Re: [WiX-users] really slow using pyro

2008-05-14 Thread Rob Mensching
0. I assume you've tried passing the "-v" switch for verbose? (I'm not sure there is much wired up to it). 1. What version of WiX v3 are you using? 2. What is the command line you're passing pyro? 3. Are all of your MSIs and files local (not on a network share)? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [

Re: [WiX-users] yep - back to being 100% frustrated

2008-05-14 Thread jmcfadyen
It seems to me reading this from a link via Christopher Painter that you guys are all missing a few vital points. It looks to me like most of you looking at this as Dev's which is where you are going wrong. I agree these items should be trivial to fix but there is a vast number of regions outsid

Re: [WiX-users] WiX preprocessor???

2008-05-14 Thread Rob Mensching
No, I think is required. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kelly Leahy Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 14:36 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] WiX preprocessor??? The page at: http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix2/preprocessor.htm Seems to in

Re: [WiX-users] Help with some ICE errors

2008-05-14 Thread Rob Mensching
LGHT0204 are just errors coming straight from the ICES (that are owned by the Windows Installer team). I'm not sure what changed exactly but 10 months is a long time in the lifetime of WiX v3 so *a lot* probably changed. Anyway, to fix the problem, mark the RegistryKey as KeyPath="yes" (you m

Re: [WiX-users] IIS 7.0 and Wix 3.0.4019 - PLS help!

2008-05-14 Thread Rob Mensching
You can cause the ConfigureIIS custom action to be skipped by setting the "SKIPCONFIGUREIIS" Property to something. IIS7 is a huge problem for us right now and we're trying to push the very high bug count down right now before tackling more feature work. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [WiX-users] How to associate certificate with IIS website without adding certificate to store?

2008-05-14 Thread Rob Mensching
Unfortunately, I don't think the current Certificate code is going to support that. The code could be updated to handle the scenario though. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert O'Brien Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 18:51 To: 'wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net' Sub

Re: [WiX-users] User changes to public properties lost during repair

2008-05-14 Thread Christopher Karper
Glad I could help. :-) Chris On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 2:00 AM, Thomas Mulgrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Chris, that seems to have solved it. > > I put a condition and > added Transitive="yes" to the component tag. > > > > (Thought I'd let people know as it took a while for me to figur

Re: [WiX-users] User changes to public properties lost during repair

2008-05-14 Thread Thomas Mulgrew
Thanks Chris, that seems to have solved it. I put a condition and added Transitive="yes" to the component tag. (Thought I'd let people know as it took a while for me to figure out. In particular that the "Transitive" attribute is required otherwise it won't re-evaluate the condition...) F

Re: [WiX-users] Did WiX V3 projects break compatibility with earlier builds?

2008-05-14 Thread Don Caton
Scott: MPF stands for 'Managed Package Framework', an incomplete and buggy framework for building project systems that integrate into Visual Studio. It's part of the Visual Studio SDK. Consider yourself lucky that you don't have to deal with it. Don From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMA

[WiX-users] really slow using pyro

2008-05-14 Thread Kelly Leahy
When using pyro to build our msp's, it takes a very long time to build (approximately 5 times as long as building our original installer). While this still isn't that long, it's very frustrating when we're trying to build and test our installs! Am I missing something easy that will make the bu

Re: [WiX-users] How to associate certificate with IIS website without adding certificate to store?

2008-05-14 Thread Robert O'Brien
Did this work and if so does there exist a sample of what it means to create a permanent component Certificate entry that refers to an ssl certificate already known to be present on hosts you are deploying to? In other words I just want my iis site settings to bind to port 443 and use an known

Re: [WiX-users] Did WiX V3 projects break compatibility with earlier builds?

2008-05-14 Thread Scott Palmer
It seems the real bug then is that there are two code paths... VB/C/C+ + should be implemented via the MPF stuff as well... then this never would have happened. I say this still not knowing what MPF stands for or anything about it though. Scott On 14-May-08, at 10:45 AM, Justin Rockwood wr

[WiX-users] WiX preprocessor???

