Re: [WiX-users] CustomAction that needs to figure out the destination path

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 6:26 AM, Blair os...@live.com wrote: Depends on when your custom action is scheduled. Can you describe in more detail what you are trying to achieve? My installer installs an empty database. On upgrade, I need to call a stored procedure on said database. My plan was to

[WiX-users] old unanswered question regarding to Dialog Close button

Hi, I searched a lot online, but did not hit a result. The question is how the installer make the decision to enable or disable the dialog X(close) button on top right corner. There is no dialog attribute to control it, but sometimes it just disabled, for example:

Re: [WiX-users] CustomAction that needs to figure out the destination path

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 1:56 AM, Bob Arnson b...@joyofsetup.com wrote: Deferred custom actions can only get a couple of system properties. To get any other properties (public or not), you need an immediate CA that writes CustomActionData for the deferred CA. Funnily enough, this played

[WiX-users] WMI Provider Registration

Hi, I am trying to register the wmi provider(basically a dll file) through WIX Script. Using GacUtil and Install.exe tools, I can able to register. Many people suggested that GacUtil is not advisable.. Is there any other way to register the WMI Provider?? Thank You, Preethi

Re: [WiX-users] DIFxApp does not properly rollback to the old driverwhen doing a major upgrade

I emailed difxt...@microsoft.com and received this response. AFAIK, Difx doesn’t do anything to explicitly support RemoveExistingProducts. The scenario described on that page would require it to rollback a partial install of a new driver and the previous uninstall of the old driver. The

Re: [WiX-users] old unanswered question regarding to Dialog Close button

afaik not possible except for modal dialogs. Assume here Tramontana shows such one. By default this is not a possible requirement for Windows Installer. Regards, Tobias 2011/4/27 william lee wele...@gmail.com: Hi, I searched a lot online, but did not hit a result. The question is how the

Re: [WiX-users] Ordering features in the custom setup dialog

Possibly 3 years too late to help Flavio... ...but for anyone else who has the same problem: There is a slight improvement that can be made over putting your feature specifications under the Product element. Instead of using FeatureRef element to refer to feature specifications, what can be

[WiX-users] Problem installing password protected PFX certificate

Hi,I'm having some trouble getting a password protected PFX certificate to install through WiX. I'm using WiX 3.5.2519.0. I include a PFX file as follows: Binary Id=My.Binary SourceFile=$(var.ProjectDir)MyProject$(var.ConfigSuffix).pfx / The value of $(var.ConfigSuffix) varies based on solution

Re: [WiX-users] old unanswered question regarding to Dialog Close button

hmmm ... just, by accident figured out something interesting. The [X] seems to correspond with the [Cancel] Button. So when removing the Cancel button the Dialog Close / [X] gets disabled. Unfortunately this seems not be working for the ExitDialog. 2011/4/27 Tobias S tobias.s1...@gmail.com:

[WiX-users] Burn: Detecting: additional Package info

Hello. I have several questions about detecting mechanism in Burn. 1) DetectPackageCompleteEventArgs contains PackageId. Where could I use this information? Could I somehow get access to .msi itself, described in Chain with detected PackageId? 2) DetectMsiFeatureEventArgs contains

Re: [WiX-users] old unanswered question regarding to Dialog Close button

I'm curious: what happens if you include but disable the cancel button? -Original Message- From: Tobias S [mailto:tobias.s1...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 5:13 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] old unanswered question

Re: [WiX-users] old unanswered question regarding to Dialog Close button

Universe implodes. On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 3:07 AM, Blair os...@live.com wrote: I'm curious: what happens if you include but disable the cancel button? -Original Message- From: Tobias S [mailto:tobias.s1...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 5:13 AM To: General discussion

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[WiX-users] Registering a WMI interface

Currently I am having problems registering a WMI interface during a product upgrade. Currently I am using a custom action to directly access the exported functions in the file InstallUtilLib.dll. Everything functions as expected on a new install but when the product is upgraded but the wrong

[WiX-users] VC++ reditributable questions

Hello. First: the context: WiX v3.5, Windows 7 Enterprise I'm intending to install the VC++ 9.0 redistributable from it's msm as described in WiX's official documentation page [0] Yet, even when my msi size augments in the same size as the msm and I can see with Orca entrances related to the

[WiX-users] another noob question about customizing the standard dialog sets

I'm trying to customize the WixUI_Advanced dialog set, and had something fairly simple, but it doesn't seem to work the way I expected. I'd like the Welcome dialog to show up always (not just when doing a patch), so I copied the WixUI_Advanced.wxs internals and changed the InstallSequence at the

[WiX-users] Wix merge module troubles

I'm setting two properties using two different registry searches. One property consistently sets as expected; the other does not. I have confirmed in every install attempt that the registry key is indeed there, set as expected. With full logging passed into the msi, I see the following on the

Re: [WiX-users] VC++ reditributable questions

A merge module is merged into your MSI and becomes part of it, so you'll never find any evidence of VC runtime in Add/Remove Programs. If the VC++ files are already installed then yours won't be, perhaps subject to file version replacement rules, but if it's in the WinSxS folder you may see

[WiX-users] Using WixIIsExtension and IIsSchedule binary

Hello All, I am using WixIIsExtension in my setup. As a result of this I notice that there are 2 binaries which are getting added to MSI. 1) IIsSchedule 2) IIsExecute If I extract these binaries from MSI and look at the dlls I see that these are not signed. I looked at the wix3 code

[WiX-users] Run MSI with logging from Setup.exe

Hello All,   I want my msi to run always with /l*v logfile command parameters from setup.exe. I am generating setup.exe from Bootstrapper Manifest Generator. setup.exe will pass the command line parameters to msi file.but I dont want to send parameters to setup.exe to send to msi. I want msi to

Re: [WiX-users] Wix merge module troubles

Are you saying that you have a custom action that sets a registry value and then you use AppSearch to read the registry value in a custom action?   --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention?

Re: [WiX-users] Wix merge module troubles

No. I have a custom action in my installshield installer that sets a registry value before AppSearch. Then there are registrysearch actions in my wix merge modules, which get executed during appsearch. There are two of these registry searches; one works always because it is there before our