Re: [WiX-users] Starting a service from an MSI

2014-05-19 Thread Phil Wilson
Services start from MSI installs countless times. There shouldn't be anything with that LocalService account either. It could be a missing dependency, if it's C++ and you're installing a runtime as a merge module or it's managed code with a dependency on an assembly in the GAC. In both those cases

Re: [WiX-users] Starting a service from an MSI

2014-05-19 Thread b . rasing
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Re: [WiX-users] using TARGETDIR from command line or default to C:\ProgramFiles\AppName

2014-05-19 Thread Prashanth Srinivasan
Thanks Dave and Pavan. I was able to get it working, thank you once again. Prashanth On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Pavan Konduru pavan.kond...@accelrys.comwrote: Dave is right, I overlooked that part. In your case, Root is what holds the path to installation, always a good idea to have

[WiX-users] Is there some existing tool I can use when I work with WiX localization?

2014-05-19 Thread Uni Gauldoth
Hi all, I'm sending wxl files to translators for translation. When the wxl file of japanese is processed, the translator need to preview the result msi dialog to adjust the text to confirm to some line breaking rules. I wonder if there is already some tools I can achieve this task. For example,

Re: [WiX-users] Is there some existing tool I can use when I work with WiX localization?

2014-05-19 Thread Steve-Ogilvie
Check out the ThmViewer.exe in the WIX bin folder. To view a theme file without having to build a bundle, you can use the ThmViewer.exe which is located in %WIX%\bin\. It sometimes is a hit and miss that it works, it is very fussy... Steve (for it to work I needed to copy ALL my resource

Re: [WiX-users] Is there some existing tool I can use when I work with WiX localization? [P]

2014-05-19 Thread Steven Ogilvie
Classification: Public Check out the ThmViewer.exe in the WIX bin folder. To view a theme file without having to build a bundle, you can use the ThmViewer.exe which is located in %WIX%\bin\. It sometimes is a hit and miss that it works, it is very fussy... Steve -Original Message-

[WiX-users] Uninstalling Service on Windows Server 2012 Not Removing Service

2014-05-19 Thread Greg Edwards
I have a WIX installer build to install a Windows Service. When the uninstaller is run on a Windows 8, it properly removes the service. But when run on a Windows Server 2012, the service remains. In order to remove the service on a 2012 server, we are forced to issue an sc.exe delete from the

Re: [WiX-users] What does '' and '!' inside CDATA[] do?

2014-05-19 Thread George Fleming
Based on suggestions given, I did more research on this issue. As I mentioned earlier, my custom action looks something like this: Custom Action='_xxx' After='_yyy' ![CDATA[!AAA=3 And PATCH And BBB=0]] /Custom Where AAA is a feature that should be installed (and I guess that's what !AAA=3

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstalling Service on Windows Server 2012 Not Removing Service

2014-05-19 Thread Fauzi Ashurex
Hey Greg, I use the following snipt to create an uninstall short cut to remove my installations and services for my product, this works for both Windows flavors: !-- Create shortcut for uninstall -- Directory Id=ProgramMenuFolder Directory Id=ShortcutFolder Name=[My Product

Re: [WiX-users] What does '' and '!' inside CDATA[] do?

2014-05-19 Thread George Fleming
Just another bit of information, my feature line looks something like this: Feature Id=AAA Title=AAA Description=This feature installs AAA Level=100 AllowAdvertise=no InstallDefault=local If AllowAdvertise is set to no, how is it on patching my installed state is Advertise? Could someone

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstalling Service on Windows Server 2012 Not Removing Service

2014-05-19 Thread Jeremy Farrell
No. What does a verbose log show? From: Greg Edwards [mailto:gedwa...@polariswireless.com] Sent: Monday, May 19, 2014 9:53 PM I have a WIX installer build to install a Windows Service. When the uninstaller is run on a Windows 8, it properly removes the service. But when run on a Windows

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstalling Service on Windows Server 2012 Not Removing Service

2014-05-19 Thread b . rasing
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[WiX-users] set references

2014-05-19 Thread Harold Wood (H10 Capital)
In my WIX project I need to set references to an EXE and also to .CAB file. I can set them up as a component which build fine on my box but without the references the project won't build on our production box. Is there a way to do this? Thanks Woody

Re: [WiX-users] What does '' and '!' inside CDATA[] do?

2014-05-19 Thread Phil Wilson
A possible explanation is that you're doing an update of some kind and you've broken the component rules, most likely by removing a component. Look at the rest of the log to see if there are any SELMGR entries and anything about removing components is not supported. --- Phil Wilson