So, can we do in this fashion?
Let's think we need to validate some fields on the screen,
Create button called - Validate and On Clicking this button, CA will
validate fields and returns success by updating the Property which is mapped to
Next Button enabling and disabling.
That
Hi All,
I am able to prepare bootsrapper for windows installer and framework
3.5SP1. It is working fine for XP but not in server 2003, it is failing
due to windows installer already installed in server 2003. There should
be condition on installer its self not to install windows installer on
Hi All,
I have custom action for installing database after InstallFinalize
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/aa369505.aspx . Because I am
executing database scripts from installed Dir. Now problem is I want to
rollback whole installed application if I get any error while executing
database
When I build a project within Visual Studio 2005 none of the project variables
are defined, they all have the value *Undefined if not building from within
Visual Studio*. I also get the warning Solution properties are only available
during IDE builds or when building the solution file from the
Hi Rob,
Thanks for the info. Do you have any Sample code or Example to see how to
proceed on this?
Thanks,
Lokesh
-Original Message-
From: Rob Mensching [mailto:rob.mensch...@microsoft.com]
Sent: 27 December 2008 00:52
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject:
Looks like I have 3.0.4714.0
Over the day after I sent the original email I got everything working except
the TOC. I'll check release notes for weekly builds and upgrade either way.
-Dave
-Original Message-
From: Rob Mensching [mailto:rob.mensch...@microsoft.com]
Sent: Fri
Maybe this is a little too late, but I have a working code for creating
msmq. Let me know if this is still relevant.
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 9:34 PM, David Gonzalez dav...@microsoft.com wrote:
Greetings to all,
I've been working with Message Queues lately, and have managed to find some
Hi all,
I'm having a problem with installs made with Wix V3 running on Vista and Server
2008, I have a custom action that opens a view on a custom table using
Session.Database.OpenView(string) then it tries to add a record to the table
with the view using
John,
I actually based much of the code I wrote off your 2.0 tool. Looks like
you've updated it for Wix3 by now. It was pretty useful.
For the Visual Studio package registration, I didn't use any custom actions,
though it wouldn't be hard to write one. All you'd have to do is traverse
the
Could someone tell be if the following is by design?
If the build doesn't find the VC8 x64 components it doesn't include any
of the Visual Studio 2005 component, i.e. BuildVC8=.
if test=${BuildVC8 != '' and (not directory::exists(dir.vc8.bin.x64)
or not directory::exists(dir.vc8.lib.x64)
First, I know that this isn't really directly a WIX question but I figure
that a lot of you have similar requirements and maybe someone can tell me
what their experiences and solutions are. I'm attempting to use Wix to
create a database during install. I have my database setup with the Db Pro
I was on 3.0.4401.0, I will try upgrading to build 4827, thanks for the
tip!
-Original Message-
From: Bob Arnson [mailto:b...@joyofsetup.com]
Sent: Friday, December 26, 2008 6:01 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Using $(TargetPath) for
Better tools for working with MSMQ would be very nice. I've found that
the MSMQ extension is very difficult to work with, particularly around
setting permissions.
--
Edwin
-Original Message-
From: Eitan Behar [mailto:ei...@baconao.net]
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 6:00 AM
To:
Hi All,
I am trying to install my MSI which I have created in Wix 3.0 but it is
erroring out on Windows 2008 Server by saying
Cannot connect to Internet Information Server. (-2147221164).
I am doing the following thing in my MSI
Component Id=WebComp Guid=1C04C3A1-5B04-4A9D-BF5C-27E118857F58
-2147221164 == REGDB_E_CLASSNOTREG
You probably don't have the II6 legacy Metabase access installed.
-Original Message-
From: Pankaj Agrawal (Infosys Technologies Ltd) [mailto:v-pa...@microsoft.com]
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 10:28
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject:
Thanks a lot Rob. Appreciated your quick response.
