Re: [WiX-users] WiX training in the US (or at least in English)?

2012-02-14 Thread Tobias S
Sometimes German Training centers offer English trainings as well. SD Technologies, which offers the German speaking WiX Training has an english speaking contact form for their trainings (http://www.sd-technologies.com/training.html). Maybe they arrange English speaking training upon request. For

[WiX-users] FW: WiX using with MSBuild can't reference other project: error CNDL0150: Undefined preprocessor variable

2012-02-14 Thread Ruslan Albu
Hi, I use Votive (WiX 3.5) with VS 2008. I have added two projects in the solution. One is a WiX project and another one is a library project which implements a CustomAction. WiX project references the library: ItemGroup ProjectReference

Re: [WiX-users] WiX and dynamic file linking

2012-02-14 Thread TimM
Sorry, I did not mean during Minor/Patch creation that files can be deleted, but during regular development that they can be. As long as each component is correctly set up with single folder link and a static key file then each build will not generate a new guid/keyfile. Anyways as I mentioned I

Re: [WiX-users] Very simplest bundle not working

2012-02-14 Thread Peter Hull
I've rechecked and it works fine on the beta version (build 2221 I think) - so is this a regression or have I made a mistake in my wxs file? I would appreciate it if someone could have a quick check of this for me. Or should I file a bug? Thanks,Pete

[WiX-users] Bootstrapper Setup Failed - 0x80070645

2012-02-14 Thread Rody, Herbert M (Marshall)
Hello, I am having difficulty getting a chained .msi install to work using Burn to create my setup. It appears to install correctly and then at the end, a Setup Failed dialog with 0x80070645 - This action is only valid for products that are currently installed. The .msi payload looks like it

[WiX-users] Bundle rollback during install is not correct

2012-02-14 Thread Ian Williams
I have wixstdba bundle with MSI packages A, B, C, D, E. They are all marked as vital and the chain explicitly says DisableRollback=no. There are no RollbackBoundary elements, either. I'm using a wix build 3.6.2527.0. During install, if I click the cancel button during package C's

[WiX-users] How to downcase a public property?

2012-02-14 Thread Jeff McCune
Hi, I'm running into a problem where I need to configure my application with something resembling the computer name. I'm currently doing this using the remember property pattern. Here's the code [1] where I'm setting the public property to the default value of [ComputerName] This works well

Re: [WiX-users] How to downcase a public property?

2012-02-14 Thread Christopher Painter
If you are really serious about simplying setup and making it bulletproof you should push back at your application developers and challenge why they need the hostname to be lower cased. The code that reads the XML should to it's own .ToLower() if it's that important to them. Otherwise you'll

Re: [WiX-users] How to downcase a public property?

2012-02-14 Thread Jeff McCune
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Christopher Painter chr...@iswix.com wrote: If you are really serious about simplying setup and making it bulletproof you should push back at your application developers and challenge why they need the hostname to be lower cased.  The code that reads the XML

Re: [WiX-users] How to downcase a public property?

2012-02-14 Thread Jeff McCune
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Jeff McCune j...@puppetlabs.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Christopher Painter chr...@iswix.com wrote: If you are really serious about simplying setup and making it bulletproof you should push back at your application developers and challenge why