2008-05-14 Thread Kelly Leahy
The page at: http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix2/preprocessor.htm Seems to indicate that will evaluate to to true if xxx is defined or if yyy is defined, but that it will evaluate to false if both are undefined. However, when I try to use this with undefined vars, I get an error (CNDL0150

Re: [WiX-users] IIS 7.0 and Wix 3.0.4019 - PLS help!

2008-05-14 Thread Amy Rosewater
Hi Robert, Thanks for the reply. My issue isn't so much if I can get ConfigureIIS custom action to work with IIS 7, but more that it doesn't cause the error during the install, whether I use it or not. The issue is I have to support both Windows Server 2003, and Windows Server 2008 with my in

[WiX-users] Help with some ICE errors

2008-05-14 Thread Fairweather, James
I've got a project that is building fine with WiX 3.0.2925.0. I want to update it to 3.0.3907 and but have hit some errors that I could use some help to work around: Error 1 WiX source: CREATEDESKTOPSHORTCUTS = 1 Output from Light: ApplicationFiles-neutral.wxs(297) : error LGHT0204 :

Re: [WiX-users] IIS 7.0 and Wix 3.0.4019 - PLS help!

2008-05-14 Thread Robert.Priest
Hello Amy, There is no native support in WIX for IIS7. So, unless you have the module that allows the old api to work (I can't remember what it is called right now), The Configure IIS stuff won't work. What was recommended to me (and what I have done) was to use XmlConfig to modify the

[WiX-users] IIS 7.0 and Wix 3.0.4019 - PLS help!

2008-05-14 Thread Amy Rosewater
This is my second desperate posting for help. Anyone with any ideas feel free to send them my way. I have an install that sets up Web Application in either a virtual directory under the Default Web Site, or as a separate website. In order to find the default website, I use the following wix:

[WiX-users] Install a mysql 5 database

2008-05-14 Thread Norbert Haedler
hello, i had some problems to install an mysql database with a wix 2.0 installer. i had installed mysql 5.0 server on an win xp system and tried it like this: http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson7.php the installer does the necessary steppes without an error but afterwards there is no databas

Re: [WiX-users] VirtualDir within drectory of WebSite

2008-05-14 Thread Alistair Bush
Rob Better late than never, but just wanted to say thanks. Worked like a charm : ) Alistair From: Rob Mensching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 13 May 2008 5:51 p.m. To: Alistair Bush; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: VirtualDir within drectory of WebSite Just put the mult

Re: [WiX-users] Need Urgent help: modify dialogs in wix-3

2008-05-14 Thread Schrieken, Rene
Or use this property SHORTFILENAMES and set it to true (never tried it though) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa371851(VS.85).aspx Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] namens Simon Dahlbacka Verzonden: wo 14-5-2008 11:17 Aan: WiX Users Onderwerp: [WiX-users]

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Re: [WiX-users] yep - back to being 100% frustrated

2008-05-14 Thread Markus Kuehni
Hi I just wanted to add that some of us had working installers before. In our case this goes back to a fossil InstallShield v3 script based solution. The only reason we're really forced to replace it, is because it contains 16bit bootstrapper code, can you belive it ;-) All the real deployment

[WiX-users] Permanent registry keys

2008-05-14 Thread Kiran Subhedar (Sogeti)
Hi, I have a registry key which should be permanent and should be kept after uninstall. Inside this key, there will be one or more sub-keys which should be removed after uninstall. In order to accomplish this I have created two components, one for the root and the other for the subkeys. Now even

[WiX-users] Lindsay Lohan is in the news again

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Re: [WiX-users] yep - back to being 100% frustrated

2008-05-14 Thread Christopher Painter
Very good points and I agree with you. Unfortunatly in my experience it's almost always too late to do the upstream influencing and fixing. I've been writing setup since 1996. In those 12 years I've held around a dozen positions with various companies and completed dozens of additional proje

Re: [WiX-users] Build Automation with NAnt

2008-05-14 Thread Dale Quigg
> Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 09:08:01 -0500 > From: "Eric Latendresse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [WiX-users] Build Automation with NAnt > > Does anyone have any documentation on this? I use ANT, but the concepts are probably the same. My task just calls candle.exe and light.exe with exec. Look

Re: [WiX-users] yep - back to being 100% frustrated

2008-05-14 Thread Josh Rowe
Actually, I'm not saying that at all. I'm just suggesting that these problems should be solved up front because they are difficult to solve. I'm also saying that by trying to solve deployment problems up front you may be able to successfully influence the architecture of an application to not

Re: [WiX-users] Did WiX V3 projects break compatibility with earlier builds?

