First, if the execution policy doesn't already allow the execution of scripts,
your Set-ExecutionPolicy will never be executed. You can't execute a script to
allow the execution of scripts.
Are you running into a 32/64 bit issue? The Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell
snap-in is only registered
\'
I wonder there must be a place I can find out the standard value for
each version, can someone help?
Thanks.
-Original Message-
From: John Vottero [mailto:jvott...@mvpsi.com]
Sent: June 16, 2010 5:03 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject
This works for me:
ItemGroup
BootstrapperPackage Include=.NETFramework,Version=v4.0
VisibleTrue/Visible
ProductName.NET Framework 4.0/ProductName
InstallTrue/Install
/BootstrapperPackage
/ItemGroup
-Original Message-
From:
solution.
No, it's actually a bad thing because it forces my software to break for no
reason. Give me a chance to install so I can see if it works.
John Vottero
--
SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides
mean
they won't try to maintain compat whenever possible, but there is a
disconnect between the 2.0 runtime and the 4.0 runtime with regards to
how much compat they are guranteeing.
--
Bryan
From: John Vottero [jvott...@mvpsi.com]
Sent: Monday
When specifying Priority=0 on the NativeImage extension, the installation
properly executes an ngen command with no /queue qualifier and the native image
is successfully generated but, at the end of the install the NativeImage
extension executes an ngen update /queue command which deletes all
I've been trying to figure out a problem with NetFxScheduleNativeImage
in WiX V2.0.4820. I've been looking at the source code and I thought
that all of the ExitOnFailure(hr, Some error message) calls were just
dropping the error message. I got that idea from looking at dutil.h
which defines
on this machine. Is it possible that the
::MsiProcessMessage() is causing the whole thing to blow up? That
does
end up as a cross process call I believe so it could be something
screwy on the machine that's causing the failure.
-Original Message-
From: John Vottero [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED
-Original Message-
From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2008 11:04 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall fails when
callingNetFxScheduleNativeImage
John Vottero wrote:
Is the Action
? Has anyone seen it fail
before?
Thanks,
John Vottero
-Original Message-
From: Rob Mensching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 5:27 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall fails when
I've been trying to figure out a problem with an upgrade failing when
calling the NetFxScheduleNativeImage CA. The failure occurs only on one
server (at a client site). We've narrowed the problem a little, the
failure happens during the uninstall, we can't even uninstall the
product. I'm
and the uninstall worked. I'm still trying
to figure out what's different about the customer's production machine
where the uninstall is failing.
-Original Message-
From: John Vottero [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 07:54
To: General discussion
-Original Message-
From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 1:09 AM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Install fails when calling
NetFxScheduleNativeImage
John Vottero wrote:
Yes, that's
but fail on 1?
This is WiX version 2.0.4820
Thanks,
John Vottero
MSI (s) (E8:04) [11:49:30:054]: Doing action: RemoveFiles
MSI (s) (E8:04) [11:49:30:054]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: ActionText
MSI (s) (E8:04) [11:49:30:054]: Doing action: NetFxScheduleNativeImage
MSI (s) (E8:04) [11:49:30:054]: Note
: John Vottero [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 15:50
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Install fails when calling
NetFxScheduleNativeImage
The following is a portion of an MSI log that I believe shows the
problem. I could be wrong about
We check for a minimum version of mscoree.dll, like this:
Property Id=MINFRAMEWORK
DirectorySearch
Id=MinFrameworkDir
Depth=0
Path=[SystemFolder]
Is there an easy way to create a setup.exe bootstrapper that embeds
the
msi/msp inside it? I can get msbuild to create the setup.exe just
fine, but
I need to distribute my patch as a single file.
My googling has suggested this isn't a feature of msbuild and I've yet
to
find another tool
MSBuild does come with a signing task, it's the SignFile task.
You can sign your msi files with signtool.exe, MSBuild SignFile or
PowerShell's Set-AuthenticodeSignature. I don't know why WiX should add
another option.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob
If anyone has any other opinions on this topic, please do make your
voice heard. I'm still following this thread and trying to figure out
if I should lock non-members out of the list. I'm still very hesitant
to do that since it raises the bar for people just starting to get
involved with WiX
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:wix-users-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carl Daniel
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 6:13 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Setting Uninstall/.../InstallLocation in registry
I'm sure this has been asked
I'm very new to WiX and have just subscribed to this mailing list.
