Re: [wix-users] (deprecated) Windows Installer Repair Failure

install, or delete/overwrite/add files. For minor upgardes you will not get any removal, just overwrite/add files. The partial log you posted isn't enough for me to understand which- if any- upgrade is occuring. - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com

Re: [WiX-users] Possible Bug: RegDelete does not work properly with REG_KEY_32BIT on a 64-bit system

You shuold OR it with the KEY_READ See Registry Key Security and Access Rights https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms724878(v=vs.85).aspx - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux and Embedded

Re: [WiX-users] Patching a product without ProductVersion property

Patchwiz - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux and Embedded Platforms - WiX InstallShield -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Patching-a-product-without

[WiX-users] Patching a product without ProductVersion property

for this product. Building the patch fails because the base is missing the ProductVersion. Is there any way to work around that? Thanks, Nir. - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux and Embedded Platforms - WiX

Re: [WiX-users] Windows service doesn't remove from services.msc in windows 8 using WIX shortcut (C#)

Sometimes Windows marks a service for deletion after restart. In this case you would see the service in the services UI until after restart. - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux and Embedded Platforms - WiX

Re: [WiX-users] Reboot required during major upgrade in-between uninstall and re-install

You may be able to schedule RemoveExistingProducts after InstallExecute if you adhere to component rules https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372795(v=vs.85).aspx . This will perform the uninstall after the reinstall and reboot on installation end. - Nir Bar Freelance Developer

Re: [WiX-users] Not to create key under HKCU path in the registry

Specify a different Root attribute? - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux and Embedded Platforms - WiX InstallShield -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com

Re: [WiX-users] StrAllocSecure fails in AlocHelper - advice in understanding why.

The log message should indicate the requested cch value. Also note that E_OUTOFMEMORY can be returned on two different flows in the function. Since the log message is slightly different you can tell which of these failed. Have you initialized your LPWSTR variable to NULL? - Nir Bar

Re: [WiX-users] Delay in custom action

If you add log messages during the custom action's code you can get a better understanding of what it is that causes the delay. - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux and Embedded Platforms - WiX InstallShield

Re: [WiX-users] CA Major Upgrade Condition

Seems like WIX_UPGRADE_DETECTED should be enough. Why did you add the Not REMOVE=ALL part? - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux and Embedded Platforms - WiX InstallShield -- View this message in context: http

Re: [WiX-users] Delay in custom action

Can you post the log files of both installations? - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux and Embedded Platforms - WiX InstallShield -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559

Re: [WiX-users] automatic selection perUser/perMachine installation

This article gives the guideelines for authoring a dual-context package: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd408068(v=vs.85).aspx The condition you should test is ALLUSERS=1 for per-machine installation. - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel

Re: [WiX-users] automatic selection perUser/perMachine installation

I think you should set property WixAppFolder=WixPerMachineFolder if conditions are met for a per-machine installation - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux and Embedded Platforms - WiX InstallShield -- View

Re: [WiX-users] Remove InstallShield Bootstrapper MSI

InstallShield's bootstrapper usually shows up in Uninstall registry key https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372105%28v=vs.85%29.aspx with an InstallShield_{ProductCode} form. See if you can find that in the registry - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web

Re: [WiX-users] How to use ProgramFiles64Folder in ConfigurableDirectory

You need another directory hierarchy between ProgramFiles64Folder and INSTALLLOCATION. - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux and Embedded Platforms - WiX InstallShield -- View this message in context: http

Re: [WiX-users] automatic selection perUser/perMachine installation

This article should give you what you need https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367559%28v=vs.85%29.aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367559%28v=vs.85%29.aspx - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux

Re: [WiX-users] WixUI_FeatureTree : What if all deselected?

You should probably set a core feature to required: Feature http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/xsd/wix/feature.html @Absent=disallow - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux and Embedded Platforms - WiX

Re: [WiX-users] Burn, deploy and rollback Patches

Is patch 1.0.1 Uninstallable? https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372102%28v=vs.85%29.aspx - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux and Embedded Platforms - WiX InstallShield -- View this message in context

Re: [WiX-users] Need help with uninstall - doesn't remove files/folders

You seem to have broken component rules for minor upgrades https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367850%28v=vs.85%29.aspx which caused feature states to be advertised rather than installed. Try generating a patch package for the minor upgrade to get the validation errors. - Nir Bar

