Re: [WiX-users] Interviewing an installation developer

2010-01-25 Thread Schrieken, Rene
Having read this request probably makes that I qualify for the position ;-) Now only find out how bad the commute is from Gouda -Original Message- From: Nathan Stohlmann [mailto:nathan.stohlm...@gmail.com] Sent: maandag 25 januari 2010 18:49 To: [Wix Users] Subject: [WiX-users]

Re: [WiX-users] Rollback after Failed Install Causes Uninstall ofUnrelated Product

2010-01-18 Thread Schrieken, Rene
The msvcp71.dll is in my registry as shared dll and looks like it is refcounted. Magic happens when your uninstall decreases the counter to 0 based on your rollback. (i do assume your are installing msvcp71.dll). Somehow msi feels it needs the original installer to properly uninstall it? Not a

Re: [WiX-users] ICE61: Upgrade.VersionMax format is wrong

2010-01-16 Thread Schrieken, Rene
In darice.cub there is some vbscript for ICE61: Function VersionStringToLong(strng) Dim i, iPos, sAccum, sTemp On Error Resume Next sTemp = strng iPos = InStr(sTemp ., .) sAccum = H Right(00 Hex(CInt(Left(sTemp, iPos - 1))), 2) If Err.Number 0 Then VersionStringToLong = 0: Exit

Re: [WiX-users] writing to console from smoke.exe using customaction

2009-12-24 Thread Schrieken, Rene
smoke.exe - cub myCub.cub myMSI.msi smoke.log (use two to redirect output, that will open the file for append, instead of create) Van: nagaram.c [mailto:nagara...@symphony.cc] Verzonden: do 24-12-2009 6:46 Aan: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML

Re: [WiX-users] WIX_TEMP

2009-11-30 Thread Schrieken, Rene
Rahul, WIX_TEMP only works for candle, light etc, not for your msi. If you want your msi to use another location as 'temporary' changing the TempFolder property might work... (might...)... not sure if the msi internals actual honor that property. Rene Van:

Re: [WiX-users] COM+ Installation

2009-08-14 Thread Schrieken, Rene
Are you installing on Vista? Does running as admin help? Is this single component not depending on anything else? You can use dependency walker and/or ildasm to find out what dependencies you have. RegistrationHelper.InstallAssembly does Demand/Assert UnmanagedCode permission.

Re: [WiX-users] How to revere compile exe into msi?

2008-06-08 Thread Schrieken, Rene
1. use a bootstrapper 2. depends on the bootstrapper 3. dark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of siegfried Sent: zondag 8 juni 2008 6:01 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] How to revere compile exe into msi? How do I

Re: [WiX-users] Votive doesn't work with VS 2005

2008-06-04 Thread Schrieken, Rene
I just verified build 4130 on win xp sp 2, vsts2005 8.0.50727.762 and it works for me. Did you also install the ProjectAggregator2.msi? Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] namens carlldev Verzonden: wo 4-6-2008 12:35 Aan: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Onderwerp: Re:

Re: [WiX-users] Need Urgent help: modify dialogs in wix-3

2008-05-14 Thread Schrieken, Rene
Or use this property SHORTFILENAMES and set it to true (never tried it though) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa371851(VS.85).aspx Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] namens Simon Dahlbacka Verzonden: wo 14-5-2008 11:17 Aan: WiX Users Onderwerp: [WiX-users]

Re: [WiX-users] Problem when trying to install .NET framwork 2.0 duringMSI install , plz any idea

2008-05-08 Thread Schrieken, Rene
You cannot chain dotnetfx.exe in this way. Use a bootstrapper instead: http://wix.mindcapers.com/wiki/Bootstrapper Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] namens mounir mds Verzonden: do 8-5-2008 17:51 Aan: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Onderwerp: [WiX-users] Problem when

Re: [WiX-users] OSQL query fails with msiexec!

