Re: [WiX-users] Detecting MSI dependencies

Ah I didn't realise that, shame really 'cos it would work really well. On uninstall FindRelatedProducts is run doesn't that populate the upgrade table? Mandar, You could use a registry search for the product/upgrade code but it is not easy in my experience. Neil -Original Message- From:

Re: [WiX-users] shortcuts

Do you mean the display order in the program file group? If so there isn't any documented why to control that order (I think it is in alphabetical order). Neil -Original Message- From: subramanyeswari [mailto:sravi...@yahoo.com] Sent: 15 June 2010 06:03 To:

Re: [WiX-users] Pressing ESc Key in the install Finish screen

Look at this control: Control Id=Finish Type=PushButton ... Default=yes Cancel=yes Text=$(loc.WixUIFinish) It says whatever the localized WixUIFinish string is (I assume Finish) and is the button clicked if you press the Enter key and the button clicked if you press the Esc key. So,

Re: [WiX-users] Question about register .net COM object

Hello, this is a working example of a COM object registration: Component Id=COMComponent Guid=insert GUID here File Id=DtmDll Source=YOUR_DLL_NAME_HERE KeyPath=yes / Class Id={$(var.C_DtmClassId)} Context=InprocServer32 Description=$(var.C_DtmDll) ForeignServer=mscoree.dll ProgId

[WiX-users] MaintenanceWelcomeDlg bitmaps

Hi all: I have created a msi with customized bitmaps (the company logo and all that stuff). While doing a normal installation, the images looks good; the problem comes when I try to make a patch: the msp file continues using the default bitmaps. In one of the files I've included the following:

[WiX-users] installlocation

Hi, I mean my msi is not copying the files in the correct path(installed path of an application) during modifying option. How to get the installed path for an application during the install and how to use that path during modify option of an msi. Can any one give me an idea/example on how to

Re: [WiX-users] Pressing ESc Key in the install Finish screen

Thanks for the pointer. Setting cancel=no fixed the issue. - Andy BuildDeployment Schneider Electric -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Pressing-ESc-Key-in-the-install-Finish-screen-tp5176628p5181151.html Sent from the wix-users

[WiX-users] Best practice: Upgrade XML Config File (.Net)

Hi, I search a good solution to upgrade an already installed .Net application. In this .Net application we have standard xml-config files, which has only settings with application scope. I have searched for many forum entries and it seems that nobody has useful information about it. The logic

[WiX-users] XMLFile

Hi, I have the following node (file.dtsConfig): Configuration ConfiguredType=Property Path=\Package.Variables[User::path].Properties[Value] ValueType=String ConfiguredValue\\convs07\Historicalfile:///\\convs07\Historical Integration\DataFarm\WIT\Files\/ConfiguredValue

Re: [WiX-users] Converting Reg File(s) to WXS

Since I have a hybrid InstallShield / WiX environment, I typically import the regfile into an IS Merge Module, build it, dark it and steal it.     - Original Message From: Andy Clugston clug...@gmail.com To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.

Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.0 error with .net 4

The old APIs will continue to work fine, even though they are deprecated. You just need the updated config file in order to target .NET 4. It looks like the main reason the old APIs are deprecated is because the new set of APIs support loading multiple simultaneous versions of the CLR into the

Re: [WiX-users] XMLFile

The error says that it can't find the node specified by the XmlFile/@XPath. The syntax looks correct. I wonder if there are XML namespaces involved here. Edwin G. Castro Software Developer - Staff Electronic Banking Services Fiserv Office: 503-746-0643 Fax: 503-617-0291 www.fiserv.com Please

Re: [WiX-users] XMLFile

Your XML is malformed: ConfiguredValue\\convs07\Historicalfile:///\\convs07\Historical Integration\DataFarm\WIT\Files\/ConfiguredValue Should be either: ConfiguredValue![CDATA[\\convs07\Historicalfile:///\\convs07\Historical Integration\DataFarm\WIT\Files\]]/ConfiguredValue Or

Re: [WiX-users] Best practice: Upgrade XML Config File (.Net)

Author your installer package as a Major Upgrade. That will give you a package that can do fresh installs and upgrades. Xml schema/content migration is something I haven't figured out how to do acceptably within a MSI package. I'm very interested in hearing how others tackle this problem.

[WiX-users] shared config file clobbering

I have an XML config file which is shared by three products. Each installer currently uses util:XmlFile actions to put appropriate information in the config file. When only one product is installed, this works fine, but when two or more are installed, the last one installed clobbers the config of

Re: [WiX-users] Question about register .net COM object

The other thing to worry about is that RegAsm on an assembly will generate a type library and register it. RegAsm /regfile will create you a reg file but will not generate any type library Interface entries. Whether this matters or not depends on your COM interfaces, but if it does matter then

Re: [WiX-users] Converting Reg File(s) to WXS

I have a question: How would you prefer to associate a .REG file with a binary if you were harvesting an entire directory? Are your .reg files named the same as your .dll/.exe files? -Original Message- From: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@deploymentengineering.com] Sent: Tuesday,

Re: [WiX-users] shared config file clobbering

If your base XML file (as shared by all three products) is fairly static, you should be able to create a shared component (a component where the GUID and the directory are the same for all three products). If your XML transformations can be applied in any order, you shouldn't have any problem

[WiX-users] Modify Ini File in a merge module or How to use DirectorySearch to look for a directory inside the package

Hi there, I have the following setting: 1 merge module, 1 product The merge module contains an ini file which has to be updated based on user Input form a custom dialog. So we have the following situation: There is a property named CMSHOST which contains the respective value that should be

Re: [WiX-users] Modify Ini File in a merge module or How to use DirectorySearch to look for a directory inside the package

Look in a verbose log. It is possible that INIPATH has the merge module's GUID appended to it in its name. -Original Message- From: Jonas Kahlert [mailto:jonas.kahl...@docufy.de] Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 4:58 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Modify Ini

Re: [WiX-users] Detecting MSI dependencies

FindRelatedProdcuts returns without doing any work (a verbose log tells you it is because it is a maintenance installation). I wrote a custom action one time that parsed the Upgrade table and set properties (at the time I called it FindRelatedProductsMinor). It might be a good candidate to throw

Re: [WiX-users] installlocation

I'm assuming you are not trying to change your install directories in your maintenance transaction. Already installed components should be correctly repairing in the location they were previously installed into. Components that were not previously installed as well as custom actions that use

[WiX-users] need help ! Error on Windows7

Hi, I would like to include 3 party program into my installer as below (wix 3.0). Binary Id=installer SourceFile=setup-couchdb-0.11.0.exe / CustomAction Id=couchInstall BinaryKey=installer ExeCommand=setup-couchdb-0.11.0.exe /DIR=quot;[INSTALLDIR]couchDB quot;

Re: [WiX-users] Detecting MSI dependencies

Thanks Blair that is useful to know (I can see it in the uninstall log now I look closely). Mandar, I think the other place to look is the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\UpgradeCodes but you need to convert your UpgradeCode to a compressed GUID. Neil -Original