Sorry, if the questions below are stupid.
Due to the fact that it is recommended to use WiX v2 for production
projects so far, I have a couple of questions:
1) Will the MSI produced by WiX v2 be valid and compatible with
Just mark your service as starting automaticly and you shouldn't have
any problem. Then Windows will start the service when its needed.
How does Windows know when the service needs to be started (other than
boot time)?
Another solution that was suggested here was to use a deferred custom
action to start the service. But that also doesn't seem to work. Using
WiX 2.x branch and it results in a runtime error. The custom action
works OK if run outside of the MSI. The error returned is
Unable to schedule
Your requirements are similar to ours. We need to ask the user what
features they want to install then, depending on their answers, they may
need MSMQ and SQL Server. They can also choose not to install SQL
Server because they want to use SQL server over the network. We also
use IExpress to
I am able to use Visual Studio bootstrapper to install .NET other
micosoft
software. How can I modify it to install other exe files, such as
sentinel.exe, AdobeReader.exe, I need to launch many different
executables
during my product install.
This should help:
/
Custom Action=LoadDB
After=StartServices![CDATA[REMOVEALL]]/Custom
/InstallExecuteSequence
From: Harini Gurusamy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 1:43 AM
To: John Vottero; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Wix CA
Still My
.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Harini
Gurusamy
Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 10:18 PM
To: John Vottero; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Wix CA
Thanks for the quick help..
I tried this approach of using FileKey and doesn't work. Do
\Test_Dot_NET directory.
1 Warning(s)
1 Error(s)
I don't have any *.tasks file in the project directory. Do I need to
create
one?
Thanks,
Hina
John Vottero wrote:
Try adding /v:diag to your command to get diagnostic output and post
that.
-Original Message-
From
If two components have the same GUID, they must be the same including
the directory.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:wix-users-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ilya Slobodin
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 2:29 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject:
The wix schema seems to have support for digitally signing packages -
the DigitalCertificate element, the DigitalCertificateRef element -
but I can't see how they're meant to be used.
Presumably light has to have access to the certificate's private key
at some point, and it isn't clear to
Find the Package.xml file for SQL Express, edit it and look for the
Command PackageFile=sqlexpr32.exe Arguments=.. element. Change
the Arguments to what you want.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric
Latendresse
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 5:41 PM
To:
I'm generating a number of shortcuts to programs/scripts/etc that take
arguments. One tester has noticed that a shortcut set up like:
Shortcut Id=SHORTCUT_logconf Directory=ProgramMenuDir
Name=logconf LongName=Log Configuration Tool
Target=[INSTALLDIR]bin\wish.exe
On Thursday, September 27, 2007, at 01:00PM, John Vottero
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Should something be properly escaping/quoting the argument? I can
slip
a couple of quot;s into my arguments string, but that feels like a
layering hack.
WiX and MSI have no way of knowing that your
We're creating separate 64-bit and 32-bit packages, and so far my 64-
bit packages are refusing to install in 2003 Server. The most
interesting of the errors reported by Orca is:
ICE80ERRORThis package is marked with x64 but it has a schema
less than 200.
How do I do that using
Some messages come from the culture of the operating system no matter
what the culture of the msi is.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Debbie
Highgate
Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2007 5:33 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Unexpected
The legacy administration objects are part of IIS. You have to make
sure that they are installed before you start your installation. How
do you check to make sure that IIS is installed?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John
Lalande
Sent: Friday, September 14,
!
From: John Lalande [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 2:08 PM
To: John Vottero
Cc: Rob Mensching; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] IIS, Vista and WiX
I check the value of the MajorVersion entry in the
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\InetStp registry
I need to include ZIP archive (documentation in any directory
structure...) into MSI and after installation I need to unzip it. Does
anybody any idea how to do it?
Encapsulation of documentation's directory structure is not so useful
for me...
Why do you want to do this? The files will be
First a disclaimer, I haven't actually done this!
VS Solutions are nothing but groups of projects, you can have one solution
which has the projects you want to build and another solution that includes the
Votive projects that you use with Visual Studio.
