Your problems arent wix specific. This might help
http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_tree.asp
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From: Sravan Kumar Rangaraju [mailto:sravan_rangar...@mindtree.com]
Sent: 06 October 2010 05:45
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re:
You still have unmatched element pairs something like this.
Directory -- This is on line 57
Component
...
/Component -- this is on line 62
You need to remove a Directory or add a /Directory somewhere that is
appropriate to your code.
Use a folding editor or auto-format your document to
Hello all,
when an exception is thrown in my CA, no line numbers are passed in the
StackTrace.
I've built a debug version of my project, already packed the according .pdb
files to the CA-dll as it was suggested in this post:
I have created a single msi installation package that is meant to be downloaded
over the internet. How can I verify that the downloaded package is intact?
I would like to have a feature similar to NSIS's. When the downloaded package
is damaged it gives a message like:
Installer Integrity check
Hi All, I am having some trouble and need to blow the dust off of this one.
Still using WiX v3.0.
I have created an automated build infrastructure using heat.exe which
utilizes the * for component GUIDs. As stated in this thread originally, I
have a product that was released (v1.0.0) with hard
Many utilities that create self extracting archive will include such a
function. It will also help you avoid the problem where MSIs downloaded from
the web are renamed by the browser, which causes them to break - you arent
allowed to rename an MSI.
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From: Gáspár Gyozo
Can you post the .wxs fragment it's complaining about?
Michael
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From: Sravan Kumar Rangaraju [mailto:sravan_rangar...@mindtree.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 6:13 AM
To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.'
Subject: [WiX-users] Error while
Yes, heat and tallow ran on win7 x64.
Are there any written rules one must follow when trying to gather
registry information? Must the machine be 32-bit, etc...? These are
32-bit c++ dlls.
Thanks,
Jon
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Blair os...@live.com wrote:
You don't say if the XP is 32
Clarification, I said it was an RC build, however it is the actual RTM I'm
using.
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From: Will Sullivan [mailto:wsulli...@softdocs.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 3:26 PM
To: WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] TFS 2010RC build server + Tracker.exe
This is the expected behavior for that configuration. The problem is that
since your component GUIDs don't line up from v1.0.0 to v1.0.1 the upgrade
installs the new components and then after InstallFinalize removes the old
components because it is not able to properly reference count them using
Hi Mike,
Thanks for the info. What you stated is what I am seeing in the verbose
logs. I see where the files are being copied, and then I see where they are
being removed. Doing a diff between the good v1.0.0 case and the bad
v1.0.0 case makes it obvious.
So if I understand you on the
Hi Andy,
Either setting After=InstallValidate or Before=InstallInitialize will
work, you don't need to specify both. I was just giving you the
restrictions on sequencing for the upgrade to work.
With this setup a rollback to v1.0.0 would not occur if your v1.0.1 MSI
fails after
Hi all,
I'd like to allow users to either install a Web Application to the
Default Web Site or to create a new Site. How would I do this? How can I
remove a website on uninstall only if it was created during install? And
how do I actually find the Default Web Site? Is it named the same
We are trying to build a MSI package that includes multiple files and total
size of all files around 2.3 GB.
While building we get the error below, Whats the best solution to fix this
error?
2light.exe(0,0): error LGHT0296: An error (E_FAIL) was returned while
adding files to a CAB file. This
It is recommended that COM dlls be harvested on a machine that approximates
the target machine as close as possible. Realize that due to the nature of
harvesting that there could always be discrepancies and that the only way to
know you have it right is to have the developer who makes the object
I'm using 2010 RTM but I'm not getting errors like that. Then again, my
build agents are using domain accounts instead of NetworkService.
Sometimes A/V has been known to interfere with build tools. Have you tried
exempting the C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService\AppData\Local\Temp
directory
Light problems aside, I don't recommend you do this period. There are some
walls you will hit at install time in terms of performance and errors that can
happen when certain versions of windows don't have the right hotfixes or tons
of
memory available. An installer that big is likely
Either reduce the size of your installation package,
raise Media/@CompressionLevel to a higher compression level, or split your
installation package's files into more than one CAB file.
I would recommend the latter. Make a second Media/ element (give it an
Id=2 and a slightly different name than
When one specifies Override, the other one will replace (you tag the one
that can be changed). You can verify which you ended up with by opening the
MSI in Orca (or any other MSI table editor/viewer). If neither is
overridden, the linker will fail because the action is not allowed in the
table
Andy,
If you have a RemoveExistingProducts action scheduled in one location in
your common element and another scheduled elsewhere in your Product
consuming the common WiX I'm pretty sure you would get a compilation error.
You could set something up in your common WiX fragments/include to
Hi,
We added a feature in our installer. The feature is a plugin for Outlook.
We defined a Feature element in our Wix file. We also integrated
CustomizeDlg in our version of WixUI_InstallDir.wxs. Things work fine.
Here are two more requirements:
1. If the end user chooses NOT to install this
I know you prefaced your opion with ideal but I'll just say where I work
finding a developer who will admit knowing anything about COM is getting really
difficult. So what I do is approximate the COM as good as I can and go deploy
the package. If anyone reports a problem I grab a program
You need to make the maintenancetype dialog send the changebutton to the
customize dialog in your version of wixui_installdir. Also, ARPNOMODIFY
should NOT be defined.
Change can be used to both add and remove features without removing the
entire product.
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From:
The aggregate quality of the practitioners of our craft does seem to be
sliding downhill, doesn't it? I've even read that they have even been
dumbing down the educational achievement necessary to get a CompSci degree
this past decade. People in general seem to just want to get their work
done and
Wow, that's fast. I appreciate that, Blair.
I just made the code changes by following your instructions and did some basic
testing. It works fine. We'll do more testing.
Thanks again, Blair!
From: Blair os...@live.com
To: General discussion for Windows
So, the answer is good luck using harvesting tools as they may not
always work. Not really a confidence booster, but they seem to work
for the most part.
Thanks,
Jon
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Blair os...@live.com wrote:
The aggregate quality of the practitioners of our craft does seem to
Pretty much; COM extracting is a black art. Sometimes it works and sometimes it
doesn't. I'll admit it, I'm not a COM god. But I keep a variety of tools at
my
side ( InstallShield COM extract, Heat Harvesting, OleView, InstallWatch ) and
make good use of version control, build automation
So you're assuming that whoever wrote the error message included three
different ways to fix the problem, but chose not to mention the best way? Why
do you assume that?
From: vivekanandan balaguru [mailto:vivb...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 7:49 PM
We are trying to build
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