a X and
unselectable) in the feature tree? I tried setting Display option explicitly
but no help.
The selection tree control doesn't support that. You can disable a
feature but a user can
Reuss, Matthias wrote:
Unfortunately, neither the error message nor the verbose MSI log gives a
clue which path might be meant. As far as I see, the only path needed to
set up this dialog is the start path for browsing, i.e. a start value
for the property linked to the PathEdit,
Sorry if that was answered before, in this case I somehow missed it. What
happened to SnapIn, ExtendedNodeType, PublishedNodeType, and Resources elements
in V3?
Thanks,
Alex
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Sorry, by original product I merely meant my other program that has nothing
to do with this one (except that I'm using it as a basis for comparison).
All instances of my current program will be per-user.
I presume there is no problem doing a per-user major upgrade on a per-user
installation.
It sounds like the two msi's don't have ALLUSERS set to the same value. I don't
believe you can perform a major upgrade on msi's that don't match. They both
have to be per-user or per-machine. You can't mix and match as far as major
upgrades go.
-Original Message-
From: chaiguy1337
Neither of the versions have ALLUSERS set at all, because I want them to be
per-user. As I explained I worded that poorly. The installer with ALLUSERS=2
was for another product altogether, unrelated to this one.
Here's what I'm doing:
1. Build and install program with version 1.0.0.0 and
Hi,
Can you please give me more details about this.
Regards
Sandeep
-Original Message-
From: Rob Mensching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 2:27 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Custom action specific Error
Ah, I think you revealed the problem:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370859(VS.85).aspx
Note that Windows Installer uses only the first three fields of the product
version. If you include a fourth field in your product version, the installer
ignores the fourth field.
*facepalm*
Thanks :S
That seems to have done it. I probably never would have figured that out.
Brian Rogers-3 wrote:
Ah, I think you revealed the problem:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370859(VS.85).aspx
Note that Windows Installer uses only the first three fields of the
Was reading the MSI SDK out of the question?
Logan, I'm not trying to single you out but there have been a lot of questions
lately that could be answered or asked better if the people asking the
questions took the time to read the MSI SDK. I don't know about others here
but it feels a little
Rob, it's not like I haven't been putting my own time into solving this as
well. I spent the entire day today working on this problem, attempting to
find the solution by scouring the internet and coming up with my own test
cases. The question started as a simple query concerning the abilities of
Again, sorry, I wasn't trying to single you out. Questions are *not* an abuse
of the mailing list. You are right about just asking questions.
My concern was that I've noticed a trend lately that lots of questions could be
found by reading through the MSI SDK and they have been answered with a
Hi ,
I want to enable installer log. I don't want to use msiexec /I installer name
/l*v installerlog.log
Actually I don't want to enforce to user to go on command line and add switch
for log.
Please help me out how can I enable the log in wix code or ???
Regards
Sandeep
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370536(VS.85).aspx
From: Sandeep Gautam (HCL Technologies Ltd) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 6:51 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: [WiX-users] How to enable
BrowseDlg always shows SAMPLESDIR folder, it doesn't matter that button was
clicked - ProgramFilesBrowse or SamplesBrowse.
So it seems that _BrowseProperty always set to SAMPLESDIR and setting it to
INSTALLDIR in the custom action doesn't have any effect.
Bob Arnson-6 wrote:
Sergey
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Sergey Abakumoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
BrowseDlg always shows SAMPLESDIR folder, it doesn't matter that button was
clicked - ProgramFilesBrowse or SamplesBrowse.
So it seems that _BrowseProperty always set to SAMPLESDIR and setting it to
INSTALLDIR
Actually I use the set property events:
Control Id=ProgramFilesBrowse Type=PushButton X=304 Y=70 Width=56
Height=17
Cancel=yes Text=Browse...
Publish Property=_BrowseProperty Value=INSTALLDIR /
Publish Event=SpawnDialog Value=BrowseDlg1/Publish
/Control
and
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Sergey Abakumoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Actually I use the set property events:
Control Id=ProgramFilesBrowse Type=PushButton X=304 Y=70 Width=56
Height=17
Cancel=yes Text=Browse...
Publish Property=_BrowseProperty Value=INSTALLDIR /
Richard,
In the first post I mentioned that I use custom action. It was suggested in
the reply that set property event should be used and I started to use that:)
However, it didn't solve the problem as I mentioned.
Richard-45 wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Sergey Abakumoff
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