[WiX-users] Files larger than 2 gb

Hi I'm wondering on which approach I should take for files larger than 2 GB in wix. I think these are the possibilities: 1) Splitting cab files, since cab files has a limit of 2 GB. Is it possible? Can WiX somehow do this automagically? 2) Use a custom action to merge in the file, (should be

[WiX-users] Pressing ESc Key in the install Finish screen

I have a check box control(checked by default) that launches a web site upon clicking finish button in the final screen of my installer. And its working as expected. My concern is that if I press the ESc key instead of clicking the Finish button, It exits the installer launching the website.

[WiX-users] Problem with names in MSIAssemblyName table

Hi, the initial entries for name, version and publicKeyToken are lowercase in MSIAssemblyName table. This breaks the Visual Studio(05,08,10) automatism to add the fitting MergeModule to a Setup Solution. If i change Name, Version and PublicKeyToken to initial uppercase letters, my MSMs are

Re: [WiX-users] Files larger than 2 gb

According to Microsoft the CAB file format has an internal limit of approximately 2 GB - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/836160 There is a manual workaround for splitting files 2 GB across multiple cabs listed there which you may be able to use in your WiX project if you use the -cc -reusecab

Re: [WiX-users] Pressing ESc Key in the install Finish screen

I think it sounds like esc is leading to a cancel event. Might disabling the cancel button on the final page fix it? Leif On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Pally Sandher pally.sand...@iesve.comwrote: Sounds suspiciously like a Windows Installer issue. Have you checked verbose logs when you

Re: [WiX-users] Files larger than 2 gb

Thanks for the reply. I guess the only way is to test all options and narrow it down to the best one. Cheers, Leif On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Pally Sandher pally.sand...@iesve.comwrote: According to Microsoft the CAB file format has an internal limit of approximately 2 GB -

[WiX-users] Conditional dialog display when uninstalling

WARNING Another NOOB alert... /WARNING After all of my files get installed, I need to prompt for some additional configuration information. I created a custom dialog to do this. It has a couple check boxes on it. I would like to NOT have this dialog run at all if the user is removing the

[WiX-users] Dialogs out of order?

More NOOB stuff follows: The following code doesn't run in the order that I would have expected, based on the Order= parameters. I would like to display the ConfigSQLDlg before the ConfigSMTPDlg, but this actually happens in the reverse order... SMTP is first, then SQL. Note that the

Re: [WiX-users] Question about register .net COM object

regasm /regfile doesn't always work because if you have any user defined register functions they will not be in the regfile.   From what I've seen of heat, it's not vunerable to this extraction problem.  InstallShield does have this problem. Personally I wrote a little UI over  heat that

Re: [WiX-users] Conditional dialog display when uninstalling

1 - Show Dialog=ExtraConfigDlg OnExit=success![CDATA[(REMOVE ALL) AND NOT Installed]]/Show 2 - http://neilsleightholm.blogspot.com/2008/08/customised-uis-for-wix.html and Condition the ExitDialog with Installed in the InstallUISequence so they're mutually exclusive. FYI an easier/proper way to

Re: [WiX-users] Dialogs out of order?

See my reply to your other post try to keep your issues limited to one thread if they are the same topic (which these pretty obviously are) otherwise you're going to confuse yourself others when you start getting replies to one thread advising you to do x when the other thread is advising you to

Re: [WiX-users] ResumeDlg

It's conditioned with Installed AND (RESUME OR Preselected) so anything which sets the Preselected Property (such as patching with MSP's) after your MSI is installed will show it. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370839.aspx Palbinder Sandher Software Deployment IT Administrator T:

Re: [WiX-users] Conditional dialog display when uninstalling

Show Dialog=ExtraConfigDlg OnExit=success![CDATA[(REMOVE ALL) AND NOT Installed]]/Show The AND NOT INSTALLED clause solved that problem - thanks Pally... The reason I can't ask the configuration questions earlier in the install process is that the installer installs a needed file. After this

Re: [WiX-users] Dialogs out of order?

