[WiX-users] how to get return codes from batch file to wix

2010-05-26 Thread Dinesh_U
Hi, I am new to WIX I am executing a batch from wix and that batch file which actually installs some other application so if that installation is failed the batch file will be sending appropriate error code why it got failed. How to get those appropriate error codes from that batch file to wix

[WiX-users] Architectural advice needed

2010-05-26 Thread Thomas Due
Hi, I need a bit of advice on my installer from you guys. I have an installer which is mostly done, several dozen files, some windows services which is registered and started, etc. However, during the interview I ask for a language which the installation should use. This choice results in

Re: [WiX-users] Architectural advice needed

2010-05-26 Thread David Watson
Hi, This is simply a warning to you to make sure that the conditions are bulletproof, if you are sure, you can ignore it. I would personally treat this as configuration, i.e. nothing to do with the the installer. You could install all the report files in specific folders and get the

Re: [WiX-users] The system cannot find the file 'Restrictions.wxi'with type 'include'.

2010-05-26 Thread Kurt Jensen
Duh! I forgot about that. That was what I did to get the one project to build... Thanks Blair! -Original Message- From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 4:13 PM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] The system

[WiX-users] ServiceInstall Problem

2010-05-26 Thread vjt
Hi all this is my first project using widows installer xml and I have a question. I have a project that deploys a windows service, File Id=AppID Name=$(var.App.TargetFileName) Source=$(var.App.TargetPath) DiskId=1 KeyPath=yes / File Id=AppConfig

[WiX-users] Custom dialogs - once more

2010-05-26 Thread xxxxxx
Hi wix users, I admit, I am not creating wix packages the whole day long, and so I look into wix from time to time when I need to create an installer for a software. So far I managed to click together simple installers which copy some files. Now I want to go one step further: what is missing

Re: [WiX-users] Custom dialogs - once more

2010-05-26 Thread Pally Sandher
1 - answered an almost identical question yesterday funnily enough with a link to the documentation page explaining exactly how to do what you're asking - http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/WixUI_customizations.htm 2 - That's a standard part of the WiX UI has been for a very long time -

Re: [WiX-users] Component with feature condition not actioned

2010-05-26 Thread Pally Sandher
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Re: [WiX-users] Component with feature condition not actioned

2010-05-26 Thread Nick Ramirez
The action state of a featre is supposedly set after CostFinalize. Trying it out, it seems that checking the action state in the condition of a component, as you've done here, evaluates to -1, unknown. I would have thought that it would always evaluate to 3, local, since the INSTALLLEVEL

Re: [WiX-users] Component with feature condition not actioned

2010-05-26 Thread Nick Ramirez
Okay. I think I understand this a bit more now. I think that the action state of components and features are figured out during the FileCost phase, but not set in stone and made available until after CostFinalize. Also, I believe that conditions on components and features are evaluated at the

[WiX-users] Advice

2010-05-26 Thread Adam Burton
Hi, I have a project that installs a web service with some XML files. Currently IIS is not configured by WiX, so for the most part it just dumps the files in a specified location and fixes some path details in its web.config. One of the requirements that has now surfaced is for the web service

Re: [WiX-users] Architectural advice needed

2010-05-26 Thread Blair
If your program's architecture will allow it, place each language-specific file into its own language-specific subfolder. -Original Message- From: David Watson [mailto:dwat...@sdl.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 2:02 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.

Re: [WiX-users] ServiceInstall Problem

2010-05-26 Thread Blair
Make sure you have marked those properties as secure (see the proper...@secure attribute). -Original Message- From: vjt [mailto:victor.jara.telv...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 7:51 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] ServiceInstall Problem Hi all

Re: [WiX-users] Component with feature condition not actioned

2010-05-26 Thread Blair
Typically, if a component depends on a feature, it is simply included as part of that feature. -Original Message- From: Nick Ramirez [mailto:nickra...@hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 9:55 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Component with feature

Re: [WiX-users] Advice

2010-05-26 Thread Blair
You could try adding a custom action that adds (temporary) rows to the appropriate tables for the built-in actions that setup webservices. Bob called them semi-custom actions. (http://www.joyofsetup.com/2007/07/01/semi-custom-actions/) Just make sure that you save and/or compute somehow the

Re: [WiX-users] Change Text of LicenseAgreementDlg from Next to Install

2010-05-26 Thread Blair
You would need to replace LicenseAgreementDlg (via copy/change). There are several references in this list to blogs that describe replacing dialogs. -Original Message- From: Martin Maurer [mailto:capiman26061...@gmx.de] Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 12:01 PM To: General discussion for

[WiX-users] debugging CA dll generated by MakeSfxCA

2010-05-26 Thread John Ketchpaw
So I've got a strange nut I can't seem to crack. If I create a clean DLL with the following, I have no problems: namespace GarbageLib { public class InstallerCA { [CustomAction] public static ActionResult CheckPID(Session session) { return

Re: [WiX-users] debugging CA dll generated by MakeSfxCA

2010-05-26 Thread John Ketchpaw
Lucky me! I just figured out my problem: In my failing DLL, I put the code inside the following: namespace Panopto.Data { public static class InstallerCA { [CustomAction] public static ActionResult CheckPID(Session session) { return