2008-02-18 Thread Schrieken, Rene
I guess msiexec runs the msi as LocalSystem? (just to verify try -U [sqluser] -P [sqlpwd] instead of -E? or check the sqllog for failed login attempts ) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sajo Jacob Sent: vrijdag 15 februari 2008 21:56 To:

Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.0 Nant Task and Localization

2008-02-18 Thread Schrieken, Rene
I add the wix tools, tasks and scripts to source control to prevent just that kind of fuzzy-ness From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brendan Crosser-McGay Sent: vrijdag 15 februari 2008 22:17 To: Bob Arnson Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re:

Re: [WiX-users] how to add pre / post build steps to wixproj

2008-02-12 Thread Schrieken, Rene
It looks like you're using Wix 2.0/Votive 2.0. Votive 2.0 does not have an msbuild compatibale format. Switch to Votive 3.0 and your trick should work. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of fgc Sent: dinsdag 12 februari 2008 9:34 To:

Re: [WiX-users] Re gasm with WiX

2008-02-11 Thread Schrieken, Rene
From a few days ago... thanks to Karim Michal Peled wrote: I need to get my installation to register a .NET assembly in the way that regasm /tlb does. I saw an example for such a thing in Rob's blog, using the [EMAIL PROTECTED] attribute (set to yes). Hi Michal, You can use heat

Re: [WiX-users] Which version to install?

2008-02-11 Thread Schrieken, Rene
If you want to be absolute sure that no breaking changes will occur between today and the release of your MSI and you can live with the missing features go for Wix V2 stable. But if you need features only offered by v3 go for that release because those features will never make it into v2. I would

Re: [WiX-users] Ngen.exe

2008-02-08 Thread Schrieken, Rene
Not sure, but If you add this: Property Id=NetFxVersion Value=v2.0.50727 / -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew V. Bezmenov Sent: vrijdag 8 februari 2008 9:35 To: WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Ngen.exe Hi.

Re: [WiX-users] Problem calling .cmd file using CA

2008-02-07 Thread Schrieken, Rene
It fails because the Custom action expects the InstallService.cmd to be an executable (it tries to call CreateProcess ) See http://wix.mindcapers.com/wiki/Category:Custom_Actions In the section Relevant Examples : Call a CMD Example -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [WiX-users] Reference a BinaryKey in ExeCommand

2008-01-27 Thread Schrieken, Rene
Use [#OpenVPNTapINF] see also http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368609(VS.85).aspx Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] namens Vincent Privat Verzonden: za 1/26/2008 15:40 Aan: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Onderwerp: [WiX-users] Reference a BinaryKey in

Re: [WiX-users] ClearCase Dynamic View issue

2008-01-26 Thread Schrieken, Rene
I'm wondering why Light fails, as probably Candle did run. Just a guess: might the view-private files be the issue? If latency is the issue you will experience more problems not just with light.exe Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] namens martin lavelle Verzonden: vr

Re: [WiX-users] ClearCase Dynamic View issue

2008-01-26 Thread Schrieken, Rene
I assume you found this technote: http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?ratlid=cctocbodyrs=984uid=swg21222178 Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] namens martin lavelle Verzonden: vr 1/25/2008 14:37 Aan: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Onderwerp: [WiX-users] ClearCase

Re: [WiX-users] Click next control event - Prematurely Stopped

2008-01-24 Thread Schrieken, Rene
Maybe elaborate a little bit more on 'working fine in some OS's' (which do work?) and what the Custom Action is trying to do? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of SaiTeja Sent: donderdag 24 januari 2008 11:20 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [WiX-users] Forcing the usage of the Bootstrapper instead of MSI

2008-01-24 Thread Schrieken, Rene
There has been a previous thread on this which I copied for your convenience Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Make User Run exe when the msi is run If the issue is that your Launch Condition prevents an uninstall, then you probably need your LaunchConditions to be performed only on an install.

