Re: [WiX-users] Msu package is not allow me to add RemotePayload as attribute in WIX3.8

2014-03-08 Thread Rob Mensching
RemotePayload was incorrectly allowed to be on MsiPackage and MspPackage. It is possible in the fix that MsuPackage was removed. It probably shouldn't be. You could open a bug to track the issue. -Original Message- From: Prajas John [mailto:prajas_j...@deepsea.com] Sent: Friday,

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade and side by side with the same installer

2014-03-08 Thread Walt Dexter
Based on something Rob wrote at some point, I've been using * as Product Code and not changing the upgrade code. It really seems like the OP's basic requirement is that each release is an independent product, so if they just do that they'll be 99% of the way there. Of course the last 1% is

Re: [WiX-users] Wix Bootstrapper is not removing older version from Control Panel/Uninstall Program

2014-03-08 Thread bk1234
Finally resolved this issue when I have following on the Display.Embedded mode of my BootstrapperApplication: 1. Add handlers for DetectComplete, PlanComplete and ApplyComplete. Call Engine.Detect(). 2. Handler for DetectComplete calls Engine.Plan(Command.Action). 3. Handler for PlanComplete calls

Re: [WiX-users] Noob creating a Custom Action in Wix 3.8

2014-03-08 Thread Eric Stott
Following up, the tutorial, when running, should show the dialog, however it doesn't: this.Core.CreateWixSimpleReferenceRow(sourceLineNumber, CustomAction, ShowMessageImmediate); What am I missing? Eric Stott (623) 261-7208 http://stottcreations.com http://biztalk.stottcreations.com

Re: [WiX-users] displaying action data text in ExecuteProgressActionDataText

2014-03-08 Thread Steve-Ogilvie
well I guess I don't think this is a bug... However I did fix the issue. 1. took '.' out of my progress text strings 2. changed balextension DLL (WixStandardBootstrapperApplication.cpp) in method: OnExecuteMsiMessage from: ThemeSetTextControl(m_pTheme,

[WiX-users] Bundle Command line not passed to second MSI package

2014-03-08 Thread Phill Hogland
I have a bundle with an mba and several nearly identical MsiPackages (which install various printer drivers). So except for a different path to the msi the bundle MsiPackage authoring is identical for each driver package. The thing that I noticed is that when I set LOGVERBOSE on the command line

Re: [WiX-users] Running an MSI twice

2014-03-08 Thread fom Forstner Michael
The upgrade path wouldn't concern me to much, because our end customer relationships are all 1-to-1. But you got me thinking with the signature part. Maybe my approach on this was not quite the best. Maybe I should consider just teaching my internal customer's how to make easy setup projects