Hi guys,
I need a double click solution on msi files, for small and minor updates. And
as you may know that is not working with just a double click. I was looking
through the whole user list and tried every suggestion from before, even other
solutions but I cannot get that working. So that's
From the DTF documentation for Session.Message:
The messageType parameter may also include message-box flags from the
following enumerations: System.Windows.Forms.MessageBoxButtons,
System.Windows.Forms.MessageBoxDefaultButton,
System.Windows.Forms.MessageBoxIcon. These flags can be combined
I'm trying to prefill properties based on a checkbox, and use those
properties in a following page. But it looks like the Publish Property
isn't happening. So if the user checks the checkbox to prefill, it
should use the existing properties to fill the properties for the second
page. Basically,
Hello,
I am writing a managed custom action. I am using the DTF Framework from Windows
Installer Xml to wrap the managed dll into a usable CA dll.
The CA does what it is supposed to, but I am still having trouble with error
handling:
Dim record As New Record(1)
' Field 0 intentionally left
Hi All,
When I browse to the weekly releases page for Wix 3.0 and select any of
the more recent weekly builds, I cannot download the 32 bit msi. I just
get an error from the page. It doesn't seem to matter the browser. Is
anyone else seeing this problem? I can download the binaries.zip...
Never mind, I found the problem. Each Publish element has to have a
condition set or it doesn't fire off...
Thanks anyway
-Original Message-
From: David Bartmess [mailto:david.bartm...@wallst.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 8:45 AM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML
Jason can answer better then me, but I'm guessing that the Session.Message(
InstallMessage ... ) doesn't fully expose this capability of MsiProcessMessage.
Also of interest to me are 5 enum values that don't seem to map up to the API.
I'm not sure what they are:
InstallMessage.InstallEnd
Ok, how can I implement it in a better way ...
Thanks in advanced!
tom
cemiles wrote:
Oh, I think I know what you're saying now. And I believe the answer is
you
do need 2 components in order to do so, or so I've read and done.
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 9:10 AM, tgoffice tgoff...@web.de
I'm not aware of any method other than command line or exe file. That is the
official guidance from Microsoft.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367574(VS.85).aspx
-Original Message-
From: Martin Lierschof [mailto:mliersc...@vizrt.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 1:23 AM
I've been trying to figure out how to output to the Output Window
during the building of the .WXS file? I was hoping I could add
something such as Now building .WXS file or using it to output the
variables I use? I tried searching up and down and maybe I am just not
using the right vocabulary?
Hi Ian,
Sorry to bother you, but have you found a follow-on contract after you
current one ends? I remember you telling about your contract ending when we
emailed a couple months ago since I use to work with you back in the Visual
Studio Setup area back in 2005.
The reason I ask is that I got
So, it is impossible to create a Small or Minor Update without entering a
command to a shell or distributing a msi to a executable which does this little
job?
I have been reading documents, and did testing even by trial and error
principle, on that for one day but this just confuses me.
This
This is a little crazy, so I'll try to be as clear as possible...
Here's the pertinent section of my DB installer:
!-- Database Creation Entities
--
util:User Id=SqlCreateUser Name=[SQLCREATEUSER]
Password=[SQLCREATEPASSWORD] /
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Jim Williams
425-221-0289 m
-Original Message-
From: Jim Williams [mailto:jimwilliam...@comcast.net]
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 10:39 AM
To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.'
Subject:
I can't really comment on the inner workings of the msi engine as I'm not privy
to the details. The bottom line is that with the minor upgrades, in order for
the cached version to be updated and then the upgrade to run, you need to pass
in the parameters somehow. Doing it with an exe is not
Why do you need it?
First try if just increasing the msbuild verbosity helps (/v: flag to
msbuild.exe),
Tools - Options - Projects and Solutions - Build and Run - MSbuild
project build output verbosity
in Visual Studio
If that does not help, you can add whatever messages you like either
in your
I am writing a couple of managed custom actions. In the first action I need
to access an assembly that is installed to the GAC via a merge file as part
of the install. The problem is that the assembly does not seem to be
available until the installer has completed.
InstallExecuteSequence
Simon, Thanks for your help. I didn't want to bore people with the
details of what I was doing. But basically I was hoping that I could
build the .WXS file and have Building it helping me write it. But
saying this I was going to output the various environmental variables
when it went to build
Are you custom actions executing deferred? No changes are made to the
system until the deferred mode. So the files won't be installed on the
system until the deferred sequence.