Re: [WiX-users] Getting ProductVersion of an msi from wix

Use RegistrySearch on Uninstall Registry Key, https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372105%28v=vs.85%29.aspx DisplayVersion value. - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux and Embedded Platforms - WiX

Re: [WiX-users] specifying an installed executable to be run at boot time

/serviceinstall.html with local system account. - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux and Embedded Platforms - WiX InstallShield -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com

Re: [WiX-users] Checking for IIS modules

You can use ProductSearch http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/xsd/util/productsearch.html to detect if a product is installed (such as AppWarmup) To ensure windows features are turned-on use dism https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh824822.aspx . - Nir Bar

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Bootstrapper Application - accessing variables set at custom actions

The custom action code sets a MSI property, not a burn variable. You have no WiX-standard way of doing so, however you could you an atom table entry https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms649053%28v=vs.85%29.aspx for that. - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir

Re: [WiX-users] BootstrapperCore.config wix.bootstrapper : what are valid values for supportedFramework

The version attribute complements the registry key where 'Install' value will be tested. Meaning that this registry value will be checked to exist: Key: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP\version Name: Install - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web

Re: [WiX-users] heat.exe: How to generate unique but human readable IDs for directories, components and files

You can run heat with unique IDs and then apply a XSLT transform to prefix each ID with the file name. - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux and Embedded Platforms - WiX InstallShield -- View this message

Re: [WiX-users] After upgrade all packages are removed

Patching is not meant for major upgrades https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa369786(v=vs.85).aspx , instead use a full-blown msi for that. - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux and Embedded Platforms - WiX

Re: [WiX-users] Too Many Events Using InstallLogModes

basic logging + progress then errors, warnings, progress and dialog (not sure what that means) are enough - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux and Embedded Platforms - WiX InstallShield -- View this message

Re: [WiX-users] Too Many Events Using InstallLogModes

It doesn't really matter- the point is that Windows Installer supports these logging level regardless of how you triggered it, be it msiexec or DFT. These are also the same levels that MsiEnableLog https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370091(v=vs.85).aspx has. - Nir Bar Freelance

Re: [WiX-users] [WIX]: Localization issue of Spanish Language errors

Do all the dialog texts translate OK, and just the errors are in English? - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux and Embedded Platforms - WiX InstallShield -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer

Re: [WiX-users] How to include an entire folder as payload for my custom bootstrapper application?

The Name attribute of the Payload http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/xsd/wix/payload.html element can specify folder hierarchy. - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux and Embedded Platforms - WiX

Re: [WiX-users] Multiple user dialogs to multi folder directories in WIX‏

You can take example from WiX UI extension in src\ext\UIExtension\wixlib\InstallDirDlg.wxs You'll need to replace WIXUI_INSTALLDIR property with another property name. - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux and Embedded

Re: [WiX-users] [WIX]: Localization issue of Spanish Language errors

System error messages are in the system's locale. Windosw Installer error texts in spanish (and other languages) are in WiX's UI extension. Which error are you getting in English? - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux

Re: [WiX-users] Exclude some files and folders in later version installation and patch

to make sure that fits your update scenario. If it doesn't match then you can use major upgardes with late removal of the existing product - read RemoveExistingProducts https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa371197%28v=vs.85%29.aspx . - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel

Re: [WiX-users] Exclude some files and folders in later version installation and patch

You should remove the explicit RemoveExistingProducts in InstallExecuteSequence. Instead put Schedule=afterInstallFinalize in MajorUpgrade http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/xsd/wix/majorupgrade.html element. - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web

Re: [WiX-users] How to include an entire folder as payload for my custom bootstrapper application?

You can harvest the folder using heat and a apply a XSLT transform to convert the components and files to payloads. - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux and Embedded Platforms - WiX InstallShield -- View

Re: [WiX-users] Exclude some files and folders in later version installation and patch

Can you post the components and files wxs? - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux and Embedded Platforms - WiX InstallShield -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2

Re: [WiX-users] Heat source path

Have you tried not specifying a variable to heat? - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux and Embedded Platforms - WiX InstallShield -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559

Re: [WiX-users] Control panel entry in Windows Server 2003 OS

there to see if SystemComponent is present? You can author a ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367750%28v=vs.85%29.aspx property in your MSI to acheive the same. - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows

Re: [WiX-users] Setting property values based on Visual Studio build configurations.

;/DefineConstantsgt; lt;/PropertyGroupgt; - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux and Embedded Platforms - WiX InstallShield -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2

Re: [WiX-users] Setting property values based on Visual Studio build configurations.

