[WiX-users] Launch Checkbox

2006-07-29 Thread Shmarya Rubenstein
Hi All,I'm trying to add a checkbox to the Finish dialog which will let me launch an application conditionallyI've tried adding a checkbox like so:Control Id=Launch Type=CheckBox Width=100 Height=17 X=135 Y=80 Property=LAUNCHCONFIGURATIONCHECKED And then having Property

Re: [WiX-users] Question: Migrating Existing Installer to WindowsInstaller

2006-07-29 Thread Derek Cicerone
Based on the information provided below, youll likely want to look into using the WixIIsExtension, WixSQLExtension, and WixUtilExtension (for some additional service configuration and xml manipulation custom actions). Youll need to decide to use either WiX 2.0 or 3.0. Were currently only

[WiX-users] shortcut and validation error

2006-07-29 Thread dangle123 ...
I have a shortcut componentin my setup package that fails ICE validation because it doesn't "use a registry key under HKCU as its KeyPath". I have the ALLUSERS property set to 1. This will set the ProgramMenuFolder to the "All Users" profile. Why does itstill need to have a registry key under HKCU

Re: [WiX-users] Device scan before install

2006-07-29 Thread Calin Iaru
Hi Chesong, Is there a way to supress the New Hardware Wizard when CM_Reenumerate_DevNode is called? None of the parameters can do it. I guess I have to ask this question in a forum; The Wizard appears in XP, but not in Server 2003. Best regards, Calin Chesong Lee wrote: Refer to How

Re: [WiX-users] Should WiX add support for installingWindowsinstrumentation features?

2006-07-29 Thread Bob Arnson
John Vottero wrote: This is mostly tool for developer to get the cmdlet working. Release setup should set the registry keys explicitly. See, it's not just WiX crazies!g It just sets series of registry keys. We need to document the keys which vendors need to set for registering

Re: [WiX-users] conditions

2006-07-29 Thread Derek Cicerone
I see. How about just putting the component into Feature1 so that it will run when Feature1 is installed locally? Derek From: Scott Sam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 5:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE:

Re: [WiX-users] Device scan before install

2006-07-29 Thread Chesong Lee
Refer to How To Force Reenumeration of a Device Tree From an Application http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q259697 if you want to go for your own custom action. CM_Reenumerate_DevNode:

Re: [WiX-users] Should WiX add support for installingWindowsinstrumentation features?

2006-07-29 Thread Bob Arnson
John Vottero wrote: Are you saying that it's impossible to create a good Installer based Installer class? No. That's fine with me, who do I start with? I just need some direction from Microsoft. Right now, I have the PowerShell team saying use these Installer based classes to install

Re: [WiX-users] Controls with Conditions

2006-07-29 Thread Bob Arnson
Michael Cline wrote: Is there any way to update the property with every key press? No. Unfortunately, MSI only updates properties on focus change. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the

[WiX-users] Create folder in DRVSTORE

2006-07-29 Thread Calin Iaru
Hi List, is there any possibility to create a folder inside the system DRVSTORE? When installing a driver, some files may reside in different folders and the inf file needs them from different locations. The problem occurs when the installer copies these files to the DRVSTORE and the

[WiX-users] Question about repeat installation of the same MSI

2006-07-29 Thread Peter G. Sakhno
Hello. My installation package consists of MSI-file and set of directory with additional files. Those files are used by type 1 custom action (DLL file stored in a Binary table stream). Since these directory is required, in MSI there is a property that checks for the directory existence (via

[WiX-users] Website Creation Error

2006-07-29 Thread DE�K JAHN, G�bor
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 08:27:37 -0700, Derek Cicerone wrote: Hello, This is a bit beyond my knowledge of the IIS custom actions. The quickest way to find a solution is likely going to be debugging the custom action yourself to see what’s going wrong. I have plenty of bandwidth, that's not the

[WiX-users] ProgramMenuFolder and validation error

2006-07-29 Thread dangle123 ...
When defining a component with "ProgramMenuFolder" as the directory path for a menu item, an ICE38validation error occur indicating that the component installs to user profile and that it must use a reg key under HKCU as its KeyPaths. Since I have the property ALLUSERS=1 set doesn't this indicate

Re: [WiX-users] conditions

2006-07-29 Thread Scott Sam
I have a component that looks like: Component Id=DbInstallationDirectoryService Guid=A4B5E633-D715-4e8e-8C4A-E58D1BAFFBAE XmlFile Action="" ElementPath=//DBInstallation/FeaturesInstalled File=[DBCREATION]dbinstallation.xml Id=dbInstallationConfig20 Name=Feature Sequence=19 Value=Feat1 /

Re: [WiX-users] Fwd: LGHT1055 InstallUISequence warning

2006-07-29 Thread Shmarya Rubenstein
I backed out of this a couple of months back because I was having difficulties... Let me see if I can find it in my source-control... otherwise I can try and reproduce...On 7/26/06, Rob Mensching [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that I had trouble with Component referenceing because

Re: [WiX-users] [WiX-devs] GAC and call Custom Action

2006-07-29 Thread John Hidey
My custom action in install the Microsoft Enterprise Library into the gac and register all their Instrumentation classes. This is Microsoft code and they have the installers in the code so I assumed it would be easiest to just call them. Let me ask you this. I am not a c++ developer by any

[WiX-users] Long path name to COM server

2006-07-29 Thread Andrey T
Hello, all! I have following situation: when I use Class element to install Class for my COM server, I use Server attribute to set path to my COM server in registry (under InProcServer32 key). I use unadvertised mode (i. e. Advertise=no) for Class element. The problem is that WIX writes this in

Re: [WiX-users] Question: Migrating Existing Installer to Windows Installer

2006-07-29 Thread Bob Arnson
Rick Glos wrote: We just released version 5.0 of our product. Spending 6 weeks updating our installer (we have a custom C# installer). I can see our new customers instead using a new .msi for later versions (5.5, 6.0, etc). What do I do about our existing customers when they

Re: [WiX-users] Should WiX add support for installingWindowsinstrumentation features?

