Re: [WiX-users] Installing certificate in the 'Personal' store

2014-12-31 Thread ronif
Thanks for all the answers! one more question: How can I avoid leaving the password for my certificate in plaintext @ the element? Is there a way to encrypt it? (and you were right about the File tag, I replaced it with CreateFolder / because every component needs to make sure it has a

Re: [WiX-users] Text files

2014-12-31 Thread Will Saxon
I did something like this for a small project last week by writing a custom action. In my case, I had very specific changes to make (single line changes based on UI responses), so I wrote an action for each one with a private method implementing the boilerplate part of the change. It ended up

Re: [WiX-users] Installing certificate in the 'Personal' store

2014-12-31 Thread Nick Ramirez
Shouldn't need CreateFolder either. Can you use a Property to store the password? Put the Hidden attribute on it. I'd check the log after that to make sure it's hidden. I am assuming the the IisExtension hides its custom action data already (CustomAction/@HideTarget). -- View this message in

[WiX-users] WiX books $5 until Jan 6

2014-12-31 Thread Nick Ramirez
I saw this and thought I'd pass it along. Books on the Packt Publishers website are $5 until Jan 6. Includes the WiX book and the pre-release of the new WiX Cookbook. www.packtpub.com/all/?search=wix -- View this message in context:

Re: [WiX-users] Adding service installation to wix installer

2014-12-31 Thread Phil Wilson
In general you just add your dependent Dlls as components under that DirectoryRef that has the service in it. Then they get installed to the same folder. The more complicated issue is that you named things (like sql lite) that often have their own redist packages. For example, Log4Net seems to

Re: [WiX-users] Adding service installation to wix installer

2014-12-31 Thread Justin Dyer
I followed the same pattern as I did with my windows app by adding wixproj with this. Shouldn't this have copied over my files? ItemGroup !-- Harvest service -- HarvestDirectory Include=$(ServiceDir) InProjectfalse/InProject DirectoryRefIdINSTALLFOLDER/DirectoryRefId