Re: [WiX-users] Add text to final window in burn bootstrapper/installer

On 28/08/2013 06:07, Blair Murri wrote: > As I understand it, page "Success" will be shown whenever the result of > bundle application is successful but not when a failure occurs (when instead > the "Failure" page will be shown). So, successful install, successful > removal, successful modificat

[WiX-users] Burn, signature verification and failure on Vista

I recently discovered the certificate auto-download feature in Vista/2008 when I found that our installer (which uses Burn) fails due to an authenticode verification error when the machine isn't connected to the Internet. It seems that when Burn asks Windows to check the signature, if the root

Re: [WiX-users] Add text to final window in burn bootstrapper/installer

As I understand it, page "Success" will be shown whenever the result of bundle application is successful but not when a failure occurs (when instead the "Failure" page will be shown). So, successful install, successful removal, successful modification, etc. If you can set bundle properties you c

Re: [WiX-users] 64 bit version of MS build cannot find the WIX toolset

There's an issue open requesting WiX to write the AssemblySearchPaths in 64-bit hive. That isn't done today. On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Edwin Castro <0ptikgh...@gmx.us> wrote: > MSBuild uses the AssemblySearchPaths property to determine the locations > where it searches for assembly refer

Re: [WiX-users] UNSUBSCRIBE

Your company blocks sourceforge.net? Huh. There, I've just unsubscribed you. You should receive a confirmation e-mail probably asking you to click a link to confirm that hopefully your company doesn't block. If your company does block it, well then unless you can make a rule to route WiX-users

Re: [WiX-users] UNSUBSCRIBE

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Re: [WiX-users] Add text to final window in burn bootstrapper/installer

I've noticed that in the RtfTheme-Custom.xml, there is this which I'm guessing represents the "Setup Successful" page: #(loc.SuccessHeader) #(loc.SuccessLaunchButton) #(loc.SuccessRestartText) #(loc.SuccessRestartButton) #(loc.SuccessCloseButton) So

Re: [WiX-users] Error Uninstalling a Wix Burn Bundle

Yes I think that was it. Thanks Phil. *John Hermary * *Software Developer Green's Publishing* Phone: +1 (780) 484-5550 Toll Free: +1 (866) 463-6968 jherm...@ualberta.ca WordMemoryTest.com ** On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Phil Wilson wrote: > That error is

Re: [WiX-users] Error Uninstalling a Wix Burn Bundle

That error is "Another installation is already in progress. Complete that installation before proceeding with this install. ". Does that make sense? Phil Wilson On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 11:13 AM, thejohno wrote: > When trying to uninstall a WiX Burn Bundle (WiX 3.6) I get these errors > from >

Re: [WiX-users] Pending Reboot

I think you can test for Command.Resume == ResumeType.RebootPending -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Pending-Reboot-tp7588050p7588495.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --

Re: [WiX-users] Reading xml file

You would need an immediate custom action to read the .config file, find the appropriate connection string, and set its value to a property. If you're using WiX from Visual Studio, you can go to File > New Project, and choose Windows Installer XML > C# Custom Action Project. (Or C++ if you prefe

Re: [WiX-users] 64 bit version of MS build cannot find the WIX toolset

MSBuild uses the AssemblySearchPaths property to determine the locations where it searches for assembly references. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/bb629394.aspx You could either set the HintPath for the reference OR you could add the location of Microsoft.Deployment.WindowsIns

Re: [WiX-users] 64 bit version of MS build cannot find the WIX toolset

That doesn't look right. Bearing in mind that we're still using WiX 3.6 RTM, my HintPath looks like: ..\..\..\..\..\Program Fil

Re: [WiX-users] 64 bit version of MS build cannot find the WIX toolset

The Microsoft.Deployment.WindowsInstaller assembly is located in the default installation location. No customization has been done to the system or the projects. Here is the project file section that lists the above assembly refference: 3.5 False ..\..\

[WiX-users] Reading xml file

Hello, I am new to Wix and have a question regarding wix and reading settings from an xml file when running the installer. I have an xml file with database connectionstrings that are different for my test and production environment: connstr1connstr2 When running installer I want to use the [CO

[WiX-users] Error Uninstalling a Wix Burn Bundle

When trying to uninstall a WiX Burn Bundle (WiX 3.6) I get these errors from the log file: [0F90:0F94][2013-08-27T11:55:28]: Applying execute package: AI_MsiInstaller, action: Uninstall, path: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Package Cache\{12A4D809-34A8-4837-B376-521C2ACBE39D}