Re: [WiX-users] XML Transform using XSLT

2008-01-14 Thread Schrieken, Rene
Did you try opening it in Notepad? Did you try to output to a different filename (instead of the same as the input file)? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anidil Sent: maandag 14 januari 2008 9:58 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [WiX-users] Launching Default Browser

2007-11-04 Thread Schrieken, Rene
If you are targeting win2k or above, try this: Property Id=BROWSER Value=start / From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Srinivas Tirupati Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 7:28 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re:

Re: [WiX-users] Is there anyway to overwrite the directory Lenght Limit?

2007-09-27 Thread Schrieken, Rene
If you're having trouble with the 260 char limit, it is not a wix thing but a System.IO 'feature'. I reflectored System.IO.File to understand why it won't accept paths of 32000 chars. The winapi is capable of doing that by putting \\?\ in front of your path/file. Unfortunately the managed code

Re: [WiX-users] Issue packaging EntLib Assemblies with WiX

2007-09-26 Thread Schrieken, Rene
). From: Peter Wone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 12:06 AM To: Schrieken, Rene Subject: RE: Re: [WiX-users] Issue packaging EntLib Assemblies with WiX Ss far as I know, there is no way to preserve component GUIDs between runs of heat. From

Re: [WiX-users] Removing existing shortcuts at install

2007-09-26 Thread Schrieken, Rene
Something like this? Property Id=sc FileSearch LongName=name of shortcut.lnk / /Property Component RemoveFile Id=rf_sc On=install Property=sc LongName=name of shortcut.lnk / /Component Never tried it... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

Re: [WiX-users] WiX 2.0, SqlDatabase, non-default instance and port

2007-09-24 Thread Schrieken, Rene
Try for [EMAIL PROTECTED]yoursqlserver,8080 where 8080 is the non-default portnumber for your sqlserver AFAIK the customaction is not doing any magic with the servername so the SqlOleDb connect should receive the alternative port. http://www.sqlmanager.net/en/articles/1209 Hope this

Re: [WiX-users] Run SQL Express 2005 install as WiX Component

2007-09-21 Thread Schrieken, Rene
Have a look at using a bootstrapper. http://wix.mindcapers.com/wiki/Bootstrapper The real answer to your question is: you can't, because MSI will not allow to run another MSI. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric

Re: [WiX-users] Registry problems

2007-09-21 Thread Schrieken, Rene
First of all, I'm trying to register and .OCX that is already in the computer, and not included on the package itself. Is that possible? I see no reason why that wouldn't be possible, but you might want to use a FileSearch to get the path to the OCX Second of all, I'm trying to register

Re: [WiX-users] ICE57 Warning...

2007-09-21 Thread Schrieken, Rene
Maybe this helps: http://wix.mindcapers.com/wiki/ICE57 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of V K Gangwar Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 11:46 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] ICE57 Warning... Hello

Re: [WiX-users] install integrated MSHelp2 with WixVSExtensions.dll

2007-09-14 Thread Schrieken, Rene
Do you merge the html_help_registration found in the VSSDK? Merge DiskId=1 Id=msm Language=1033 SourceFile=Merge\HTML_Help_Registration__RTL_X86_---.msm / From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Maillet Sent: Friday,

Re: [WiX-users] Devenv /setup does half of the work

2007-09-14 Thread Schrieken, Rene
Did you try ExeCommand=//setup ? Rene From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Xin Liu (Intl Vendor) Sent: Fri 9/14/2007 11:18 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Devenv /setup does half of the work At the end of our installation, an

Re: [WiX-users] install integrated MSHelp2 with WixVSExtensions.dll

2007-09-14 Thread Schrieken, Rene
to be missing something, but it's not clear to me what that could be... From: Schrieken, Rene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 5:11 AM To: Steve Maillet; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] install integrated MSHelp2 with WixVSExtensions.dll

Re: [WiX-users] The Wix Book

2007-09-12 Thread Schrieken, Rene
AFAIK Julie Campbell is doing the same (with almost the same rationale) at http://wix.mindcapers.com/wiki/Main_Page Which can be updated without too much struggle... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas Leigh Sent: Wednesday,

