Re: [WiX-users] UPdating label field through spawn dialog

2007-06-11 Thread Bob Arnson
hariom wrote: > this point. Now if users wants to customize some settings, we are providing > options through spawn dialog. Whatever the changes they make in spawn dialog > based on the I have to update the text of label-text filed which in parent > dialog. > You can try setting the text contr

Re: [WiX-users] Adding User Interface to Setup Project in Visual Studio

2007-06-11 Thread Bob Arnson
Afshin Sepehri wrote: light.exe -out SampleWixUI.msi SampleWixUI.wixobj /path/\wixui.wixlib -loc /path/\WixUI_en-us.wxl That command line is for WiX v2. In v3, you just need to add a reference to WixUIExtension.dll. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ ---

Re: [WiX-users] ForceReboot

2007-06-11 Thread Bob Arnson
Aaron Shurts wrote: > Why not set the REBOOT property to 'Always'? ForceReboot is bad to > use in some scenarios and could end up making some of your users angry. True, but it's occasionally unavoidable for some drivers. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ --

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade InstallShield package

2007-06-11 Thread Bob Arnson
fiordean dacian wrote: 1. When double click on my new msi, it detects there is a previous product installed (there is a PREVFOUND property set I provided within the Upgrade sequence of my WiX code), but there is no message saying "Another version of ..." like I get when I do an upgrade with two

Re: [WiX-users] Assigning App Pool and Framework Version

2007-06-11 Thread Evgeny Popov
Forgot you sencon problem with ASP.NEt verstion. this problem is solving using WebApplicationExtension You should insert into WebApplication element that:

Re: [WiX-users] Assigning App Pool and Framework Version

2007-06-11 Thread Evgeny Popov
Hi Ryan. I got almost the same issue, except, I need to create WebSite and AppPool if it does not exsist and uninstall them if all application are uninstalled. Unfortunatly I didn't find the ideal solution when uninstallation will be so smart to figure out when do uninstall for website and when d

Re: [WiX-users] ForceReboot

2007-06-11 Thread Aaron Shurts
Why not set the REBOOT property to 'Always'? ForceReboot is bad to use in some scenarios and could end up making some of your users angry. Regards, //aj On 6/11/07, Bob Arnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Stefan Pavlik wrote: > I am able to schedule the ForceReboot action (e.g. MsiDoAction - >

Re: [WiX-users] (no subject)

2007-06-11 Thread Aaron Shurts
You'll need to use a bootstrapper. I posted some code not too long ago that demonstrates creating a bootstrapper using the setup.exe that comes with the SDK. Do a search on nabble for GenerateBootstrapper. The code is in C# and very easily modified. Regards, //aj On 6/11/07, Sumit Malhotra (S

[WiX-users] Adding User Interface to Setup Project in Visual Studio

2007-06-11 Thread Afshin Sepehri
Hi, I am trying to use Votive and Visual Studio to build my WiX Steup project, but to be able to add User Interface, I need to add parameters to light. For example: light.exe -out SampleWixUI.msi SampleWixUI.wixobj path\wixui.wixlib -loc path\WixUI_en-us.wxl However, the light settings in pro

Re: [WiX-users] Conditionally installing components based on user's locale

2007-06-11 Thread Igor Maslov
Sorry, I can't provide source of custom action, it's company property. You can use combination of localle and time zone settings. Of course user is free to set it to anything. There is no guarantee. I wrote simple wix script in other post if it will be of any help. Igor Igor Maslov wrote

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade InstallShield package

2007-06-11 Thread Wilson, Phil
1. Is because this is a major upgrade and your new product has a different ProductCode guid. 2. Is probably because you've set "OnlyDetect" if I recall the syntax correctly. Phil Wilson From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of fiorde

[WiX-users] (no subject)

2007-06-11 Thread Sumit Malhotra (SUMIT MALHOTRA)
Hi, I have a question regarding how does WiX handles multiple MSI's. Like, is it possible to install the Multiple installs from a single MSI using WiX as code base? So that WiX takes care for all the rollbacks and other cases. There are lot of products handling these multiple installation cases.

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade InstallShield package

2007-06-11 Thread fiordean dacian
Hi, I located and opened with Orca the cached msi file under Windows\Installer. The UpgradeCode is, of course, different compared with the one I was using (displayed by IS UI). Now it looks like some upgrade is done (files are replaced and on uninstall they are removed from the system). I hav

[WiX-users] FileCost: Copying files from Installer overriding fileversions at destination.

2007-06-11 Thread Sankaranarayanan
Hi, I am installing an appliation in the folder \Program Files\. If the folder \Program Files\ already exists (not from previous MSI installation, but the user has manually created one and copied some files to it), WIX installer's FileCost action determines if the file from the installer has t

Re: [WiX-users] Future of Votive?

2007-06-11 Thread Christopher Painter
I agree with you, on a continuum of centralized <---> decentralized, I am very much of the same mind set as you. However I do see an opprotunity/need to slide down that line a little bit and decentralize some of the simpler aspects of the installs ( support files xcopy type pattern ) and I see

Re: [WiX-users] Conditionally installing components based on user's locale

2007-06-11 Thread Igor Maslov
Actually, I didn't even have to write custom action. Just some WiX script. Something like this: . . . . (SystemLanguageID=1033) OR (SystemLanguageID=4105) NOT ((SystemLanguageID=1033

Re: [WiX-users] Future of Votive?

2007-06-11 Thread Matthew Janulewicz
I've never worked anywhere that the developers *wanted* to have anything to do with installers. No offence to developers in general, but it's an easy thing to screw up and they have bigger fish to fry. I find when you have too many cooks in that kitchen they inevitably step on each other, and someo

Re: [WiX-users] Future of Votive?