Re: [WiX-users] 64 bit version of MS build cannot find the WIX toolset

On 8/27/13 11:03 AM, Skildum, Mathew wrote: > All hint paths are correct as everything build correctly in Visual Studio > (2010 and 2012). The only time it fails is when I use the 64 bit version of > MS Build. Can you provide the reference XML from the project file? I assume you have not modifi

Re: [WiX-users] 64 bit version of MS build cannot find the WIX toolset

Building correctly on VS 2010 or 2012 doesn't tell you much as both of the those cache references. Where is the Microsoft.Deployment.WindowsInstaller assembly on your build server, and what does the HintPath look like on the failing custom action project? -- John Merryweather Cooper Build & In

Re: [WiX-users] 64 bit version of MS build cannot find the WIX toolset

All hint paths are correct as everything build correctly in Visual Studio (2010 and 2012). The only time it fails is when I use the 64 bit version of MS Build. Mat Skildum -Original Message- From: Edwin Castro [mailto:0ptikgh...@gmx.us] Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 12:54 PM To: wix-u

Re: [WiX-users] 64 bit version of MS build cannot find the WIX toolset

On 8/27/13 10:05 AM, Skildum, Mathew wrote: > Here is an example of the build errors: > > CustomAction.cs(4,17): error CS0234: The type or namespace name 'Deployment' > does not exist in the namespace 'Microsoft' (are you missing an assembly > refere > nce?) > CustomAction.cs(12,58): error CS

Re: [WiX-users] 64 bit version of MS build cannot find the WIX toolset

You have broken references in your custom action project to Microsoft.Deployment.WindowsInstaller.dll. It should be in "C:\Program Files (x86)\WiX Toolset v3.7\bin\". -- John Merryweather Cooper Build & Install Engineer -- ESA Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.(r) Shawnee Mission, KS 66227 Office:

Re: [WiX-users] RegistrySearch example in tutorial

The original registry search you posted doesn't have Win64="yes" so it will be a 32-bit registry search if you have an x86 platform install (and it looks like you do). Phil Wilson On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 2:29 AM, Blair Murri wrote: > If you are intending to use the 32-bit registry in a 64-bit

Re: [WiX-users] 64 bit version of MS build cannot find the WIX toolset

WIX was installed through the released installed and the installation path is "C:\Program Files (x86)\WiX Toolset v3.7". Here is an example of the build errors: CustomAction.cs(4,17): error CS0234: The type or namespace name 'Deployment' does not exist in the namespace 'Microsoft' (are you mis

Re: [WiX-users] 64 bit version of MS build cannot find the WIX toolset

Ok. So the proj files are modern. What is the path of WiX on the build server and how was it installed there? What is the specific message from the build logs? -- John Merryweather Cooper Build & Install Engineer -- ESA Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.(r) Shawnee Mission, KS 66227 Office: 913-

Re: [WiX-users] 64 bit version of MS build cannot find the WIX toolset

MSBuild 4.0 x64 uses the 32-bit path for both $(MSBuildExtensionsPath32) and $(MSBuildExtensionsPath), so it should be picking up the right file. What are the specific errors you are getting? > From: mathew.skil...@aspect.com > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 16:38:03

Re: [WiX-users] 64 bit version of MS build cannot find the WIX toolset

All of the WIX projects in question have those lines in place: $(MSBuildExtensionsPath32)\Microsoft\WiX\v3.x\Wix.targets $(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\Microsoft\WiX\v3.x\Wix.targets I just realized that forgot to mention I was using the .Net 4.0 version of MS Build. MAT SKILDUM SR PRINCIPAL

Re: [WiX-users] 64 bit version of MS build cannot find the WIX toolset

How far back do you wixproj files go? Modern ones should have something like: $(MSBuildExtensionsPath32)\Microsoft\WiX\v3.x\Wix.targets Re: [WiX-users] 64 bit version of MS build cannot find the WIX toolset

2013-08-27 Thread Skildum, Mathew

I am using WIX 3.8 (build 3.8.708). The build system is using the GA version of WIX 3.7. I am havine issues on both systems. -Original Message- From: Blair Murri [mailto:os...@live.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 10:37 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Su

