The ServiceControl element may help. There's no option to restart a service,
only to stop or start
on install/uninstall/both. I'm pretty sure that the StopServices action occurs
before the
StartServices action, so you could create 2 components, one to stop the service
on install, and
Jarrod Marshall wrote:
Hello all,
Does anyone have an example of using the updated MSMQ extensions in Votive
v3? Right now, the trouble I'm having is that the schema seems invisible.
Do I need to copy over some more schema files to the WiX MSI install path?
Hi,
yes, there are some
Try adding [EMAIL PROTECTED]yes. This should get rid of the directory
structure and hopefully put the files into the cab.
Jarle Aase wrote:
Hi List,
I'm trying to split the files in an installation to one or more .cab
files. If I have understood the schema correct, this is done by
Hi,
I created a PROPERTY element to get the version of GPMC . The code given
below;
Property Id=GPMCCHECK
RegistrySearch Id=GPMC
Root=HKLM
Key=SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MMC\SnapIns\{E12BBB5D-D59D-4E61-947A-301D25AE8C23}
I've got another stupid question :
Now my Project builds but when I want to create a UI an include the
following:
UIRef Id=WixUI_Mondo /
(Just like in the Tutorial)
And add the reference to WixUiExtension to the VS Project I receive
about 260 Errors:
1 for example:
Hello All,
Can anybody suggest me what I am doing wrong in this code. I am getting ICE38
error. Same type code is working with WiX2.0. Now I am using WIX3.0.
Error101ICE38: Component C__875A5144D7DD4BEF9ABAF8AE0CEEF34D installs
to user profile. It must use a registry key under HKCU as
Stacktrace of my Problem:
(Sorry ist in German)
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0msbuild C:\Users\fm\Desktop\test\Wi
xProject3\WixProject3\WixProject3.wixproj
Microsoft (R)-Buildmodul, Version 2.0.50727.312
[Microsoft .NET Framework, Version 2.0.50727.312]
Copyright (C)
Hi everybody,
I have some problems while updating a product through Wix v3
I've written the following code :
Component Id=APM_ENGINE_CONFIG_REF
Guid=4C6B380E-4DFE-458C-A29F-8A0C434E7F70
ConditionNOT Installed/Condition
File Id=ampm_engine.ref Name=ampm_engine.ref KeyPath=yes
I have checked the verbose log file (using 'l*v' on the command line) and I
don't see anything helpful. Early on, the restart manager session starts
then nothing till the InstallValidate action where the log simply reports:
[19:36:09:822]: RESTART MANAGER: The user chose to go on with the
I got this to work by copying the xsd into the correct visual studio folder. I
just did a search for wix.xsd and found it.
Now, my question at this point is - how do people handle queues? Apparently
there are problems with detecting existing queues which cause an install to
fail if a queue
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Thanks!
Did you have any trouble uninstalling or installing when a queue exists?
Jarrod
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Dominik Guder
Sent: Fri 9/7/2007 4:25 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WiX v3 MSMQ and Votive
Hello,
I need some help, I'm new to wix and trying around a little bit with it.
First I was using Votive v2 under VS 2005 and Vista, it worked fine, but
I couldn't access any User Interfaces.
So I uninstalled v2 and installed the latest v3 release and also the VS
add on.
When I try to
All,
I need to change a configuration parameter on a existing service as part of
a product install.
I can easily change the registry value concerned but I have been unable to
restart the service after the change has been made.
Any ideas as to how to do this in WIX? (have tried using the 'net'
I am using WiX 3.0.2925 to create an installer, and I am having a very hard
time getting file associations to work correctly. My case may be a little
strange, and I am not sure if Windows Installer even supports it. Basically,
I have an application that can be launched in two different contexts:
Hi,
I am developing .msi package using Wix2.0. What I will have to add im my XML
(.wxs) file to auto launch application after installation.
Thanks!!
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Had a look at the files and I've finally got my head round this.
As i understand it WiX v2 .wixproj files, which are used for VS
integration, aren't MSBuild files. You have to create your own .wproj files
for that. Which means that WiX v2 isn't compatible withTeam Build (as it
tries to build the
Hi,
For the new version of our product I am using WiX to replace the
previous installer. The new version is installable alongside the old
one. The product includes a driver that with WiX I am installing with
DIFx.
I have found if I install the new version of the software and then
uninstall it,
Thanks for the reply it helped me alot :) Yes I know I should not copy the
driver directly to the drivers folder. However I have been issued a driver
which the program must load (and unload) on demand, not the nicest solution
but I have not been given much choice :(.
Also I got a direct mail
Hi List,
I'm trying to split the files in an installation to one or more .cab
files. If I have understood the schema correct, this is done by adding a
media node with [EMAIL PROTECTED]no, and then by having the component
or file nodes referencing it's Id attribute with their DiskId attribute.
- Project -Properties - Linker - en-US in the field the locale. I don't
remember the name off of the top of my head.
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Sent: Fri 9/7/2007 6:27 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users]
The component must have the msidbComponentAttributesTransitive bit set
(don't know the WiX syntax for this). This should remove the component
during (auto-)repair, modify and small and minor updates - probably not what
you want. BTW in case of Major Upgrade, Installed is FALSE.
I don't fully
Did you create a log file to see what value GPMCCHECK really has after
AppSearch?
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Hello,
I am using the ui elements:
UIRef Id='WixUI_InstallDir' /
UIRef Id='WixUI_ErrorProgressText' /
The standard dialogs.
In this scenario, you get the ExitDialog (with the finish button) after
the progress dialog.
But what I want is:
If a property is passed in
Hi,
Yes I compared the value present in the log file. say '1.0.2' was the value
in the log file for this property.
Thanks,
Naresh Krishna Kumar. K
Stefan Krueger [MVP] wrote:
Did you create a log file to see what value GPMCCHECK really has after
AppSearch?
--
Stefan Krueger
Hi,
I like to have a look at the tutorial for wix2.0 but that seems to be down.
When will it be avaiable again?
thx,
Michael
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What is the best way to register this Com server
Tallow or Heat only seem to work with DLL files that support DLLRegisterServer
Do we make a custom action that launches the EXE with the -regserver and a
corresponding -unregister for the install, uninstall and rollback?
What have other people
This is why I've been asking Justin about using votive v3 to build wix v2
projects. It's a hybrid solution but it seems to work.The risk is minimal
since the points that could fail are at build time, not install time.
PS- IS is pretty easy to build with TFS once you learn how it
Otherwise just disable validation.
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Das, HCL-Industry Solutions
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 12:16 PM
To: Frank Mayer-Potschak; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users]
I guess you mean the one on SourceForge. I think thats permanently dead.
What you wanna look at is http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/ The WiX Tutorial
Hope that helps.
michael lueck-3 wrote:
Hi,
I like to have a look at the tutorial for wix2.0 but that seems to be
down.
When will it be
When a website is installed through Wix, is there a way to get the metabase
ID/location string if I need to write additional properties to the metabase for
the installed website through a custom action at the end of the install?
For example, let's say my new website is the 2nd website on the
Hi
I'm writing an SDK installer for installing the
libraries/code-samples of the SDK. During uninstall, I
would like to leave behind any code-sample files that
have been modified by the user. Is there a way in WiX
for me to achieve this (without using Custom Actions)?
Thanks.
I noticed that file sequencing was changed for few files in one of the merge
modules used. I fixed it so that both the merge modules file sequencing is now
exactly the same. But after integrating the merge module into MSI the
sequencing seems to have changed. Why is this happening and how do I
I suspect a single component would work (or just the existing component
that requires the service to stop and start) with ServiceControl because
the usual sequence during an install is StopServices
WriteRegistryValues... StartServices. You'd have a ServiceControl for
Sql Express that does both
Hi,
I have custom actions that calls InstallUtil.exe. Things works just fine now
except I have left-over .InstallState file in my installation folder.
It turns out this is because the custom action that calls InstallUtil.exe
during installation before it GACs the assembly while it calls
First a disclaimer, I haven't actually done this!
VS Solutions are nothing but groups of projects, you can have one solution
which has the projects you want to build and another solution that includes the
Votive projects that you use with Visual Studio.
It's not that hard to create an MSBuild
Jarrod Marshall wrote:
Thanks!
Did you have any trouble uninstalling or installing when a queue exists?
Hi,
I'm sorry but I didn't moved to this point. This was my first test since I
couldn't fine a working example like you. For now the msmq install is
suspended.
Regards Dominik
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Hi there
My custom action is a managed exe and I am attempting to do one of the two
choices below:
1) Show the exception messages from the custom action or be able to return
some error codes which I can log
2) Change the message that pops up when the custom action fails. The
default
Answering myself.
This is discussed here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934388
Since creating managed performance counter without using managed installer
class will be very hard if that's ever possible, natural choice would be
creating separate assembly which won't be GACed.
Thanks,
Sunghwa
My disk cost dialog is showing all drives, not just writable drives and there
a way to get it to only show writable drives?
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Hi,
Is there any document on how wix creates the MSI generally and File table in
particular. I am interested in understanding how the files are ordered in the
File table by the Wix.
I want to troubleshoot this issue I am facing (seems like it is similar to
It's relatively easy to install perf counters, but very poorly
documented. The best I can find right now on the method is this:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa371878.aspx
where it discusses using lodctr, unlodctr and the ini and h files.
This is the way counters have been
I assume it's from the window text. Based on that assumption, try setting the
Text property on your winforms app and see if it is shown correctly in restart
manager. Do you have a hidden window that it may be picking up instead?
Thanks,
James
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