, and Preprocessor http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/overview/preprocessor.html on how to use them. - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux and Embedded Platforms - WiX InstallShield -- View this message in context

Re: [WiX-users] Wix preprocessor extension: multiple prefixes

Can you post the complete code for the extension? - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux and Embedded Platforms - WiX InstallShield -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559

Re: [WiX-users] Verb localization

Might be a bug in MSDN documentation. Then you're left with creating language transforms for each language, embedding them in the MSI, and setting the TRANSFORMS property with the language Id from WiX's bundle. - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel

Re: [WiX-users] MSI Buttons become Unresponsive on Server 2012R2 and Windows Installer Service 5.0

Can you upload the log files? - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux and Embedded Platforms - WiX InstallShield -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/MSI

Re: [WiX-users] Verb localization

in a MSI editor ( orca https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370557%28v=vs.85%29.aspx or any other MSI editor)? - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux and Embedded Platforms - WiX InstallShield -- View this message

Re: [WiX-users] How can I prevent Bundle from overriding MSI Upgrade Code?

/msipackage.html @Visible attribute. - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux and Embedded Platforms - WiX InstallShield -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/How-can

Re: [WiX-users] Verb localization

You should use Verb Id=NewVerb Command=[NEW_VERB_COMMAND] Argument='%1' /. - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux and Embedded Platforms - WiX InstallShield -- View this message in context: http://windows

Re: [WiX-users] How can I prevent Bundle from overriding MSI Upgrade Code?

you'll need to generate separate upgrade codes for the bundles just as you do for the MSI's. I'm not sure what is the problem you're experiencing- the fact that the bundle has a so-called upgrade code doesn't in itself present any problem. Can you share what is the actual problem? - Nir Bar

Re: [WiX-users] Verb localization

a MsiProperty http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/xsd/wix/msiproperty.html element on the bundle. - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux and Embedded Platforms - WiX InstallShield -- View this message in context

Re: [WiX-users] Kazakh language localization

This might suggest a bug in WiX's built-in strings. Have you tried referencing one of the predefined UI's and building for Kazakh language? If that fails then you should probably open a bug on it. - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C

Re: [WiX-users] Using burn to download, unzip, install package

determinating the detection condition, where some research is due. BTW WinZip self-extractor has the /auto command line switch to silently unpack and install. - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux and Embedded Platforms

Re: [WiX-users] Kazakh language localization

The strings from en-US worked OK because English letters are contained in code page 1251. - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux and Embedded Platforms - WiX InstallShield -- View this message in context: http://windows

Re: [WiX-users] Populating registry multiString MultiStringValue elements

Try setting a property to the multi-string value with [~] as the separator between strings. - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux and Embedded Platforms - WiX InstallShield -- View this message in context: http

Re: [WiX-users] Reading the Directory table

Can you post the actual SQL string that is the result of session.Database.Tables[ProtectedConfigFolders].SqlSelectString ? - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux and Embedded Platforms - WiX InstallShield -- View

Re: [WiX-users] Bootstrapper custom background

You should author a theme using thmutil http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/xsd/thmutil/ The Theme http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/xsd/thmutil/theme.html 's @ImageFile attribute specifies a background image. - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel

Re: [WiX-users] WIX force GUI on uninstall

start from one of the existing themes in WiX Standard BAs - in WiX source code hierarchy src\ext\BalExtension\wixstdba\Resources Another option is developing a WPF bundle application. You can use WiX's own setup as a starting point (in WiX source src\Setup\WixBA) - Nir Bar Freelance

Re: [WiX-users] WIX force GUI on uninstall

You can do that with burn as a bootstrapper. - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux and Embedded Platforms - WiX InstallShield -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2

Re: [WiX-users] [WIX]: How to extract the files in selected folder using MSI dialog.

Can you upload the log file? - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux and Embedded Platforms - WiX InstallShield -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/WIX-How

Re: [WiX-users] Predicting Bootstrapper Cache Location

This post may help: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17269942/not-possible-to-pass-wixbundleproviderkey-variable-to-msipackage - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux and Embedded Platforms - WiX InstallShield

Re: [WiX-users] How to supersede a minor update in next patch.

it should work) - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux and Embedded Platforms - WiX InstallShield -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/How-to-supersede

Re: [WiX-users] How to Solve....Verify You have Sufficient system priviledge insatll service.

You've set InstallPrivileges to limited in the Package element. Try omitting it (will default to elevated) - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux and Embedded Platforms - WiX InstallShield -- View this message

Re: [WiX-users] How to supersede a minor update in next patch.

