Re: [WiX-users] Problem writing registry values

It seems that MSI cannot write REG_DWORD type values to registry..Wht is the workaround for this? Anidil wrote: I'm using the following code to write an integer value to windows registry. Registry Id='PCPERegNotification' Root='HKLM' Key='Software\Wow6432Node\Product\Notification'

Re: [WiX-users] how to deliver additional assembly (GAC'd) files(notin the RTM product) via an MSP

Hello Bob, For installing assemblies into GAC we were adding Assembly Manifest tag in the .wxs which is authored by the tool but we were getting errors stating Assembly tag is not supported. We need help about how existing MSI's can be modified by the WIX 1.0? Below contains the

Re: [WiX-users] WixUI_Mondo

I am trying to use wix for installation of my product .When i try to use the UI wizard in my wxs file by using the following lines: UIRef Id=WixUI_Mondo / UIRef Id=WixUI_ErrorProgressText / I get the fillowing error while linking : unresolved reference to the symbol 'WixUI:

Re: [WiX-users] Problem writing registry values

It seems that MSI cannot write REG_DWORD type values to registry..Wht is the workaround for this? Anidil, The documentation for the registry table in MSI says: This column is the localizable registry value. The field is Formatted. If the value is attached to one of the following prefixes

Re: [WiX-users] Problem writing registry values

I have tried prefexing # for all the DWORD types but after running the MSI i see that the registry is getting updated as type REG_SZ Looks like I misled you - the RegistryValue element has a 'Type' attribute, which you can set to 'integer': RegistryValue Id=Registry1 Name=IntValue

Re: [WiX-users] Problem writing registry values

I have tried prefexing # for all the DWORD types but after running the MSI i see that the registry is getting updated as type REG_SZ John Hall-9 wrote: It seems that MSI cannot write REG_DWORD type values to registry..Wht is the workaround for this? Anidil, The documentation for the

[WiX-users] Problem with VS2005

Hello, After not using WIX a while, we made a new release, and now VS2005 is crashing when i want to create a new WIX project. Also opening an old wix project, does not open anything. I already removed and reinstalled votive, but this did not solve the problem. I recently installed also

Re: [WiX-users] Problem writing registry values

Oki..The ReistryKey and RegistryValue tags are used only with WiX 3.0 right? Yes. Under WiX 2.0, you seem to just use the Registry element, which also has a Type attribute: Registry Id=Registry1 Root=HKLM Key=Software\Product Value=42 Type=integer / Cheers, John

Re: [WiX-users] How to automated uninstall?

LEMIRE, JOHN wrote: The scenario is an automated deployment environment that attempts to run a scheduled upgrade of minor revisions of a product. Therefore the numbers of the currently installed and to be installed versions only differ in the revision position. The major/minor/build positions

[WiX-users] Problems when running installer silently from command line

What are possible issues with running an installer silently from the commandline: MSIEXEC /i MyInstaller.msi /Log LOGFILE.TXT /qn ADDLOCAL=AllMyVariables This works for almost the entire installer. However, it has a problems with an internal property that is set on a UI page (it doesn't get

[WiX-users] Transform validation

What value do I specify in the Validation attribute of the TargetImage element to have the product code, upgrade code, product version and most importly the product language to be validated? Thx!- This SF.net email is

Re: [WiX-users] Administrative install and File/Folder Sharing

From my understand of reading MSIExec's help file (and I might be totally wrong) the /a flag (for admin install) is for a network install. If that's the case with the CA not running, why would it then generate an error message? Is it possible to run the util:FileShare as a local admin instead

[WiX-users] About custom actions

I'm new to Wix and I'm using Wix 3. So far I've been able to figure out everything I need to do except one thing. I need to install a few exe's after the main program installs. Here's what I have. It doesn't run the exe's though. One thing I did notice however, after installing the program

Re: [WiX-users] Problems when running installer silently from commandline

If you run silently from the command line, the UI sequence is not processed at all, it goes straight to InstallExecuteSequence. Therefore, if you have any custom actions that will dictate what gets installed, you need to ensure that they are scheduled in InstallExecuteSequence, instead of or

Re: [WiX-users] Error code 2753?

This error usually refers to a custom action that's running an exe that's being installed with the product, but isn't installed for some reason (perhaps because the exe is already on the system and won't be replaced because of versioning rules). So it can't run the exe from your package because

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[WiX-users] Error code 2753?

