Re: [WiX-users] execute wix msi through cmd

2012-10-19 Thread Rob Hamflett
On 19/10/2012 00:26, Senthil Chandran wrote: That did not work either :( msiexec /i MyApplication.msi /qn WIXUI_LABNAME=TestSilent WIXUI_LABOWNER=Me WIXUI_LABDESCRIPTION=description WIXUI_LABACCESS=1 did not work either. Try it without the quotes round the values. Log the installation and

Re: [WiX-users] Getting started writing a custom Bootstrapper interface

2012-10-19 Thread Hans ter Horst
Hello, could you please help me get started building my own bootstrappe DLL? It is a Wix bootstrapper newbie question, but I guess there are plenty of us around :-) Thanks, Hans On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Hans ter Horst hoshis...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I would like to add an interface

Re: [WiX-users] Getting started writing a custom Bootstrapper interface

2012-10-19 Thread Hans ter Horst
Just in case others are wondering how to get started, this site did get me started: http://bryanpjohnston.wordpress.com/2012/09/28/custom-wix-managed-bootstrapper-application/ Hans On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Hans ter Horst hoshis...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I would like to add an

Re: [WiX-users] Getting started writing a custom Bootstrapper interface

2012-10-19 Thread Daniel Bruce
To resolve Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Bootstrapper, you need to add a reference to BootstrapperCore, which in my installation was located under C:\Program Files (x86)\WiX Toolset v3.7\SDK\BootstrapperCore.dll. You should be able to find yours in a similar location. You are correct

Re: [WiX-users] Getting started writing a custom Bootstrapper interface

2012-10-19 Thread Hans ter Horst
Thanks Daniel, this is precisely what I needed! On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Daniel Bruce daniel.br...@prediktor.nowrote: To resolve Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Bootstrapper, you need to add a reference to BootstrapperCore, which in my installation was located under C:\Program

Re: [WiX-users] Properties in deferred sequence

2012-10-19 Thread Peter Shirtcliffe
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa370543%28v=vs.85%29 .aspx -Original Message- From: Uma Harano [mailto:uhar...@esri.com] Sent: 18 October 2012 22:30 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Properties in deferred sequence Hi

[WiX-users] Registering DLL's properly

2012-10-19 Thread Natalie Carr
Hi I have to register a lot of DLL and I currently have a custom action to do this, however I would like to know the proper MSI way of doing this? Can anyone guide me in the right direction please? And also how to unregister them on uninstall. Kind Regards, Natalie Carr

Re: [WiX-users] Registering DLL's properly

2012-10-19 Thread Neil Sleightholm
The proper way is to harvest the registry entries. The other way is to set File/@SelfRegCost=1. Neil Hi I have to register a lot of DLL and I currently have a custom action to do this, however I would like to know the proper MSI way of doing this? Can anyone guide me in the right direction

Re: [WiX-users] Registering DLL's properly

2012-10-19 Thread Natalie Carr
Is that using heat? Do you know what problems would occur if any using the second method? And how these would work on 64 bit machines? Thanks -Original Message- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] Sent: 19 October 2012 10:39 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML

Re: [WiX-users] Registering DLL's properly

2012-10-19 Thread Neil Sleightholm
I use heat as a starting point and then clean up the output. SelfRegCost works ok but it calls DllRegisterServer/DllUnRegisterServer which means it can be uncontrolled as you don't know what is happening in those functions, as a replacement for your CA it should be identical. It should work on 64

Re: [WiX-users] Registering DLL's properly

2012-10-19 Thread Natalie Carr
Thanks, I think I will just use the SelfRegCost for now. I am trying to register DLL's that would be found on the target machine in their system folder, would you have any idea how I would achieve this? -Original Message- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] Sent: 19

Re: [WiX-users] Registering DLL's properly

2012-10-19 Thread Neil Sleightholm
Why would you do that, if they are already installed then they should be registered, if not you should be installing and registering them. Neil Thanks, I think I will just use the SelfRegCost for now. I am trying to register DLL's that would be found on the target machine in their system

[WiX-users] Merge Files

2012-10-19 Thread Chaitanya
Hi I want merge files to one msi to another msi. I read an article http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix2/authoring_merge_modules.htm but I don't want to use msm.i want to use msi. And help me in upgrade also. Regards Chaitanya.

Re: [WiX-users] Registering DLL's properly

2012-10-19 Thread Peter Shirtcliffe
You also have the option of using registry free COM, if the dlls are suited to it. -Original Message- From: Natalie Carr [mailto:natalie.c...@measuresoft.com] Sent: 19 October 2012 10:27 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Registering DLL's properly Hi I have to

Re: [WiX-users] Registering DLL's properly

2012-10-19 Thread Natalie Carr
Opps, silly me. Thanks for all your help Neil, greatly appreciated. -Original Message- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] Sent: 19 October 2012 11:21 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Registering DLL's properly Why would

[WiX-users] Burn: Specifying PackageGroup Id on button click

2012-10-19 Thread Hans ter Horst
Hello, i have several simple installers that I would like group behind a Burn interface and start depending on the button clicked from the Bootstrapper interface I am designing which will have several buttons. For a simple bootstrapper I know I can use

Re: [WiX-users] Conditionally Installing Update MSI's in Burn

2012-10-19 Thread Spud
Hi Jacob, I couldn't understand your Variable Persisted=quot;Yesquot; Name=...,quot; part (still firmly got my wix beginner hat on!), but in the end got it sorted by setting a registry key in the MSI on installation, and then getting burn to look for it in the event of an update..