Is it not possible to create two patches to v1.0.3 - one applicable on v1.0.1 and the other on v1.0.2? - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux and Embedded Platforms - WiX InstallShield -- View this message

Re: [WiX-users] Prevent run of Custom action if product is installed.

You should use REMOVE, not Remove - case matters. - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux and Embedded Platforms - WiX InstallShield -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559

Re: [WiX-users] Prevent run of Custom action if product is installed.

You can condition it on REMOVE https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa371194%28v=vs.85%29.aspx property instead of Installed. - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux and Embedded Platforms - WiX InstallShield

Re: [WiX-users] Prevent run of Custom action if product is installed.

You can also use msiext http://dblock.github.io/msiext/ extension that has a DeleteFiles element. It should be conditioned like you would a custom action, unlike RemoveFolderEx which is conditioned by default by it's containing component's action. - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail

Re: [WiX-users] using custom variables on heat command line

variables. - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux and Embedded Platforms - WiX InstallShield -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/using-custom-variables-on-heat

Re: [WiX-users] using custom variables on heat command line

binder variables instead of preprocessor variables. Complete manual here: http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/overview/heat.html - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux and Embedded Platforms - WiX

Re: [WiX-users] Replace files added in minor upgrade

-us/library/aa368267(v=vs.85).aspx . - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux and Embedded Platforms - WiX InstallShield -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com

Re: [WiX-users] Xpath Expression

a different usage of them. I suggest that you use this extension to get the XML full values without substring ops, and develop a custom action to take only the parts of the string you need. This will be relatively easy to do in C++ even if your knowledge in it is basic. - Nir Bar Freelance

Re: [WiX-users] Choose language dialog

the user to select a language. - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux and Embedded Platforms - WiX InstallShield -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Choose

Re: [WiX-users] heat fragments go one directory too low

Add -srd to the command line. -srd Suppress harvesting the root directory as an element. See the full doc for heat here: http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/overview/heat.html - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C

Re: [WiX-users] Replace files added in minor upgrade

Are you sure that this message indecates a failure? Seems to me that it simply says patches 1.2 and 1.3 don't need to change this component since it has already been done by patch 1.1 What happens if you install version 1 and then apply patch 1.3? Does it still fail? - Nir Bar Freelance

Re: [WiX-users] Is it possible to set the value of the Start Property of a ServiceInstall to the value of a property?

You could use an immediate custom action to change the ServiceInstall table during installation. Personally I would go with separate components. - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux and Embedded Platforms - WiX

Re: [WiX-users] Writing a C++ Custom Action Project

actions: 1) An immediate custom action that creates the CustomActionData for the deferred custom actions 2) Rollback custom action that will delete the file in case the installation is rolled back 3) Deferred custom action to create and write the file - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir

Re: [WiX-users] Implementing Microsoft Fixit - is Wix the right tool?

? - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux and Embedded Platforms - WiX InstallShield -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Implementing-Microsoft-Fixit-is-Wix

Re: [WiX-users] Custom actions in C# and disabling buttons

How about having the custom action set a property if the condition is met, and having the NewDialog event be conditioned on that property? - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux and Embedded Platforms - WiX

Re: [WiX-users] Reboots

(#include wcautil.h) - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux and Embedded Platforms - WiX InstallShield -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Reboots

Re: [WiX-users] Setting install directory to a user chosen value.

with hard code C:\Program Files (x86)\. This is definitely not recommended. You should use [ProgramFilesFolder] instead. - - Nir Bar Freelance Developer. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Setting-install-directory-to-a-user-chosen

Re: [WiX-users] Setting install directory to a user chosen value.

elements. - - Nir Bar Freelance Developer. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Setting-install-directory-to-a-user-chosen-value-tp7599408p7599435.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com

Re: [WiX-users] Issue with Upgrade/Install

As a last resort you could use MsiZap to remove the old product from Windows Installer registry locations. That would leave the registry without any trace of the previous product. -- Nir Freelance Developer. -- Dive into

Re: [WiX-users] How to localize appearance of a dialog using localization variables?

You can use the localization UI element to overide these attributes in specific cultures. See http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/xsd/wixloc/ui.html -- Nir Freelance Developer. -- Dive into the World of Parallel

Re: [WiX-users] braces need to be escaped in properties?