Trying to get my installer to work. It works for the main files but there are some files I don't want to install unless I click Complete (as Opposed to typical, I'm using mondo). It copies the files correctly regardless but when I also want it to run the ones that it copies. I think the

[WiX-users] Adding a new element using XmlFile

Hi! I have this statement below that changes a configuration string in a xml file: XmlFile Id=CfgConfigureConnectionString File=[TARGETDIR]\Web.Config Action=setValue Name=value Value=Data Source=[SQLSERVERNAME];Initial

Re: [WiX-users] ProjectAggregator2-3.0.2925.msi fails to install with odd network error

That's not what I meant. When you said it was a `Visual Studio MSI` I didn't think you meant that it was from the Visual Studio Team, I thought you meant that it was a VDPROJ created MSI. In fact, I can see it's created using WiX 2.0. Which brings us back to the orginal question

[WiX-users] Building a setup.exe

I've been working on building an installer using Wix. Building an msi seems to work well and I have no major problem. But where I'm getting bogged down is in the things surrounding it, such as the setup.exe program. I have a couple of questions. 1. I've noticed the setupbld.exe utility and

Re: [WiX-users] ProjectAggregator2-3.0.2925.msi fails to install with odd network error

Christopher Painter wrote: IMHO, that's even more inexcusable. Why is it inexcusable to redistribute a redistributable package? -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still

Re: [WiX-users] getting data from ini or (failing that) the user

Alexei wrote: just wondering if it is possible to have an install read values and assign them to properties if there is the appropriate .ini file but if the file can not be found to go ahead and display the GUI (which will then be able to get the data from the user). There's no support

Re: [WiX-users] Unable to Pass Parameters via MsiInstallProductW(Path_TO_MSI, CMDLINE)

Public properties are described: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370912.aspx http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa371245.aspx A subtle correction of the definition is that a public property cannot contain lowercase letters. It may contain other special

Re: [WiX-users] Unable to Pass Parameters via MsiInstallProductW(Path_TO_MSI, CMDLINE)

How do I make a property Public? Or are there only certain public properties? Christopher Painter wrote: Only public properties can be passed via the command line. Also you probably want to set the TRANSFORMS property not the TRANSFORM property. Magus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have

Re: [WiX-users] Unable to Pass Parameters via MsiInstallProductW(Path_TO_MSI, CMDLINE)

Only public properties can be passed via the command line. Also you probably want to set the TRANSFORMS property not the TRANSFORM property. Magus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a bootstrapper that is suppose to set 2 properties via command line, however none of the properties that I set in

Re: [WiX-users] How to change TARGETDIR to e drive

You don't need it as a custom action. Just specify a property Property Id=TARGETDIRe:\/Property From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ravit Shapira Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 11:46 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to change

Re: [WiX-users] Problem writing registry values

Anidil, Does it help if you pass Value='1' instead of Value='#0x0001(1)'? Daryn. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anidil [...] Now that i don't get permission denied message after prefexing # for all the DWORD types as follows :

[WiX-users] getting data from ini or (failing that) the user

Hey all, just wondering if it is possible to have an install read values and assign them to properties if there is the appropriate .ini file but if the file can not be found to go ahead and display the GUI (which will then be able to get the data from the user). The thing I'd like is to have this

Re: [WiX-users] service not showing after ServiceInstall

davemave wrote: I did a verbose log install but do not know where to look for service installation failure in this log. The installer ends with succes. Do you have any tips on looking into the log to see if the service is installed or not? Just look for the IDs you use for

Re: [WiX-users] Checkbox drawn with different coloured background

John Hall wrote: I wanted to add a checkbox at the end of my installer and found the WIXUI_EXITDIALOGOPTIONALCHECKBOXTEXT property. However, when the checkbox is displayed it is drawn with the wrong background colour - see the attached screenshot. This is with Wix 3.0.3120.0. Is there a way

Re: [WiX-users] Unicode and troubles

Magus wrote: Is there any way to convert Unicode to said code page via code? I am lucky enough to be using an external UI. There is only 1 dialog (Disk Cost) that is displays internally. Is there a way to get the information that a Disk Cost dialog would display from the MSI? I don't

Re: [WiX-users] ProjectAggregator2-3.0.2925.msi fails to installwith odd network error

I don't know if it was actually the case, or if it was an email formatting thing, but it looked almost as if the original MSI name had spaces in it, and the one that works didn't. Could that possibly be the root cause of the problem? Regards, Richard

Re: [WiX-users] service not showing after ServiceInstall

I did a verbose log install but do not know where to look for service installation failure in this log. The installer ends with succes. Do you have any tips on looking into the log to see if the service is installed or not? Bob Arnson-6 wrote: davemave wrote: The msi installs succesfull,