Re: [WiX-users] Problems building under VS2005 and votive v3 underVista

2007-09-07 Thread Schrieken, Rene
Otherwise just disable validation. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ratula Das, HCL-Industry Solutions Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 12:16 PM To: Frank Mayer-Potschak; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users]

Re: [WiX-users] Using WiX v3 Votive to build WiX v2 projects

2007-09-06 Thread Schrieken, Rene
Main problem with Votive 2.0 is its use of a native project file format (not msbuild compatible). You could however use the Votive 3.0 stuff to have an msbuild compatible project file and change the Import files in the wixproj file to use wix v2.0 msbuild targets.

Re: [WiX-users] MSI building problem...

2007-09-03 Thread Schrieken, Rene
It sounds like you first need to obtain the *.msm files. You really do need those files. Just ask the devs who handed over the project to you. From: V K Gangwar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 7:28 AM To: Schrieken, Rene; wix-users

Re: [WiX-users] Execution order of launch condiitions

2007-09-03 Thread Schrieken, Rene
And I guess you still didn't find the time to re-implement that :-) From: Christopher Painter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2007 8:15 PM To: Schrieken, Rene; Werner, Harvey D; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users

Re: [WiX-users] Execution order of launch condiitions

2007-09-02 Thread Schrieken, Rene
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Aa369752.aspx says: You cannot guarantee the order.. They suggest to author a CustomAction type 19, in wix that would be a custom action with the Error attribute set, but I have never done that. Rene From: [EMAIL

Re: [WiX-users] MSI building problem...

2007-08-31 Thread Schrieken, Rene
The .msm files are merge files. They contain prepackaged components and add stuff needed by your msi. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of V K Gangwar Sent: Fri 8/31/2007 17:02 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] MSI building problem...

Re: [WiX-users] Better XML coding

2007-08-31 Thread Schrieken, Rene
'...in the wix source file...' would indicate that you now have only one wxs file? You can have more than one wxs file. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Pierson Lee (Volt) Sent: Fri 8/31/2007 17:49 To: Anidil; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re:

Re: [WiX-users] Decompiling .msi through MS Visual Studio 2005

2007-08-31 Thread Schrieken, Rene
There isn't. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of V K Gangwar Sent: Fri 8/31/2007 16:53 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Decompiling .msi through MS Visual Studio 2005 Hello, Is there any way to decompile .msi file in MS Visual Studio

Re: [WiX-users] Image Transparency

2007-08-29 Thread Schrieken, Rene
As far as I know only bitmap and jpeg are supported formats in MSI. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 11:25 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Image Transparency Can

Re: [WiX-users] Kill Process

2007-08-29 Thread Schrieken, Rene
Does anyone know why this is not the case for XP/2000/2003 ? Wild guess: Vista is Windows Installer 4.0, XP/2000/2003 is Windows Installer 3.0 or less? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simon Topley Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 9:30

Re: [WiX-users] GDI+ MergeModule

2007-08-29 Thread Schrieken, Rene
: error CNDL0001 : Cannot have ']]' inside an XML CDATA block. Any clues? Best regards. Schrieken, Rene wrote: I have no experience with Installshield so I cannot comment on that. And if you have a working merge module that will`save time but i really wonder what the benefit

Re: [WiX-users] Filesize Limitation?

