You should not even be considering doing this.
Please read these blogs:
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2003/09/03/54760.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2006/11/01/922449.aspx
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Gareth gmor...@serif.com wrote:
Since Microsoft have
So i guess I'll just have to extract the merge module and add its contents to
the installer package. That way I know the patch will definetly pick up any
changes.
Thanks anyway.
nearnick wrote:
They'd be wixpdbs.
Blair-2 wrote:
Which files are the inputs to torch (admin-installed
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Are you totally sure the patch doesn't contain the new files from the
merge module? Have you checked a verbose log of applying the patch? You
may find the problem is Windows Installer not patching the files rather
than them not being included in the patch. If you have files with
resources
You can't *easily* change the background bitmap on the Exit Dialog
without changing it on all other dialogs which use that bitmap
(WelcomeDlg is the main one which springs to mind, can't think of any
others off the top of my head right now but there's a few). If you want
to try it change the
I magaged to fix this myself. This is what you need to do in my case:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8?
Wix xmlns=http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi;
Fragment
DirectoryRef Id=LoggingDir
Directory Id=MySqlConnectorDir Name=MySqlConnector
!-- Assemblies --
I have a EULA dialog in my setup. There I have the following control:
Control Id=LicenseText Type=ScrollableText X=20 Y=85 Width=380
Height=150 Sunken=yes TabSkip=no
Text SourceFile=.\Resources\EULA.rtf /
/Control
I also have a 'Print' button on that dialog and am doing the following thing
Do you have the WiXCA DLL declared in a Binary stream?
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Hi Folks, this is a kinda' off-topic. I thought, this will be helpful for all
of us as well.
I have documented few scenarios and known solutions for this error 1603. Do
have a look at it and lemme know, if you have come across any other scenarios.
This would help the packaging Community. You
Hey there,
I would like the UI to display a slightly different message to the user
when we are upgrading (or downgrading) than the standard welcome dialog
that is displayed on install.
To achieve this, I am trying to conditionally populate a property with
the text we would like to display,
3.0.5419.0
-Original Message-
From: Mike Carlson (DEV DIV) [mailto:mica...@microsoft.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 6:24 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WiX and certificates
What version of WiX are you using?
-Original
1) I should have mentioned this before, but I hope that isn't the real password
you've shown in the commented authoring. You may want to consider setting the
password to a property value like MYCERTPASSWORD, which can be set on the
commandline at install-time. That way the cert password isn't
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372039(VS.85).aspx
WelcomeDlg is part of InstallUISequence. Run your Type 51 Custom Action
in it with Before=WelcomeDlg it should work.
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WiX 3.0 patches produced using torch on wixpdbs will not include payload coming
from merge modules. This is by design because the merge modules are merged
*after* the wixpdbs are created.
You have 2 options:
1) Use admin images instead of wixpdbs.
2) Change your build process to use melt.exe on
Resend...
On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 3:29 PM, cynosure cynosure...@gmail.com wrote:
hello,
I am buiding a wix 3 msi, here are my steps:
1. generate .wxiobj file
candle.exe -nologo -ext WixUIExtension -ext WixSqlExtension -ext
WixUtilExtension -out objd\amd64\
Thanks...I've looked there and can't find 3.0.3808.0. We are making use of
this version and need to reference the download location.
Is it not available at all on the web anymore?
From: os...@live.com
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 14:02:44 -0700
Subject: Re:
Hi Experts,
How can i save the Information like Server, Port, DBName, Alias, Timeout,
Type during the installatoin process?
To accomplish this task i am creating a new window after License Window. I
am writing in DBDlg.wxs a Fragment, this Fragment contains Dialog with
Controls. These Controls
Hello Adnan
The way I do this is I bind each of the input values into properties and then
write each property to a registry value, then on upgrade I use the Registry
Search facility in MSI to read these properties from the registry back into the
properties
In most cases I also give the
Hi Michael,
it means the controls for input values which i am writing in Fragment
(DBDlg.wxs) will bind with the property (in main file product.wxs)?
Can you please give me a Code example for understanding this concept? In
this case to accomplish Step 1 (Server) with checkbox?
Thanks in advance
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Adnan
Example below should be similar.
In this one we have a property BAYSERVER that can be tied to a control on a
dialog. We set the property with a custom action to default to the local
computer name (this value is used to build a URL for a web application).
This part writes the
Hi All,
I tried using ExitDialog (WIXUI_EXITDIALOGOPTIONALCHECKBOXTEXT) to allow the
user to control whether our application is run at the end of the install.
However, the entire checkbox control has a gray background. Is it possible to
change the background color to white or make it
I don't see any WixCA dll in the latest version of Wix 3.5 setup. Seems in
Wix 3.5 its being done using WixUtilExtension.dll and am providing that
extension in the command line for light using '-ext'.
Thanks.
Sudripta.
- Original Message -
From: Pally Sandher pally.sand...@iesve.com
In the sources for 3.5 I glanced at (about a month or so old) the PrintEula
CA is in the WixUIExtension, not the WixUtilExtension. A simple
CustomActionRef Id=WixUIPrintEula/ and the DoAction you already have
(changing the @Value) should be sufficient (you don't need to declare the
CustomAction
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