Re: [WiX-users] Problem writing registry values

I'm using WIX 2.0 and i have mentioned the type attribute in the registry tag as given in my code.. But it doesn't seems to work as expected :( John Hall-9 wrote: Oki..The ReistryKey and RegistryValue tags are used only with WiX 3.0 right? Yes. Under WiX 2.0, you seem to just use the

[WiX-users] Reorganising features and major upgrades

I'm in the process of migrating my installer from InstallShield to WiX 3. As part of this I have reorganised and rationalised the features in the product. When I come to do a major upgrade from the old installation to my new one, all of the features in my product in the customize dialog are

[WiX-users] Problem writing registry values

I'm using the following code to write an integer value to windows registry. Registry Id='PCPERegNotification' Root='HKLM' Key='Software\Wow6432Node\Notification' Name='Notification Sounds Enabled' Action='write' Type='integer' Value='0x0001(1)' / It gives me a permission denied to

Re: [WiX-users] ProjectAggregator2-3.0.2925.msi fails to installwith odd network error

Mike Dimmick wrote: The MSI file probably shouldn't even be renamed -- aren't there issues with using a different filename for an upgrade MSI? Yes, only major upgrades support it. And on wix.sf.net/releases, we don't rename it. But on the SF releases page, we have to, hence the .zip we

Re: [WiX-users] Unable to Pass Parameters via MsiInstallProductW(Path_TO_MSI, CMDLINE)

Only public properties can be passed via the command line. Also you probably want to set the TRANSFORMS property not the TRANSFORM property. Magus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a bootstrapper that is suppose to set 2 properties via command line, however none of the properties that I set in

[WiX-users] Administrative install and File/Folder Sharing

I'm doing a remote admin installation using an internal MSI deployment tool. My problem is that when I go to set the folder permissions for a FileShare it's telling me I don't have permissions to do this. Is there an easy way to elevate the MSI installation so that it will attempt to setup the

[WiX-users] Unable to Pass Parameters via MsiInstallProductW(Path_TO_MSI, CMDLINE)

I have a bootstrapper that is suppose to set 2 properties via command line, however none of the properties that I set in the Cmdline are being set. Is there something I am doing wrong? CMDLINE = PropertyA=18 PropertyB=C:\Temp TRANSFORM=KOREAN.mst -- View this message in context:

Re: [WiX-users] ProjectAggregator2-3.0.2925.msi fails to installwith odd network error

We should be thanking the Wix team for providing this 'third-party' .msi from Microsoft instead of making us hunt it down on MSDN. Geesh. -Matt _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Painter Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 10:57 AM To: Bob

Re: [WiX-users] Installer fails while reading the function from DLL

Hi, I checked in the Project-Properties-Configuration Properties-C/C++-Code Generation - Runtime library is Multi-threaded(/MT) only. Is there anything else I should do in order to resolve this issue? The installer is working fine in windows xp and vista and the issue is only with windows server

[WiX-users] Preprocessor Directives

Where can I find the current list of preprocessor directives? I'm using the list from this article, http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa302186.aspx#wixsetup_topic6 But I'm getting compilation errors in VS when using the ProjectAggregator2-3.0.2925.0.msi. Thanks Example error: Error 1

Re: [WiX-users] WindowsVolume Directory

Quattro IV wrote: Hello, can anyone point me to a way to get a shortcut installed under the windows volume folder without getting the following warning? WindowsVolume points to the root directory where Windows is installed. Is that really what you wanted? -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/

Re: [WiX-users] Reorganising features and major upgrades

John Hall wrote: I'm in the process of migrating my installer from InstallShield to WiX 3. As part of this I have reorganised and rationalised the features in the product. When I come to do a major upgrade from the old installation to my new one, all of the features in my product in the

Re: [WiX-users] Msi inside msi ?

Collins, James wrote: Yes I would agree fragments offer much more and I will keep that in mind moving forward. For me however I need a migration path from Wise to WIX and that's going to be merge modules for now. Once I have convinced my team WIX is the way to go (and believe me I'm

Re: [WiX-users] ProjectAggregator2-3.0.2925.msi fails to install with odd network error

Scott Palmer wrote: If an upgrade isn't supported then what happened when I renamed the file and it just worked ? Because only a major upgrade supports renaming the MSI. It shouldn't be renamed on the SF releases page. As I recall, we shipped old versions in a .zip file because of this

Re: [WiX-users] ProjectAggregator2-3.0.2925.msi fails to install with odd network error

If an upgrade isn't supported then what happened when I renamed the file and it just worked ? I think that the msi files provided with WiX itself should be good examples to follow... but perhaps they aren't. Scott On 7/25/07, Quattro IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got that same error, you

[WiX-users] How to add sections properly to app.config

Hello, I am using Wix 2.0.5325.0 I have a app.config that I want to modify: configuration applicationSettings TestService.Properties.Settings setting name=Property serializeAs=String valueValue/value /setting setting name=MyProperty serializeAs=String

[WiX-users] Installer fails while reading the function from DLL

Hi, I created a Windows Installer DLL using Visual Studio C++. The installer is working fine in windows xp and vista. But when I run the installer which has custom action dll in windows 2003, it is not installing in windows server 2003. Is it known issue or does any body have idea this issue?