Re: [WiX-users] 64 bit version of MS build cannot find the WIX toolset

2013-08-27 Thread Blair Murri

Which version of WiX are you running? There was a bug a ways back about that. > From: mathew.skil...@aspect.com > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 14:54:30 + > Subject: [WiX-users] 64 bit version of MS build cannot find the WIX toolset > > I know there is probably a

Re: [WiX-users] Question about $(Platform) in Votive Output name

2013-08-27 Thread Blair Murri

Please file a feature request. Even better, contributing a fix would be much appreciated. > Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 07:18:38 -0700 > From: techsupport...@gmail.com > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Question about $(Platform) in Votive Output name > > This still seem

Re: [WiX-users] [Wix]: Copy INI file to WINDOWS folder before 'InstallFiles' action.

2013-08-27 Thread Blair Murri

If the INI file is in your MSI, whatever is in that INI file could be added to your MSI when your MSI is built, right? If not, please explain why not. If the INI file is not in the MSI, how does your MSI know where the INI file is in order to copy it to the Windows folder? Could that action in yo

[WiX-users] 64 bit version of MS build cannot find the WIX toolset

2013-08-27 Thread Skildum, Mathew

I know there is probably a posting somewhere out on the web describing the issue I am having, but I am not able to find it at the present moment. The problem I am current having is that the 64 bit version of MS build does not properly evaluate the build variables and is not able to find WIX tool

Re: [WiX-users] Custom element

2013-08-27 Thread Rob Mensching

It'd be great if you could contribute what you learned or maybe go in and understand how the documentation is created for the WiX toolset to help enhance it. The guys on wix-devs mailing list are very supportive of people wanting to help improve. Feature suggestions here are welcome but I always l

Re: [WiX-users] Question about $(Platform) in Votive Output name

2013-08-27 Thread moc

This still seems to be the case in 3.7.1224.0 I'd like to be able to use MSBuild variables in the output name as everything else works with my current project expect this. Currently I either have to duplicate my project wixproj file and 'hard code' the name in the UI or bypass the UI and edit the x

Re: [WiX-users] [Wix]: Conditional installation for Windows Server 2008/Windows Server 2012

2013-08-27 Thread Porterfield, Tom

http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2008/11/3/how-to-determine-if-you-are-installing-on-windows-client should help. Tom Porterfield -Original Message- From: dileep s [mailto:dileep.sanamp...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 6:51 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML

Re: [WiX-users] Add text to final window in burn bootstrapper/installer

2013-08-27 Thread Alain Forget

Good question. I'm not sure exactly, but here’s some code snippets that what I'm guessing are UI-related: http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/BalExtension"; xmlns:util="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/UtilExtension"; > ... Obviously, we are using a custom theme (RtfTheme-Custom.

Re: [WiX-users] [Wix]: Copy INI file to WINDOWS folder before 'InstallFiles' action.

2013-08-27 Thread dileep s

I have Config.ini file which is having Model Information. If this Config.ini file is existing in Windows folder before running MSI file, I can able to read Model information in INI file. Is there any way to copy INI file and read that while installing MSI. Regards, Dileep On Tue, Aug 27, 2013

Re: [WiX-users] [Wix]: Conditional installation for Windows Server 2008/Windows Server 2012

2013-08-27 Thread dileep s

Hi Blair, Thank you for the information. I am checking windows version to install the MSI/EXE file. Ex: In my code, I have used for Windows XP 32 bit, So, installer will installs only Windows XP 32 bit machine. Same like, I have to create windows Installer for Windows Server 2008 and Wi

Re: [WiX-users] Fallback when not getting admin rights

2013-08-27 Thread Blair Murri

My understanding is that Heat should produce the same result (on a clean machine) that regasm produces (unless the binary is 64-bit only or if it is an EXE instead of a DLL). If the machine heat is running on already had the binary registered then most of the time it won't work (you have to unre

Re: [WiX-users] Fallback when not getting admin rights

2013-08-27 Thread Trond Andersen

Thank you for your feeback. > I forget what the DropBox install experience was, but when I look at > those shell extensions they are all in HKCU, so they are per-user and > not per-system. That might work for you too. I run Regshot on my computer and looked at the changes in registry. A lot of the

Re: [WiX-users] MSBuild wix project file - how to detect skipped and specific culture

