[WiX-users] Upgrading from Wix 3.5 to 3.8 and Visual Studio 2013

Hi all, I am working on task which includes upgrading Visual Studio 2010 to 2013 as well as upgrading WiX 3.5 to WiX 3.8. I have the basic knowledge of WiX and i am not the expertise as such. Conversion of .NET projects were successful, however in case of WiX projects conversion from 3.5 to 3.8

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrading from Wix 3.5 to 3.8 and Visual Studio 2013

Hi all, I found the issue and fixed it. The issue was under each .wixproj file the value of $(WixToolPath) was referring to older version of Wix (.i.e 3.5) WixToolPath$(ProgramFiles)\Windows Installer Xml v3.5\bin\/WixToolPath I re-visited each individual projects unloaded it, edit the

[WiX-users] The data for the icon WixUI_Ico_Info is not valid

Hello, I am getting the following error and I am having difficulty finding information about it. Can anyone point me to where this error is described? Thank-you. DEBUG: Error 2851: The data for the icon WixUI_Ico_Info is not valid

Re: [WiX-users] The data for the icon WixUI_Ico_Info is not valid

Are you customizing the image of a WiX UI? Are you providing the icon in the expected format? What OS is this error coming from (I seem to remember some WIC updates for XP...) -Original Message- From: Taylor, Duane E. [mailto:tay...@mitre.org] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2014 11:45 AM To:

Re: [WiX-users] The data for the icon WixUI_Ico_Info is not valid

I am creating a WiX installer and it is running on Windows Server 2008 r2. I am customizing a WiX UI in order to present a series of variables to the user that the user can modify. They are just text boxes. I have a custom action that is initializing a database. As for logos, I am

Re: [WiX-users] The data for the icon WixUI_Ico_Info is not valid

I believe the answer is a bitmap is not an icon... -Original Message- From: Taylor, Duane E. [mailto:tay...@mitre.org] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2014 12:12 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] The data for the icon WixUI_Ico_Info is not valid I am creating a WiX

Re: [WiX-users] The data for the icon WixUI_Ico_Info is not valid [P]

Classification: Public I believe your ICON file must be a .ICO check the WIX documentation... steve -Original Message- From: Taylor, Duane E. [mailto:tay...@mitre.org] Sent: July-28-14 1:12 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] The data for the icon

Re: [WiX-users] The data for the icon WixUI_Ico_Info is not valid [P]

Classification: Public From the documentation: Replacing the default bitmaps The WixUI dialog library includes default bitmaps for the background of the welcome and completion dialogs and the top banner of the other dialogs. You can replace those bitmaps with your own for product branding

Re: [WiX-users] The data for the icon WixUI_Ico_Info is not valid [P]

I copied the ..\src\ext\UIExtension\wixlib\Bitmaps\info.ico file to my project directory and mapped WixUIInfoIco to that file. With that the error disappeared. WixVariable Id=WixUIInfoIco Value=..\..\images\info.ico/ Thanks everyone. -Original Message- From: Steven Ogilvie

[WiX-users] WIX environment variable missing from Windows 8.1

After installing WiX 3.8 on Windows 8.1, I saw that the system environment variable WIX, which is normally installed as part of the install (and still is on Windows 7), isn't set. Has anyone noticed this? -- View this message in context:

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrading from Wix 3.5 to 3.8 and Visual Studio 2013

On 28-Jul-14 08:51, Chetan Dabade wrote: i scanned my whole machine but couldn't find file *Common.wxs* and in addition under Installer.wxs file there is a variable declared as: *WixVariable Id=WixUICostingPopupOptOut Value=1 Overridable=yes /* while googling i found the above mentioned