[WiX-users] how to change msi working for 32 bit os to work for 64 bit os

hi i m having msi of my product which is working on all 32 bit windows versions now iwant to create msi which will wirk for bith 32 and 64bit os or will work for 64 bit os. i have no idea what r the changes i m suppose to make in my msi. -- View this message in context:

[WiX-users] Parent Directory (2 levels up)

Hi All, My installer needs to read a value from the registry and set the install path based on that value. However, the installer should install 2 levels up the value that was read from the registry. For example, I read the registry and get the following: C:\Temp\First\Second And I want my

Re: [WiX-users] getting data from ini or (failing that) the user

You can't set the installUI level (as I've been told) via the MSI. If you have a UI, it will be called. You can condition the UI to pop up particular screens if an INI file is not available, but the base UI screen (welcomedlg) will still be brought up in both cases. -Original Message-

Re: [WiX-users] beginning with Wix - which version?

Alan Sinclair wrote: If I'm moving to WiX, which version should I use. How far off is stable v3 likely to be? A colleague said I would wait for a stable 3.0 before considering switching. It's vastly improved over version 2, and is not backwards compatible. The biggest risk with WiX v3 is

Re: [WiX-users] How to declare optional - but exclusive - components?

Crusty Applesniffer wrote: If user selects Service N°2 during installation, Service N°1 feature will be unselected. If user selects Service N°1 during installation, Service N°2 feature goes back to unselected There's nothing automatic, either in the UI or with feature conditions, that

Re: [WiX-users] Installer fails while reading the function from DLL

Naresh Krishna Kumar K wrote: I checked in the Project-Properties-Configuration Properties-C/C++-Code Generation - Runtime library is Multi-threaded(/MT) only. Is there anything else I should do in order to resolve this issue? The installer is working fine in windows xp and vista and the issue

[WiX-users] WixUI_Mondo

Hi All, I am trying to use wix for installation of my product .When i try to use the UI wizard in my wxs file by using the following lines: UIRef Id=WixUI_Mondo / UIRef Id=WixUI_ErrorProgressText / I get the fillowing error while linking : unresolved reference to the symbol 'WixUI:

Re: [WiX-users] WixUI_Mondo

You need to include the UI library file i.e. wixui.wixlib while linking your object file chandan Koushik wrote: Hi All, I am trying to use wix for installation of my product .When i try to use the UI wizard in my wxs file by using the following lines: UIRef Id=WixUI_Mondo / UIRef

Re: [WiX-users] service not showing after ServiceInstall

Can you manually register it? I mean something like YOUR_SERVICE.exe /REGSERVER or similar? Does it show then? For checking if at the end of the installation it was 'registered within the system', you might check you registry under HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services even though I'm not

Re: [WiX-users] Installer fails while reading the function from DLL

I created a Windows Installer DLL using Visual Studio C++. The installer is working fine in windows xp and vista. But when I run the installer which has custom action dll in windows 2003, it is not installing in windows server 2003. Is it known issue or does any body have idea this issue?

Re: [WiX-users] how to change msi working for 32 bit os to work for 64 bit os

i m having msi of my product which is working on all 32 bit windows versions now iwant to create msi which will wirk for bith 32 and 64bit os or will work for 64 bit os. i have no idea what r the changes i m suppose to make in my msi. You need to make a copy of your 32bit WiX source (you

Re: [WiX-users] how to deliver additional assembly (GAC'd) files(notin the RTM product) via an MSP

Gaurav Tiwari, HCL-Industry Solutions wrote: We need help about how existing MSI's can be modified by the WIX 1.0? Sorry, WiX v1 hasn't been supported for almost three years now. I've never used it personally as it wasn't publicly released. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/

Re: [WiX-users] Unable to Pass Parameters via MsiInstallProductW(Path_TO_MSI, CMDLINE)

Public properties in WiX are specified by the fact that the Property Id (the name) is all in Caps -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Magus Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 12:02 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users]