I have not been following this thread, but is it not possible to use the Visual
Studio Remote Debugging facilities so that you only have to install a bare
minimum on the test machine rather than the full VS suite? (see
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/y7f5zaaa.aspx)
Daniel Madill
PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Burn custom bootstrapper and ARPINSTALLLOCATION?
On 28-Jan-14 10:52, Daniel Madill wrote:
However, in my original MSI I set the ARPINSTALLLOCATION property so that the
install location shows up in ARP. I would like to do the same
entry for the
bootstrapper. How do I set the ARPINSTALLLOCATION for the burn bootstrapper
bundle? I'm passing the same InstallFolder to each MSI in the chain, so the
concept of an install location does make sense for my bootstrapper.
Daniel Madill
/uninstall. Anyway, the bundle log file should show why a package is not
being uninstalled.
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From: Daniel Madill [mailto:dan.mad...@quanser.com]
Sent: Monday, January 6, 2014 1:27 PM
To: General discussion about the WiX toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Burn
installing from the web.
Sincerely,
Daniel Madill
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From: Daniel Madill [mailto:dan.mad...@quanser.com]
Sent: Monday, January 6, 2014 12:24 PM
To: WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Burn not uninstalling MSI downloaded from URL
Hi,
I have a simple burn bundle that contains three packages: .NET, a 64
/everyone-quotes-arguments-the-wrong-way.aspx.
Sincerely,
Daniel Madill
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From: Gerry Reno [mailto:gr...@verizon.net]
Sent: December-19-13 8:31 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] ExeCommand will not accept any path with spaces
I have been trying
Hi Jose,
I have not used burn because I have my own bootstrapper for now, but I believe
burn runs as a 32-bit application even on 64-bit Windows. You can still chain
64-bit MSIs though, as far as I know.
Daniel Madill
www.quanser.com
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From: José Marques
.
But if burn should run as a 32-bit application, where am I going wrong
here?
A link to a no-burn bootstrapper tutorial would be appreciated :)
José Marques
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Daniel Madill dan.mad...@quanser.comwrote:
Hi Jose,
I have not used burn because I have my own bootstrapper
and a
mixed 64-bit MSI for 64-bit platforms from the same WiX source.
Daniel Madill
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From: Wesley Manning [mailto:wmann...@dynagen.ca]
Sent: June-18-13 2:17 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Java Program Installer
AFAIK
I think he wants the component Ids to be such that if the component Ids are
sorted alphabetically then they end up in the same order as the files
themselves when the files are sorted alphabetically.
Dan
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From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com]
Sent:
It's not just .NET. Many functions in the Win32 API have the same limitation
unless you use UNC path names (in which case the limit is 32767 characters).
Daniel Madill
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From: Edwin Castro [mailto:egca...@gmail.com]
Sent: May-03-13 2:10 PM
To: General discussion
), and then the data is not removed
until after the service uninstalled.
Daniel Madill
-Original Message-
From: Nick Miller [mailto:nmil...@livetechnology.com]
Sent: May-02-13 11:12 AM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
(wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net)
Subject
make
differences where needed using the above if statement.
Hope this helps.
Daniel Madill
www.quanser.com
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From: Marc Beaudry [mailto:mbeau...@matrox.com]
Sent: March-28-13 11:55 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] VS Building using Different
, does
not have an advantage over the other?
Just curious,
Marc
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From: Daniel Madill [mailto:dan.mad...@quanser.com]
Sent: March-28-2013 12:27 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] VS Building using Different platforms
Hello
. The MajorUpgrade
element has options for displaying messages if the user tries to upgrade or
downgrade and should not be allowed, etc. if that's what you need. If you want
something more complicated on upgrade then you will have to do a little more
work.
Daniel Madill
www.quanser.com
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of the default Text documents (*.txt).
If you really want to change the permissions so that it can be edited by the
user without elevated privileges, use the Permission child element (or
PermissionEx). Alternatively, install to a user-editable location.
Daniel Madill
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of copying it to the project
folder.
Daniel Madill
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From: TimM [mailto:timmay...@smarttech.com]
Sent: February-26-13 5:33 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Referencing fragment .wxs files from an environment
variable
Thanks Steven
information for resources, splash screens, etc.
Once you have included version.wxi in your wxs you can refer to the product
version as $(var.ProductVersion).
