[WiX-users] Installing files to the My Documents directory

2006-11-06 Thread Nick Johnson
I'm trying to write an installer that installs files into the user's My Documents directory (it doesn't install files anywhere else, for what it's worth). Trying to construct it the obvious way, I get a couple of errors: ICE38, complaining that the KeyPath has to be a registry key under HKCU, and

Re: [WiX-users] Setting property value with another property value

2006-11-06 Thread Lerudjordet, Morten Minge
... URL: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=wix-users/attachments /20061106/2d67725e/attachment.html -- - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security

[WiX-users] Convincing customer to use WiX toolset - is it enterprise ready?

2006-11-06 Thread Jacek Blaszczynski
Hello! I am in process of trying to convince customer who looks for enterprise grade InstallShield installation package improvements. I have proposed to replace it with WiX based installer and pointed him to WiX sourceforge.net site and got a very fast answer with several doubts: 1. The

Re: [WiX-users] Convincing customer to use WiX toolset - is it enterprise ready?

2006-11-06 Thread John Watson
MySQL switched to MSI and built it using WiX last year (I believe). http://dev.mysql.com/doc/administrator/en/ch02s02s01.html --John On 11/6/06, Jacek Blaszczynski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello!I am in process of trying to convince customer who looks for enterprisegrade InstallShield

[WiX-users] How to launch a browser after uninstall

2006-11-06 Thread Andy Pike
Hi, I would like to launch a web browser to a particular url once the uninstall has finished. Is this possible? If so, can you give me an example xml fragment? I'm a bit of a newbie, but I guess there is a custom action for this? Thanks in advance Andy

Re: [WiX-users] preprocessor variable $(var.Build)

2006-11-06 Thread Lerudjordet, Morten Minge
/forum.php?forum=wix-users/attachments /20061106/70c1b015/attachment.html -- - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated

[WiX-users] Com LocalServer32 in 8.3 format

2006-11-06 Thread Dyson, Peter
Hi, I am authoring wix version 3 com servers in the 'correct' way as below, but the LocalServer32 @ registry entry is generated in 8.3 format names. This seems to be because of the [!MyServer.exe] generated in the msi. If I use orca to change that to [#MyServer.exe] then I get the long filename

Re: [WiX-users] msbuild nant task and WiX

2006-11-06 Thread Lerudjordet, Morten Minge
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Re: [WiX-users] How to prompt to terminate process on uninstall

2006-11-06 Thread Jeff MacDuff
Ok a follow up question, Where do I put the uninstall custom action at in the Wix file? My wix file doesnt contain any kind of remove / uninstall sections from what I can tell? -JEff From: Rob Mensching Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 1:02 PM To: Jeff MacDuff;

Re: [WiX-users] msbuild nant task and WiX

2006-11-06 Thread Justin Rockwood
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Re: [WiX-users] How to prompt to terminate process on uninstall

2006-11-06 Thread Peterson, Joel
Hi Jeff. The custom needs be placed in the proper sequence, such as before RemoveAllFiles. WiX, or more accurately MSI, isnt organized towards stages of installation, but allows you to schedule events based on those stages. Joel Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [WiX-users] Convincing customer to use WiX toolset - is itenterprise ready?

2006-11-06 Thread Mike Dimmick
I know that Microsoft use WiX for at least some parts of the SQL Server 2005, Office 2007 and Exchange Server 2007 installers. Version 2.0.x is considered the stable version. It does get bugfixes, but no major new development. Version 3.0.x is considered the unstable development version. The

Re: [WiX-users] msbuild nant task and WiX

2006-11-06 Thread Roy Abou Assaly
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[WiX-users] he cabinet 'setup.cab' does not contain any files. If this installation contains no files, this warning can likely be safely ignored. Otherwise, please add files to the cabinet or remove i

2006-11-06 Thread Ogden Ogly
Hi, I am evaluating Wix (3.0.211.0) and am having a hell of a timeā€¦ I get the following error when verbose mode is turned on: The cabinet 'setup.cab' does not contain any files. If this installation contains no files, this warning can likely be safely ignored. Otherwise, please add files to

Re: [WiX-users] Convincing customer to use WiX toolset - is itenterprise ready?

2006-11-06 Thread Justin Rockwood
Here are some of the Microsoft products and groups that use WiX for their installations: * Office 2007 * Office Server 2007 * Windows SharePoint Server * SQL Server 2005 * Visual Studio * Windows Defender Additionally, there are several non-Microsoft products that use WiX. The biggest one that

[WiX-users] Question about localizing MSIs generated using Wix

2006-11-06 Thread Aaron Khoo
Hi there, we are using Wix to create the MSI package for our application. I've read the documentation regarding the use of wxl filesto generate localized MSIs. However, it seems like this will generate a different MSI per locale. Is it possible to use Wix to generate a single MSI with different

Re: [WiX-users] Convincing customer to use WiX toolset - is itenterprise ready?

2006-11-06 Thread Jacek Blaszczynski
Hello Justin! Thnx for this list of references it is really very helpfull to me. Personally I am not worried for WiX stability or robustness and I used it for all my installation packages created during last year. Furthermore, I am a strong advocate of WiX among all my customers. However, I

Re: [WiX-users] Convincing customer to use WiX toolset - is itenterprise ready?

2006-11-06 Thread Justin Rockwood
1. Good idea. We should probably do that on our home page. 2. I can get to wix.sourceforge.net just fine. Maybe SourceForge was down for a minute? If you keep having problems getting to it, let us know. Justin -Original Message- From: Jacek Blaszczynski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [WiX-users] Setting property value with another property value

2006-11-06 Thread Bob Arnson
Lerudjordet, Morten Minge wrote: I use [#ConfigFile] to reference the file defined File Id=ConfigFile, this should work right? Yes. CustomAction Id=Set_QtExecCmdLine Property=QtExecCmdLine Value =.\Deploy.Tools\XmlPreprocess.exe /i quot;[#ConfigFile]quot; /s

Re: [WiX-users] he cabinet 'setup.cab' does not contain any files. If this installation contains no files, this warning can likely be safely ignored. Otherwise, please add files to the cabinet or remo

2006-11-06 Thread Bob Arnson
Ogden Ogly wrote: Package Keywords=Installer Description=Acmes Foobar 1.0 Installer Comments=Foobar is a registered trademark of Acme Ltd. Manufacturer=Acme Ltd. InstallerVersion=150 Languages=1033 Compressed=no

Re: [WiX-users] Question about localizing MSIs generated using Wix

2006-11-06 Thread Bob Arnson
Aaron Khoo wrote: Hi there, we are using Wix to create the MSI package for our application. I've read the documentation regarding the use of wxl filesto generate localized MSIs. However, it seems like this will generate a different MSI per locale. Is it possible to use Wix to generate a

Re: [WiX-users] best way to get native COM registry entries into wix

2006-11-06 Thread Bob Arnson
Lucius Fleuchaus wrote: I like to know whether there is a tool that given a progid and a registered COM control is able to pre-populate the relevant WIX section? Heat (v3) and Tallow (v2) support deciphering self-registration code given a DLL that supports

Re: [WiX-users] INSTALLDIR Problem

2006-11-06 Thread Bob Arnson
Please keep wix-users on the thread so everyone can participate. Petrut Andrei wrote: The problem is that I want that message to appear in an UI, not at the beggining of the setup. I want to push a button and after that I want that message to appear and the setup to finish. You can

Re: [WiX-users] msbuild nant task and WiX

2006-11-06 Thread Lerudjordet, Morten Minge
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[WiX-users] fail exit launching browser.

2006-11-06 Thread exit launching
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