It's not that hard to create an MSBuild
I don't think you need the CDATA for your condition. Conditions are
usually wrapped in CDATA because they often contain and characters.
That being said, are you sure that the problem is actually in the
fragment that you posted? Your CDATA looks fine to me, I'm thinking
that maybe something
Or NOT Version9x=/Condition
John Vottero wrote:
I don't think you need the CDATA for your condition. Conditions are
usually wrapped in CDATA because they often contain and
characters.
That being said, are you sure that the problem is actually in the
fragment that you posted? Your
That’s correct but, if you want the app to run as a 64 bit app on a 64 bit O/S,
you need two installers.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of barbq
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 5:51 AM
To: John Vottero; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] x64
No, you cannot create one MSI for both x64 and x86. Windows Installer doesn’t
support that.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of barbq
Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 7:16 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] x64 Compatibility
Hello,
I
Windows installer does do reference counting but, it counts components
not products. The problem with trying to reference count a whole
product from the msi is that you don't know why the msi is being
executed. Is your msi being executed because of a new install of
product XYZ or a reinstall of
John Vottero wrote:
I know that to install .NET I need to use a bootstrapper so I made
a
.proj
file and put this in it, but I need to add other things to the
bootstrapper
that won't install from the msi like sql server desktop engine and
itechlogger but I'm not sure how to do
. Make sure you have a backup because it might blow up in
your face too!
From: JP Cafaro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 12:58 PM
To: John Vottero
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] bootstrapper?
Not sure, he's not in today, but I've been doing pretty well with Wix
and it seems very
i m having msi of my product which is working on all 32 bit windows
versions
now iwant to create msi which will wirk for bith 32 and 64bit os or
will
work for 64 bit os. i have no idea what r the changes i m suppose to
make in
my msi.
You need to make a copy of your 32bit WiX source (you
I don't think that DigitalCertificate is what you want. I think that
is used when you want to verify the signature of an external resource
(CAB file etc).
Sign your msi's with SIGNTOOL.EXE, the MSBuild SignFile task or
PowerShell's Set-AuthenticodeSignature cmdlet.
From: [EMAIL
The makers of InstallShield are spamming the WiX users mailing list???
That's a good way to make friends.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Macrovision
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 2:59 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] AdminLetterCitrix
I get the following error while running the .msi created by using the
following code to create a service using WIX.GService.exe is the
service exe
file.I've copied installutillib.dll,GService.exe to the wix-binary
folder(folder where candle.exe and light.exe exists)and created a
service.xml
You have to use a bootstrapper, you don't have to write one. Take a
look at the GenerateBootstrapper task or dotNetInstaller or NSIS.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 11:31 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
-Original Message-
From: W. Craig Trader [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 12:36 PM
To: John Vottero
Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Converting Setup project to WiX 3.0 project
(Custom Actions)
John Vottero wrote:
It would
Try:
SC DELETE ServiceName
from a command window.
Also, you really want to use Virtual Machines with undo disks enabled
for testing installers. I don't know how I ever lived without them.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin
Burton
Sent:
We use environment variables, like this:
...Name=JAMS Version $(env.Version) Version=$(env.Version)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick
Steele
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 10:59 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] version
Google GenerateBootstrapper task. That's what a Visual Studio 2005
project uses and it will work with a WiX generated MSI too.
The example in MSDN for the GenerateBootstrapper task shows the .NET
Framework as a prerequisite.
Forget about trying to install the .NET Framework from a CA,
The cannot display webpage problem with the chm is caused by the file
being marked as downloaded from another computer. Right click on the
chm and pick Properties, there should be an Unblock button near the
bottom on the first tab.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
No, WiX does NOT use gacutil.exe
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Alperstein, Kenny
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 9:54 AM
To: Mike Dimmick; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Calling a .bat file from WIX
Mike,
One last question. Does
I have a RegistrySearch tag that attempts to look up values in
Root='HKLM'
Key='Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\12.0' but
on
64
bit machines, it ends up searching for
HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server
Extensions\12.0 (according to Process
: Christopher Painter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 10:09 PM
To: John Vottero; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] msi to exe
It was clearly purposed for packaging IE, it always was. Now it also
seems to have become repurposed as a generic basic
We use IExpress as part of an automated daily build. Do iexpress.exe
/? to see the command line switches.
