[WiX-users] How to show custom error text on SetupCompleteError dialog when a deferred CA fails.

Hi, I have a deferred Custom action that fails in some scenarios. Since this custom action is responsible for installling some licensing libraries for my product hence I cannot continue installation if this CA fails. I want to show a custom error message to the user if this CA has failed the

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

I created patches as explained further below. All patches contain MSIPatchSequence table. None of the patches are full file updates, they all contain file diff from previous target version. I want P3 to ignore/supersede P2 so that installer eliminates P2 when applying P3. P1 (v1.0.1) - Targets

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

No, its not uninstallable. Looks like I'm done for :) Thanks for your help anyway. On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 2:43 AM, Nir Bar nir@panel-sw.com wrote: Is the v1.0.2 patch uninstallable https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372102(v=vs.85).aspx ? If yes you can uninstall it in v1.0.3

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

Thanks for replying Guys. @Nir Bar: No it is not possible to have two patches without significant effort. And also because our updater is not designed that way. @Mat: Full file patches are too big in size and hence I moved away from them. Going back to them is not an option. @Tunney: I've

Re: [WiX-users] how to pass paramters to a C++ DLL CA and get returned values from it.

Windows installer doesn't let you capture the return value from a custom action. How did installshield do it? What type of custom action were you using in IS (I mean the type number)? They must have implemented a wrapper that would call your function and set the return value in a property. On

[WiX-users] Restart Manager doesn't preserve folders open in Windows Explorer after restart.

Hi, For long I have been working with the old files in use dialog in windows installer. But now after dropping support for Win XP I wanted to explore the new restart manager functionality. I read at couple of places that restart manager is used by shell extensions to restart explorer.exe

Re: [WiX-users] Restart Manager doesn't preserve folders open in Windows Explorer after restart.

No one using Restart Manager to close explorer.exe :( On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 8:28 PM, Kashif Md. mdkashi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, For long I have been working with the old files in use dialog in windows installer. But now after dropping support for Win XP I wanted to explore the new restart

Re: [WiX-users] No reboot for locked files during uninstallation.

I don't think Windows installer does any re-mapping. It just moves the locked files to config.msi folder. There is nothing specific with installer infact we can do it ourselves using MoveFileEx. My take would be that whenever windows installer moves a file it should let user know of a pending

[WiX-users] How to set Version and Publisher fields in Installed Updates on 64 bit machine?

Hi, My msp patch is missing Version and Publisher info in Installed Updates window in ARP for 64 bit machines. I've populated all the fields in PCP correctly but still it doesn't show up. It works fine on 32 bit machines. My MSI is a 32 bit MSI so that might be one reason why it fails for 64 bit

[wix-users] (deprecated) Does parent of a companion file always need to be from same feature?

I’ve been facing issues while updating a few companion files in a windows installer patch for which size does not change but checksum does change. I'm not going into details here because I know why bug happened and what was the core reason. The problem is that I went to MS paid support and they