2006-07-29 Thread Rob Mensching
This is good, except for the part about not creating an Extension. smile/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Vottero Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 5:32 AM To: Bob Arnson Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: [WiX-users] GAC and call Custom Action

2006-07-29 Thread John Hidey (The C# Junkie)
Sorry about that everyone. These messages where posted two days ago when we were having problems with mail server at work. Hope not too many more come across. I dont want anyone thinking I'm flooding the mailing list. Thanks John On 7/26/06, John Hidey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is my

Re: [WiX-users] Question: Migrating Existing Installer to WindowsInstaller

2006-07-29 Thread Joe Kaplan
I used a similar approach to deal with migration of an app that was originally built with non-MSI WISE and then did the same basic thing again when my first MSI version was (mistakenly) installed per-user instead of per-machine. AppSearch for traces of the old stuff and LaunchCondition that

Re: [WiX-users] ISAPI Filter installation hangs IIS

2006-07-29 Thread Bob Arnson
James Carter wrote: [exec] E:\delivery\Dev\wix_public\src\ext\iisextension\wixlib\IIsExtension.wxs(70) : error LGHT0102 : The localization variable !(loc.ConfigureIIs ) is unknown. Please ensure the variable is defined.

Re: [WiX-users] GAC and call Custom Action

2006-07-29 Thread Bob Arnson
John Hidey wrote: Is there a way to do what I want to do. I would think that this can be done. Many installers do this, but maybe they use a C++ custom action which does the registry for them. Any thoughts? Or they just use standard MSI support for registration. Calling

Re: [WiX-users] Launch Checkbox

2006-07-29 Thread Bob Arnson
Shmarya Rubenstein wrote: InstallUISequence Custom Action=LaunchConfig After=ExecuteAction ![CDATA[LAUNCHCONFIGURATIONCHECKED]] /Custom /InstallUISequence After MSI has processed the ExecuteAction action, it stops following the sequence in InstallUISequence.

Re: [WiX-users] rfc: break WiX 3.0 backwards-compatibility with WiX 2.0library (wixlib) files

2006-07-29 Thread Dave Williamson
If there are utilities to bring a pure WiX 2 code base up to a pure WiX 3 code base then breaking compatibility is fine by me. We do not intend to mix the two. The utilities would eliminate costly manual conversion time and provide a quick way for the entire WiX 2 code library to be

Re: [WiX-users] Question about repeat installation of the same MSI

2006-07-29 Thread Phil Wilson
As you've discovered, when you install a product a cached MSI file is created, and maintenance activities use this cached MSI file. It's the ProductCode guid that indicates that the product is already installed on the system, and when a product is already installed MSI goes into maintenance mode.

Re: [WiX-users] GAC and call Custom Action

2006-07-29 Thread Simon Burgess
I am using the Enterprise Library in this way as well. I decided to install the assembly into the GAC, also install the assembly to somewhere on the file system and finally install a batch file which is executed via a custom action after InstallFinalize that runs installutil I know its

Re: [WiX-users] Long path name to COM server

2006-07-29 Thread Derek Cicerone
The very latest WiX 3.0 release fixes this, enjoy! :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrey T Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 4:47 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Long path name to COM server Hello, all! I have

Re: [WiX-users] ProgramMenuFolder and validation error

2006-07-29 Thread Derek Cicerone
This question has been coming up often. Note that ALLUSERS is completely uppercase so a user can change your installation to be per-user via the command line or several other methods. This means that you need the HKCU key to ensure proper repair operation (since a shortcut is not a valid

Re: [WiX-users] rfc: break WiX 3.0 backwards-compatibility with WiX 2.0library (wixlib) files

2006-07-29 Thread Derek Cicerone
We already have a tool to convert from WiX 2.0 to WiX 3.0. Its called wixcop. I assume you were referring to converting the source code itself (not the wixlib files) since just having the libraries without source is a bit dangerous. We do not have a tool to convert from WiX 3.0 back

Re: [WiX-users] SelfRegCost on windows 2003 Server

2006-07-29 Thread Derek Cicerone
Title: SelfRegCost on windows 2003 Server Its probably a missing dependency. It might be easier to stop using self reg by running tallow (wix v2) or heat (v3) against the self-reg dll to collect its registry keys. J Derek From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: [WiX-users] ISAPI Filter installation hangs IIS

2006-07-29 Thread Derek Cicerone
To resolve the localization issue: I think youll need to pass cultures:en-us to light to load the English resources for the extension. This change was just made in the last release. Please note that the custom action code in WiX 3.0 is identical to what can be found in 2.0. We still