Re: [WiX-users] aspnet_regiis domain user

Hi, tried this: util:Group Id='iis_wpg' Name='IIS_WPG' / Directory Id=TARGETDIR Name=SourceDir Directory Id=ProgramFilesFolder Name=PFiles Directory Id=INSTALLDIR Name=Test LongName=Computing Ltd Directory Id=INSTALLSUB Name=Test LongName=Test

Re: [WiX-users] Debugging C++ Custom Actions

And I found it to be unreliable sometimes (probably always user error), so I usually fall back to AssertSz(FALSE, debug CustomAcitonName here.). You'll see lots of these commented out in the WiX CustomAcoitns. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: [WiX-users] aspnet_regiis domain user

I've never seen the WiX toolset make up a domain name before. Is it possible you have another user somewhere using that domain? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of derekj Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 01:11 To:

Re: [WiX-users] ServiceConfig Has anybody got this to work??

I updated this information in the bug: From the log file you provided, it looks like ServiceConfig completed but the PermissionEx cannot find the user you are asking for: .\Administrator. If you want the local admin, you need to ask for it by its proper name: NT AUTHORITY\Administrator.

Re: [WiX-users] Wix Add Dialog to prompt for username and pwd

I am struggling to find a good example to follow to insert a dialog box to prompt for service account user name and password. Can anyone help? http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Sent: 11 September 2008

Re: [WiX-users] aspnet_regiis domain user

Hi, sorry school boy error was running installer as admin on machine and not admin machine who is a domain user - GAUSS is the domain controller. regards Derek Rob Mensching-2 wrote: I've never seen the WiX toolset make up a domain name before. Is it possible you have another user

Re: [WiX-users] WiX Command Line Operations

(didn't see anyone catch this one) Can you provide a bit more of a snippet around the area of the error? There are a great many things that could be wrong at this point in time... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of CavanMcCloud Sent:

Re: [WiX-users] Dropping the BOM

MSXML does all of the editing. Are you correctly setting the encoding in the ?xml? processing instruction? It looks like MSXML will get things wrong if you don't set that 'attribute'. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Lavelle

Re: [WiX-users] Setting a property in a custom action

It'll create it. Properties exist when they are set. They go away when they are set to . The Property element just provides a way to initialize some Properties to some specific value. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sean Farrow Sent:

Re: [WiX-users] Reading the registry entries - Facing an interesting problem

Windows Installer has very poor read-MULTI_SZ operations. You'll probably be stuck with a custom action... unfortunately. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mukesh Agrawal Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 08:53 To:

Re: [WiX-users] MSIEXEC installlevel feature

ADDLOCAL? See the MSI SDK. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dschmitz Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 06:29 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] MSIEXEC installlevel feature Hello, I'm just wondering if it is

Re: [WiX-users] ServiceConfig Permissions. How do I do it????

Yes, it has worked in the past. If you can provide a log snippet showing ServiceConfig failing then we could start narrowing down the issue. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of CHarker Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 12:54 To:

[WiX-users] wix localisation

Hi there I followed the tutorial and was trying to pass in different language settings. e.g. -cultures:nl-nl but it errors. Does it have to be -cultures:en-us for wix version 3.0.4318.0? c:\Program Files\Windows Installer XML v3\bin\candle.exe InstallProduct.wxs -ext WixComPlusExtension -ext

[WiX-users] Does Wix accept PNG or JPG other than BMPs as the banner?

Does Wix accept a PNG or JPG picture other than BMP as the banner? The VS installer accepts JPGs. I think PNG or JPG would make the final installer size smaller? If not available, Can I suggest this as a future feature? Thanks.

Re: [WiX-users] How to create only installer for 32 Bit and 64 bit OS

This will allow you to have one installer definition, but not a single installer. You will still need to build for 32-bit and 64-bit version of the MSI. To the OP... Why not just make a 32 bit installer, and not restrict it if you don't care which platform you're installing to. a 32 bit

Re: [WiX-users] wix localisation

Please ignore this as I found a language code in package and product which I can use. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Yu, Brian Sent: 12 September 2008 14:35 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users]

Re: [WiX-users] Wix Add Dialog to prompt for username and pwd

I wrote a bit about custom UIs here: http://neilsleightholm.blogspot.com/2008/08/customised-uis-for-wix.html. Neil Neil Sleightholm X2 Systems Limited [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Yu, Brian Sent: Fri

Re: [WiX-users] wix localisation

For some reason Dutch is broken all the other languages work, there is a bug outstanding on this: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=2076641group_id=105970atid=642714. Neil Neil Sleightholm X2 Systems Limited [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3 Shortcut Points to the Wrong File

Thanks, I did not realize that the wix.chm being installed with Wix 3 is different tha the one I separately downloaded from the homepage, actually about twice the size. I had thought the later would be the latest build. -Original Message- From: Pally Sandher [EMAIL PROTECTED] There's

Re: [WiX-users] ServiceConfig Has anybody got this to work??

Rob, I tried various accounts and I read PermissionsEx uses the LocalService, Guests, Users type syntax. If I use Administrators it installs the service, fails the config and leaves the service installed and me unable to uninstall it. Without ServiceConfig and PermissionEx it works fine.

Re: [WiX-users] ServiceConfig Has anybody got this to work??

Rob, I tried various accounts and I read PermissionsEx uses the LocalService, Guests, Users type syntax. If I use Administrators it installs the service, fails the config and leaves the service installed and me unable to uninstall it. Without ServiceConfig and PermissionEx it works fine.

Re: [WiX-users] Wix Add Dialog to prompt for username and pwd

Thanks Neil. I've got this error even when I added the bin directory to my PATH. Any clues? C:\candle /? Unhandled Exception: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or ass embly 'wix, Version=3.0.3907.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=ce35f76fcda82bad ' or one of its

Re: [WiX-users] How to create only installer for 32 Bit and 64 bit OS

If you have some 64-bit files going into System32, I think you need to mark the installer as 64-bit. Otherwise the files won't go to the right directory. I was able to accomplish this using a transform and a custom bootstrapper. I compile my MSI once for each CPU type (x86, x64), then create a

[WiX-users] supressin the cmd prompt while msbuild proj file calling through custom action.

Hi, I am using custom action to call msbuild project file, it is working fine but it is popinf up cmd prompt, i want to runn in supress mode. can anyone help me. sample CustomAction Id=SetPropertySampleEXE Property=SampleEXE

Re: [WiX-users] Help with GUI and Setting Properties

Please can anyone send sample on passing values to the msi properties thorugh UI. Thanks Regards, Chandrashekar vuppala M-9908298419 Oakton Global Technology Services Centre (India) Results Driven. When Business IT Matters From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf

Re: [WiX-users] Custom action call problem

thankx Palbinder. It Works. Thanks Regards, Chandrashekar vuppala M-9908298419 Oakton Global Technology Services Centre (India) Results Driven. When Business IT Matters From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Pally Sandher Sent: Tue 9/09/2008 5:15 PM To:

Re: [WiX-users] Creating ComponentGroup Id=ComponentGroup2 using Heat.

Hi, i am not a good programmer, can u pls let me know how can i do that i mean which language i can use to do that easily for me like:- java script, vbscript. I heard about XML DOM do you think that will be good option, basically which will be easy to learn and create this custom task i want my

Re: [WiX-users] Help with GUI and Setting Properties

I *think* all you would need to do is make your Property be uppercase so it is a Public Property instead of a Private Property. Or, to put another way, all uppercase increases the scope of your variables. Property=DATABASENAME And then update any other place that uses this same Property name to

[WiX-users] using torch.exe -ax to enable use of admin install msi target and update input parameter values

The blog http://blogs.msdn.com/pmarcu/archive/2008/05/30/Patching-something-you-didnt-build-with-WiX-using-WiX-.aspx outlines using torch.exe -ax switch to enable use of admin install msi target and update input parameter values. When I try and do that using the torch command syntax:

Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3 Shortcut Points to the Wrong File

Can you provide the two links (the good and the bad)? If we are pointing to old stuff by default, I'd like to kill that. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tan, Tom (Shanghai) Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 18:27 To:

Re: [WiX-users] Creating ComponentGroup Id=ComponentGroup2 using Heat.

You could write script to use the XML DOM to modify the wxs files. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of BOB1981 Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 10:32 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Creating ComponentGroup

Re: [WiX-users] what setting causes current wix build output to land in bin\$(Configuration)\en-us versus bin\$(Configuration) where it always used to land

Tried adding echo $(TargetDir)%(EmbeddedResourceWithCulture.Culture)\$(TargetName)$(TargetExt) to my post build event and it caused build errors. Where am I supposed to add Message Importance=high Text=$(TargetDir)%(EmbeddedResourceWithCulture.Culture)\$(TargetName)$(TargetExt) / in my

Re: [WiX-users] ServiceConfig Has anybody got this to work??

I understand the frustration. I do think you've found a bug in here *somewhere*. If you can provide log files of all these failure cases (even just snippets with 20 lines above and below the line that has value 3) then I think we can get this fixed pretty quickly. I'm actually solely focused

Re: [WiX-users] How to create only installer for 32 Bit and 64 bit OS

Hi Michael, Thanks for your response. Can you share some code base on that. Thanks Sandeep -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Ballou Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 9:57 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re:

[WiX-users] is it possible to have a program installation/uninstallation depend on another program?

Hello, I don't know if my idea even make sense, but I'm just wondering, is there any possible way in WiX or Windows Installer to make one installation of program dependent on another program, so if the depended program is uninstalled, the one depending on it would also get uninstalled?

Re: [WiX-users] is it possible to have a program installation/uninstallation depend on another program?

Yeah youll probably want to create a property and in there do a registrysearch for your dependent program, then throw a condition in your wxs file. On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Roger Yen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I don't know if my idea even make sense, but I'm just wondering, is

Re: [WiX-users] Install only on XP SP2 or better

If you want XPSP2 you need to add an and ServicePackLevel=2 to your launch condition of VersionNT=501 Phil Wilson -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vivek Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 2:23 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [WiX-users] Wix Add Dialog to prompt for username and pwd

I wrote: OK, looking at the Group element, it doesn't let you identify a group by its well-known SID [...] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rob Mensching [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yeah, the only thing that does friendly-name resolution of a bunch of Group s is the PermissionEx stuff. We

Re: [WiX-users] Wix Add Dialog to prompt for username and pwd

In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Yu, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am struggling to find a good example to follow to insert a dialog box to prompt for service account user name and password. Umm... haven't we come full circle now? The whole point of what I'm saying is that you should

Re: [WiX-users] Wix Add Dialog to prompt for username and pwd

It sounds like you don't have a complete installation of WiX, did you download the binaries zip and expand it? Neil Neil Sleightholm X2 Systems Limited [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Yu, Brian Sent: Fri

[WiX-users] FileSharePermission

How do I define share permissions using FileSharePermission for the Administrators group? thx! - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with