2007-08-28 Thread Schrieken, Rene
See:http://www.msifaq.com/a/1043.htm I think you should split your files... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dieter Oberndorfer Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 4:46 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Filesize

Re: [WiX-users] Install to ROOTDRIVE

2007-08-27 Thread Schrieken, Rene
I think you better off with $(env.SystemDrive) but that is only available in WinNT or this property: WindowsVolume Property The installer sets the WindowsVolume property to the volume of the windows folder. The property always ends with a backslash. This can be used to set the default

Re: [WiX-users] WixShellExec CAQuietExec their options

2007-08-24 Thread Schrieken, Rene
The CreateProcessW is called with NULL as its currentdirectory parameter. From the win32 sdk: If this parameter is NULL, the new process will have the same current drive and directory as the calling process As msiexec is in system32... I'm not sure if this might work: make your commandline

Re: [WiX-users] Wix 3.0 and SQLExpress

2007-08-24 Thread Schrieken, Rene
You could use the SqlExpress package that comes with the .Net 2.0 SDK. (program files\Microsoft Visual stuido 8\sdk\v2.0\BootStrapper\Packages\SqlExpress). But to use it with your MSI you need to create a bootstrapper (a setup that checks for and/or install Sqlexpress and then starts your msi).

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall windows service

2007-08-24 Thread Schrieken, Rene
Any errors in the log if you run msiexec /x yourmsi.msi /lvx* yourmsi.log? Is the service also still running? Rene From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Wik Carl-Johan Sent: Fri 8/24/2007 14:04 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Uninstall

Re: [WiX-users] Executing embedded MSI's

2007-08-22 Thread Schrieken, Rene
Nested MSI's are deprecated. Use a bootstrapper. There is a VS2005 SetupBootstrapper SDK. Not sure where it is...:-( This might help in creating manifest files http://www.codeplex.com/bmg Wix 3.0 has also something in the works. Setupbld.exe(?) but I did not use it yet.

Re: [WiX-users] how to use Use regsvr32 in cmd

2007-08-22 Thread Schrieken, Rene
Did you check heat (or tallow for v2.x) to generate wix for the registration of dll's? Or is the dll doing some magic? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Petrut Andrei Sent: Wed 8/22/2007 15:22 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] how to

Re: [WiX-users] how to use Use regsvr32 in cmd

2007-08-22 Thread Schrieken, Rene
PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 8/22/2007 15:54 To: Schrieken, Rene Subject: Re: [WiX-users] how to use Use regsvr32 in cmd No, I haven't. But isn't easier just to execute from the cmd prompt ? Andrei PETRUT - Original Message From: Schrieken, Rene [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Petrut Andrei [EMAIL

Re: [WiX-users] ConfigureSQL Leaked MSIHANDLE

2007-08-22 Thread Schrieken, Rene
: Dana Gutride [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 8/22/2007 19:33 To: Schrieken, Rene Subject: Re: [WiX-users] ConfigureSQL Leaked MSIHANDLE We are using both sqlfilespec and logfilespec. Dana On 8/22/07, Schrieken, Rene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Dana, Just a quick

Re: [WiX-users] ConfigureSQL Leaked MSIHANDLE

2007-08-22 Thread Schrieken, Rene
Can you also check scaexec.cpp (wix2.0): I believe this should be fixed:(line 610 onwards) before: hr = WcaReadStringFromCaData(pwz, pwzTemp); ExitOnFailure1(hr, failed to read log file spec name from custom action data: %S, pwz); hr = StringCchCopyW(sfLog.wzName, countof(sfDb.wzName),

Re: [WiX-users] Error with WIX and SQL when executing light

2007-08-20 Thread Schrieken, Rene
I'm not sure why this happens... but in Wix2.x there is also a scasched.dll which I can not find in the Wix3.x tree. Maybe this is related to the issue that not all files are included in either the binaries and/or the MSI. The source code still exists...

Re: [WiX-users] SQL-Error VS-Error

2007-08-17 Thread Schrieken, Rene
Did you install Votive that comes with the Wix 3.0 binaries? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 9:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] SQL-Error

Re: [WiX-users] SQL-Error VS-Error

2007-08-17 Thread Schrieken, Rene
My guess is: your *.wixproj was created with Votive 2.0? Votive 2.0 and 3.0 project file formats are not compatible. -Original Message- From: Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 11:13 AM To: Schrieken, Rene Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net; [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstalling a non-app

