[WiX-users] Application's icons still appearing in windows Explorer even after uninstall

2011-08-28 Thread Brad Smith
Hi, I'm registering a filetype associated with my program's executable in Windows 7, and it works perfectly: ... !-- Registration of file types -- ProgId Id='WixExample01.wixexample' Description='WixExample01 data file' Extension Id='wixexample'

Re: [WiX-users] Setting date and time of files in a cabinet

2011-08-28 Thread Rob Mensching
Yes. The WiX toolset preserves the date/timestamp of the files on disk to the .cab. On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:30 AM, Tobias S tobias.s1...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe do that with a MSBuild task in the BeforeBuild Target or some other place before building the installation?

Re: [WiX-users] Preserve generated files on MajorUpgrade, but remove on uninstall

2011-08-28 Thread Rob Mensching
A verbose log file should show you the value for all the properties and the states of the Components. On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Sameer Arora arora...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have defined a component to cleanup a generated (not part of msi) file on uninstall but leave intact on a major

Re: [WiX-users] ICE57 errors on a per-machine install

2011-08-28 Thread Bob Arnson
On 25-Aug-11 16:05, Bernie Schoch wrote: I have a per-machine install. Not exactly. Because that's controlled by the ALLUSERS public property, a user could pass in ALLUSERS= to try to make it a per-user install. So ICE57 is telling you that. You can choose to ignore or pacify it. --

Re: [WiX-users] file content dependent delta patch bug within windows xp?

2011-08-28 Thread Bob Arnson
On 25-Aug-11 16:29, Alexander Stock wrote: issue. Therefore it seems we stumbled over a serious but rare apply delta patch bug, most probably within the MSI functionality on Windows XP. Quite probable: For example, Office patches used to ship in both binary-delta and full-file versions; for

Re: [WiX-users] UI Sequence table in for advertised-shortcut triggered repair

2011-08-28 Thread Bob Arnson
On 28-Aug-11 17:31, Sameer Arora wrote: Why is UI sequence table missing/empty when repair is triggered by the advertised shortcut? Because resiliency repairs are always run in basic UI. That can't be changed. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/

Re: [WiX-users] UI Sequence table in for advertised-shortcut triggered repair

2011-08-28 Thread Sameer Arora
Appreciate your response, it clarifies a lot. Our regular repair through ARP is configured to bring up a custom UI dialog asking for a windows service logon account. Since this is suppressed in resiliency repair, the service installation fails, causing the entire repair to fail. I guess I could