[WiX-users] Error while setting REINSTALL property on Change option.

Hi All, I got a WIX 3.0 installer, my requirement is to reinstall two of the features on Change option. As per the article (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa371175(VS.85).aspx) , I am setting REINSTALL = Feature1,Feature2 on VerifyReady dialog. Like this -- This throws error

[WiX-users] recommended way to uninstall previous small updates

Hi, I am using windows update to release the small updates (QFEs) after V1 RTM. Suppose I have QFE1 (released earlier) and QFE2 (released later). QFE1 should be uninstalled before QFE2 is installed so that any new QFE can use the RTM image as base. What is the recommended way to uninstall QFE

[WiX-users] PseudoLoc build fails for Wix V3 wxs files

Hi, We recently upgraded our wxs files from Wix V2 to Wix V3. Post that upgrade, we are seeing that PseudoLoc build fails for these wix files with the following error: error LGHT0311 : A string was provided with characters that are not available in the specified database code page '936'. Ei

[WiX-users] error PYRO0103 : The system cannot find the file 'UI\Icons\appicon.ico' if appicon.ico is in my latest wixpdb

This specific error can be reproduced by following the following steps: a) Create initial release, say app.msi v1.00- copy msi and wixpdb files to directory v1.00 b) Make changes to source (if asp.net app, change one of the .aspx by adding some new element to the page). If you make

Re: [WiX-users] Deleting non-installed files on uninstall

If an action is built-in, it is usually better to use it because it has been tested in all scenarios (install, upgrade, repair, removal, patching, patch removal, replace one feature with another one, etc.) than it is to replicate the built-in action's action in your own custom action (where all tha

Re: [WiX-users] Deleting non-installed files on uninstall

Access Denied issues that appear only on UAC systems are typically elevation-related, but I'd expect that a custom action with no impersonation running from an elevated uninstall, deferred, and sequenced between InstallInitialize and InstallFinalize would work ok. RemoveFile should work. I ca

Re: [WiX-users] ARPINSTALLLOCATION and patch

"NOT REMOVE=ALL"? If you replace one feature with another (REMOVE=FeatureToRemove ADDLOCAL=FeatureToAdd) you will still need the property set. -Original Message- From: Alex Ivanoff [mailto:alex.ivan...@shavlik.com] Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 12:22 PM To: General discussion for Windo

Re: [WiX-users] PatchClassificationType

The two terms/concepts are not strictly related in that way. -Original Message- From: Lian Jiang [mailto:lji...@microsoft.com] Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 10:33 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] PatchClassificationType Hi, There are be

Re: [WiX-users] Deleting non-installed files on uninstall

RemoveFile does work and it is allowed. Why is this? Is there something RemoveFile is doing that I can emulate? Or is there a way to have RemoveFolder work with a non-empty folder? John Harvey -Original Message- From: Harvey, John Ctr USAF Warfighter's Edge [mailto:john.har...@wedge.h

Re: [WiX-users] Deleting non-installed files on uninstall

Impersonate="no" does not seem to work ("yes" doesn't do it either). I am not using RemoveFile/RemoveFolder because I took a more bazooka approach. I couldn't find a wildcard for RemoveFolder and I thought my custom action could get rid of folders that the installer didn't know about. John Harv

Re: [WiX-users] ARPINSTALLLOCATION and patch

Actually, the current condition is "NOT Installed". I am planning to make it "NOT REMOVE". Should it fix the problem? -Original Message- From: Wilson, Phil [mailto:phil.wil...@invensys.com] Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 2:07 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.

Re: [WiX-users] ARPINSTALLLOCATION and patch

If you are setting ARPINSTALLLOCATION with a custom action (type 51 usually), you might need a condition on it if it's unconditionally setting ARPINSTALLLOCATION to a value that is not recomputed at patch time. You'd only set it if "Not Installed". I've also seen people write a small custom act

[WiX-users] ARPINSTALLLOCATION and patch

We use ARPINSTALLLOCATION to set InstallLocation in uninstall key. We just ran into an issue where applying a patch clears out InstallLocation. Is there something special we need to do? -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio

Re: [WiX-users] Deleting non-installed files on uninstall

What's the impersonation setting for the custom action? And there is a RemoveFile element in WiX that will do this kind of thing without you writing code. Phil Wilson -Original Message- From: Harvey, John Ctr USAF Warfighter's Edge [mailto:john.har...@wedge.hpc.mil] Sent: Friday, Fe

[WiX-users] PatchClassificationType

Hi, There are below patch classes specified in WIX chm file: Critical Update, Hotfix, Security Rollup, Service Pack, Update, Update Rollup Is below classification correct? Small update: critical update, hotfix, security rollup, update, update rollup; Minor upgrade: Service Pack. Thanks Lian

[WiX-users] Deleting non-installed files on uninstall

I have a requirement that for an uninstall, all files for the product are removed. Not only do I need to delete files installed by my installer, but I need to delete any other file that may have showed up while the product was being used. So, I have a custom action that deletes remaining files a

Re: [WiX-users] Un-define a property

Set the property's value to "{}" using a set property custom action or publish event. -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Un-define-a-property-tp4597319p4597833.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --

Re: [WiX-users] Un-define a property

Set the value of the property to "" (empty string) or 0 (zero). Best regards, Sebastian Brand http://blog.sebastianbrand.com > -Original Message- > From: Tom Crozier [mailto:tcroz...@rackwise.com] > Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 12:26 > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML

[WiX-users] Problem installing multifile assembly in GAC

Hi There, I'm fairly new to Wix and in the middle of moving our application's installer from Installshield to Wix. We have a handful of Assemblies that we install in the GAC - 4 of these install fine - but I have another that gives the following error when running the actual msi : An er

[WiX-users] Un-define a property

All - Is there a way to un-define a property once it is defined? I want to be able to un-define a property that is used for a checkbox since it seems to use logic of defined (any value) it is checked, un=defined not checked. Thanks TC

[WiX-users] Problem with dialog added by Merge Module - wrong Sequence number

Hi, I'm creating an installation of software, which depends on third party software. To install the third party software we are using merge modules (created by the third party) to add their software to our installation package. This worked fine until they decided to add a dialog to the merge mo

[WiX-users] questions about installer speed and progress monitoring

hi, I'm building an MSI package using WiX for an application consisting of about 2 files in 1800 folders, total of ~500MB uncompressed. It's built as a single feature, with component per each folder. Installer's single task is to copy all the files, there's no DLLs to register, etc. Ready MSI

[WiX-users] ExitDialog Finish button events based on conditions

Hi, in my final screen i need to have two check box options. 1. launch the installed application (show only on new installations) 2. invoke another exe in the same folder as the msi ( show only on removal of a particular feature) I cannot identify how to give specific c