There was also general consensus that using any structured design technique is
more important than picking a specific approach.
Or, worse yet, can you tell a business person where in the code base a specific
piece of business logic is buried?
Make sure the boundaries are clear and somewhat
Hi,
Is it possible for my another installer (.msi) to detect the presence of
the EXE by using the GUID ? If it is possible, how to do it ? If it's not
possible, is there any other way to do this ? Cheers !
Mike Dimmick-2 wrote:
Windows Installer installs products in units of components -
I thought I once saw a tool that could decompile .rc or .res files from
visual studio, and produce WiX dialogs. However, I can't find any
information on where this was.
Was I imagining it, or could one of you kind people point me in the right
direction.
Thanks.
Anthony Wieser
Wieser
I use SharpDevelop 2.1. Its dialog editor works fairly well with WiX
dialogs. Just be aware that all comments are deleted. :-(
There's also an open source program called WiXEdit. I tried it out but
ran into problems.
I've made a simple beginner's tutorial for using WiX (with
SharpDevelop). It's
Hi community!
I'm trying to hunt down the bug in the ConfigureSql CA of WiX v3 (using
3.0.2813), because I would really like to use V3 for my project.
I modified scasqlstr.cpp and compiled the whole toolset using the standard
make.bat. Everything looks fine, but light cannot load the
Microsoft puts lots of samples in Program Files
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I have a .NET assembly that we've
Hi again.
Yesterday i switched our project over to Wix3.0/Votive 3.0 to get the
MSBuild feature and get a boostrapper going from an example a kind
individual posted here
ItemGroup
BootstrapperItem Include=Microsoft.Net.Framework.2.0
ProductNameMicrosoft .NET Framework 2.0/ProductName
Don't know if it's relevant for you, but I'm using an open source program
called dotNetInstaller to ensure .NET Framework is installed.
Rennie
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I figured out why the installation would just stop and not do anything. I had
tried to use REINSTALL=all, but this only works if you are doing a
reinstallation, which I wasn't. However, I was under the impression that
REINSTALLMODE=amus should still overwrite files, but Windows Installer
My install places files in a sub folder from program files, it also installed
DLLs into system 32, but I have changed this to the same program files sub
folder.
Now I have two problems. The first is the install needing permission on
Vista, probably because I am installing files to a sub folder
You can use a ComponentSearch Element to find the installed location of
an existing component on the system.
- Brett
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I've given up on trying to overwrite files. Is there any way to rename an
existing file?
Thanks for your time,
Matt Anderson
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Not sure about an official rename but what about using the CopyFile
element with Delete=yes.
- Brett
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Hi,
I'm in the process of getting (at least trying to get) the Vista
Certification.
It required the value InstallLocation to be set by the MSi installer in
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{MyProductGUID}
But Wix (v3) doesn't seem to properly set this value (set to
I have also noted that Microsoft historically puts Visual Studio samples
under Program Files. However, I had two concerns about this:
1. I notice that one of Microsoft's known issues for Visual Studio
on Windows Vista as a Normal User is that the samples can't be compiled
(due to UAC).
Microsoft patterns practices use this:
1. Create a installer for samples: let say Samples.msi
2. Create the installer for the product and include Sample.msi as part of
the product and add shortcut to it in Start Menu.
So user will see the available samples, can install them where he/she wants
You need a custom action to set ARPINSTALLLOCATION, something like:
CustomAction
Id=SAVETARGETDIR
Property=ARPINSTALLLOCATION
Value=[TARGETDIR] /
Make sure you schedule that custom action after InstallValidate.
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I don't think you are allowed to suppress the .NEt EULA dialog, as
Christopher Painter recently discussed in this blog:
http://blog.deploymentengineering.com/2007/03/silently-installing-net-framwork-legal.html
--
Stefan Krueger
Microsoft Windows Installer MVP
Please post your questions in
From playing around with it for 15min, SharpDevelop seems like a
pretty decent recommendation. Can you send a link to that tutorial?
On 4/19/07, Rennie Petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I use SharpDevelop 2.1. Its dialog editor works fairly well with WiX
dialogs. Just be aware that all
Hi All,
I am new to this group my name is Atul, I am a software developer. I am
stucked in one problem. The problem is i have created two COM dlls say
COM-A.dll and COM-B.dll, COM-A.dll is referencing COM-B.dll, now my problem is
how can i create a single installer to install both the COM
Thanks for the tip, Brett.
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That sounds like a complete way to go. When you say samples.msi doesn't
register the product, do this mean that it can't really be uninstalled
or repaired - it's just a fire-and-forget install. I'm not clear on what
all the necessary steps would be from a standard install that I'm
accustomed to
atul jain kumar.atul at yahoo.com writes:
Hi All, I am new to this group my name is Atul, I am a software
developer. I am stucked in one problem. The problem is i have created two COM
dlls say COM-A.dll and COM-B.dll, COM-A.dll is referencing COM-B.dll, now my
problem is how can i create
Quinton,
If you haven't encountered it, Microsoft's Patterns and Practices group
provides a great set of resources.
