Re: [WiX-users] Dynamically change the install directory

2009-11-13 Thread salever.lee
More details, http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson1.php#1.5 1.5 where to install? I hope it's useful. Best regars. 2009-11-13 salever.lee 发件人: Blair 发送时间: 2009-11-13 15:30:47 收件人: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' 抄送: 主题: Re: [WiX-users]

Re: [WiX-users] 'downgrading' a file during an upgrade

2009-11-13 Thread Plowman, Mark
Thanks for the suggestions. In the end, the update turned into an uninstall/reinstall due to other issues so I didn't need to try this out. Will definitely keep it on file for next time though. Cheers, Mark -Original Message- From: John Nannenga [mailto:john.nanne...@microsoft.com]

[WiX-users] SQLScript

2009-11-13 Thread Simon Topley
Hello again team, I've got another issue with some SQL scripts I'm trying to run. I have a large collection of scripts all of them work as they each refer to a specific databasehowever I have one big script that updates tables in multiple databases so I can't put it in one specific

[WiX-users] Displaying Alerts!!!

2009-11-13 Thread Anu Dev
Hi How to display a messagebox when the user navigates to dialog. I would like to have an alert when the user navigates to InstalDirDialog. I tried with custom script but not sure how I can use it. Regards Anu

Re: [WiX-users] New Entry in Add/Remove Program when upgrade

2009-11-13 Thread Jiang, Chunyan (GE Healthcare)
Hi Blair, I am sorry to confuse you on this issue. I think my requirement has been changed. I want to install multiple versions to different paths simultaneously. At the same time, there is requirement to update the specific installation. It must be minor upgrade, because there are some files

Re: [WiX-users] Text randomly disappearing

2009-11-13 Thread PitMonster
Hi Blair! Thx for your tip! my NetBook/Laptop msi.dll has version 4.5.6001.22159 and the PC i am working with it has 3.1.4001.5512, now it works fine :) thx! Blair-2 wrote: Could you check the msi.dll file in both computers and see if they are the same version? -Original

Re: [WiX-users] Issue with FilesInUse and IE8 when updating an add-on

2009-11-13 Thread Andreas Mertens
Sorry, again I am not entirely clear on what you are saying. When you say that there was code we added on especially for IE are you speaking about IE8, or MSI, and which version. All I know is that I am running Vista with IE8 and MSI 4.5, and it doesn't seem to be working as is. Nor can I find

[WiX-users] installing files directly from a subfolder of the installation medium

2009-11-13 Thread Friedrich Brunzema
Hi I ran into a specific problem, and Chris Stefano found a solution to it. This is to document the solution to the problem of installing files directly from a subfolder of the installation medium. You would want to do this with items that have to be included on the CD image, where people want to

Re: [WiX-users] FW: InstallShield 2010 vs InstallAware 9

2009-11-13 Thread Matt Walker
Oh, one more thing, what about patches and WiX? Or is that left to Msimsp.exe or something like that? -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design,

Re: [WiX-users] FW: InstallShield 2010 vs InstallAware 9

2009-11-13 Thread Matt Walker
Something else I just thought of and should have included in my last email... What about the future of WiX? With it being free, how do I know it will be around for a while if I would choose to go this route with our installations? Did I read somewhere that it can be integrated into Visual

Re: [WiX-users] SQLScript

2009-11-13 Thread Simon Topley
h, it seems that you can run scripts that cahnge other databases outised of the sqldatabse element the scrit is inside of so maybe it'sa size issue. The script I'm trying to run is 16mb... about 300,000 lines of SQL. This takes about 3 minutes to run if you do it manually.. I've split the

Re: [WiX-users] SQLScript

2009-11-13 Thread Simon Topley
There seems to be a huge overhead of running sql scripts from within windows installers so I'm playing with the idea of using skeleton databases stored in MDf/LDF files, I see there are sqlFileSpec elements that handle these but i can't get them towork yet, I'm not usinga script just 2 files and

[WiX-users] SQL DB from MDF file

2009-11-13 Thread Simon Topley
sorry to be so verbose everyone, I misunderstood the use of the SqlFileSpec element, looks more like it's supposed to be used to specify where you want the mdf file for that database to be stored.. obvious if you think about it. So I'll rephrase my question, assuming there is no easy way to speed

[WiX-users] InstallShield 2010 vs InstallAware 9

2009-11-13 Thread DE�K JAHN, G�bor
On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:53:16 -0500, Matt Walker wrote: Matt, What about the future of WiX? With it being free, how do I know it will be around for a while if I would choose to go this route with our installations? Considering that Microsoft uses it for its own primary products (except for

Re: [WiX-users] New Entry in Add/Remove Program when upgrade

2009-11-13 Thread Blair
As far as I know, no, it does not work. -Original Message- From: Jiang, Chunyan (GE Healthcare) [mailto:chunyan.ji...@ge.com] Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 2:46 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Cc: os...@live.com Subject: AW: [WiX-users] New Entry in

Re: [WiX-users] FW: InstallShield 2010 vs InstallAware 9

2009-11-13 Thread Blair
I don't advocate changing that default behavior (the default is correct in my opinion), and I agree with Rob (and you) on that point as well. But, the point is that for those that need it, it is there and easily accessible. The question was whether WiX supported the scenarios presented, not on