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From: Steve Oliver [mailto:ste...@one-slip.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 2:46 PM
In article 001201c95fb6$eb98dc40$c2ca94...@com,
Steve Oliver ste...@one-slip.com writes:
I am writing a couple of managed custom actions. In the first action I need
to access an assembly that is installed to the GAC via a merge file as part
of the install. The problem is that the
I tried running deferred. Here is the result
Exception thrown by custom action:
System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by
the target of an invocation. ---
Microsoft.Deployment.WindowsInstaller.InvalidHandleException: The handle is
invalid.
at
Are you using DTF? ( I certainly hope so since it's the only way to fly when
writing managed CA's )
If so, you could just have DTF pack the DLL into your custom action and resolve
your reference that way. Your MSI will be a little bit bigger but shouldn't
really hurt anything.
--- On
Yes, my project references Microsoft.Deployment.WindowsInstaller and I
configured a postbuild script like this:
C:\Program Files\Windows Installer XML v3\SDK\MakeSfxCA.exe
$(TargetDir)$(TargetName)Package.dll
C:\Program Files\Windows Installer XML v3\SDK\x86\SfxCA.dll
Yes, I am using DTF. I only discovered DTF yesterday so I'm a bit green. How
do you have DTF pack the DLL?
-Original Message-
From: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@deploymentengineering.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 1:40 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML
Sorry I forgot you lose access to the session in the deferred script.
I'm not really clear on what you are trying to accomplish with the
second CA. Are you trying to update a value in an appconfig file with
the value of [INSTALLDIR]? If so I would suggest using the XmlFile or
XmlConfig elements
We are trying to figure out if we can do this:
We have two products: Product A, and Product B.
We add a launch condition in Product B so that it will not install if
Product A is not installed.
We would like to find a way to make Product B depend on Product A when
it is installed so
I just set the extra dll's as references and they got pulled in when I
compiled my dtf project.
-Original Message-
From: Steve Oliver [mailto:ste...@one-slip.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 3:47 PM
To: chr...@deploymentengineering.com; 'General discussion for Windows
Installer XML
I think a launch condition in product A that will only show if product A
is installed and Product B is Installed should work.
-Original Message-
From: Mark Tempel [mailto:mark.tem...@shavlik.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 3:49 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject:
I am trying to update an xml file with information that is input by the
user. My custom action displays a dialog to collect the information.
-Original Message-
From: Scott Sam [mailto:s...@clearviewecm.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 1:49 PM
To: General discussion for Windows
Yeah I do that in my installer too. You shouldn't need to write your own
custom action for that. I use XmlFile, but you can also use XmlConfig I
believe.
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From: Steve Oliver [mailto:ste...@one-slip.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 4:06 PM
To: 'General discussion
That sounds like a much better solution. Thanks.
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From: Scott Sam [mailto:s...@clearviewecm.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 2:13 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Problem with Custom Action
Yeah I do that in my
Does anyone know if this is a bug or something I'm doing wrong?
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From: Rob Mensching [mailto:rob.mensch...@microsoft.com]
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 2:44 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Cc: Heath Stewart
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Error
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On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Sangeetha Haudakari (Excell Data
Corporation)
I have an MSI that's running a SQL script to insert data (using the SqlScript
wix element). The sql script looks like (simplified somewhat):
/* table: Version */
/* some comment*/
INSERT INTO [dbo].[Version] ([Object],[Version]) VALUES ('mytool',
'2.0.12344.1234')GO
/* some comment*/
INSERT
You either need to load them as SqlScript elements from a file, or escape
the square brackets according to Formatted String rules. I think it's [\[]
and [\]], but you'll want to double check that.
Or, you could always wing it, and just run without brackets. You may find
it works just fine.
I realize this is late, but to answer my own question (and for
posterity) my code had
InstallerVersion='100' in the product element. Setting it to '200' did
the trick. There is apparently no such plastform as 'x64' under 1.00. I
got clued in by using Orca-View-Summary Information on the MSI
I'm already using SqlScript elements to load them as a file.
Kevin Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:23:30 -0500 From:
christopher.kar...@gmail.com To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re:
[WiX-users] Problems executing SQL script to insert data You either need to
load them as SqlScript
You're not using SqlString items to do these?SqlScript doesn't format.