2013-08-27 Thread Blair Murri

You could try looking at the msbuild files supplied with WiX, but the go/no-go data for linking depends on what compile did, so in reality it won't be straightforward to determine pre-compile what the decision will be at link. AfterCompileAndLink fires after all cultures have been linked. > Date

Re: [WiX-users] Add text to final window in burn bootstrapper/installer

2013-08-27 Thread Blair Murri

Which UI are you using in your bundle? > From: afor...@cmu.edu > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 18:55:39 -0400 > Subject: [WiX-users] Add text to final window in burn bootstrapper/installer > > Hi all, > > Our installer bundled with burn currently posts a simple "Se

Re: [WiX-users] [Wix]: Conditional installation for Windows Server 2008/Windows Server 2012

2013-08-27 Thread Blair Murri

I'm not understanding your request. VersionNT is a property indicating the platform "version" of windows, expressed (in the case of MSI) as an integer. If you tell us what you are trying to do with VersionNT and what you want your package to do between different platforms, we could help more. An

Re: [WiX-users] Custom element

2013-08-27 Thread Blair Murri

That page in the docs is part of the reference, and the reference pages assume that you know how you wish to configure your custom action and simply give the syntax required to express it in WiX. The tutorial and the book are both great places to get more beginners information on Windows Install

Re: [WiX-users] Modifiing Burn UI to make silent

2013-08-27 Thread Blair Murri

This has been discussed on this list. The two proposed solutions were 1) command-line, and 2) a custom BA. It has also been suggested on this same list that that isn't the best user experience (think repair and removal where the MSI UI is NOT available at all via Burn). Burn isn't intended as a

Re: [WiX-users] The Last Error Received is: 0xc00000fd (-1073741571) while creating a patch

2013-08-27 Thread Blair Murri

This is interesting to me:The last files being compared were RegistASM.exe. The "Comparing bytes" message is from the comparison of the files in the "Comparing Files" message just previous. The error is being reported on TSResourceDllChs.dll. That isn't the same file. This suggests that it was d

[WiX-users] Modifiing Burn UI to make silent

2013-08-27 Thread Natalie Carr

Is there any way to modify burn to only show the Msi dialogs? I would like to use burn to install .Net Framework but don't like the two dialogs being shown and have tried to play around with the HyperLinkTheme.xml but cannot figure out if it can be done so that it is silent and to fire the Msi dial

Re: [WiX-users] DCOM Launch and Access permissions

2013-08-27 Thread Blair Murri

Looks to me like a really good thing to include in WiX. Would you be willing to contribute it? > Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 17:08:37 +1200 > From: benjamins...@gmail.com > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] DCOM Launch and Access permissions > > Cool, thanks Phil. I was

Re: [WiX-users] RegistrySearch example in tutorial

2013-08-27 Thread Blair Murri

If you are intending to use the 32-bit registry in a 64-bit platform in RegEdit, you need to start from the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node (which is the 32-bit HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE key). You make TARGETDIR conditional by setting a property by that name to the full path (hopefully

Re: [WiX-users] The Last Error Received is: 0xc00000fd (-1073741571) while creating a patch

2013-08-27 Thread Swaroop Kare

Did you try restarting the machine so that all the background processes that are running behind is killed. -Original Message- From: Shaun Greenfield [mailto:sgreenfi...@tradestation.com] Sent: 26 August 2013 18:26 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] The Last Error Re

Re: [WiX-users] FW: Custom installation in Wix Patch

2013-08-27 Thread Swaroop Kare

Thanks Blair for your suggestion, I will revisit the code. -Original Message- From: Blair Murri [mailto:os...@live.com] Sent: 26 August 2013 20:15 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] FW: Custom installation in Wix Patch I finally got a chance to look, and it appears

[WiX-users] Custom element

2013-08-27 Thread Lars Lars

Hello, Reading the http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/xsd/wix/custom.html docs. Would it be possible to specify the legal values for attribute before and after, and inner value? Using google I found the state 'InstallInitialize' and 'InstallFinalize' which solved two issues. Howe

[WiX-users] [Wix]: Conditional installation for Windows Server 2008/Windows Server 2012

2013-08-27 Thread dileep s

Hi All, I have created MSI/EXE using Wix based on OS (Operating System). Used VersionNT property values for creating MSI/EXE. Installation is not working for Windows Server 2008/Windows Server 2012. How can I check the conditional installation for Windows Server 2008/Windows Server 2012. Pleas