[WiX-users] XmlConfig (again)

2008-12-05 Thread md5hans
Sorry about reposting this question so soon but this is quite importent form me so I'll make a new try -- Hi! I'm trying to use XmlConig to modify an existing file on the computer. Below is a

Re: [WiX-users] XmlConfig (again)

2008-12-05 Thread Rob Mensching
Look in a verbose log file and check that your Component is actually being installed. -Original Message- From: md5hans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 00:35 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] XmlConfig (again) Sorry about reposting this

[WiX-users] Error 2229 when initiating a minor upgrade (when upgrading an installation based on a transform).

2008-12-05 Thread Ali-Akber Saifee
I have an installer from a previous build that was installed on a non english machine (the language of the base product is english, and i have transforms for each language (which moreover only transform the UI strings). When i install a minor upgrade i get an error -2229. Digging into the log

Re: [WiX-users] Error 2229 when initiating a minor upgrade (when upgrading an installation based on a transform).

2008-12-05 Thread Rob Mensching
That's just MSI talking to itself. There must be another error somewhere. -Original Message- From: Ali-Akber Saifee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 02:42 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Error 2229 when initiating a minor upgrade (when

Re: [WiX-users] WiX CVS Source

2008-12-05 Thread Rob Mensching
Understood and I just wanted everyone to be very clear about why this overhead is in place. PS: all of this weeks changes from Microsoft employees have been integrated into CVS now. smile/ -Original Message- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December

[WiX-users] Deploy to Program Files directory on x64 system

2008-12-05 Thread sujanakar reddy
Hi, I am developing an MSI which should support deploying of files to “Program Files” folder or any other selected folder on both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. I have written two directory structures one for ProgramFilesFolder and other for ProgramFiles64Folder, added two features each for

[WiX-users] WIX CustomAction: Calling Methods from .NET Class

2008-12-05 Thread Kusuma Sudheer Kumar (Tata Consultancy Services)
Hi, I am new bee to WIX Coding and has the following clarifications Problem: I have my Custom Dll [ .net Class Library] and is there any possibility to leverage that and its respective methods in WIX. Performed: I created some ClassLibrary Which write some

Re: [WiX-users] Deploy to Program Files directory on x64 system

2008-12-05 Thread Rob Mensching
Unfortunately, Windows Installer does not support a dual-platform package. You must mark your Package 64-bit to install to 64-bit locations but that will only install on 64-bit platforms. -Original Message- From: sujanakar reddy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008

Re: [WiX-users] XmlConfig (again)

2008-12-05 Thread md5hans
Hi! I'm not so good at interpreting msi log but i think the component CustomAction.ModifyPacketXml is installed verbose log: MSI (s) (14:50) [08:22:52:762]: Doing action: InstallValidate MSI (s) (14:50) [08:22:52:762]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: ActionText Action start 08:22:52: InstallValidate.

Re: [WiX-users] Error 2229 when initiating a minor upgrade (when upgrading an installation based on a transform).

2008-12-05 Thread Ali-Akber Saifee
Hi, There's a whole bunch of statements with Database string pool is corrupted.. Finally there's : Er is een onverwachte fout opgetreden tijdens de installatie van dit pakket. Dit kan wijzen op een probleem met dit pakket. De foutcode is 2229. De argumenten zijn: , Control, SELECT `Control`,

Re: [WiX-users] Error 2229 when initiating a minor upgrade (when upgrading an installation based on a transform).

2008-12-05 Thread Rob Mensching
The following is very bad: MSI (c) (08:7C) [22:13:14:100]: Database string pool is corrupted. Nothing will work correctly if the strings in the MSI are corrupted. I have no idea what corrupted them. -Original Message- From: Ali-Akber Saifee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday,

Re: [WiX-users] XmlConfig (again)

2008-12-05 Thread Rob Mensching
Does C:\temp\settings.xml actually exist on the target machine? It is very unusual to have a hard coded path. Usually people use a File reference (aka: [!FileId]) to target a file that is installed. -Original Message- From: md5hans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 05,

Re: [WiX-users] Error 2229 when initiating a minor upgrade (when upgrading an installation based on a transform).

2008-12-05 Thread Eitan Behar
Just a thought, are the sql strings/scripts plain ASCII/UTF-8, or you have special encoding there? -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 3:10 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users]

Re: [WiX-users] XmlConfig (again)

2008-12-05 Thread Eitan Behar
Is [!FileId] the same as [#FileId] ? -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 3:19 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] XmlConfig (again) Does C:\temp\settings.xml actually exist

Re: [WiX-users] Error when unistalling msi built with WIX 3.0

2008-12-05 Thread DanWard
DTS is not the issue. If I understand your reference to mean Data Transformation Services. SQL Server is not installed on this server. If you mean something else, please let me know what and I'll add more detail. I will file a bug today. Rob Mensching-2 wrote: Is DTS installed/enabled?