Re: [WiX-users] FW: InstallShield 2010 vs InstallAware 9

2009-11-13 Thread Blair
You have your choice of manually supplying the information or using a tool to extract it. To understand WiX (from an authoring point of view) it helps to remember/realize that MSIs are databases that describe a set of states for the computer to be in, and a Windows Installer transaction consists

Re: [WiX-users] FW: InstallShield 2010 vs InstallAware 9

2009-11-13 Thread Blair
WiX supports both creating .pcp files to use msimsp.exe/PatchWiz AND natively creating .msp files right from the toolset without using PatchWiz (gives you more integration into your source code and control over patch creation). -Original Message- From: Matt Walker

Re: [WiX-users] Windows Server 2008 and the registry

2009-11-13 Thread Wilson, Phil
I'll top that off with Heath's article... https://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/archive/2008/01/15/different-packages-are-required-for-different-processor-architectures.aspx Phil Wilson -Original Message- From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com] Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 8:51 PM To:

Re: [WiX-users] Issue with FilesInUse and IE8 when updating an add-on

2009-11-13 Thread Andreas Mertens
Fair enough, if I am reading between the lines appropriately. However as I said, it doesn't seem to be working with Windows XP. Do you an idea who I might be able to discuss this with at your former employer? :) A. -Original Message- From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com] Sent:

Re: [WiX-users] FW: InstallShield 2010 vs InstallAware 9

2009-11-13 Thread Wilson, Phil
Somebody mentioned this before I think, but maybe InstallShield's project files are still in an incomprehensible format. This means that if you use a source control tool then the ability to see the difference between one version and another is impossible. Can you imagine a development

Re: [WiX-users] FW: InstallShield 2010 vs InstallAware 9

2009-11-13 Thread Christopher Painter
Phil- That's not really the problem. If you understand windows installer tables, comparing one version of InstallShield is not optimal but also not impossible. The real problem is that 1) changes are spread out in the document per where they are in the cables. If you add a file you can

Re: [WiX-users] FW: InstallShield 2010 vs InstallAware 9

2009-11-13 Thread Christopher Painter
Glad to see we all agree. I thought the original question was to show where WiX was different then InstallShield and that's what I thought I did. No matter. Course I guess we could argue they are the same also since I have on more then one occasion used WiX to build a registry table for the

Re: [WiX-users] FW: InstallShield 2010 vs InstallAware 9

2009-11-13 Thread Wilson, Phil
Agreed - I have used ClearCase with branching and merging, and it's an awful experience with Wise or InstallShield project files. Phil Wilson -Original Message- From: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@deploymentengineering.com] Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 11:16 AM To: General

Re: [WiX-users] best way to deploy C++ runtime?

2009-11-13 Thread Richard
OK, I did a little testing and the results surprised me because the working solution goes against the advice of not including the policy MSM. Scenarios are as follows, all on Windows XP SP 3: - No MSMs, run the vcredist_x86.exe, install my application, my app launches - Payload MSM, install my

Re: [WiX-users] best way to deploy C++ runtime?

2009-11-13 Thread John L Krupka
I know the policy msm is required as well. I don't remember what their purpose is but they have some effect on the Side by Side system. Did you look in the Event Log when installed with the policy files? I recall that me a clue as to why they were needed, aside of course from the app not

Re: [WiX-users] best way to deploy C++ runtime?

2009-11-13 Thread Wilson, Phil
I understand that there's the idea that if you ship code that uses VC++ version x then just use that merge module, forget policy files, your app will work, but then again if the redist does install policy files there is no consistent rule. The policy files redirect older versions of the Dlls

[WiX-users] my wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net subscription settings configured with Mail Delivery = disabled . . . and yet I'm still getting list emails

2009-11-13 Thread Robert O'Brien
My wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net subscription settings configured with Mail Delivery = disabled . . . and yet I'm still getting list emails. Am I missing something about how to make this subscription setting take effect?

Re: [WiX-users] FW: InstallShield 2010 vs InstallAware 9

2009-11-13 Thread Christopher Painter
Yup, we use Base Clearcas in a multisite environment. This is why we are finally dumping InstallShield in favor of WiX 3.0. We are using .NET 3.5/ Linq to XML to create an extensible tool that uses visual designers to manipulate the underlying WiX files. So far we've written several

[WiX-users] Differences between WiXUI_InstallDir and WiXUI_Advanced

2009-11-13 Thread John Robbins
Hello, I'm building an installer that installs some source code and utilities into the user's Visual Studio project's directory. This is obviously a per-user install. Using a property, I'm checking the project directory: Property Id=VS2010PROJECTSLOCATION RegistrySearch

Re: [WiX-users] best way to deploy C++ runtime?

2009-11-13 Thread Richard
In article 682e56117f9ba0419d5247669e3f742d836478e...@invsfoxxchmbx02.corp.com, Wilson, Phil phil.wil...@wonderware.com writes: Richard would have to look at his code's manifest and see what redirection exists on the machine for that particular runtime Dll. Hmm OK, this is giving

[WiX-users] Performance Counters supported for MSP?

2009-11-13 Thread Jeff Perrigo
We have some performance counters that are registered as part of our install. When we try to install them as part of an MSP they don't get registered. Are these custom actions executed for patches? Thanks, Jeff --

Re: [WiX-users] best way to deploy C++ runtime?

2009-11-13 Thread Blair
Which is exactly the reason so many people ship the policies when they install the runtimes. -Original Message- From: Richard [mailto:legal...@xmission.com] Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 5:25 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] best way to deploy C++