The entry point for all the information is (assuming I still have the
right shortcut in my browser favorites)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/practices/default.aspx
D'oh! Sorry! I hit reply to all then failed to take out everyone except
the group.
Please forgive the double mailing you'll get. :-(
Regards,
Richard
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Quinton,
As richard said I referred to the product's installer that Patterns and
Practices provides: Enterprise Library, Smart Client Software Factory, Web
Client Software Factory, etc.
And with doesn't register the product I mean, Suppress: RegisterProduct,
RegisterUser, PublishProduct,
You might want to consider installing a ZIP file instead of an MSI.
That way, people can take a look at the contents, extract single files
or extract everything.
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Adding the shortcut satisfies my needs. Thanks for the tip! After some
minor struggles, I've got that working.
However, as part of the process I moved my two shortcuts (one to the
online help, and the new one to the samples folder) into a folder named
RMCLink Component under ProgramMenuFolder.
If the registry updates during installation, will the registry element,
pointing to the key that updates, update as well?
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Ok, I have an installer with 2 custom actions I want to run AFTER all the
files have been installed on the target computer. I thought that by using
an InstallUISequence that had them run after ProgressDialog that would
occur, but no such luck. Each time I run the installer my second CA fails
Yes, that is another solution. Using .msi provides a way to add some gui and
customize which kind of samples user want to install.
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You might want to consider installing a ZIP file instead of an MSI.
That way, people can take a look at the
You could just create a component under that directory that only contains
the RemoveFile element, i.e.,
RemoveFolder Id='MyFolder' On='uninstall'/
Julie Campbell
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Does anyone know what controls the New Program highlighting on the
Program menu? I know it can be turned on and off by the user, but my
tester has it turned on and when he run my installer it adds a folder
with two shortcuts in it, but says that it's not highlighted as a new
program.
Any
You should be using InstallExecuteSequence rather than InstallUISequence.
While InstallExecuteSequence is always consulted by the installer to
determine the actions, InstallUISequence is only considered when the
installer runs in full or reduced UI mode.
Then, on each Custom element, use the
But then what do I do for the keypath of this component? I tried it and
got ICE38 Component ProgMenu.RMCLink installs to user profile. It must
use a registry key under HKCU as its KeyPath, not a file, where
ProgMenu.RMCLink is the component I added under the directory with just
the RemoveFolder
The WiX source distribution does not (for obvious reasons) distribute the
strong name signing key for Wix.dll. There's a part of the build process
that's supposed to suppress strong-name validation for this key, but I found
it didn't work properly for me.
To check whether this is the problem, run
Julie, thanks! That helped quite a bit.
I'm still having one problem, however. When my CA runs it looks to see if
the installed files are there by looking at INSTALLDIR. I've run the
installer with the CA commented out and the files do get installed
correctly. The CA program also works if I
After InstallFiles might be a better choice. CreateFolders is before
InstallFiles in MSI files I just looked at.
Phil Wilson
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Does it fix that if you schedule it after='InstallFiles' instead of
CreateFolders?
Daryn.
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Yes it does. Thanks!
Does it fix that if you schedule it after='InstallFiles' instead of
CreateFolders?
Daryn.
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Hello ,
I'm trying to do a simple thing :) - put files (either uncompressed or
cab) in subdirectories on a source media.
Result - is an error dialog, saying that required file is not found.
I found several links on the topic here, but still can't make it work.
Here is what I do:
Product
I believe it is because your Package is marked as Compressed but your
Media (2) is not compressed. In this case, MSI expects the source files
to be in the same folder as the msi file. From the MSI docs:
Note that if the package is marked as compressed (Bit 1 is set), the
Windows Installer only
Yes, it does work now.
Thanks
Brett Kapilik wrote:
I believe it is because your Package is marked as Compressed but your
Media (2) is not compressed. In this case, MSI expects the source files
to be in the same folder as the msi file. From the MSI docs:
Note that if the package is
Hello,
Is there any way to capture the text changed event for an Edit control.
As an example, lets say I wanted to enable the next button on a dialog, but
only once the user has typed in a valid string in a text control. I have found
that I have to actually click off this text control in
It looks like it was a tool called Tallow, which was in Wix 2.0, but not
3.0. Is there a plan to put it back into 3.0?
Anthony Wieser
Wieser Software Ltd
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It looks like it was a tool called Tallow, which was in Wix 2.0, but not
3.0. Is there a plan to put it back into 3.0?
Anthony Wieser
Hi,
I hope this is the right place to ask the following wix related question.
My wix includes a custom action console exe that copies a bunch of files to
a given dir.
the exe ( no source ) expects to find the files in the same dir from which
it is being run.
How do i refer to these files
Nobody has any ASP.net web application uninstall experience?
mmenaker wrote:
I'm having 2 problems:
1. My web applications that I create don't delete the virtual dirs/apps
from the Default Web Site section in IIS. The folders created are gone
but you can see the app in the IIS.
I was wondering what the recommended way or even some suggestions on how to
handle building a Release and Debug installation? I have a Wix script that
builds a .msi but it takes its files from bin\debug and it includes .pdb
files that are not present in the release directory(s). I would like to
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