Re: [WiX-users] Tool to upgrade Wix2.0 source code to Wix3.0

Take a look at wixcop in the binary distribution. Neil -Original Message- From: Nakul Garg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 September 2008 00:40 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Tool to upgrade Wix2.0 source code to Wix3.0 Hello, I am looking for a tool that

Re: [WiX-users] Do i need to pass property values both at install time and Uninstalltime.

Component Id=SomeComponent Guid=PUT-GUID-HERE Win64=$(var.Win64) . . . RegistryKey Root=HKLM Key=$(var.SoftwareKey)\Microsoft\!(loc.ProductKey) RegistryValue Name=DATABASESHOST Type=string Value=[DATABASESHOST] / /RegistryKey . . . /Component -Original Message- From:

[WiX-users] MSI writing my password values to log file

hi, in one of my dilaog we are taking the password as input to a property from the user. we are assingnig some properties in vbscript custom action as follows Session.Property( OrganizationName .ADAdministratorPassword ) = Session.Property( CRMAdministratorPassword ) in the log file it is

Re: [WiX-users] MSI writing my password values to log file

Hi, try to define your property with a default value in your wxs file and make sure the Hidden attribute is set to yes, and then use your custom action to overwrite the default value for the property. Kind regards, Hans hi, in one of my dilaog we are taking the password as input to a

Re: [WiX-users] how does one get XmlFile to insert literal translations of lt; and gt; entity settings when setting values?

Switched to util:XmlConfig and inserted a document fragment which did the trick. I included an xml comment, as shown in excerpt below, in document fragment xml but util:XmlConfig stripped the xml comment. Is there a way to keep util:XmlConfig from stripping xml code comment sout of the

Re: [WiX-users] DTF Dependency Detection

Let me rephrase the question: is there a way to force MakeSfxCA to include some of the libraries that are in GAC? For example B.dll and C.dll are added to the CA project as references to their own projects vs references to .Net assemblies sitting in GAC. Could that force MakeSfxCA to include

Re: [WiX-users] misunderstanding of the CreateFolder directory attribute?

Message: 1 Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:39:12 +0200 From: bryan rasmussen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WiX-users] misunderstanding of the CreateFolder directory attribute? To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

Re: [WiX-users] misunderstanding of the CreateFolder directory attribute?

Bryan, I achieve this by using a separate fragment for each of my features, and use the DirectoryRef element to reference the main installation directory, which in this case I believe would be the RenditionServerQ directory. Kind regards, Hans Message: 1 Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:39:12 +0200

Re: [WiX-users] misunderstanding of the CreateFolder directory attribute?

Ok, I guess the way to do it is to have the directories with components that do nothing but create the folder, and then use those components in the features that I am installing. Cheers, Bryan Rasmussen On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:21 AM, bryan rasmussen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 1

[WiX-users] Removing files after execution

This is probably a stupid question, but I have a wix-based install that executes a flash installer if the current flash version is below a required version. Everything works fine, but I'd like to remove the installer after execution. Is this possible? I looked at RemoveFiles, but this doesn't

[WiX-users] How can i do Partial Un installation

Hi , I want to do partial uninstallation. There would be one some check boxes for selection to which I want to uninstall on Remove screen but I don't know is this possible? Regards -Sandeep - This SF.Net email is

Re: [WiX-users] How can i do Partial Un installation

I believe the default behavior of the UIRef Id=WixUI_Mondo / and UIRef Id=WixUI_FeatureTree / maintenance mode UI experience is that it provides users the option of only selecting specific features currently installed that they would like removed. -Original Message- From: Sandeep

[WiX-users] Property id spelling affects the setup process

Hi I've got a property that acts differently depending on the Id spelling! It looks like this: Property Id=DEFAULTSERVERPATH Value=localhost\SQLEXPRESS / The property gets set in Custom action before showing my custom dialog. And is bound to Edit field in UI Control Id=ServerPathEdit

Re: [WiX-users] Property id spelling affects the setup process

Only properties in uppercase get passed over to the server-side of the installation. Rob polan wrote: Hi I've got a property that acts differently depending on the Id spelling! It looks like this: Property Id=DEFAULTSERVERPATH Value=localhost\SQLEXPRESS / The property gets set in

Re: [WiX-users] Property id spelling affects the setup process

AAA Simple as that Thx for explaining Przemek Rob Hamflett wrote: Only properties in uppercase get passed over to the server-side of the installation. Rob polan wrote: Hi I've got a property that acts differently depending on the Id spelling! It looks like this: Property

Re: [WiX-users] Property id spelling affects the setup process

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Re: [WiX-users] how does one get XmlFile to insert literal translations of lt; and gt; entity settings when setting values?

We're using MSXML so you're seeing it's default behavior. Happy to take suggestions about how to make MSXML behave better. -Original Message- From: Robert O'Brien [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 01:16 To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML

[WiX-users] Installation question

Hi, I am one of the newcomers to Wix. I have a basic question. I have put Installed in Condition in the Wxs file. However, during setup it doesn't take the condition at all. I even tried setting it to NOT Installed and it doesnt work. Could anyone help me with this? Regards, Kamal

Re: [WiX-users] MSI writing my password values to log file

Property Id=.ADAdministratorPassword Hidden=yes/ -Original Message- From: sree [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 00:07 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] MSI writing my password values to log file hi, in one of my dilaog we are taking

[WiX-users] Registey Key Issue

Hi , I am creating one installer on 32 bit machine. In my Installer, There is one utility always which is looking at HKLM\Software\Microsoft\XXX. On 32 Bit machine it is working fine because Below mentioned code is crating the required key at same location(HKLM\Software\Microsoft\XXX)

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

Is this change not compatible with the List of Supported Project References? Before this change, I had a reference in my MSI WiX project to a merge module WiX project. I then referred to the built merge module via $(var.ProjectName.TargetPath). This worked just peachy, until this change

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

Yes, that looks like it won't work. Can you log a bug on this in SourceForge? Neil -Original Message- From: John Nannenga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 10:54 AM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] what

Re: [WiX-users] Registey Key Issue

Resending My Query.. Please help me out. -Original Message- From: Sandeep Gautam (HCL Technologies Ltd) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 10:36 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Registey Key Issue Hi , I am

Re: [WiX-users] Registey Key Issue

If you create a 32 bit installer, it will run in the 32 bit space, which can not access outside the Wow6432Node... If you need to write outside of that area, you'll need to create a seperate installer for a 64-bit version, and mark the component that contains your registry edits as a 64-bit

Re: [WiX-users] Registey Key Issue

Thanks Chris, If I will create explicitly 64 bit installer then would I able to write out side of wow6432node in registry. Regards Sandeep -Original Message- From: Christopher Karper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 12:20 PM To: General discussion for

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

Done... http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=2127057group_id=105970atid=642714 -Original Message- From: Neil Enns [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 1:02 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re:

Re: [WiX-users] Registey Key Issue

Yep, that's the idea. Chris On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Sandeep Gautam (HCL Technologies Ltd) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Chris, If I will create explicitly 64 bit installer then would I able to write out side of wow6432node in registry. Regards Sandeep -Original

[WiX-users] RegistryValue with curly braces

Hi, I'm creating a merge module in WiX (latest build), and I have a registry value which writes the string {----} to a value called About. When I compile the merge module, I can open Orca and see that the registry value has the correct value. However, when I

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

John, Do you have multiple localized versions of your merge module, and you're trying to reference the matching merge module for the culture of the main MSI that's being built? Neil -Original Message- From: John Nannenga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008

[WiX-users] Access denied messages during minor upgrades related to service process

I have a WiX MSI setup that installs a service process using ServiceInstall and ServiceControl thusly: ServiceInstall Id=ServiceId Name=ServiceName DisplayName=Display Name Description=Description ErrorControl=normal Start=auto Type=ownProcess Vital=yes Account=LocalSystem / ServiceControl

Re: [WiX-users] DTF Dependency Detection

Hi Jacek, Sorry it's not documented yet, but I did design in a way define additional arbitrary files to be added to the CA package. You just need to put the file list in a property called CustomActionContents, by adding lines like this to your project file: PropertyGroup

Re: [WiX-users] Registey Key Issue

Hi Chris, I am creating 64 bit installer. For this, I have added Platfrom attribte as x64 and in Component , added one attribute Win64='yes'. But it is giving error as mentioned below. An unexpected Win32 exception with error code 0x654 occurred: Please help. Regards Sandeep -Original

Re: [WiX-users] Certificate error

Hello All, I am experiencing the same issue, same symptoms. I manually deleted the bin and obj folders and did a rebuild, but the result was the same. Rob, when you say an old table definition that is getting in and being confused what does that mean? How does one test for that? I opened the

[WiX-users] FW: Calling a setup.exe from within a MSI

I have a toolkit that we want to distribute, it is a MSI. That toolkit has a dependency on another .exe setup package. I want to include the setup package in the toolkit wix. Any ideas how to do this? I have searched the net to no avail.. Thanks Jonathan

[WiX-users] Inset Into Property

Hi, What is the correct set of statements to insert a new row into the Property Table. Although the DTF docs are great the number of example are limited. Regards Simon Powell -- This e-mail is confidential and the information contained in it may be privileged. It should not be read,

[WiX-users] 64 bit Installer

Hi, I am creating 64 bit installer. For this, I have added Platform attribute as x64 and in Component , added one attribute Win64='yes'. But it is giving error as mentioned below. An unexpected Win32 exception with error code 0x654 occurred: Please help. Regards Sandeep

[WiX-users] Question about Guid attribute in Component

The documentation states the following for the Wix Guid attribute for the Component element: Guid ComponentGuidmk:@MSITStore:G:\src\working.server.spaces\public\ext\wix\3.0.4123.0\doc\WiX.chm::/html/wix_xsd_simple_type_componentguid.htm This value should be a guid that uniquely

Re: [WiX-users] Re -using Dialogs

In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dean Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm currently creating some custom actions using DTF that also have some custom UI stored in a .wixlib. Right now these have some well-known properties that are used. However, I have a situation where I have the same

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

In this particular case, no. I created a WXL to isolate the strings from the code so that if we need to translate it in the future, that work is at least taken care of. Coming up though (in another product's installation) I will have the case you mention (I'm starting with the simple then

Re: [WiX-users] Patching and sqlscript element

Victor V. Sergeev wrote: I'm trying to create a patch using Pyro (Version 3.0.4513.0). In that patch i need to execute addition sql on a SqlServer database When i'm using sqlstring element all OK. But, when I'll try to use sqlscript element my patch fail whith error in log: Action start

Re: [WiX-users] Problem Loading WiX Project in VisualStudio 2005

Norman Tiedemann wrote: When I open an existing WiX project, it does not display in Visual Studio 2005. I have tried this on 2 different machines and have the same result from each of them. See if

Re: [WiX-users] Question about Guid attribute in Component

Thomas Jeyaseelan wrote: In this scenario, can we safely set the GUID element's value to the empty string? Without GUIDs, the components can't be uninstalled. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ - This SF.Net

Re: [WiX-users] Re -using Dialogs

Dean Ward wrote: Is this possible? I suspect not because once a dialog is referenced it is effectively a singleton. Is there any way of doing this in a different fashion? I've done a fair bit of searching around this, but have come up with no results so far. Any help will be greatly

Re: [WiX-users] Installation question

Kamal Sharma wrote: I am one of the newcomers to Wix. I have a basic question. I have put Installed in Condition in the Wxs file. However, during setup it doesn't take the condition at all. I even tried setting it to NOT Installed and it doesnt work. You need to provide more details. What

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Actions from Merge Modules

Tina Basinger wrote: Maybe this is not supported any more. Should I be able to have the main installation code schedule a custom action that is defined within a merge module? Any thoughts? Merge modules are designed to be self-contained, which is why they have the modularization GUID

Re: [WiX-users] Edit text and button state.

Sergey Abakumoff wrote: However, this doesn't work - the button state is changed, but only if I leave the SerialEdit field. MSI UI doesn't update control conditions at every character update. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/

Re: [WiX-users] RegistryValue with curly braces

Andy Kwak wrote: However, when I merge the changes into my MSI, instead of {----}, the value written to the registry is the name of the feature where I have placed my merge module (Console). Is this a bug or do I need to escape the braces? I tried \{ but that

Re: [WiX-users] Removing files after execution

Michael Owings wrote: This is probably a stupid question, but I have a wix-based install that executes a flash installer if the current flash version is below a required version. Everything works fine, but I'd like to remove the installer after execution. Is this possible? I looked at

Re: [WiX-users] Light cultures option

Neil Sleightholm wrote: Following some earlier posts on this topic I believed that -cultures:nl-nl;en-us meant use the Dutch localization but if a string is missing use English. This seems to be true for my own localization strings but not for the WiX UI Extension (or any other extension).

Re: [WiX-users] handling v1.0 to v1.1 release start | programs | shortcuts menu folder changes

Robert O'Brien wrote: In my v1.0 release I had shortcut settings in multiple components using start | programs | My Service Deliverable menu folder.In my v1.1 release I changed the wix sources to use start | programs | My Service Deliverable v1.1. You're changing the name of a

Re: [WiX-users] Edit control and windows theme

Sergey Abakumoff wrote: Notice that the cancel button is 'themed', however the edit boxes are not themed. How can I achieve theme support in edit boxes? The sample of code I use for them: Control Id=EmailEdit Type=Edit X=15 Y=115 Width=220 Height=18 Property=USEREMAIL Text={80} /

Re: [WiX-users] Registey Key Issue

When is this error occurring, during build? link? when you run the MSI? Do you have any output or log files? Chris On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Sandeep Gautam (HCL Technologies Ltd) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Chris, I am creating 64 bit installer. For this, I have added Platfrom

Re: [WiX-users] Certificate error

Did you clear out all the .wixobj, .wixlibs, .wixpdbs, .msm, .msi files that were built with a previous version of the toolset? If so, and your still seeing a problem can you please share the snippet of the log file that has all of the error messages + 10 lines on either side (just in case)?

Re: [WiX-users] Registey Key Issue

I'm curious, is there really a two hour difference between these two queries? -Original Message- From: Sandeep Gautam (HCL Technologies Ltd) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 12:03 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re:

Re: [WiX-users] Registey Key Issue

During Build.. -Original Message- From: Christopher Karper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 9:29 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Registey Key Issue When is this error occurring, during build? link? when