Check this article on escaping characters in formatted values: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368609%28v=vs.85%29.aspx Specifically for your question: - Square brackets ([ ]) or curly braces ({ }) with no matching pair are left in the text. - If a substring is enclosed in

Re: [WiX-users] using a custom action to read properties from a XML file

I have a WiX extension that supports setting XML values into MSI properties. Its an open-source project: https://bitbucket.org/nirbar1/panelswwixextension To use it you should: 1. Clone the repository. 2. Update to the latest default branch 3. Build PanelSwWixExtension project in

Re: [WiX-users] How to localize appearance of a dialog using localization variables?

You can define your own localization string loc.RTL that will be either yes or no. Nir -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot

Re: [WiX-users] LGHT0094 when adding a child bundle to a parent bundle chain

I have never tried nesting bundles. As an alternative you can have both bundles include a common fragment .wxs file that contains the common packages. Nir -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel

Re: [WiX-users] How to localize appearance of a dialog using localization variables?

You can use the attributes RightAligned, RightToLeft, LeftScroll of each relevant control/dialog. This will cause texts to be right-aligned, read from right-to-left and scroll bars to appear on control's left side. However it will not cause the controls themselves to be right-aligned (meaning

Re: [WiX-users] Installing the Visual Studio Redistributable from within MSI Failing

If you don't have the merge module, and you do have the executable installer for VC 2008, then you'll need to use a bundle to install it. Nir -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website,

Re: [WiX-users] Registry keys not written even though log shows it

There are some options I can think of: 1. The component's KeyPath is the directory. If the installation was a repair rather than fresh-install, and if the directory already existed, then the registry keys and values wouldn't have been re-written. 2. Did the user look for the registry

Re: [WiX-users] How to localize appearance of a dialog using localization variables?

You can use a Condition http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/xsd/wix/condition.html element under the relevant Control http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/xsd/wix/control.html element. In the below sample the control will be hidden for US English: Control ... Condition

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade issue

This happens when the bundle's version doesn't change. Nir -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all

Re: [WiX-users] Installing the Visual Studio Redistributable from within MSI Failing

You should utilize the VS runtimes' merge modules rather than the executable installers. The merge modules MSM files are provided alongside the Visual Studio installation. Nir -- Dive into the World of Parallel

Re: [WiX-users] Registry keys not written even though log shows it

Can you post the WiX authoring for this registry value? Nir -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity,

Re: [WiX-users] Errors for COM+ Extension

Have you added WixComPlusExtension to you project references (assuming you're working with Visual Studio)? Nir -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your

Re: [WiX-users] How to add shortcut if Target is generated dynamically?

You can use XSLT transfroms to do that. Then on heat.exe command line add *-t MyXsl.xslt* The XSLT file should take this form: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? xsl:stylesheet version=1.0 xmlns:xsl= http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform;

Re: [WiX-users] EnableUserControl (or Secure attribute) vs Maintenance (Change)

You can use UserSID https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372386%28v=vs.85%29.aspx property to comapre it to the administrator's SID. Nir -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from

Re: [WiX-users] MSI Feature and Condition element in MSI Repair using Custom Bootstrapper Application

When repairing a MSI only features and components that were installed in first place are being reinstallde. You can read more about it in the documentation of REINSTALL https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa371175%28v=vs.85%29.aspx property. You can try using COMPADDLOCAL

Re: [WiX-users] How can I implement mutually exclusive bundles?

Author an OptionalUpdateRegistration http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/xsd/wix/optionalupdateregistration.html element in bundle A. In bundle B put a RegistrySearch http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/xsd/util/registrysearch.html element to look for the bundle A's update

Re: [WiX-users] Trigger custom action on silence mode install

You can condition your custom action by the property UILevel https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372096%28v=vs.85%29.aspx. Anything less than 5 should trigger your custom action. Nir -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type -

Re: [WiX-users] wix switch between perUser and perMachine

Check this article: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd408068(v=vs.85).aspx It explains how to author a dual-purpose MSI. Nir -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming. The Go Parallel

[WiX-users] Wix RemoveFile for removing leftovers

You need to manually generate a Guid for the component. Also add a CreateFolder element to the component to ensure it would delete the folder on uninstall: Component Id=RemovingFiles *Guid=GENERATE-A-GUID-HERE* * CreateFolder /* RemoveFile Id=ConfigRemove Name=lpa.config On=uninstall/

Re: [WiX-users] util:filesearch only working with versioned

No, it doesn't care for the file's version if you've set Result='exists'. Could it be a typo in the expected file name/path ? Nir -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming. The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel

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