2007-06-11 Thread Bob Arnson
John Hall wrote: > Is there a way of specifying the -b switch when building from Visual > Studio? > Assuming you mean using Votive, it doesn't appear to be exposed through the project property pages. But you can edit the .wixproj file outside VS and add a LinkerBaseInputPaths property to be a

Re: [WiX-users] msi log seem to contain false errors

2007-06-11 Thread Bob Arnson
Anil Prasad wrote: Hi, I am generating MSI from WiX script. Though installation succeeds and everything specified in the WiX Scripts gets installed at proper location, when msiexec is invoked in verbose mode(L*vx), I get following errors in log file. I'm not sure what does this mean? I don'

Re: [WiX-users] ForceReboot

2007-06-11 Thread Bob Arnson
Stefan Pavlik wrote: > I am able to schedule the ForceReboot action (e.g. MsiDoAction - > from immediate custom action) but in this time I do not know whether > the Reboot will be necessary. > At deferred execution time, the script has already been written so you can't modify it by adding an a

Re: [WiX-users] Problems with Visual Studio Sp Merge Modules

2007-06-11 Thread Bob Arnson
gboreki wrote: > The service requires it indeed. Nevertheless its quite weird that the > lines in InstallExecuteSequence are missing. Agreed. > So what is the "best practice" with VS runtimes? should i provide the > vcredist separately and set it as a prerequisite? It has the advantage of lett

Re: [WiX-users] Future of Votive?

2007-06-11 Thread aupton
But you can use the 'references' feature in votive to make the process easier. For example, if you have a solution that contains two source projects - MySource1 and MySource2, plus the WiX Installer project you can add project references in the WiX project to MySource1 and MySource2. You can then

[WiX-users] UPdating label field through spawn dialog

2007-06-11 Thread hariom
Hi All, Firstly I have added my own custom dialog which has one label-text type field. I am updating value of it during runtime. Everything is fine upto this point. Now if users wants to customize some settings, we are providing options through spawn dialog. Whatever the changes they make in spa

[WiX-users] Crystal Report MErgeModule : CrystalReportsRedist2005_x86.msm

2007-06-11 Thread Pierre jean Monrozies
Hy, I am trying to delivers some .Net 2.0 class libraries. One of them use Crystal Report vs version. I get the Merge Module by the businessObject web site and following is my WIX declaration. The MSI build and install well but once I execute the reporting project I got the following inner mes

Re: [WiX-users] Problems with Visual Studio Sp Merge Modules

2007-06-11 Thread gboreki
The service requires it indeed. Nevertheless its quite weird that the lines in InstallExecuteSequence are missing. So what is the "best practice" with VS runtimes? should i provide the vcredist separately and set it as a prerequisite? Thank Guilherme De:"Bob Arnson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para:"g

[WiX-users] msi log seem to contain false errors

2007-06-11 Thread Anil Prasad
Hi, I am generating MSI from WiX script. Though installation succeeds and everything specified in the WiX Scripts gets installed at proper location, when msiexec is invoked in verbose mode(L*vx), I get following errors in log file. I'm not sure what does this mean? I don't see anything like 1707

Re: [WiX-users] Future of Votive?

2007-06-11 Thread John Hall
Bob Arnson wrote > > I don't think there's a switch in there currently to do relative > > paths. Typically that's when I switch to search replace. > > You can also omit the Source attribute entirely, if the file > is in the directory indicated by the Directory element > hierarchy and has the s

Re: [WiX-users] ForceReboot

2007-06-11 Thread Stefan Pavlik
Yes it is DLL custom action. Rob Hamflett wrote: > Just to check, is it a DLL custom action you're using? I probably should > have pointed that out in > my first post. > > Rob > > Stefan Pavlik wrote: >> Thanks for the answer. >> >> Problem is that I can not set the public property from the d

Re: [WiX-users] ForceReboot

2007-06-11 Thread Rob Hamflett
Just to check, is it a DLL custom action you're using? I probably should have pointed that out in my first post. Rob Stefan Pavlik wrote: > Thanks for the answer. > > Problem is that I can not set the public property from the deferred > custom action. The result is the same as with MsiDoActio

Re: [WiX-users] ForceReboot

2007-06-11 Thread Stefan Pavlik
Thanks for the answer. Problem is that I can not set the public property from the deferred custom action. The result is the same as with MsiDoAction or MsiSetMode - error 6 - Invalid handle. Am I missing something? Stefan Rob Hamflett wrote: > You could scheduled ForceReboot with a condition

Re: [WiX-users] ForceReboot

2007-06-11 Thread Stefan Pavlik
It is not working... I was testing immediate CA. sorry Stefan Pavlik wrote: > I have found that the > MsiSetMode(hInstall, MSIRUNMODE_REBOOTNOW, TRUE) can be called from > deferred custom action and it seems that this will solve the problem. > > Are there any 'issues' regarding the MSIRUNMODE_RE

Re: [WiX-users] ForceReboot

2007-06-11 Thread Rob Hamflett
You could scheduled ForceReboot with a condition that is false using a property. In the Custom Action you could change the property so that the condition became true if you needed a reboot. Rob Stefan Pavlik wrote: > Hi > > I am installing some drivers (intermediate filter driver). > During

Re: [WiX-users] ForceReboot

2007-06-11 Thread Stefan Pavlik
I have found that the MsiSetMode(hInstall, MSIRUNMODE_REBOOTNOW, TRUE) can be called from deferred custom action and it seems that this will solve the problem. Are there any 'issues' regarding the MSIRUNMODE_REBOOTNOW (except for reboot itself)? thanks again... Stefan Stefan Pavlik wrote: > Hi