Re: [WiX-users] Error when unistalling msi built with WIX 3.0

2008-12-05 Thread Rob Mensching
Sorry, typo. DTC not DTS. 0x8004e00f: CONTEXT_E_TMNOTAVAILABLE winerror.h # COM+ was unable to talk to the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator -Original Message- From: DanWard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 05:32

Re: [WiX-users] XmlConfig (again)

2008-12-05 Thread Rob Mensching
Outside of the Registry table, yes. I always forget which is which and when I think about it too much, I pick the wrong one. Formatted topic in MSI SDK has all the details. One is more consistent than the other (probably [#FileId]). -Original Message- From: Eitan Behar [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [WiX-users] Error when unistalling msi built with WIX 3.0

2008-12-05 Thread DanWard
Sorry. I compared 2 machines. One where I'm not having this problem, though it isn't the same msi, so the WIX code is different, though similar. On the machine that is failing, DTC service is disabled. On the other machine it is running. Rob Mensching-2 wrote: Sorry, typo. DTC not DTS.

Re: [WiX-users] Change existing EULA

2008-12-05 Thread Bob Arnson
Everette Clemmer wrote: Does anyone know how to change the EULA that¹s displayed when patching an installed application without doing a major upgrade? The way things appear to be working now, when I run the patch on a machine containing the installation I want to upgrade, the patch appears to

Re: [WiX-users] WIX CustomAction: Calling Methods from .NET Class

2008-12-05 Thread Bob Arnson
Kusuma Sudheer Kumar (Tata Consultancy Services) wrote: I have my Custom Dll [ .net Class Library] and is there any possibility to leverage that and its respective methods in WIX. Windows Installer doesn't directly support managed-code custom actions. WiX v3.0 includes the

[WiX-users] Announcement: WiX v3.0 beta exit release available

2008-12-05 Thread Bob Arnson
The WiX Working Group is pleased to announced that the WiX v3.0 beta exit build (v3.0.4805.0) is now available. We encourage all users to upgrade to this build for the latest fixes and to verify how ready WiX v3.0 is for release. For more information, see Rob's announcement

[WiX-users] Problem setting dynamic values for website

2008-12-05 Thread ultraplop
Hello, I am a new wix user and I am creating an installer for a web application. One requirement is that the installer should allow the web app to be installed to any website specified. In my first iteration of the installer I am just going to have text boxes that allow for the user to enter

Re: [WiX-users] Problem setting dynamic values for website

2008-12-05 Thread Eitan Behar
You have missing []: Property Id=WEBSITEIP Value=*/ Property Id=WEBSITEPORT Value=90/ iis:WebSite Id='BuildAutomationWebSite' Description='BuildAutomation' iis:WebAddress Id='AllUnassigned' Port=[WEBSITEPORT] IP=[WEBSITEIP]/ /iis:WebSite -Original Message- From:

Re: [WiX-users] prerequisite conditions

2008-12-05 Thread Robert O'Brien
Thanks. I tried the following wix xml settings to get LaunchConditions running after CostFinalize and it generated the noted compile errors. I switched to use of the CustomAction Error= approach also shown below that you suggested and got the desired result. Question - is the reason for

Re: [WiX-users] Problem setting dynamic values for website

2008-12-05 Thread ultraplop
Okay, yes that was a very basic syntax problem! It works perfectly now, thanks for the help; this will also help for prompting the user for other values. If you don't mind I would like to ask a high level question: For my next project I am going to have more UI functionality for selecting web

Re: [WiX-users] How to populate a RadioButtonGroup Control with dynamic RadioButton ?

2008-12-05 Thread Richard
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED]@fiducial.fr, Guillaume Chassigneux [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I try to define a new Dialog containing a RadioButtonGroup that I must populate with the result of a WebService call. This sounds like a configuration task; the general advice is to put

Re: [WiX-users] Announcement: WiX v3.0 beta exit release available

2008-12-05 Thread Robert O'Brien
Great news and congratulations on reaching this milestone. A while back I posted some questions to the forum about how to structure an msi to automatically set REINSTALL and REINSTALLMODE property settings to necessary values for patch and minor upgrade processing. There were working

[WiX-users] Integrating HxC / HxS inside the VS common help library

2008-12-05 Thread Routhier Louis
Hi, I'm trying to include documentation made with SandCastle within the global VS 2005 and VS 2008 namespaces but I think there is something I'm not doing right. Actually, I'm trying to use the VSExtension dll which seems to partly work for what I want to do. From what I see, at the moment, my

Re: [WiX-users] WiX-users Digest, Vol 31, Issue 44

2008-12-05 Thread Michael Ballou
Great job Wix team. This is a nice milestone for you guys and also for us, the users. Thanks for all your hard work. I can't wait for the final release and the new Burn stuff next year. Mike -Original Message- Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:27:32 -0800 From: Bob Arnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[WiX-users] Help! DifxApp in Wix 3 does not work!

