[WiX-users] Conditions on a Fragment

2011-09-05 Thread Anil Patel
Hello, I have a number of fragments say A, B C. What I would like to do is to install fragment A if the the OS is Windows 7, install fragment B if the OS is Win XP and install fragent C if its Windows Vista. So its a selective install of fragments based on OS. I thought of using a condition

Re: [WiX-users] Conditions on a Fragment

2011-09-05 Thread Anil Patel
element nested under a Component element ) and the VersionNT property. From: Anil Patel apatel...@googlemail.com Sent: Monday, September 05, 2011 9:29 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject

Re: [WiX-users] Identifying Features that have been installed

2011-08-25 Thread Anil Patel
be appreciated. Regards, Anil. On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Peter Shirtcliffe pshirtcli...@sdl.comwrote: MsiEnumFeatures() http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370098%28v=vs.85%29.aspx -Original Message- From: Anil Patel [mailto:apatel...@googlemail.com] Sent: 25 August

[WiX-users] Shortcut Entries

2011-08-15 Thread Anil Patel
Hello, I have a situation where on one machine the installer creates the shortcut entry for my application on the Start Menu but it doesn't on another. In both cases, the application installed ok - no errors in the verbose MSI log. Can anyone shed any light on this? Are shortcut entries held

Re: [WiX-users] SFC: The following key was not removed, because it is protected by Windows

2011-08-15 Thread Anil Patel
. Or installing them and having them registered via the Class table, or have those entries in the Registry table. Maybe they're coming in from merge modules. I'd look in the MSI file (with Orca) and do a search. Phil Wilson -Original Message- From: Anil Patel [mailto:apatel...@googlemail.com

[WiX-users] SFC: The following key was not removed, because it is protected by Windows

2011-08-12 Thread Anil Patel
Hello, I have just started receiving a whole bunch of these errors whilst uninstalling the S/W on my machine. The uninstall then goes on to fail. They relate to registry that I wouldn't dream of removing. Eg MSI (s) (08:94) [16:06:34:086]: SFC: The following key was not removed, because it

Re: [WiX-users] SFC: The following key was not removed, because it is protected by Windows

2011-08-12 Thread Anil Patel
, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Anil Patel apatel...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello, I have just started receiving a whole bunch of these errors whilst uninstalling the S/W on my machine. The uninstall then goes on to fail. They relate to registry that I wouldn't dream of removing. Eg MSI (s

Re: [WiX-users] Multiple RadioButtonGroup controls in the same dialog

2011-08-03 Thread Anil Patel
I was using groupbox's to embed each radiobuttongroup and the there was an overlap of these which led to the problem. Thanks for your offer of help anyway. On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Nick Ramirez nickra...@hotmail.com wrote: Could you show the markup you're using for the controls? --

[WiX-users] Multiple RadioButtonGroup controls in the same dialog

2011-08-02 Thread Anil Patel
Hello, I have placed 2 radiobuttongroup controls in the same dialog but the radio buttons in the second group appear to be disabled and so the selection can't be changed. The radio buttons in the first group work fine. Can anyone please explain what I am doing wrong? Thank you, Anil.

Re: [WiX-users] com registration

2011-07-27 Thread Anil Patel
Hi Daniel, 1) For a COM dll, heat should generate the appropriate registry data. 2) For a COM EXE server, heat will not generate the the registry data but you can do the following.: a) Use RegSpy2 to extract the registry data into a reg file. So if my COM exe is called TestCOM.exe, you would

Re: [WiX-users] WiX in Visual Studio: Preprocessor variables

2011-07-27 Thread Anil Patel
Hi Andreas, Unload your WiX project in VS 2010 (right click project) and then unload it. Then select project again right click select Edit You should see a PropertyGroup element and each sub-element within it, is a property which can be referenced by eg $(Product) You should find some values

Re: [WiX-users] WiX in Visual Studio: Preprocessor variables

2011-07-27 Thread Anil Patel
Forgot to add that the DefineConstants element conatins the assignments of properties to preprocessor variables. Anil. On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Andreas Vestlund andreas.vestl...@sekonden.se wrote: Hi, I have a large WiX project in visual studio 2010 and I am having trouble finding

Re: [WiX-users] Primary Project Output

2011-07-27 Thread Anil Patel
Hi Joseph, Have a look at this link about adding the WiX project to your VS 2010 solution. http://www.havecomputerwillcode.com/blog/?p=421 Cheers, Anil. On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Joe Tilley jtil...@fwmurphy.com wrote: Hello, This is my first time using the mailing list, so please

[WiX-users] Using WIX in TFS 2010

2011-07-21 Thread Anil Patel
Hello, I'm using Visual Studio 2010 solution which has a single WiX project within it. I have another VS 2010 Solution (call it Solution BinaryProvider) which provides the binaries that get built into a MSi by the WiX solution. I'm using a TFS 2010 Build system in which the build order is 1)

Re: [WiX-users] Using WIX in TFS 2010

2011-07-21 Thread Anil Patel
Hi Rob, Appreciate your reply on this but can you please elaborate on this by way of an example.. Thanks, Anil. On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Rob Mensching r...@robmensching.com wrote: I would use BindPath. On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Anil Patel apatel...@googlemail.com wrote

Re: [WiX-users] Registration of COM Executable Server

2011-07-07 Thread Anil Patel
Message- From: Anil Patel [mailto:apatel...@googlemail.com] Sent: 07 July 2011 10:57 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Registration of COM Executable Server Hello, I have used to HEAT to generate the registry entries required for a COM dll but I don't think

Re: [WiX-users] Using the same component in different features

2011-07-05 Thread Anil Patel
Installer behavior in a lot of detail... but is pretty dense material. On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Anil Patel apatel...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello, As this is my first time in authoring WiX source files, I have a need to use the same component group (hence components) in different

[WiX-users] Using the same component in different features

2011-07-01 Thread Anil Patel
Hello, As this is my first time in authoring WiX source files, I have a need to use the same component group (hence components) in different features. The 'shared' components will only ever be installed in one location. What I would like to understand is if there are any dangers in this doing