Daniel Madill
www.quanser.com
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From: Don Reba [mailto:don_r...@inbox.ru]
Sent: February-10-13 2:05 AM
To: wix-users
Hi Raphael,
I've used mt.exe in the Windows SDK to update the manifest embedded in an
application before. While I've never tried it with a BA generated by burn could
you not use it, or a similar tool, to patch the manifest of the BA *after* it
is built by Wix?
Daniel Madill
-Original
I found that accessing the timestamp servers was more reliable when using the
actual IP address for the timestamp server (i.e. a.b.c.d notation) rather than
the hostname. Doing so eliminates DNS failures and resulted in far fewer build
failures in my case (I sign a lot of components, not just
.
That suggests to me that higher Ordering numbers get higher priority. I haven't
required this attribute myself however.
Daniel Madill
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From: Natalie Carr [mailto:natalie.c...@measuresoft.com]
Sent: October-03-12 9:53 AM
To: 'General discussion for Windows
It is possible to improve screen reader support by supporting Microsoft UI
Automation or Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA). Older screen readers
supported MSAA. Modern screen readers should support Microsoft UI Automation.
WPF has support for UI Automation but not MSAA.
Daniel Madill
Chief
Hi Gareth,
I don't currently use the DuplicateFile table because my 32-bit components and
64-bit components are distinct - mainly because we provide 32-bit support for
our APIs but the full product is native 64-bit on a 64-bit O/S i.e. the user
runs the 64-bit product, but can access 32-bit
-bit
applications that use our product on a 64-bit O/S. That way I do not have to
worry about compatibility between the 32-bit installer and 64-bit installer - I
can deal with 32/64-bit compatibilities in the 64-bit installer alone.
Daniel Madill
-Original Message-
From: Peter
32-bit and 64-bit
components for a 64-bit O/S from the same source files by using the WiX
preprocessor facilities.
Sincerely,
Daniel Madill
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From: Gareth [mailto:gmor...@serif.com]
Sent: June-12-12 6:40 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users
Hi Gareth,
I install 32-bit applications in a 64-bit installer all the time. I use the
Win64=no attribute on the 32-bit registry entries to ensure they go in the
32-bit hive on the 64-bit platform.
Sincerely,
Daniel Madill
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From: Gareth [mailto:gmor...@serif.com
,
Daniel Madill
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From: Aaron Oxford [mailto:aaron.oxf...@objecttrading.com]
Sent: 15 May 2012 05:26
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Error 2343
Hi WIX people,
Is there any way to get more information when a path is supposedly
empty? I've looked
What is the garbage text? My suspicion is that you may have inadvertently saved
the batch file as a Unicode file and that there is a Unicode byte-order mark
(BOM) at the beginning of the batch file. If so, then open the batch file is
Notepad and then choose Save As and explicitly specify the
install attempts that need to be cleaned up? If so, where do I find them (I've
searched for component GUIDs in the registry and not found them)?
Any help would very much be appreciated.
Daniel Madill
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Hi James,
You can use the heat harvesting tool that comes with WiX to generate an
initial WxS installer file for your 2000 files and 650+ directories and then
add that WxS file to your installer.
Dan
-Original Message-
From: James Green [mailto:jgr...@mango-solutions.com]
Sent:
,
Yeah, I'm just getting my batch command setup for this. It's building OK as a
fragment but I'm can't work out how to incorporate it into the features so that
it will actually execute during the install process.
James.
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From: Daniel Madill [mailto:dan.mad...@quanser.com
Hi James,
I have an idea how you were feeling about adding 2000+ files because I had a
similar situation with over 12000 files and more than 1000 folders. Glad to
hear you got it working! :-)
Dan
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From: James Green [mailto:jgr...@mango-solutions.com]
Sent:
a variable in the main wxs file without hand editing the
generated fragment?
Cheers,
James
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From: Daniel Madill [mailto:dan.mad...@quanser.com]
Sent: 16 January 2012 16:25
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Cab File
Hi
this in a repeatable fashion so that the generated
fragment is always valid?
Cheers,
James
-Original Message-
From: Daniel Madill [mailto:dan.mad...@quanser.com]
Sent: 16 January 2012 16:59
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Cab File
Hi
LPWSTR is already a wchar_t *, so LPWSTR is a wchar_t **. Hence it is
complaining that it cannot convert a wchar_t ** to a wchar_t *, which makes
sense. It seems to me that you need to change your LPWSTR * type to just
const LPWSTR, or do you not have control over that data type?