2008-12-05 Thread rodolfo corral dominguez
Hi all! I’m from Mexico and i’d like to know if you’ve worked with DifxApp in Wix v.3 i am trying to build an msi to install some drivers but it seems like version 3 of wix does not accept the library. any idea about how to make it work?, i’ve been working with v.2 of wix and i don’t have

Re: [WiX-users] Problem regarding running SQL script from msp file.

2008-12-05 Thread Rob Mensching
Can you be more specific about the exact version? -Original Message- From: prasoon gupta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 09:30 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Problem regarding running SQL script from msp file.

Re: [WiX-users] Error when unistalling msi built with WIX 3.0

2008-12-05 Thread Rob Mensching
Is the log file the same? -Original Message- From: DanWard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 08:34 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Error when unistalling msi built with WIX 3.0 Found another machine that this fails on. DTC service on

Re: [WiX-users] prerequisite conditions

2008-12-05 Thread zett42
Robert O'Brien-2 wrote: Question - is the reason for sequencing the execution of a customaction in both InstallUISequence And InstallExecuteSequence so that you cover both interactive and unattended installs? Exactly. Robert O'Brien-2 wrote: In the case of an interactive install do

Re: [WiX-users] Error when unistalling msi built with WIX 3.0

2008-12-05 Thread DanWard
Yes, same log file entries. Rob Mensching-2 wrote: Is the log file the same? -Original Message- From: DanWard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 08:34 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Error when unistalling msi built with WIX

Re: [WiX-users] prerequisite conditions

2008-12-05 Thread zett42
Correction: By default a CA is run twice if you put it in both sequences and UILevel is NOT basic NOR silent. ;) zett42 wrote: Robert O'Brien-2 wrote: Question - is the reason for sequencing the execution of a customaction in both InstallUISequence And InstallExecuteSequence so that

[WiX-users] file placement struggles.

2008-12-05 Thread Phil Sayers
hello, I'm repackaging a 3rd party product that we have purchased and integrating some of our own additional files so we can get our deployment down to a 1-click process and not have to rely on people not making mistakes. The files that we provide are webservices and get dropped into the

[WiX-users] Upgrading components marked as permanent

2008-12-05 Thread John Lalande
Our product includes a TAPI Service Provider (TSP) that requires that it be installed to System32. I have read that if a file is installed in System32 it should be marked as permanent. I have made updates to our TSP but the installer won't upgrade the version that is installed. Is there a way

Re: [WiX-users] file placement struggles.

2008-12-05 Thread Phil Sayers
Posting solution for the archives. It is a Type 35 Custom Action. After beating my head against the wall a few times...I was able to get this working with the folloing snippet in my wxs. CustomAction Id=SetMyFolder Directory=SomeDirectoryId Value=[WindowsVolume]\MyFolder/

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrading components marked as permanent

2008-12-05 Thread Wilson, Phil
The permanent setting should still allow updates based on file version. Hopefully you didn't set the never overwrite flag. Phil Wilson -Original Message- From: John Lalande [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 12:38 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [WiX-users] Error 2229 when initiating a minor upgrade (when upgrading an installation based on a transform

2008-12-05 Thread Ali-Akber Saifee
Ok, I did a lot of web-crawling and found what looks like an answer on the platformsdk.msi forums. http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.platformsdk.msi/browse_thread/thread/96a285f3e12e15d0/4e1782623b8e6d33?lnk=gstq=2229#4e1782623b8e6d33 Eitan: the transforms are encoded into

Re: [WiX-users] Error when unistalling msi built with WIX 3.0

2008-12-05 Thread Rob Mensching
Okay, you might add this information to the bug... it's on the radar to get fixed. -Original Message- From: DanWard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 12:08 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Error when unistalling msi built with WIX 3.0

Re: [WiX-users] Help! DifxApp in Wix 3 does not work!

2008-12-05 Thread rodolfo corral dominguez
When i'm trying to create a msi with wix 3, libraries DifxAppextension,difxapp_ia64,difxapp_x64 and difxapp_x86 are not added to the msi, because of this drivers are not installed, they are just copied into a folder like any file. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [WiX-users] Help! DifxApp in Wix 3 does not work!

2008-12-05 Thread Rob Mensching
What does your authoring around the Driver element look like? -Original Message- From: rodolfo corral dominguez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 16:09 To: Wix users Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Help! DifxApp in Wix 3 does not work! When i'm trying to create a msi

[WiX-users] is it possible for Installed to be set during rollback processing, e.g. rollback custom actions should always have at least a Not Installed not a Installed entry in their sequence cond

2008-12-05 Thread Robert O'Brien
is it possible for Installed to be set during rollback processing, e.g. rollback custom actions should always have at least a Not Installed not a Installed entry in their sequence condition? -- SF.Net email is Sponsored

Re: [WiX-users] Problem setting dynamic values for website

2008-12-05 Thread Eitan Behar
Don't know -Original Message- From: ultraplop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 6:11 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Problem setting dynamic values for website Okay, yes that was a very basic syntax problem! It works