Re: [WiX-users] Own UI-File

2009-03-13 Thread Bahn Thomas
I have the ErrorText Control as the first child of the Dialog. Dialog Id=ErrorDlg Width=270 Height=105 Title=[ProductName] Setup ErrorDialog=yes NoMinimize=yes Control Id=ErrorText Type=Text X=48 Y=15 Width=205 Height=60 Text=Information text /Control

[WiX-users] is there anyway to suppress MSB3164 warning?

2009-03-13 Thread Demi Zhu
Hello, I'm getting MSB3164 warning when build our WiX project. This warning is about bootstrapper package definition. Because that's just following our design, we cannot change the bootstrapper definition. Is there any way to suppress that warning? I've tried to add NoWarn property, set

Re: [WiX-users] Bootstrapper selection questions -Specificscenario requirements

2009-03-13 Thread Holmgren Mathias
Good stuff, thanks again. Only one thing I still haven't figured out from your answer. Guess my description was a bit fuzzy on that bit. We have an application DLL that is our code, which comes in three different flavors (one for each Office-version we support). This is necessary because it has

Re: [WiX-users] Execute a powershell script in x64

2009-03-13 Thread sandun css
I could learn that, this was possible a custom action which uses a VB script. But I am not familiar with VB scripts. Please advice me how to do it? Is there any better way? Thanks On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 10:17 AM, sandun css sandun...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I need to execute a powershell script

Re: [WiX-users] Bootstrapper selection questions -Specificscenario requirements

2009-03-13 Thread Don Benson
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 4:56 AM, Holmgren Mathias mathias.holmg...@six.sewrote: Good stuff, thanks again. We have an application DLL that is our code, which comes in three different flavors (one for each Office-version we support). This is necessary because it has to reference the

Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.0: How to install a Root Certificate

2009-03-13 Thread Rob Mensching
IIRC, installing a .cer file should work. -Original Message- From: Bob Arnson [mailto:b...@joyofsetup.com] Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 18:19 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.0: How to install a Root Certificate Brian Young wrote:

Re: [WiX-users] Verify the installation mode is silent or not.

2009-03-13 Thread Rob Mensching
Or use QtExec CA to swallow the console window. -Original Message- From: Wilson, Phil [mailto:phil.wil...@wonderware.com] Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 12:39 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Verify the installation mode is silent or not.

Re: [WiX-users] Bootstrapper selection questions-Specificscenario requirements

2009-03-13 Thread Holmgren Mathias
Good ideas. In our WiX app installation I already detect Excel-version like this: Property Id=EXCELVERS !-- value is Excel.Application.X where X is either 10, 11 or 12 for 2002, 2003 and 2007 respectively -- RegistrySearch Id=ExcelRegistry Type=raw Root=HKCR Key=Excel.Application\CurVer /

Re: [WiX-users] Bootstrapper selection questions -Specificscenario requirements

2009-03-13 Thread Shannon Barber
Are you certain you want hard references to Excel's primary interop assemblies (PIA)? Generally, you only reference the PIA during development. Once development is complete you should remove the PIA reference and change the type of the Excel application class to 'object'. Assuming you are using

Re: [WiX-users] Bootstrapper selection questions -Specificscenario requirements

2009-03-13 Thread Holmgren Mathias
Are you certain you want hard references to Excel's primary interop assemblies (PIA)? Generally, you only reference the PIA during development. Once development is complete you should remove the PIA reference and change the type of the Excel application class to 'object'. Yeah I know what

[WiX-users] Creating x86 and x64 MSIs

2009-03-13 Thread troy hostetter
Are there any recommendations on how to easily switch between x86 and x64 when building the MSI? Would be nice to dynamically or quickly change these: Package Platformx64 / Directory Id=ProgramFiles64Folder / Component Win64=yes / - Troy

Re: [WiX-users] Creating x86 and x64 MSIs

2009-03-13 Thread troy hostetter
Hmm... Ran across thishttp://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2007/08/09/4317654.aspxafter I fired off the email. If anybody has other ideas, or links to them, please forward. Thanks, - Troy On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:28 PM, troy hostetter troy.hostet...@gmail.comwrote: Are there any

[WiX-users] Executing PowerShell Silently Hangs Install

2009-03-13 Thread Castro, Edwin (Hillsboro)
I've seen many people report that they are running powershell custom actions successfully but I can't seem to find any examples of how they do it. My goal is to run powershell silently. I'm trying to do it as follows: DirectoryRef Id=INSTALLDIR Component Id=SampleScriptPS1 Guid=* File

[WiX-users] How to open a document after install?

2009-03-13 Thread David Bartmess
I'm trying to schedule a document to be opened when the user clicks on the Finish button on the ExitDialog. What type of custom action is needed to do this? I keep getting the error below that it must be scheduled between InstallInitialize and InstallFinalize. But I've seen other documents

[WiX-users] Can FeatureGroupRef be a child of FeatureRef?

2009-03-13 Thread Castro, Edwin (Hillsboro)
The documentation says that FeatureGroupRef is a valid child of FeatureRef. I have the following: FeatureGroupRef Id=FeatureGroup Feature Id=ChildFeature1/ /FeatureGroup FeatureRef Id=ParentFeature FeatureGroupRef Id=FeatureGroup/ /FeatureRef ParentFeature is defined in a different source