2007-08-13 Thread Schrieken, Rene
It should work without any extra effort. Or do you receive errors on uninstall? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of barbq Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 2:56 PM To: WiX-Users Subject: [WiX-users] Uninstalling a non-app Hi, My

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstalling a non-app

2007-08-13 Thread Schrieken, Rene
Do not worry about the installed files. Worry about the textfile (re-) patching... but I'm not an expert on that topic From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of barbq Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 4:05 PM To: Schrieken, Rene; WiX-Users

Re: [WiX-users] heat switches, and other exe's

2007-08-10 Thread Schrieken, Rene
You can run this xslt sheet to create the ComponentRefs (with your xslt processor of choice, I use VS2005, :-) ) I did not try it yet with WixV3.0. I changed the stylesheet tag for the xmlns:wix attribute to match the wixv3.0 namespace but did not test it. ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?

Re: [WiX-users] Executing Multiple Sql scripts

2007-08-10 Thread Schrieken, Rene
I would verify your speculation by running sql server profiler during install From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of chetan1983 Sent: Fri 8/10/2007 19:16 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Executing Multiple Sql scripts Hi All, I need to

Re: [WiX-users] Disabling and enabling native power management inwindows

2007-08-08 Thread Schrieken, Rene
Not sure what you want. Do you want to prevent system shutdown during install? Or do you want to fiddle with powerscheme's? Anyway: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa373151.aspx But no Wix in here. You'll need a CA for that. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [WiX-users] launch on exit

2007-08-08 Thread Schrieken, Rene
Does this do what you want? It launches a browser when the install finishes http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson6.php#6.2 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Line Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 12:30 PM To:

Re: [WiX-users] Hi Rob and all

2007-08-08 Thread Schrieken, Rene
If you validate your msi you might find issues quicker. Add this: Property Id=net Value=C:\WINDOWS\system32\net.exe Change the Target attribute of your shortcut to read Target=[net] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

Re: [WiX-users] Shortcut and tools (was:Hi Rob and all)

2007-08-08 Thread Schrieken, Rene
Value=C:\WINDOWS\system32\net.exe/ From: Venkatesh Malepati [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 8/8/2007 19:36 To: Schrieken, Rene; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Hi Rob and all Are there any tools to validate?. I just use Notepad

Re: [WiX-users] Beginning Question

2007-08-07 Thread Schrieken, Rene
You're doing it too late indeed. During msbuild (BeforeCompile?) grasp the build version and write it to a (new?) wxs file. Then add that wxs file to your Compile itemgroup to get it compiled (and linked) to an msi. Although wix and msbuild/nant follow a declarative style of getting things done,

Re: [WiX-users] Web controls of asp.net not visible afterdeployment.

2007-08-06 Thread Schrieken, Rene
situation. Rene -Original Message- From: Chandan Koushik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 7:55 AM To: Schrieken, Rene Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Web controls of asp.net not visible afterdeployment. Hi, Could you please provide the path/name of the assembly

Re: [WiX-users] Web controls of asp.net not visible afterdeployment.

2007-08-06 Thread Schrieken, Rene
PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 8:26 AM To: Schrieken, Rene Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Web controls of asp.net not visible afterdeployment. Hummm wait hold on I will describe the situation once again. I developed a simple asp.net web application which has some html controls and a few web

Re: [WiX-users] Help on Hardware Requirement verification

2007-08-06 Thread Schrieken, Rene
It depends on your hardware but for common stuff a RegistrySearch in HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Enum might help. But you need information from the driver manufacturer to understand the meaning of all those keys and values. If you need to 'query' your own/special hardware you need a CA.

Re: [WiX-users] Web controls of asp.net not visible after deployment.