We are trying to install the same MSI on vista machine where IIS 7 legacy
metabase access is installed but we are getting the following error
MSI (s) (C0:24) [09:34:31:223]: Doing action: ConfigureIIs
Action start 9:34:31: ConfigureIIs.
1. It would be fantastic if someone wrote the extension that made it easy to
author VS packages or wrote a harvester so heat could generate much of it
automatically. At the very least, you could open a Feature Request.
2. This is a particular challenge with the Windows Installer due to the
0x80070005 E_ACCESSDENIED
I think this is a known bug open against the IIS CustomAction. Check the bug
database.
-Original Message-
From: Pankaj Agrawal (Infosys Technologies Ltd) [mailto:v-pa...@microsoft.com]
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 10:56
To: General discussion for Windows
After tinkering a while and installing the latest weekly, I got
everything working (Registration, Titles, Filters, and TOC). For
prosperity, here's snips of the updated WiX that accomplished it for me.
?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8?
Wix xmlns=http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi;
I need help is trying to track the source of the following error:
The primary key 'reg8E2E..' is duplicated in table 'Registry'.
Please remove one of the entries or rename part of the primary key to
avoid the collision.
How do I track down the duplicated entry? The entry in question is
Dear All,
I created the following entry in WiX file for installing .pfx certificate that
has a blank password:
Component Id=CertPlat Guid=E1BAC504-DF60-4DE7-B9EF-5394E4EC658C
Transitive=yes
iis:Certificate Id=PlatAzzuro Name=PlatAzzuro.wss.microsoft.com.pfx
0x80070056 == ERROR_INVALID_PASSWORD
-Original Message-
From: Maruti Gouroji (Infosys Technologies Ltd) [mailto:v-mag...@microsoft.com]
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 12:24
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Need Help: Importing pfx certificate file
Dear All,
I
Rob,
Thanks for your response. If I have extra time this week I can look into
creating a WIX extension for the package registration. I don't mind adding
to existing documentation if there is any easy way to do it. Let me know if
the manual is online in some sort of wiki or other editable form
Can you elaborate on which of the component rules #2 presents problem
for? I wrote a tool to auto-gen my components from my web structure as
well. It puts every file in its own component with a new Guid for the
id. Is this approach problematic? Is it different than what Visual
Studio Installer
Thanks Rob,
Appreciate your quick response. I am able to manually import .pfx with blank
password.
Does that mean WiX doesn't support .pfx with blank password? What are the
alternate ways of handling such cases in WiX?
Regards,
Maruti
-Original Message-
From: Rob Mensching
Have you tried the following?
PFXPassword=
-Original Message-
From: Maruti Gouroji (Infosys Technologies Ltd) [mailto:v-mag...@microsoft.com]
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 12:47 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Need Help: Importing
What version of the WiX toolset are you using? This sounds like a bug that was
fixed recently.
-Original Message-
From: Ian Elliott (Excell Data Corporation) [mailto:a-iae...@microsoft.com]
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 12:51
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
I also have a home-made tool for generating components. I have another tool
that generates a complete wix file after you specify directory structure and
files within the directories. It's used to to most of the grunt work and then
the rest is done by hand. (UI based.)
Is there a public share
2. I would suggest that the most reliable solution would be to have a
solution that set the component guid to *. This isn't very well
documented but I believe it sets the guid to an MD5 hash of the folder
name and component name (see here:
There are two places to add documentation:
1. Reference data - if you want to enhance the text for any given element then
you just add more annotations to the wix.xsd. All of the reference material is
generated from that source.
2. Introduction and How-to guides - if you want to add content
What happens is you run the tool repeatedly? Are the same GUIDs assigned to
the same files? If not then you are generating Component Rule violations.
This old blog post has more details:
http://blogs.msdn.com/robmen/archive/2003/10/18/56497.aspx
-Original Message-
From: Jeremy Lew
How is it different than heat?
-Original Message-
From: Ian Elliott (Excell Data Corporation) [mailto:a-iae...@microsoft.com]
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 13:05
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WIX 3 - Suggestions
I also have a
Uhh, heat already supports that with the -ag switch.