2008-05-14 Thread Justin Rockwood
No, other projects that are not based on the MPF (which includes VB/C#/C++) do not lock because they do not have that bug. However, projects that are based on the MPF (IronPython, if I remember correctly) do exhibit the same bug that WiX has. This bug, in my mind, is one of the most annoying one

Re: [WiX-users] yep - back to being 100% frustrated

2008-05-14 Thread Scott Palmer
We all knew this thread was going nowhere from the first post of course... My only point was that (in my experience) the original posters frustration is shared by the vast majority of developers trying to do installers on Windows. (i.e. everyone I know that has ever seen or worked on a WiX project

Re: [WiX-users] Did WiX V3 projects break compatibility with earlier builds?

2008-05-14 Thread Scott Palmer
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Justin Rockwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I hate the locking as well. Unfortunately, this is a bug in the MPF (the > Visual Studio SDK) that they have not fixed yet. We will have to just fix it > on our own instead of waiting for a fix from them. Note that it's

[WiX-users] Build Automation with NAnt

2008-05-14 Thread Eric Latendresse
Does anyone have any documentation on this? Eric - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/___

Re: [WiX-users] yep - back to being 100% frustrated

2008-05-14 Thread Christopher Painter
I think they are. Everytime you hear things like `solve the applicartion problem`, `custom actions are an admission of failure`, `we won't implement that feature`, `There are few setup experiences more stable than an application that simply needs a bunch of files installed`, I believe that v

[WiX-users] questions about 64 bit installs

2008-05-14 Thread Scott Sam
1.Is it possible to have one installer, that recognizes whether the OS is 64 bit or not. Then installs either the 64 bit or the 32 bit version of our software accordingly? Or do we have to have two separate installers, one to install the 32 bit version, and another for the 64 bit version?

Re: [WiX-users] yep - back to being 100% frustrated

2008-05-14 Thread Neil Sleightholm
>>In any reasonably professional shop you can't just say "hey, MSI doesn't >>support doing that, we just can't have that in our application!". I don't think anyone was suggesting that but if you new it would need a custom action, for example, you could either not do it that way or schedule in w

[WiX-users] Need Urgent help: modify dialogs in wix-3

2008-05-14 Thread Simon Dahlbacka
> > A popup dialog. The dialog will show up when the user clicks next, if the > > Selected install path contains space. (user may install in the path > > C:\installPath\" but cannot install in the "C:\install Path\") > > IMO, don't 'fix' the installer but fix the software instead to cope with space

Re: [WiX-users] yep - back to being 100% frustrated

2008-05-14 Thread Markus Kuehni
Hi all > If you reverse it, and do the install up front [...] I agree that things like KnownFolders and related security implications should be considered early in the development process. But this should be a high-level architectural topic, well above the trenches of writing an actual installe

Re: [WiX-users] yep - back to being 100% frustrated

2008-05-14 Thread Markus Kuehni
Hi all > If you reverse it, and do the install up front [...] I agree that things like KnownFolders and related security implications should be considered early in the development process. But this should be a high-level architectural topic, well above the trenches of writing an actual install

Re: [WiX-users] references of WIX 3

2008-05-14 Thread Holmgren Mathias
http://www.wixwiki.com/index.php?title=Main_Page also recommend the latest source at http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Evan Kim Sent: den 13 maj 2008 20:22 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net

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[WiX-users] Need Urgent help: modify dialogs in wix-3

2008-05-14 Thread Riyaz Mogharabin
Dear All, I have posted some emails to the mailing list, and hasn't received any Answer. Is it possible for you to take some minutes to it? It's an urgent Problem. The problem is: I need to modify the "InstallDirDlg" in the wixui dialog set in order to add A popup dialog. The dialog wil