Re: [WiX-users] How to refer WIX properties within .wxs files

2010-11-17 Thread Umeshj
I have a similar problem. However, this solution does not seem to work for me. I am trying to install an application to c:\PlatformSpecificProgramFilesFolder\[Manufacturer]\[ProductName] Here is the relevant directory structure ...

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Actions with elevated privledges

2010-11-17 Thread Rob Mensching
That will only work if you run it from the InstallUISequence and if you do a basic or silent mode install the InstallUISequence is skipped completely. Chaining from within an MSI just doesn't work the general (might work in very narrow use cases). That's why you need a bootstrapper. On Wed, Nov 1

Re: [WiX-users] Microsoft.Deployment.Compression support for ADS?

2010-11-17 Thread Jason Ginchereau
Sorry, it does not support ADS. The Windows native Cabinet API (CABINET.DLL, documented at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb432569.aspx) that it relies on does not have any mention of ADS. I honestly have not investigated it very much since ADS inside cabinets is so extremely rare. It m

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2010-11-17 Thread FrankenInUSA
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2010-11-17 Thread Matt Walker
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[WiX-users] Reference harvesting disabled in 3.6?

2010-11-17 Thread Hernán Martínez
While porting one project from VS Setup to Wix (first time with it) I found that Votive doesn't harvest any reference at all, only the project output. Since I haven't been able to change this behavior I've disabled all the Harvesting flag in every project and relied on a prebuild task that call

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Actions with elevated privledges

2010-11-17 Thread Grinden
Christian Froehlich wrote: > > Hi All, > > I have hit a conundrum here. I have an immediate custom action that gets a > list > of IIS application pools to be displayed in a ComboBox for user selection. > > Now as this needs to be executed before the user interface is shown, i > have made > t

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2010-11-17 Thread Andrei Korostelev
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Re: [WiX-users] Installer architecture design question

2010-11-17 Thread dB .
We had some experience with two similar scenarios and used to have one big MSI. That quickly turned out to be impractical in the long run, today we have a dozen MSIs that all install with a similar configuration, most frequently on a 1-box setup. I definitely suggest you follow the "many simple

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2010-11-17 Thread Matt Walker
-Original Message- From: Sean Farrow [mailto:sean.far...@seanfarrow.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 2:33 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] property not being used Hi: I'm trying to debug an installer whereby I need to find out what value a property ho

Re: [WiX-users] Visually Editing WXS Files

2010-11-17 Thread Tomasz Grobelny
On Tuesday 16 November 2010 21:55:40 christopher.m.er...@hotmail.com wrote: > After installing the WIX tools set and Votive for the Visual Studio > plugins what at is the best way to visually update/maintain the WIX > projects? Editing the WIX projects inside Visual Studio seems to just > provide

Re: [WiX-users] Installer architecture design question

2010-11-17 Thread Rob Mensching
Why do you want to drive this purely from an MSI? On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 1:10 AM, Timur Faizrakhmanov wrote: > Hi WiX community, > > > I have a question considering Architectural Design of an Installer rather > than explicit WiX usage. I would like to address this question to expert > Installer

Re: [WiX-users] property not being used

2010-11-17 Thread David Watson
Hi, You will need a propertyRef to get the compiler to pull in your property in as it is isolated in its own fragment. Dave -Original Message- From: Sean Farrow [mailto:sean.far...@seanfarrow.co.uk] Sent: 17 November 2010 07:33 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] pr

Re: [WiX-users] Visually Editing WXS Files

2010-11-17 Thread David Watson
I have used http://wixedit.sourceforge.net/ in the past I don't know if it supports wix 3.5 yet though. Only ever had a quick go at this http://www.indigorose.com/products/msi-factory/ Rob did a summary a while back too. http://www.robmensching.com/blog/posts/2007/11/20/WiX-editors Dave -O

[WiX-users] Installer architecture design question

2010-11-17 Thread Timur Faizrakhmanov
Hi WiX community, I have a question considering Architectural Design of an Installer rather than explicit WiX usage. I would like to address this question to expert Installer developers and MSI guru’s. We would like to have an installer, actually a set of installers, (preferably pure msi, no ex