2007-08-03 Thread Schrieken, Rene
Hmmm, you are not giving to much details away so I have a wild guess: The assembly containing you webcontrols is not installed in the correct folder. I suggest you check if the files (and locations) can be found where you expect them to be. René -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: [WiX-users] schema problem while compiling the decompiled msi

2007-06-27 Thread Schrieken, Rene
Dark probably does what Rob M. claims, it represents the package. That you rather have it represented differently is either a question of taste or a lack of time of the maintainer of dark. That you cannot recompile a darked wxs to a working package is a good sign. It means that the compiler and

Re: [WiX-users] Launching Web Page After Finish Dialog

2007-06-23 Thread Schrieken, Rene
Almost nothing is wrong, but I think it has two issues (one major, one minor): - explorer.exe is always exiting after launching so asyncWait will behave the same as asyncNoWait - you will launch two processes. If you are a performance freak, stay away from this :-) ShellExecute does not have

Re: [WiX-users] Launching Web Page After Finish Dialog

2007-06-23 Thread Schrieken, Rene
At my box it launches Fire*** after I made it my default browser AND killed the explorer process via the taskmanager. Explorer is not the MS webbrowser, it is the Shell (or Programmanager if you're from before win95) hosting your desktop, startmenu and taskbar. Iexplorer is the webbrowser but

Re: [WiX-users] Resources, Satellite Assemblies, Registration, Forcing Order

2007-06-18 Thread Schrieken, Rene
Julie, If you only have one language resource, you should not have to rely on sattelites. Did you set the Assembly::NeutralResourcesLanguage(en-US, UltimateResourceFallbackLocation.MainAssembly) Otherwise you could have a sub directory relative to your exe where the satellite assembly resides.

Re: [WiX-users] Insert a dialog

2007-06-18 Thread Schrieken, Rene
I think you're missing an InstallUiSequence with a Show Dialog=SelectLanguageDlg After=someaction / I'm not sure if this works, never tested it in conjuction with WixUI_Minimal Rene From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Ward, Mike (MED US) Sent: Mon 6/18/2007

Re: [WiX-users] Bootstrap example

2007-06-17 Thread Schrieken, Rene
for someone who would rather programatically generate the setup.exe. Regards, //aj On 6/16/07, Schrieken, Rene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure why you actually created a console app to do that? If you put this in a file called setup.proj: Project xmlns=http

Re: [WiX-users] Bootstrap example

2007-06-16 Thread Schrieken, Rene
I'm not sure why you actually created a console app to do that? If you put this in a file called setup.proj: Project xmlns=http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003; ItemGroup BootstrapperFile Include=SQL.2005.Backwards.Compatibility ProductNameSQL 2005

Re: [WiX-users] That assembly does not allow partially trusted callers

2007-06-15 Thread Schrieken, Rene
Try: caspol -ag 1 -url file://Y:\Wix FullTrust From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of dave_c Sent: Fri 6/15/2007 16:41 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] That assembly does not allow partially trusted callers And here is the message

Re: [WiX-users] How to improve speed of installation?

2007-05-25 Thread Schrieken, Rene
Can it be that creating the system restore point takes (extra) time? At least that is what I see if I run filemon during an install... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: vrijdag 25 mei 2007 14:12 To:

Re: [WiX-users] Has anyone managed to successfully integrate WiX 3.0into their VS2005 build process?

2007-05-15 Thread Schrieken, Rene
Anthony, I'm not sure if you want to capture all your functionality in one build and or wix script, but I would say: Don't This is what I do: I determine the layout of all my files and then author several wix files for each sku. I rely on fragments (I'm still on 2.0) to factor out common parts

Re: [WiX-users] create website setup with 2.0- help

2007-05-11 Thread Schrieken, Rene
I use this xlst script to do exactly that... ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? xsl:stylesheet version=1.0 xmlns:xsl=http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform; xmlns:wix=http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2003/01/wi; xsl:output indent=no method=xml/ xsl:strip-space elements=*/ xsl:template

Re: [WiX-users] Q: Nested Installation (CA 7, 23, 39)

2007-05-04 Thread Schrieken, Rene
for suggestions. Regards, Richard From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schrieken, Rene Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 4:25 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Q: Nested Installation (CA 7, 23, 39) Hi all