Chris
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Kevin Fischer
kevinfischer...@hotmail.comwrote:
I'm already using SqlScript elements to load them as a file.
Kevin Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:23:30 -0500 From:
It's just in the MSI log where I see the format. It's using WcaLog.
I was using the log to try to diagnose the problem and noticed it had that
behavior. Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:09:42 -0500 From:
christopher.kar...@gmail.com To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re:
[WiX-users]
I uninstalled VC++ 2008 Express and installed VC++ 2008 Pro, but the
Votive installer still thinks that I have Express installed. I've
already tried deleting the VCExpress folders under AppData, Program
Files, and HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VCExpress. What else
do I need to do?
1) To make a patch (msp) file update without a command line you can add type 51
custom actions to set REINSTALL, REINSTALLMODE and Preselected if the PATCH
property is set.
2) I have seen reports that the same will work for minor upgrades with type 51
custom actions that do the same thing if
Michael Owings wrote:
I realize this is late, but to answer my own question (and for
posterity) my code had
InstallerVersion='100' in the product element. Setting it to '200' did
the trick. There is apparently no such plastform as 'x64' under 1.00.
ICE validation catches that. You should
Mark Tempel wrote:
We would like to find a way to make Product B depend on Product A when
it is installed so that when a user tries to uninstall Product A he will
get a warning 26002 (i.e. The following products: Product B depend on
Product A).
If you own both products and they must
Geoffrey Lee wrote:
I uninstalled VC++ 2008 Express and installed VC++ 2008 Pro, but the
Votive installer still thinks that I have Express installed. I've
already tried deleting the VCExpress folders under AppData, Program
Files, and HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VCExpress. What else
cemiles wrote:
existing feature, but still can't compile the msi.
Can you be more specific? What happens?
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Amy Rosewater wrote:
When I browse to the weekly releases page for Wix 3.0 and select any of
the more recent weekly builds, I cannot download the 32 bit msi. I just
get an error from the page.
What error?
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Scott Sam wrote:
I'm trying to create and apply a patch. I can create the patch without
any errors or warnings. When I go to apply it I get the error Error
2721: Custom action RemoveCasPol not found in Binary table stream.
Are you adding or changing that custom action or its DLL in the
Hi John,
How can i check certian feature is selected or not at unistall time.
while installing FeatureName=3 it works but not while uninstall. Please can
u help me.
jmcfadyen wrote:
using FeatureName can determine the features installstate
this link offers more detail
Bob,
I am not getting the error message anymore. I don't know what it was,
but one of the browser errors. Could have been something with
sourceforge.
A
-Original Message-
From: Bob Arnson [mailto:b...@joyofsetup.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 9:37 PM
To: General discussion for
Hello,
I am creating a setup using Wix which is creating some objects in a database
and droping it while uninstall. The create and drop is working fine but if
the user chooses to create these objects on a different database while
installation,the uninstall is not cleaning it while uninstall. I
Jai,
I think I am having a similar issue. I am going to test not changing
the database name in my install from the default and see if it still
drops correctly to confirm, but definitely if I change the name it does
not drop the database or the login I create on the server.
Amy
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On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Bob Arnson b...@joyofsetup.com wrote:
Which version of WiX? What message do you get?
Votive-2.0.5805.0 Stable on 64-bit Vista with Visual C++ 2008 Professional
WiX Toolset Visual Studio Package requires the Standard,
Professional, or Team editions of Visual
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siaj wrote:
I am creating a setup using Wix which is creating some objects in a database
and droping it while uninstall. The create and drop is working fine but if
the user chooses to create these objects on a different database while
installation,the uninstall is not cleaning it while
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Amy Rosewater wrote:
I am not getting the error message anymore. I don't know what it was,
but one of the browser errors. Could have been something with
sourceforge.
There's also a timing issue, if you are checking during the time we push
the build to SF.
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Geoffrey Lee wrote:
Votive-2.0.5805.0 Stable on 64-bit Vista with Visual C++ 2008 Professional
Votive v2 supports VS2003 and VS2005 but not VS2008. Votive v3 supports
VS2005, VS2008, and soon VS2010.
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Hi
I am trying to create an installer for a .NET product. I have made a
bootstrapper using votive and the msbuild bootstrap generator. I also want the
bootstrapper to detect previously installed versions of my program to call my
msi with REINSTALL=ALL REINSTALLMODE=vomus to enable minor
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