From: Afshin Sepehri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 5:06 PM
To: John Vottero; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] msi to exe
I need
You don't redistribute iexpress.exe, you redistribute the output of
iexpress.exe. I still don't know if that's legal.
From: Christopher Painter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 5:28 PM
To: John Vottero; Afshin Sepehri; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX
I have never installed the Internet Explorer 7 Administration Kit and
yet, I have IExpress.exe. Why do you think that license covers
IExpress?
From: Christopher Painter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 5:31 PM
To: Christopher Painter; John Vottero; Afshin Sepehri;
wix
What says it's for packaging IE not other apps?
From: Christopher Painter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 8:24 PM
To: John Vottero; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] msi to exe
Yes but it still says it's for packaging IE not other apps. I
I'm trying to decide whether to change the PowerShell ExecutionPolicy
setting either by modifying the registry entry or by running the
Set-ExecutionPolicy cmdlet in PowerShell. Has anyone any opinions on
which way is better/more proper? Thank you in advance.
Neither would be proper, you
I believe that a major upgrade is essentially an uninstall of the old
version followed by an install of the new version.
I *think* you can get the effect you want by sequencing RemoveShortcuts
after CreateShortcuts but, I don't know what side effects you have to
watch out for.
-Original
If the CA fails, you expect the entire installation to rollback, right? If so,
then the CA has to scheduled before InstallFinalize because InstallFinalize is
the “commit” so a failure after that won’t rollback what happened before
InstallFinalize.
I think your next problem is going to be
It sounds like you're trying to create a single MSI that installs either
32 bit or 64 bit executables, is that correct? If so, you shouldn't,
you need one MSI for 32 bit and one for 64 bit. I don't think you want
to reference ProgramFiles64Folder either. Use ProgramFilesFolder and
Windows
if there was a good reason to)
Thanks!
John Vottero wrote:
It's much easier to do 1, 2 and 3 in a bootstrapper which then
executes
your WiX created MSI.
The following sequence of tasks seem like they would be common and
I
am
hoping that someone has a working example of doing
People I work for now want our installer only to install the best
version
instead of x64 and x86 on the end user machine. I have my
ProgramFilesFolder as the main directory, however I would like it to
be
ProgramFiles64Folder if it is a x64 machine. Is there a conditional
way to
do this,
I've just been looking at buying a cert and I'm wondering why Verisign
is so expensive. Why would someone pay 2 or 3 times more? Is there any
difference between what you get from Verisign, Thawte or GlobalSign?
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:wix-users-
[EMAIL
certificate from someone else.
-Original Message-
From: Martin Cetkovsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 11:32 AM
To: 'Trevor Clifton'; John Vottero; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net;
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Vista unknown publisher [OT]
Hi
Weekly builds are at:
http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lewis G.
Pringle, Jr.
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 10:07 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Permission Element, and next v3 pre-release
You can use IExpress.exe to do that.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas B
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 5:14 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Automating MSI merge into bootstrapper?
Hi
What would be a nice way to have the MSI
You do not use privMsiGetPropertyStr to initialize cchIniName. You
initialize cchIniName like this:
char *cchIniName = new char[szBuf];
which just allocates a buffer. The contents of that buffer are
undefined.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:wix-users-
In the ElementPath, you misspelled diagnostics.
On 4/23/07, Kevin Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My XmlConfig does not seem to work. It doesn't delete the section or the
whole node. I don't get a warning or an error. Just what was supposed to
be deleted is not. This is the XmlConfig line
Have you found documentation for InstallUtilLib.dll? Did Microsoft add
it to the list of redistributable software?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wilson,
Phil
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 12:43 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users]
Microsoft puts lots of samples in Program Files
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Quinton
Tormanen
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 12:26 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Where to install samples
I have a .NET assembly that we've
You need a custom action to set ARPINSTALLLOCATION, something like:
CustomAction
Id=SAVETARGETDIR
Property=ARPINSTALLLOCATION
Value=[TARGETDIR] /
Make sure you schedule that custom action after InstallValidate.
