[WiX-users] Problem with PathEdit and PushButton

2011-05-02 Thread Anette P
Hi all, I have a problem with PathEdit and PushButton. During my installation a folder with some subfolders is created. You can change the path during the installation. I did it with PathEdit and PushButton. If I use PushButton to change the folder, everything works fine. If I just change the

Re: [WiX-users] Creatin User Group and add current user into it

2011-05-02 Thread Rahul Ramesh Ekbote
Hi Christopher, I am facing one problem with create group CustomAction. I created custom action in C# however it is not executing when I am running .msi by double clicking, however if I run command prompt with Run as Administrator then it work fines. So what I need to do to run .msi as Run as

[WiX-users] Is it possible to launch an HTA from an MSI built using WiX?

2011-05-02 Thread Simpson, John R
With the help of the WiX documentation and excellent tutorial at http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/, I've been able to create a WXS/MSI installer that does everything I need except launch the HTA application when the install completes. Double-clicking the HTA after the install runs the app as

[WiX-users] Patches and locale transforms

2011-05-02 Thread Michael Tissington
I'm trying to get my head around creating a patch. I have built an msi that supports different locals by embedding locale transforms into the single msi. Given this msi, what are the steps to create the patch? Can I still use the wixpdbs for each language and if so how? Or do I have to work

Re: [WiX-users] Is it possible to launch an HTA from an MSI built using WiX?

2011-05-02 Thread Christopher Painter
.hta files are documents not programs.  You have to invoke the Microsoft HTML Application Host ( mshta ) to open/process them. --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me --- On

Re: [WiX-users] Error 2726: Action not found: WelcomeForm

2011-05-02 Thread Tobias S
Hi, maybe a bit late.. but better late then never ;-) Got the issue when installing using reduced mode (msiexec /i MySetup.msi /l*v MyLog.log /qr): ... MSI (c) (74:0C) [07:19:07:760]: Doing action: WelcomeDlg Action 7:19:07: WelcomeDlg. Action start 7:19:07: WelcomeDlg. DEBUG: Error 2726:

Re: [WiX-users] Error 2726: Action not found: WelcomeForm

2011-05-02 Thread Umeshj
Better late than never is right! Install logs do sometime show these error messages but as I have indicated earlier nothing is amiss. So we decided to ignore the benign error. Thanks for reassuring me that others have also seen this weird behavior. It may just be an undocumented bug in the

Re: [WiX-users] Is it possible to launch an HTA from an MSI built using WiX?

2011-05-02 Thread Simpson, John R
Thank you, that got me pointed in the right direction. For anyone running into this issue or a similar one in the future, here is the detailed solution. It is not limited to HTA applications. I needed to run C:\Windows\System32\mshta.exe C:\path\rbs.Configure.hta when the install completed

Re: [WiX-users] Creatin User Group and add current user into it

2011-05-02 Thread Sharad Patel
Have you tried setting the Impersonate attribute to no in your CustomAction element? http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix2/wix_xsd_customaction.htm -Original Message- From: Rahul Ramesh Ekbote [mailto:rahu...@microsoft.com] Sent: Tuesday, 3 May 2011 12:06 a.m. To:

Re: [WiX-users] Creatin User Group and add current user into it

2011-05-02 Thread Sudheer Kumar Kusuma (Accenture)
Use NET LOCALGROUP to create localgroups and add users over c# custom action Thanks, Sudheer |OEM Build Operations Team -Original Message- From: Sharad Patel [mailto:spa...@winscribe.com] Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 1:09 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.

Re: [WiX-users] [Wix-users] Recursive preprocessor variables

2011-05-02 Thread maksim.vazhenin
Hi Aaronc, WiX preprocessor does not support recursive variables. You can write a preprocessor extension for this purpose. If you have a rather big common part for different modules (with Porperties, CustomActions, CustomTables) you may think about using .wxi files (pass parameters to it by

Re: [WiX-users] Problem with PathEdit and PushButton

2011-05-02 Thread Umeshj
Shouldn't your PathEdit control have Property=_BrowseProperty ? Look at how _BrowseProperty is used in the DirectoryCombo, DirectoryList and PathEdit. http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson8.php -- View this message in context: