Have you tried configuring the Upgrade table to include the current version
number? I think in this
case you need to schedule RemoveExistingProducts before the new install.
Rob
Colin Bleckner wrote:
Hrm, something like that might worked. Just to make sure I understand
what's going on, it
Hi,
We want to ensure that a Windows Service is started correctly after a
successful installation by rebooting the machine since we've had occasional
problems starting it directly from the msi. After the reboot the installation
resumes with starting the installation procedures - such as
I'd vote for on by default. In our installers, the files that aren't vital
could still cause
problems overall if they weren't present. For example, the help docs aren't
vital because the
product doesn't need them to work, but it would be very annoying for the user
if they can't find
them
Hi Guys,
I am using Wix to write my MSIs.
I need to update a registry entry while uninstalling my application,
does anybody know how this could be done.
Thanks
Nixu
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Thanks Rob, that worked.
Eric
From: Rob Mensching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 9:53 PM
To: Eric Latendresse; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: Failed to drop sql database
What I usually do is build the fixed MSI then do a recache-reinstall
(msiexec
Ben Greene wrote:
This doesn’t seem to work though. When I run it either nothing happens,
or I get a dialog telling me about the command-line switches msiexec
accepts.
You can't run an msi from within an msi, so what you're attempting isn't
going to work.
You have two options:
Just allow it to be set on a higher level, like componentGroup
componentGroup ... unspecifiedVital=yes
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 4:28 AM, Rob Hamflett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd vote for on by default. In our installers, the files that aren't
vital could still cause
problems overall if they
I have a feature in my product which needs to be installed only if VS 2005 is
present.
I have done this by adding a condition element to Feature Element.
Feature Id='AdapterSDKTools' Title='$(loc.ToolsTitle)'
Description='$(loc.ToolsDescription)' AllowAdvertise='no' Level='1000'
Is there some reason that sequencing the custom actions appropriately doesn't
solve this problem? Run the install custom action deferred after the files are
installed, and at uninstall time before they are removed.
Phil Wilson
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Thanks - it was really solved when I added the Verb table (manually to the msi
file).
The problem is that it didn't add the table when I added the following line to
the wxs file:
ProgId Id=E2E extension Advertise=yes
Extension Id=E2E Advertise=yes
We use a similar approach of storing support files in a Binary table and
extracting them to %TEMP% during a custom action. However one thing we
ran into was that during the custom actions that wanted to use these
files, %TEMP% was not the same as where we extracted them to. This was
due to each
Why is it that SQLScripts don't use property replacement, but SQLStrings do?
It's a real hassle to break large DB deployment into dozens of smaller SQL
string elements, when the sql script action should be able to do everything
I need.
Am I missing some technical limitation that makes it
Thanks for the heads up Shawn.
I have just completed writing my C++ custom action although I am a .Net coder.
:)
I am using the Win API function GetTempPath() in my C++ CA to refer to the
%TEMP% directory and back in my WIX file, I am calling my support files as
[TempFolder]support.exe.
So
Heh, what's the scenario for that? It is rather unusual to write stuff to the
machine while uninstalling.
The Windows Installer doesn't provide native support for it, but I know someone
is writing a Custom Action to do this (to fix some TypeLib bugs) but I don't
know if/when that work will be
That sounds like a bug. If you had a Verb under an advertised Extension then
the Verb table should have been populated. If you have a small repro of this,
it would be fantastic if you could open a bug.
From: Michal Malka
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 09:58
To: Blair Murri; Bob Arnson
Cc: Rob
Yeah. smile/ WcaGetPropertyString, looks up the Property name passed in and
gets a value. You can't pass in Please, resolve this [Property] for me and
get back Please, resolve this PropertyValue for me. You'd have to process
the SQL Script looking for [Property] strings and update them.
To
I'm not sure if you'll still have the problem, but my guess is that you
will.
Our 'ExtractSupportFiles' C++ custom action calls GetTempPath() and
extracts all our support files to a subfolder. At this point (because
of terminal services) the installer is running under session 1, so the
path
Fair enough. I know that SQL uses the square brackets itself, and I had
just stripped those out since I don't use characters that require them in my
SQL object names. I had also toyed with the idea of using a different
bracket style for my properties.
How about if I got all the records in the
Note: if you extract code files out during the script generation phase then use
them during the execution phase and your deferred Custom Action is elevated,
you could be open to an elevation of rights attack. Namely, the attacker could
wait for your first custom action to lay down the DLLs to
Newbie - I have a similar need to use support DLLs and action during
install and uninstall.
Can somebody please explain or provide a link to a sample on how to use
custom action to extract binary files?
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You can't just look for Properties in the Property table because technically
they can be defined at any time. Only the Properties that have non-blank
default values are in the Property table.
However, the different bracketing style is a very interesting idea. It's lots
and lots of string
Yes, it does and it should default to the same as the parent (actually required
to be the same as parent).
From: Blair Murri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 11:40
To: Michal Malka; Blair Murri; Bob Arnson
Cc: Rob Mensching; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE:
Since my email is being screwy (bounce, bounce, bounce):
Be *very* *very* careful that the second custom action does not elevate or has
some way to verify that the supporting files were not tampered with.
(Another idea to my first idea of marshalling the binary data through
CustomActionData,
Does the verb element accept Advertise=yes? (yes, I know I could go look
it up, but I am assuming that with that attribute missing, it is going into
the Registry table instead of the Verb table and thus MSI can't find the row
it is looking for).
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[mailto:[EMAIL
Yeah, I had feared the properties would be like that. There doesn't seem to
be a get me all the current properties type of method. There probably is
a way, I'm just not that smart. ;-)
We maintain our database deployments and upgrades in a .sql file. It
generally starts life as the output from
PGP the files, then send the public key over CustomActionData. :-D Is
that *too* creative?
Chris
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Rob Mensching [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Note: if you extract code files out during the script generation phase
then use them during the execution phase and your
Hi Everyone,
I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of a working
example of how to define performance counters through the
WixUtilExtension?
Perhaps I'm missing something obvious, but the only docs I find are for
the schema (which is nice, but not much of a how-to) and a few
I am trying to upgrade an application with some upgrade code, so I am
uninstalling it. But I want to reinstall my current application into the
same folder, so I need to find out the directory of the previous app.
I got an Upgrade table with the correct upgrade ID and that tells me
that I have
I am using Wix Release 3.0.4102.0 and I want to grant Network Service access
to Application Event log. I am declaring this as:
Component Id=RegKeyPermissionComponent DiskId=1
Guid=A4FA2F01-DC4A-4CA7-995F-56947018EFCE KeyPath=yes
RegistryKey
Try out the Feature and Component State Values section at the bottom of
this page: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/aa368012.aspx
You will probably use the $ComponentId=3 for installation, and
$ComponentId=2 for removal. Note that you may get true for $ComponentId=3
during repairs if some
is it valid to reference a binary file id using a public property value?
e.g. if I have the following public property and binary files defined
Property Id=ENVIRONMENTID Value=Unk /
Binary Id=MyService.exe.dvt.config
SourceFile=$(var.SolutionDir)Configuration\MyService.exe.dvt.config /
Binary
Based on results the compiler doesn't like my attempt to use a Binary file id
reference comprised of a public property value
[#MyService.exe.[ENVIRONMENTID].config].
That being the case Is there some way of accomplishing this file name reference
that I'm overlooking?
From: Robert O'Brien
Greetings,
Does anyone have an example of building multi-language WiX installers
with MSBuild? I've looked at the single-language examples, but what
I'd like to do is have a .wixproj that builds an installer in 10+
languages.
My current process uses the WiX tools manually through batch
You'll want to use util:PermissionEx instead. Include
WixUtilExtension.dll with and use:
util:PermissionEx GenericAll=yes Read=yes Write=yes
User=NetworkService/
This will append the permissions rather than replacing them.
Remember to add
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