-Original Message-
From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com]
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 13:00
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WIX 3 - Suggestions
2. I would suggest that
It's been awhile since I tried Heat but I remember that I couldn't get it to
work properly. I don't remember the details.
Differences:
1.) Heat is command-line based. Mine is UI based.
2.) My tool doesn't have as many features as heat. (It's more specific to my
needs.)
3.) Mine outputs a
Hi Rob,
The WiX version I am using is 3.0.4805.0.
Regards,
Maruti
-Original Message-
From: Rob Mensching [mailto:rob.mensch...@microsoft.com]
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 1:03 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Need Help: Importing
Hi Ian,
I tried that too. It gives the following error during build:
The iis:Certificate/@PFXPassword attribute's value cannot be an empty string.
If you want the value to be null or empty, simply remove the entire attribute.
Regards,
Maruti
-Original Message-
From: Ian Elliott
So, does heat -ag not solve the component rules problem?
-Original Message-
From: Rob Mensching [mailto:rob.mensch...@microsoft.com]
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 4:09 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WIX 3 - Suggestions
Uhh, heat
For Components with one file each... maybe. It's the closest we've come.
Still experimental (one reason it isn't documented well).
-Original Message-
From: Jeremy Lew [mailto:j...@liquidmachines.com]
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 13:41
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML
I could have sworn this was fixed. You could go through the history to make
sure you have a build with the fix. If you do and there is still a problem,
it'd be great if you could re open the bug about this problem and add any
details you can to it.
-Original Message-
From: Maruti
So I dug a little deeper into this. The problem didn't have to do with
using the temp directory as another user had mentioned on the list. The
problem is that the custom action is run again on the uninstall. In my
scenario, the custom actions should only run in the install not the
uninstall.
I played around with it a bit, and in my particular case I'm not sure it
will work due to collisions with directory, component, and filename Id
values. My installer installs two different web applications with
subdirectories having the same name, etc. I would have to seed it with
some kind of
There is not a lot of documentation on the FileSource attribute, so what
I am wondering is if I have a Directory element with FileSource
specified like so:
...snippet...
Directory Id=myDir Name=My Dir FileSource=C:\SourceFiles\
Component Id=Component1 Guid=[some guid]
File
Hi Rob,
Does IIswebsite issue (to read IIsWebSite table(-2147024891)) also come on
Server 2008 having IIS 7 installed?
I was checking the bug database and most of the bugs are closed automatically
as no one has taken any action. I also believe Wix 3.0.4805.0. is the latest
version
You mean like the Directory/@ComponentGuidGenerationSeed?
-Original Message-
From: Jeremy Lew [mailto:j...@liquidmachines.com]
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 14:41
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WIX 3 - Suggestions
I played around with
I was thinking of bug 1982561.
4805 is not the latest version. 4827 is (http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases).
-Original Message-
From: Pankaj Agrawal (Infosys Technologies Ltd) [mailto:v-pa...@microsoft.com]
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 15:13
To: General discussion for Windows
Yes, that should work.
-Original Message-
From: Brian Mitchell [mailto:brian_mitch...@payformance.com]
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 14:51
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] FileSource attribute of the Directory Element
There is not a lot of documentation on the
Condition the CustomAction.
-Original Message-
From: Frank Cohen [mailto:frankensp...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 13:33
To: WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Running an Installer from MSI: Part II
So I dug a little deeper into this. The problem didn't
Hrmm...it doesn't.
At least, using VS 2005 with Votive and doing this doesn't work:
snippet
Property Id=INSTALLTODIR![CDATA[E:\myprog\]]/Property
Directory Id=TARGETDIR Name=SourceDir
Directory Id=ProgramFilesFolder Name=PFiles
Directory Id= INSTALLTODIR Name=.
I also confirm that it does not work. I ended up specifying full path
names for every File element.
-Original Message-
From: Rob Mensching [mailto:rob.mensch...@microsoft.com]
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 17:52
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re:
Sounds like a bug. Would you file it?