Dan
Blair,
I didn't narrow it down exactly because it would have taken a while. The merge
module WiX project that was giving me trouble currently references the project
outputs of 415 projects, so I probably had several hundred WxS files at the
time VS2010/MSBuild was croaking and I moved away
the problems with VS2010 (within a single project, but I have multiple
merge module projects for sharing installer components with third parties).
Daniel Madill
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From: rhf417 [mailto:rhf...@hotmail.com]
Sent: November-18-11 10:20 PM
To: General discussion
in a single WxS file to get
around the problems with VS2010 (within a single project, but I have multiple
merge module projects for sharing installer components with third parties).
Daniel Madill
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From: rhf417 [mailto:rhf...@hotmail.com]
Sent: November-18-11 10:20 PM
I reference C/C++ projects all the time from WiX 3.5 with no problems at all.
You didn't actually name your project myC++Project (i.e. with '+' signs in
the name) did you?
Daniel Madill
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From: RaoHuiFei [mailto:rhf...@hotmail.com]
Sent: November-18-11 4:33 PM
To: wix
I hadn't noticed the VS2008 when I posted last. References to C++ projects
work fine for me in VS2010 with WiX 3.5. I haven't tried VS2008. My mistake.
Sorry about that.
Daniel Madill
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From: Castro, Edwin G. (Hillsboro) [mailto:edwin.cas...@fiserv.com]
Sent: November
The link worked fine for me.
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From: john.burak [mailto:john.bu...@telvent.com]
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2011 12:49 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Broken link to Mondo documentation page?
Is anyone else getting a server error in the
Hello Mr. Gombrelli,
Here is code taken from a *working* wixproj project file in WiX 3.5. MSSDK_DIR
is an environment variable set to the absolute path to the Windows SDK. It
installs the .NET Framework 4.0 client profile. For the full version use
Include=.NETFramework,Version=v4.0. I don't
For a few more details:
Multi-part CABs can get the total size of a set of files past 2GB, possibly to
64K * 2GB, but no one file can exceed 2GB.
Maximum size of all files in one folder (uncompressed) 2GB
Maximum size of all files in one folder (compressed) 2GB
Maximum size of a CAB file
Sorry, this is a repost because the formatting came out strangely on the last
email.
For a few more details:
- Multi-part CABs can get the total size of a set of files past 2GB, possibly
to 64K * 2GB, but no one file can exceed 2GB.
- Maximum size of all files in one folder (uncompressed) =
I find the Action attribute values confusing as well. It didn't help that all
the examples I looked at used createAndRemoveOnUninstall even though that
generally isn't necessary. I would actually have found it much clearer to use
createAndRemoveOnUninstall and createAndRemoveAllOnUninstall
Use a Merge element in your Directory tree, such as:
Merge Id=merge_3rdparty
SourceFile=path_to_3rdparty_module\merge_3rdparty.msm DiskId=1
Language=1033 /
Note that you can use environment variables in the path with a syntax such as
$(env.MyEnvVar). I use the $(env.CommonProgramFiles)
to trigger off the merged installation?
Or does that depend on each merge module? I'd like to trigger off this
licencing stuff at the end of the rest of the install.
Thanks again,
Dominique.
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From: Daniel Madill [mailto:dan.mad...@quanser.com]
Sent: 30 June 2011 16:31
I would assume you just need to add a CreateFolder element to ensure the
destination directory is created. For example:
CreateFolder Directory=DIR_36/
Dan
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From: Dave Combs [mailto:dave.co...@kaazing.com]
Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 1:10 PM
To: General
-and-tips
Daniel Madill
Quanser Inc.
http://www.quanser.com
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From: maksim.vazhe...@emc.com [mailto:maksim.vazhe...@emc.com]
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 5:45 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] single msi for 32-bit and 64-bit ??
You can create
To whom it may concern,
In VS2010, I turned on the Harvest option for a Reference in a Wix merge module
project with the Project Output Groups set to Content in order to produce a
list of the 100s if not 1000s of Content Files I have in the referenced VS2010
project. However, heat.exe fails
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