Re: [WiX-users] Burn in 3.6

1. Documentation in Burn is lacking. I personally still tend to optimize fixing bugs over writing documentation. If find this to be optimal because fixing bugs sometimes changes what the documentation would say. You might argue that lack of documentation prevents people from finding bugs (because

Re: [WiX-users] major upgrade from per-client to per-machine install

Thanks Peter! My intention is to prevent the install of per-machine msi until the user uninstalls his per-user installation. Thanks for the pointers into MSI API. I will take a look into that. Best,Martin> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:01:00 +0100 > From: pshirtcli...@sdl.com > To: wix-users@lists.

[WiX-users] Replacing .Net v.3 Assemblies with .Net v.4 Assemblies during Major Upgrade

Hello: I have an MSI developed with WIX, which packages (among other things) a few .Net DLLs. Recently, these .Net v.3 DLLs have been updated to .Net v.4. I noticed that after running an upgrade, the .Net v.3 Assemblies remain in the .Net 2 GAC (I noticed this after upgrades on Windows Ser

Re: [WiX-users] ExecuteSqlStrings fails with the Error 0x80004005: failed to connect to database: 'master'

Hello Yan I tried your test msi and it works fine as is on my machine, so it is going to be environment. The only other thing I could suggest you check is go to Sql Server Configuration Manager (should be in the Program Menu) and check the protocols being used - ensure that TCP/IP is enabled,

[WiX-users] Burn in 3.6

I know 3.6 is still under development, but documentation on Burn is few and far between. I've long wondered if wouldn't be nice to have a dumping spot to put some predefined templates. Ex: There are a lot of common prerequisites (.Net frameworks, Visual C++ runtimes, SQL Server CE, etc) that a l

[WiX-users] Patch generation...

Hi all, I am generating patches using wixpdbs. In this process does Wix tools need the location of the base version intacted?? In other words does Wix tools access the base version dlls/etc?? And what if in the same location I have build the newer version?? Thankx Kanishk --

Re: [WiX-users] AppSearch not working for a Multi string registry value.

Windows Installer doesn't support AppSearch on multi-sz. On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 2:36 AM, Uma Harano wrote: > Hi, > I am performing an AppSearch for this string: > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager > PendingFileRenameOperations. > I am setting this value to a pr

Re: [WiX-users] Executing an application after installation

Did the WiX documentation not help you? This case is explicitly called out. On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 1:55 AM, Thomas Due wrote: > Hello, > > I have a configuration application that I wish to run always after my > installer have completed. > I don't want to have the application start until I clos

Re: [WiX-users] InstallCondition help on MsiPackage element

Right now: use a built in variable or create custom BA that sets a variable by reading the environment or create a custom BA and control the package state more directly. On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 6:13 AM, Sheehan, Andrew < andrew.shee...@childrens.harvard.edu> wrote: > Thanks Rob, > > Could you rec

Re: [WiX-users] InstallCondition help on MsiPackage element

Thanks Rob, Could you recommend an approach that will work with element? -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 4:52 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] InstallCondition he

Re: [WiX-users] major upgrade from per-client to per-machine install

Which per-user one ? There could be multiple per-user installations on a machine. You'd have to be an admin to detect the per-user installation of another user. The other users might not be too happy if someone came along and removed their installation if it had some user-specific configuration/cu

Re: [WiX-users] major upgrade from per-client to per-machine install

Hi everyone, Is there a way to detect per-user installation and so that per-machine install is prevented unless the per-user one is uninstalled first? Thank you, Martin Kulov > From: mar...@kulov.net > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:01:23 + > Subject: Re: [

[WiX-users] AppSearch not working for a Multi string registry value.

Hi, I am performing an AppSearch for this string: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager PendingFileRenameOperations. I am setting this value to a property called PENDING_RENAME. I ran the setup then analyzed the msi log file. During AppSearch, I see this entry in the

Re: [WiX-users] error TRCH0228 : The codepages of the outputsdonotmatch

Something Dave probably didn't spot is that you're building from wixpdbs whereas we are building from admin installations of MSIs. You've changed the MSI but I'm guessing the codepage is coming from wixpdb which won't have been changed. You could build your patch from admin installations or maybe t

[WiX-users] Executing an application after installation

Hello, I have a configuration application that I wish to run always after my installer have completed. I don't want to have the application start until I close the installer. The application is installed into the INSTALLDIR location. The custom action is defined like this: And called whe