Re: [WiX-users] Conditionally Installing Update MSI's in Burn

2012-10-19 Thread Peter Shirtcliffe
Have a look at util:ProductSearch too. -Original Message- From: andy smith [mailto:andysmi...@gmail.com] Sent: 18 October 2012 16:37 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Conditionally Installing Update MSI's in Burn I have a burn installer, whereby the original

[WiX-users] Major upgrade stops working after doing small changes and switching to 3.6

2012-10-19 Thread PKEuS
Hello, First of all, sorry for posting this a second time, but my first post (via nabble) seems to have been rejected, because I hadn't received subscription confirmation mail before. I am a dev of the cppcheck project and I am trying to improve our installer. We are using WiX, and the original

[WiX-users] Major upgrade stops working after doing small changes and switching to 3.6

2012-10-19 Thread PKEuS
Hello, I am a dev of the cppcheck project and I am trying to improve our installer. We are using WiX, and the original installer was built using WiX 3.5. You can see the original installer code here: https://github.com/danmar/cppcheck/tree/master/win_installer I switched to WiX 3.6(.3303), made

Re: [WiX-users] Major upgrade stops working after doing small changes and switching to 3.6

2012-10-19 Thread Rob Mensching
If theUpgradeCode is stable then I don't see anything obvious. What does verbose logfile for update show? On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 9:05 AM, PKEuS philipp.kl...@web.de wrote: Hello, First of all, sorry for posting this a second time, but my first post (via nabble) seems to have been rejected,

Re: [WiX-users] Merge Files

2012-10-19 Thread Rob Mensching
Windows installer doesn't really work that way. On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 3:22 AM, Chaitanya chaita...@pointcross.com wrote: Hi I want merge files to one msi to another msi. I read an article http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix2/authoring_merge_modules.htm but I don't want to use msm.i

Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Specifying PackageGroup Id on button click

2012-10-19 Thread Rob Mensching
Check on the OnPackagePlan callbacks. On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 5:19 AM, Hans ter Horst hoshis...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, i have several simple installers that I would like group behind a Burn interface and start depending on the button clicked from the Bootstrapper interface I am designing

Re: [WiX-users] Installing to inetpub\wwwroot...

2012-10-19 Thread Steven Ogilvie
I am now doing this but still not taking on the real port number: Property Id=DIRECTORY_PATH_SERVER Secure=yes Value=$(env.SystemDrive)\inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\[WEB_SITE_PORT]/ Directory Id=TARGETDIR Name=SourceDir Directory Id=DIRECTORY_PATH_SERVER

Re: [WiX-users] Major upgrade stops working after doing small changes and switching to 3.6

2012-10-19 Thread PKEuS
You can find verbose log file here: http://kloke-witten.dyndns.org/~philipp/Temp/msi_log.zip There are some lines about finding related products, where it says FindRelatedProducts: current install is per-machine. Related install for product '{1CC8C271-A877-4DF0-B1DE-C1B7D83521BC}' is per-user.

[WiX-users] Patches for released WIX versions

2012-10-19 Thread Fyodor Koryazhkin
Hi, Is there any plans to release patches with bug fixes for already released versions?. It would be nice to receive a couple of updates before moving to next version. Thank you. -- Regards, Fyodor Koryazhkin.. --

[WiX-users] Trying to build Wix to debug a nasty problem... having problems

2012-10-19 Thread Robert MacFadyen
Hey all, I'm trying to build Wix in VS2010 and I'm having a problem. I've downloaded the source from CodeProject using hg clone/hg update (to wix36 tag). The .sln appears to convert to vs2010 ok. Not sure why it was doing a conversion though... should I be using vs2008? When I try and build a

Re: [WiX-users] Trying to build Wix to debug a nasty problem... having problems

2012-10-19 Thread Hoover, Jacob
3.6 is not meant to be built by Visual Studio and MSBuild. 3.6 is a mess of Nant build scripts and is quite fragile. 3.7 is being redone to build using just MSBuild or Visual Studio (though I haven't checked to see any of the progress). -Original Message- From: Robert MacFadyen

Re: [WiX-users] Trying to build Wix to debug a nasty problem... having problems

2012-10-19 Thread Robert MacFadyen
Thanks Jacob! Is there a guide to hacking on wix36? I haven't used nant in years... what should I be nant'ng (for toolsrc and wix itself)? Regard, Rob -Original Message- From: Hoover, Jacob [mailto:jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com] Sent: October-19-12 3:43 PM To: General discussion for

[WiX-users] Conditional util:XmlFile change...

2012-10-19 Thread StevenOgilvie
I have a .config file I need to change if the install running is the client install and NOT the server install (we share the services between client and server installations) I have this code: Component Id=cmp_EnterpriseServiceConfig Guid={76DCFB0D-B7BD-4089-AD4D-945931CD73FD} Permanent=no

Re: [WiX-users] Trying to build Wix to debug a nasty problem... having problems

2012-10-19 Thread Hoover, Jacob
I was able to build a while back when I had an x86 machine, but once I upgraded to 64 bit I wasn't able to get a successful build done. I do remember the help file giving a list of prerequisites, as well as a few late nights using your favorite search engine to find random links with bits and

[WiX-users] Components with no componentIDs

2012-10-19 Thread Uma Harano
Hi I want to create a few components with no ComponentIDs. Can I do this even if the component is a versioned dll? Thanks Uma -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics