[WiX-users] Custom Action exe file run on background

2014-01-30 Thread Fedor Pranovich
Sorry! But I have forgot to say that in Windows XP all work correct. It problem is in Windows 7. Best Regards, Fedor Pranovich -- WatchGuard Dimension instantly turns raw network data into actionable security

Re: [WiX-users] Imperfect install leading to repair.

2014-01-30 Thread Keith.Douglas
I've determined that this cannot be it, as I tried it on a machine and found that the file was missing without doing any reboots. Thanks for the thought, though, Scott. Keith Douglas Statistics Canada | 170 Tunney's Pasture Driveway, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6 Statistique Canada | 170, promenade

Re: [WiX-users] Imperfect install leading to repair.

2014-01-30 Thread Keith.Douglas
Hi Phil, thanks for answering. I don't think this is it; Windows installer 4.x is on Windows 7, correct? That's the target here (though the symptoms appear on Vista as well). In any case, this install does not use the GAC. (It does do the implicit program files - program files (x86) map,

Re: [WiX-users] relationship between components and features

2014-01-30 Thread Marek Mielcarek
I understand and agree with what you said. One would think that Feature container and references assure proper isolation. If MSI does not support that wix compiler should (i.e. inject extra condition). Instead wix silently accepts erroneous, or at least, very misleading construct. Thank you

Re: [WiX-users] relationship between components and features

2014-01-30 Thread Rob Mensching
Ahh, very subjective that. There are a great many different ways this can go and your suggestion is only one of them. More importantly, it sounds like you may still be in transition from thinking procedurally to declaratively. This is old blog entry of mine mostly about XML but a little about

Re: [WiX-users] relationship between components and features

2014-01-30 Thread John Cooper
What would you inject? Conditions on the Feature can be just about anything. For example, I have a Feature in one project that is conditioned on the existence of ADFS 2.0. If ADFS 2.0 is not installed, the Feature is disabled. The corollary to that is that all the Components of that feature

[WiX-users] Burn: .Net 4.5 installer not running

2014-01-30 Thread David J. D'Amico
I have setup a burn bundle that should installer the .NET 4.5 framework if it does not exist. I works in some cases, but not in others. I posted a question on Stackoverflow.com with the details: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21196507/prerequisite-not-running-on-condition-failure If anyone

Re: [WiX-users] Imperfect install leading to repair.

2014-01-30 Thread Phil Wilson
Pilot error is just a euphemism for an error in the MSI. If the component is transitive, for example, it's presence depends on the value of a property that may change in different scenarios. There may be a custom action or other code that removes it. There's just a lot of scope for things to

Re: [WiX-users] relationship between components and features

2014-01-30 Thread Rob Mensching
That reminds me, actions should always (with rare exception) be conditioned based on Component states not Features. Thus those action should be in the same Fragment as the Component (which they probably are below). I've not run into many cases where I'd use Feature states in conditions.

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action exe file run on background

2014-01-30 Thread Phil Wilson
Assuming I understand what you're doing, it won't work on Windows 7. The short story is that you are not impersonating, therefore you are trying to run something with the system account and have it show UI on the interactive user's desktop. I don't think you are allowed to do that in a UAC world.

[WiX-users] Event Source Manifests and Wix .... is there a good example?

2014-01-30 Thread Thomas Tomiczek
Now that the .NET team finally has released a usable version of the event source at https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Diagnostics.Tracing.EventSource with v 1.0.16 - one that also supports the admin channel - the task is on me to get it into some of our programs. I am stuck in the

Re: [WiX-users] relationship between components and features

2014-01-30 Thread John Cooper
To be clear, in my example both the Feature and the Components are conditioned on a public property loaded by a registry entry. I have used Feature states, but only to control UI dialog flow. -- John Merryweather Cooper Build Install Engineer – ESA Jack Henry Associates, Inc.® Shawnee

Re: [WiX-users] Event Source Manifests and Wix .... is there a good example?

2014-01-30 Thread Rob Mensching
If EventManifest can't do it, it'd be ideal to help improve it rather than one off your own custom action. smile/ -Original Message- From: Thomas Tomiczek [mailto:t.tomic...@nettecture.com] Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 10:44 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML

Re: [WiX-users] relationship between components and features

2014-01-30 Thread Rob Mensching
UI flow, that is a place to use Feature conditions. I've forgotten about that. I've moved to Burn based UI for everything myself. smile/ -Original Message- From: John Cooper [mailto:jocoo...@jackhenry.com] Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 10:47 AM To: General discussion about the WiX

Re: [WiX-users] Burn: util:ProductSearch logging 3 errors when no matching product found

2014-01-30 Thread Rob Mensching
That error indicates the type could not be updated. My first guess is that it signifies something internally going awry. -Original Message- From: Bruce Cran [mailto:br...@cran.org.uk] Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 11:07 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject:

Re: [WiX-users] 0x80096005: timestamp signature and/or certificate could not be verified

2014-01-30 Thread roberthyang
Thanks everyone for the advice ! SuppressSignatureVerification=yes worked for this user. Another tidbit is that he was running the EXE as admin, and interestingly the UAC prompt showed unknown for the publisher name. When I try the same thing I see a prompt with our company name. I'm tempted

Re: [WiX-users] 0x80096005: timestamp signature and/or certificate could not be verified

2014-01-30 Thread Rob Mensching
If his machine doesn't have up to date root certifiates then the UAC prompt isn't going to be able to verify the bundle executable any better than the payloads. smile/ We're actually considering removing the Authenticode signature verification inside Burn due to issues like this. The benefits