Hello,
I would like to create msi package (executable, shortcuts, file
association) and use it with Group Policy in MS Windows Server 2003.
Both server and client (MS Windows 2000) are running under Virtual PC
(this should not be problem). I just can not do it properly.
Could someone provide me
Title: Performance issues
Simon Topley wrote:
I'm sure this is a problem others have encounted. I
have now replace our suite of installsheild products with spanky new
WIX versions. I have managed to elimitnate a large amount of redundant
code (previous installers copied large
Title: Performance issues
InstallShield versions were compressed yes, I ran some
tests and here are the results (as accurate as I can get
them):
Installsheild
Versions:
Product
Size
Install
Time
Floodwork
Standa Kunc wrote:
I would like to create msi package (executable, shortcuts, file
association) and use it with Group Policy in MS Windows Server 2003.
Both server and client (MS Windows 2000) are running under Virtual PC
(this should not be problem). I just can not do it properly.
Could
Hi
I
have a merge module that I created including all the files for a product, including
the exe.
I now
want to launch that exe at the end of my main wix project. I have tried using a
custom action which was created in the merge module as below
Publish Event='DoAction'
Hello,
What is the correct way of installing files which i don't want to
uninstall later, or only uninstall with a custom action (eg. important
databases). I read that files in a component without GUID will not be
uninstalled. Is this the way to go?
Thanks Alex
Rob is right. Permanent is better than absent GUID because you can still
patch the files. However, be very careful about what you leave behind. It
would be very, very bad to leave behind files that could have security
exploits in them. Nobody would know to patch them.
-Original
Title: Performance issues
When you say youve replaced InstallShield with the WiX
toolset, what version of InstallShield did you replace? I ask because the
non-MSI versions of InstallShield used a scripting engine to do the
install. That engine (as Ive been told) doesnt do nearly
the same
Title: Performance issues
Now that you have these comparisons, I suggest generating a
verbose log file and seeing where your time is spent in the Windows Installer.
Each action has a start and stop so that should be pretty easy. You may
find something surprising (like a CustomAction taking
Title: Performance issues
Preaching to the choir there, we were using an old shonky
none msi version of installshield. It clearly did less work, it's just hard
explaining that to users/support staff, when all they see is the end result.
With the previous version the guy who wrote it put a
You should not be referencing a custom action from a merge
module in a main installation. Who wrote the custom action? If its
yours then you should use wixlib files instead of merge modules. If its
not yours, whoever did write it should have made it a table-driven custom action.
Derek
Title: Performance issues
What are the install times like if you
disable system restore? Apparently MSI installations take a large
up-front hit while loading on system restore and disabling it (assuming you dont
use it), can speed things up quite a bit.
Derek
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Im surprised Bob hasnt
responded to this yet J
Im not sure how it works in WiX
2.0, but in 3.0, doing something like this should be very easy since we moved
all the dialog flow into one file apiece for each of the dialog packs (mondo, minimal,
etc). You can just take the single file for
I got it working for the feature_tree
one. You have to remove the dialogref for the licenseagreementdlg. Then
delete these lines:
Property Id=WixUI_LicenseAgreementDlg_Back
Value=WelcomeDlg /
Property Id=WixUI_LicenseAgreementDlg_Next
Value=CustomizeDlg /
Then change this line
This is for a product we hope to release
in the next month, so we are using wix 2.0 right now. Is there any way to do
this with wix 2.0?
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Derek Cicerone
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006
2:58 PM
To: 'Brian Beaudet';
OK I've been having a really bad time with this. For some reason it won't
display anything. I want it to display information form a .txt file since
its a lot smaller than a .rtf I have'nt really seen anywhere that says this
won't work and in all the other controls it works just fine. Is there
Title: RE: [WiX-users] rfc: Package element changes
Thanks for the feedback Jeremy. I think
thats a valid concern, so the warning idea is definitely out. So it
sounds like the decision is basically between using * or lots of question
marks. If people feel that the star syntax is clearly
Scott Sam wrote:
I want to
use the Minimal wixui because I
want the user to be able to just click next and have the install go,
but I dont
want eula in it. Is there any way to use the regular welcomeDlg in
place
of the WelcomeEulaDlg. I get an error 2803 when I click the next
Magus wrote:
OK I've been having a really bad time with this. For some reason it won't
display anything. I want it to display information form a .txt file since
its a lot smaller than a .rtf I have'nt really seen anywhere that says this
won't work and in all the other controls it works
Please keep wix-users on the thread so everyone can participate.
Standa Kunc wrote:
There are no dialogs in my setups so I suppose they
support silent
installation. Or is there anything else needed to create silent
installation? Some checklist for silent installation?
If you use
Jeremy Farrell wrote:
I agree totally. As far as I'm concerned this is a useful feature. I
want to be sure the ProductCode changes every time, to ensure that it is
impossible to do anything other than major upgrades. This may be an
unusual requirement, but it's a valid one and I shouldn't
http://blogs.msdn.com/robmen/archive/2006/05/30/610950.aspx
From:
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Arnson
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 4:19 PM
To: Magus
Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] ScrollableText Control type
What I need done is to have Dsetup.exe to run. But it requires dsetup.dll and
some .cab's. I keep getting an erro saying it doens't know where the
dsetup.dll is. I thought of must making them components and just running a
cleanup and deleting them after I used them but I am required not to do it
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