Re: [WiX-users] regasm in wix?

2006-12-15 Thread Erv Walter
You need to fill in the Registry table with the appropriate values. You can use either ProgId, Class Co. (which will fill in the Registry table behind the scenes when advertisement is turned off) or you can directly use Registry elements. Note, there is a good chance that as a .NET COM DLL

Re: [WiX-users] regasm in wix?

2006-12-15 Thread Wilson, Phil
If you want this assembly registered for COM interop the /tlb option by itself is insufficient. Using full regasm on an assembly does two main things: 1. Registers the class entries and sets the InprocServer32 to mscoree.dll. 2. Registers a type library. Just using the /tlb option does not do

[WiX-users] Verify user?

2006-12-15 Thread Matthew Janulewicz
We're using Wix 3. One of our installers installs a service, but it may run under different users in different environments. The installer will prompt the user for the domain, username and password to apply during the ServiceInstall step. However, if they enter in an invalid user or password

Re: [WiX-users] zip program for bootstrapper msi

2006-12-15 Thread John Vottero
Ok, I looked into the details because this is working for us. We use IExpress to compress everything into a single executable. You probably already have IExpress, I believe that it's part of IE. IExpress lets you specify a setup command (AppLaunched) and a post install command (PostInstallCmd).

Re: [WiX-users] zip program for bootstrapper msi

2006-12-15 Thread David Thielen
Same issues we have with Chilkat - caption, icon, version (I forgot about that). So looks like we both are at the same point. Thanks - dave David Thielen www.windwardreports.com 303-499-2544 x1185 Cubicle Wars - http://www.windwardreports.com/film.htm

Re: [WiX-users] zip program for bootstrapper msi

2006-12-15 Thread David Thielen
I took a look at 7Z but according to it's docs it doesn't even have self-extracting zips. Thanks - dave David Thielen www.windwardreports.com 303-499-2544 x1185 Cubicle Wars - http://www.windwardreports.com/film.htm -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

[WiX-users] Wix Silent Installation - arument validation

2006-12-15 Thread nikhil more
Hi, I am using a Wix installer. Generally from command promt I run following command... msiexec /qn /i AgentSetup.msi TARGETDIR=D:\Agent\Install FIRSTBACKUP=0 REBOOT=R OPENFILEHANDLER=0 EMAILADDRESS=[EMAIL PROTECTED] PASSWORD=1connected /log log.txt We have a following

Re: [WiX-users] zip program for bootstrapper msi

2006-12-15 Thread Rob MacFadyen
The ChilKat ZipToSecureExe is a _demo_ of their commercial ZIP component. The commercial zip component allows for lots of things that are not part of the free demo. Here's a link to the docs: http://www.chilkatsoft.com/refdoc/xChilkatZip2Ref.html Of specific interest: Changing icon, changing

Re: [WiX-users] zip program for bootstrapper msi

2006-12-15 Thread Rob Mensching
$149 and $199? Wow, I wonder what we could charge for the WiX toolset. smile/ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob MacFadyen Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 12:09 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] zip program for bootstrapper msi The

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Re: [WiX-users] Using WiX Extensions

2006-12-15 Thread Rob Mensching
Here's an example of using the NetFx extension in WiX v2: candle.exe -ext Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Extensins.NetFxCompiler,WixNetFxExtension my.wxs -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Agustín K-ballo Bergé Sent: Thursday,

Re: [WiX-users] Verify user?

2006-12-15 Thread Rob Mensching
No difference that I know of. That's a built-in MSI action. A verbose log file should be able to show you more details about why it isn't installing. -Original Message- From: Matthew Janulewicz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 14:57 To: Joe Kaplan; Rob

Re: [WiX-users] zip program for bootstrapper msi

2006-12-15 Thread David Thielen
Correct me if I'm wrong - I looked at this approach. But what they sell is a dll so I then have to write a program that uses that dll to create the exe program. If they had a command line program that did this I'ld happily pay $199.00 * 3 (2 dev, I build system) for this. Thanks - dave

Re: [WiX-users] Verify user?

2006-12-15 Thread Matthew Janulewicz
From Joe Kaplan: 'I think you'd also need to check to see if the authenticated user has at minimum log on as a service privilege.' Thanks, Joe! That was it! I knew this in the back of my mind, too, but failed to remember that I was using a different user than myself. Thanks for all the help,

Re: [WiX-users] zip program for bootstrapper msi

2006-12-15 Thread Rob MacFadyen
David, They sell a COM component that can be used from just about any language, including VBScript. Here's the script I use, with some junk X'd out, and it just gets invoked from the build tool. Note I have not migrated to MSBUILD GenerateBootstapper... left as an exercise for the reader :).

Re: [WiX-users] Website redirect?

2006-12-15 Thread Rob Mensching
Not currently supported. You could open a feature request if there isn't one open on this already... From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew Janulewicz Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 17:20 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Website

[WiX-users] How to validate command line string argument based upon its length???

2006-12-15 Thread nikhil more
Hi, Is there a way to validate the command line argument while going for slient istalltion from command prompt.I want to check if string argument that I am providing is of length 6 charcter or more then only go for further installation othersie exit.. I could see that we can put a

Re: [WiX-users] Verify user?

2006-12-15 Thread Joe Kaplan
Luckily, I've had that problem relatively recently so it came to mind. :) Like I said in my other mail, it would be a nice feature for WiX to support modifying local security policy to handle things like this, especially as a compliment for the support for user and group creation. It would

[WiX-users] Customizing strings in the WixUIExtension dll

2006-12-15 Thread Jeff Bean
What is the best way to customize the strings that are part of the stock user interface contained in the WixUIExtension dll? The strings I want to change are in WixUI_en-us.wxl. As best as I can tell, when the WixUIExtension dll is built, this wxl file is included as a localization file on the