Actually, being such a NOOB, I can't see the connection between this post and the previous one... they do seem to be separate problems to me... But that said, I'll review and continue this thread if I can't figure it out. Thanks again! -- View this message in context:

Re: [WiX-users] Dialogs out of order?

Hi Pally (et. al.), I don't see how this post and the other (previous on from me) are related, so this question still stands... TIA Greg -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Dialogs-out-of-order-tp5177864p5178373.html Sent from the

Re: [WiX-users] Conditional dialog display when uninstalling

What's stopping you asking the user questions in the InstallUISequence running the DLL function in the InstallExecuteSequence as is standard practice? Your custom action doesn't need to run immediately as soon as you gather information from the user, you can still schedule it after InstallFiles

Re: [WiX-users] Conditional dialog display when uninstalling

What's stopping you asking the user questions in the InstallUISequence running the DLL function in the InstallExecuteSequence as is standard practice? Your custom action doesn't need to run immediately as soon as you gather information from the user, you can still schedule it after InstallFiles

[WiX-users] XmlFile

I have the following node (file.dtsConfig): Configuration ConfiguredType=Property Path=\Package.Variables[User::path].Properties[Value] ValueType=String ConfiguredValue\\convs07\Historical Integration\DataFarm\WIT\Files\/ConfiguredValue /Configuration Wix code: … Util:XmlFile

[WiX-users] Converting Reg File(s) to WXS

I have found a few indications online that heat.exe does not support converting a .reg file to the WiX .wxs format. The suggestions I ran across show to use tallow.exe from WiX v2. Is it true that v3+ does not support this any longer? Also, the download for v2 is broken. Thanks.

Re: [WiX-users] Pressing ESc Key in the install Finish screen

Here are the verbose log snippets: MSI (c) (CC:94) [22:29:34:875]: Doing action: ExitDialog Action 22:29:34: ExitDialog. Action start 22:29:34: ExitDialog. Action 22:29:34: ExitDialog. Dialog created MSI (c) (CC:FC) [22:29:44:828]: Doing action: LaunchURL Action 22:29:44: LaunchURL. Action

Re: [WiX-users] Converting Reg File(s) to WXS

That is correct Heat in WiX 3 doesn't convert reg files. The only route is to use tallow and then wixcop. It would be nice to get this back, may one day I'll get around to writing a heat extension to do this. Neil -Original Message- From: Andy Clugston [mailto:clug...@gmail.com] Sent:

[WiX-users] Detecting MSI dependencies

Hi there, Is there a way, during uninstall of an MSI, to detect presence of some other MSI and if so, stop/abort uninstallation informing users of presence of the dependant MSI ? In other words, given MSI's A and B, is there a way to express dependency between A and B so that A cannot be

Re: [WiX-users] Detecting MSI dependencies

I think you should be able to do this with the Upgrade element: Upgrade Id=other apps upgrade code UpgradeVersion Minimum=0.0.0 Maximum=max version IncludeMinimum=no OnlyDetect=yes Property=OTHERAPPDETECTED / /Upgrade You can then use the OTHERAPPDETECTED property in conditions to block the

Re: [WiX-users] Detecting MSI dependencies

Upgrade table is not checked during uninstall, so that won't work. You will need some other means of detecting the dependent installation(s). -Original Message- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 1:42 PM To: General discussion for Windows

Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.0 error with .net 4

Right. But the problem appears the sfxca is doing .net 4 activation using deprecated APIs. A separate path will be required. -john On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Bob Arnson b...@joyofsetup.com wrote: On 6/9/2010 9:04 PM, John Ketchpaw wrote: Using this config file, WiX v3.5 contains

Re: [WiX-users] Unable to use msiexec /i WIXinstaller.msi /qn

If it works using /qb compare the InstallUISequence table versus the InstallExecuteSequence table. There may be a CA that runs in the InstallUISequence that needs to the InstallExecuteSequence. -- View this message in context:

[WiX-users] shortcuts

Hi, I have 6 shortcuts for 6 files and they are in the order 1,2,3,4,5,6. But on installing 3 is coming after 1st instead of 2. Should we specify the order? Please do let me know what's going wrong here? Regards, Subramanyeswari -- View this message in context: