[WiX-users] Weekly Releases are back.

2008-10-09 Thread Rob Mensching
Weekly releases are back at http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases. The issue was that SourceForge changed access to the shell server in their move from CA to Chicago. This was documented, I just missed the memo (mm'kay). Anyway, build scripts are updated and I manually pushed last week's build.

Re: [WiX-users] Creating Integrated mode app pool in IIS7

2008-10-09 Thread Amy Rosewater
Paramesh, Your best option is to forego the Wix IIS extension with IIS7 and use the XmlConfig to modify the applicationHost.config file "manually". I did this and it works great. I basically made a copy of the original applicationHost.config, then added the app pool through Server Manager and di

[WiX-users] File Browse Dialog Box

2008-10-09 Thread Sandeep Gautam (HCL Technologies Ltd)
Hi , Can we create a file browse dialog box. On button click , Dialog will invoke and will select a particular file from any directory. Please help. Regards Sandeep - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move

Re: [WiX-users] Creating Integrated mode app pool in IIS7

2008-10-09 Thread Rob Mensching
Probably not, there isn't any special IIS7 support in the IIS CustomActions yet. -Original Message- From: Paramesh S [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 14:31 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Creating Integrated mode app pool in IIS7 Hi, Doe

Re: [WiX-users] Interesting behavior with Properties inside (wix 3.0.4325.0)

2008-10-09 Thread Rob Mensching
I sent an email a couple days ago explaining the path the compiler and linker follow to select the appropriate sections. Basically, the linker starts at the Product and follows references to symbols in other Fragments. If you don't create a reference to anything in another Fragment nothing in

Re: [WiX-users] Interesting behavior with Properties inside (wix 3.0.4325.0)

2008-10-09 Thread Dmitry Berkovich
Its smell like bug. Because If I am declaring fragment that contains only properties - all properties will be missing in Property table. But if under same fragment, in addition to properties I will declare some feature or component all properties will be added to Property table. I am speaking abou

Re: [WiX-users] Help with SqlDatabase element...

2008-10-09 Thread Vidya Kukke
Sorry for not being clear. What I meant was the value I provide for my public property [SQLSERVER] i.e, If the value of [SQLSERVER] is set to 'myservername' then the Wix throws an error during DB creation. However if [SQLSERVER] is set to 'MYSERVERNAME' the DB is created successfully. Where mys

Re: [WiX-users] Q about Feature costing..

2008-10-09 Thread Vidya Kukke
I did'nt get response to this. So I am still stuck at this problem too :(. Anyone have any ideas? -Original Message- From: BOB1981 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 12:44 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Q about Feature costing..

[WiX-users] Creating Integrated mode app pool in IIS7

2008-10-09 Thread Paramesh S
Hi, Does Wix support creating integrated mode app pool in IIS7? The app pools created using the below code are being set to classic mode. Thanks, Paramesh _ See how Windows connects the people, information, and fun that are part

Re: [WiX-users] Help with SqlDatabase element...

2008-10-09 Thread Ian Elliott (Excell Data Corporation)
If you specify the property name with lower case letters then it is no longer a public property and can't be passed in via command line. I assume you are passing these values in so that might explain what is going on. There is some good info here on properties: http://bonemanblog.blogspot.com/20

Re: [WiX-users] Certificate install to local machine fails with code 26352

2008-10-09 Thread Rob Mensching
This is the code that is failing: if (!::CertAddCertificateContextToStore(hStore, pCertContext, CERT_STORE_ADD_REPLACE_EXISTING, NULL)) { MessageExitOnLastError(hr, msierrCERTFailedAdd, "Failed to add certificate to the store."); } Seems like it *should* replace the certific

[WiX-users] Help with SqlDatabase element...

2008-10-09 Thread Vidya Kukke
Hi, I am using Wix 3.0.4318.0 for creating a Database. The code snippet is as follows:- I noticed that when I specify the sqlserver name in lowercase I get an error during DB Creation. The message is "Unspecified error" thrown by Wix. Providing the same server name in Uppercase works without

Re: [WiX-users] Interesting behavior with Properties inside (wix 3.0.4325.0)

2008-10-09 Thread Rob Mensching
PropertyRef at least one of them. -Original Message- From: Dmitry Berkovich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 13:40 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Interesting behavior with Properties inside (wix 3.0.4325.0) Hi

Re: [WiX-users] Interesting behavior with Properties inside (wix 3.0.4325.0)

2008-10-09 Thread Dmitry Berkovich
Hi, In my design, I want declare separate wxs file (fragment) that will contain only properties. What you suggest me to do? Dima On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 9:35 PM, Rob Mensching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you reference anything in the Fragment to cause it to get included in > your Product?

Re: [WiX-users] Certificate install to local machine fails with code 26352

2008-10-09 Thread Chris Bardon
I managed to get a log for the failure-here's the relevant section: MSI (s) (E0:BC) [15:46:35:871]: Executing op: ActionStart(Name=RollbackAddMachineCertificate,,) Action 15:46:35: RollbackAddMachineCertificate. MSI (s) (E0:BC) [15:46:35:874]: Executing op: CustomActionSchedule(Action=RollbackAdd

Re: [WiX-users] Interesting behavior with Properties inside (wix 3.0.4325.0)

2008-10-09 Thread Rob Mensching
Did you reference anything in the Fragment to cause it to get included in your Product? It doesn't appear so. -Original Message- From: Dmitry Berkovich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 12:01 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX

[WiX-users] Interesting behavior with Properties inside (wix 3.0.4325.0)

2008-10-09 Thread Dmitry Berkovich
Hi, I have found some interesting behavior : When I have that contains only properties declaration, them are not added to Properties table. Example of code: http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi";>

Re: [WiX-users] How Update / Upgrade strategy (small, minor, major) affect file overriding?

2008-10-09 Thread Ian Elliott (Excell Data Corporation)
There is one side effect that I can think of (and have experienced) during daily development. Say your build version number changes once per day. Everything will work fine if you only attempt to install today's version over yesterday's version. Now, if you are developing and build multiple priv

Re: [WiX-users] How Update / Upgrade strategy (small, minor, major) affect file overriding?

2008-10-09 Thread Ian Elliott (Excell Data Corporation)
Make sure your console.exe program has a higher version number than its predecessor. If that doesn't work, can you place your two msi's somewhere where they can be accessed? -Original Message- From: polan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 8:34 AM To: wix-users@l

[WiX-users] When is the target machine's environment updated?

2008-10-09 Thread Tanikella, Rajanikanth (SCR US)
Hello All, I've a number of custom actions (CMD scripts) that run EXE files that the MSI installs. These EXEs, in turn, require that a certain directory (also installed by this MSI) is included in the PATH environment variable. These CAs never run successfully, and I think I know why: Although

Re: [WiX-users] Q about Feature costing..

2008-10-09 Thread BOB1981
Hi All Any idea about this how to do it? anyone reply something Thanks BOB1981 wrote: > > Hi Vidya, > > I am also Facing the Same problem as you are, i wonder what have you done > to fix it. > > I want change the text for Parent Feature to show the text totalling the > subfeature. Please le

Re: [WiX-users] Heat and COM executable registry extraction

2008-10-09 Thread DexterSinister
Kamil Mierzejewski wrote: > > The tool is not publicly available. All I can do is to post source code > (C++) or the compiled binary on your e-mail address. > > You can learn how to use it from the source - it's very small and simple. > > I think it is a piece of functionality that could be i

Re: [WiX-users] Heat and COM executable registry extraction

2008-10-09 Thread Wilson, Phil
If you scroll down here: http://installsite.org/pages/en/msi/tips.htm to RegSpy you'll find the source for a tool that works with Dlls and exe COM servers. It uses the registry overrides to redirect the registration entries. Exe servers are handled by running them with /regserver suspended, then

Re: [WiX-users] Debugging MakeSfxCA

2008-10-09 Thread Tina Basinger
Okay, i'll proceed with the first option to clean up some of our existing custom actions, and see where that leaves me. Thanks! -Tina On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Jason Ginchereau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Wow, that's a lot of custom actions. Most setups (should) have just a few > if any.

Re: [WiX-users] Heat and COM executable registry extraction

2008-10-09 Thread Arunkumar Viswanathan
Kimal, Can you email me the source and binary? Thanks in advance. My email id is aviswanathan ## appsecinc ## com -Arun -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kamil Mierzejewski Sent: 2008-Oct-09 Thu 9:59 AM To: General discussion for Windows In

Re: [WiX-users] How Update / Upgrade strategy (small, minor, major) affect file overriding?

2008-10-09 Thread polan
Ian Elliott (Excell Data Corporation) wrote: > > Your command line looks wrong: > msiexec /i ExampleInstaller.msi REINSTALALL=ALL REINSTALLMODE=vomus > should be > msiexec /i ExampleInstaller.msi REINSTALL=ALL REINSTALLMODE=vomus > > (However, it may be another typo.) > I've corrected the co

Re: [WiX-users] Debugging MakeSfxCA

2008-10-09 Thread Jason Ginchereau
Wow, that's a lot of custom actions. Most setups (should) have just a few if any. The limit of 16 is currently by design, although the tool should definitely handle the overflow more gracefully. I'll fix that. If you have more than 16 custom actions, your options are: 1. Design immediate CAs to

Re: [WiX-users] Debugging MakeSfxCA

2008-10-09 Thread Tina Basinger
OK, this seems to be failing on the following line of code, which is line 424 in MakeSfxCA.cs. entryPoints.Keys.CopyTo(slotSort, slotCount - entryPoints.Count); It's failing because slotCount = 16 and entryPoints.Count = 38, so slotCount-entryPoints.Count is negative. Apparenlty sfxCA.dll only ha

Re: [WiX-users] Heat and COM executable registry extraction

2008-10-09 Thread Kamil Mierzejewski
The tool is not publicly available. All I can do is to post source code (C++) or the compiled binary on your e-mail address. You can learn how to use it from the source - it's very small and simple. I think it is a piece of functionality that could be implemented as a WiX extension. If anyone w

Re: [WiX-users] Heat and COM executable registry extraction

2008-10-09 Thread Arunkumar Viswanathan
Kamil & Michael, thanks a lot for the information you have provided. Kamil, I am very interested in trying out your tool. I can use Oleview and extract the threading model and other default information. Do post details on where to get your tool and how to use it. Thanks -Arun -Original Messa

Re: [WiX-users] How Update / Upgrade strategy (small, minor, major) affect file overriding?

2008-10-09 Thread Adam Connelly
I'm keen to avoid doing that since it means creating the bootstrapper. It just doesn't seem quite right to me to have to do that. Thanks for the suggestion, but I think for now I'll stick to changing the product Id. Do you know if there's any undesirable side effects to doing this? Cheers, Ad

Re: [WiX-users] How Update / Upgrade strategy (small, minor, major) affect file overriding?

2008-10-09 Thread Adam Connelly
I thought about that, but I thought you were meant to keep track of the product Id for some reason (something I've not looked into). I might just do it though in the absence of any better way. Adam -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 October 2008 18

Re: [WiX-users] Heat and COM executable registry extraction

2008-10-09 Thread Kamil Mierzejewski
Hi, I also encountered this problem. My solution was to design a special tool which scans .tlb files and generates WiX code from them. details in my comment here: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=642717&aid=1468663&group_id=105970 The tools assumes that classes defined in the t

Re: [WiX-users] Heat and COM executable registry extraction

2008-10-09 Thread misuo
Hi Arun, I've been experiencing the same kind of problems and I posted a question about it recently. See the http://n2.nabble.com/Heat-problem-harvesting-class-from-type-library-td1303554.html I believe the problem is that for executables (.exe out-of-process COM Servers) the WiX heat tool can