-Original Message-
From:
the samples available from that
site are packaged.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Richard
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] On Behalf Of Quinton
Tormanen
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 11:55 AM
To: Brian Cardiff
Cc: John Vottero; wix-users
You misspelled Community in the LongName.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:wix-users-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colin Bowern
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 5:17 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] IAssemblyCacheItem Commit failed with
0x80131047
I would use the WiX ServiceInstall. It's easier and more reliable
than trying to call the Installer class. You can leave the Installer
based class in the code if you want.
From: Don Tasanasanta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 3:00 PM
To: John Vottero; Kevin Burton
I don't think there's a difference between installing a .NET service vs
. a regular service so, ServiceInstall doesn't need to detect
anything. Can you install your service with SC CREATE?
The InstallUtil.exe doesn't know a service from a hole in the ground.
All it does is look for classes
The short answer is, you can't do it.
Visual Studio uses InstallUtilLib.dll which is an MSI custom action that
installs Installer based classes. As far as I know, it's not documented
and not redistributable. Someone did reverse engineer InstallUtilLib
and they wrote a blog post about how to
. For example, the PowerShell SnapIn Installer class is for
registering a PowerShell SnapIn but, it just creates some registry
entries so the WiX Registry element works just fine.
From: Kevin Burton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 6:36 PM
To: John Vottero; wix-users
...and the point of that Wait=Yes is that it translates to Wait=1 in
the ServiceControl table so that it does really wait for the Service
to
finish, not just for the SCM to respond.
Phil Wilson
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John
You could have a race condition (we did). I don't know if it's Windows
Installer or a WiX Custom Action that stops services but, it appears
that it continues when the service controller reports that the service
is stopped. The service controller reports a service as stopped when
the service
You’re creating an advertized shortcut (Advertise=”yes”). When you start an
advertised shortcut, Windows checks to see if the component is installed, if it
is, it starts it. If it isn’t, it installs it and then starts it.
You need to change Advertised to “no” and there may be other
I think you're looking in the wrong place. You said There is no add as
link option shown on my system when I right click the
project on my my system. Add shows New Item Existing Item and
Folder.
Add as link doesn't show up when you right click the project. You
right-click the project,
I think you're breaking the component rules. You put PlaneDisaster.exe
and PlaneDisaster.Dba.dll in the same component which you really don't
want to do. I don't think you ever want more than one executable file
in a component. In most cases, you only want one file in each
component.
If
The situation is clearly broken and it's up to Microsoft to fix it.
John Vottero
So, John, why don't you go complain to Microsoft and more specifically
the Windows Installer team? I know there are a number of us on the
mailing list that work for Microsoft and we really do try to help
Bob Arnson wrote:
John Vottero wrote:
The System.Configuration.Installer base class has virtual methods for
Install, Uninstall, Commit and Rollback. Doesn't that mean that that it
can support Rollbacks?
Yes, they can. The number that do is vanishingly small. Doing it right
is hard
This is really more of a Windows Installer question than a WiX questions
but, I'm not getting any responses in the msi newsgroup.
The component rules make it pretty clear that you can't add or remove a
registry key without creating a new component. Do they really mean
registry key? Can I add or
On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 20:38:16 +, Fredrik Grohn wrote:
First to all, please, clear out all the participants from the To: and
CC: lines and keep the discussion on the list itself. I guess we all
monitor it regularly so it's really not beneficial to receive every
posting twice, both
Here's how we call CAQuietExec twice:
CustomAction
Id=SetCreateDB
Property=CreateDB
Value=quot;[#JAMSDBAEXE]quot; INSTALL/
CustomAction
Id=SetLoadDB
We use Wix and the MSBuild GenerateBootstrapper too. We use
IExpress.exe to to combine everything into a single executable.
IExpress is part of IE so, you probably already have it.
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Look up GenerateBootstrapper Task in the Visual Studio 2005
documentation index.
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- You can't change the executable's version
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Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 1:18 PM
To: John Vottero; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] zip program for bootstrapper
I think you should look at the GenerateBootstrapper MSBuild task.
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and/or product name on the WiX web site. Let me know if what
you need (if anything).
John Vottero
MVP Systems, Inc.
http://www.mvpsi.com
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You can't build two executables with one project, why would that be
different with setups?
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