-Original Message-
From: Brian Mitchell [mailto:brian_mitch...@payformance.com]
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 16:13
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] FileSource attribute of the Directory Element
Hello there,
We would like to move our product from Windows 2003 to Windows 2008 and to help
with that also update our wix modules. How do I go about doing that? Can you
point me to any documentation and are there any pitfalls that I should be aware
of? Also, will the converted project still
Hi Rob,
I am trying all the things like creating app pool but nothing is working for
me. Not able to create AppPool too even MSI is not throwing any error.
I am still getting error for configuring virtual directories (IIsWebSite
table(-2147024891)) even after installing the latest version of
Works for some people as long as you run the install fully elevated and have
the legacy IIS6 metabase API installed.
-Original Message-
From: Pankaj Agrawal (Infosys Technologies Ltd) [mailto:v-pa...@microsoft.com]
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 18:13
To: General discussion for Windows
prasoon gupta wrote:
Ya in PCP file all tha setting is proper (used Orca to view these summary
info)
I am using 4.5 version of msimsp.exe to create msp.
Is there any bug in version 4.5 ?
I don't know of specific bugs; it's an MSI SDK tool, not a WiX tool. The
WiX patching support
Rob Mensching wrote:
For Components with one file each... maybe. It's the closest we've come.
Still experimental (one reason it isn't documented well).
It breaks down whenever files are removed, which is a problem especially
for Web apps.
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sig://boB
http://joyofsetup.com/
Neil Sleightholm wrote:
Could someone tell be if the following is by design?
If the build doesn't find the VC8 x64 components it doesn't include any
of the Visual Studio 2005 component, i.e. BuildVC8=.
I don't know if it's by design, but likely to minimize the test matrix
for
Neil Sleightholm wrote:
When I build a project within Visual Studio 2005 none of the project
variables are defined, they all have the value *Undefined if not building
from within Visual Studio*. I also get the warning Solution properties are
only available during IDE builds or when building
John McLean, Jr. wrote:
I need help is trying to track the source of the following error:
The primary key 'reg8E2E..' is duplicated in table 'Registry'.
Please remove one of the entries or rename part of the primary key to
avoid the collision.
How do I track down the duplicated
Kusuma Sudheer Kumar (Tata Consultancy Services) wrote:
So, can we do in this fashion?
Let's think we need to validate some fields on the screen,
Create button called - Validate and On Clicking this button, CA will
validate fields and returns success by updating the Property which is
Jagdish Sakhiya wrote:
I have custom action for installing database after InstallFinalize
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/aa369505.aspx . Because I am
executing database scripts from installed Dir. Now problem is I want to
rollback whole installed application if I get any error while
I've also seen this happen when you have a Class element without a Server
attribute (or not nested under a File) and have a RegistryValue element trying
to set the COM Server directly. That'll create the duplicate.
-Original Message-
From: Bob Arnson [mailto:b...@joyofsetup.com]
Sent:
Hi,
I am new to WIX, i need pointers to create wix file for creating a website
in IIS 7.0 and changing the binding setting for the created website.
thanks and regards
Leela
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http://n2.nabble.com/Creating-a-WIX-file-for-configuring-IIS-7.0-tp2091179p2091179.html
Hi,
I have two features 1) Featrue1 and 2) Featrue2. My condition is
Feature2 can no be installed alone. It should be install with Feature1
or after Feature1 is installed. I want to validate this scenario while
installation. I am able to do this validation on installation. But I
could not in
My Paraffin tool does keep the same GUIDs for the files when you run it
repeatedly. For the itch I was trying to scratch was for projects that were
always adding files not removing files.
As Bob points out, removing files is the problem. I've found two discussions
that talk about removing
MSI does a handful of things very well at the expense of just about everything
else.They'll never say it's a flaw, they'll just say that's how it works.
The reality is the upgrade/component rules are a PITA and require great
discipline to implement. I guess that's why Rob posted a thread
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