Re: [WiX-users] SqlScript with large schema setup

2014-01-24 Thread Chad Petersen
We've run into this. Luckily the one largest SQL script is also the last one we need to execute so we removed it from the installer and just have customers run that one manually using SQL Management Studio. About 34 seconds to run through there while the installer takes an hour and a half to

Re: [WiX-users] Enable/Disable IIS AppPool's LogEventOnRecycle using WiX

2013-11-22 Thread Chad Petersen
For things IIS related not directly authored in WiX code I've found APPCMD.EXE to be a useful substitute in a custom action for those sorts of things. These are older and may be supported natively now, but some examples. CustomAction Id=ConfigureHiddenSegments Execute=deferred Impersonate=no

Re: [WiX-users] help needed including directories

2013-07-12 Thread Chad Petersen
I compiled and linked your example into an MSI and ran it and it works great. Notepad.exe and Readme.txt installed. Remember if you are on a 64-bit system you need to look in C:\Program Files (x86)\Example to find your installed files. -Original Message- From: Richard Silverstein

Re: [WiX-users] help needed including directories

2013-07-12 Thread Chad Petersen
example.wixobj With this, I do not get the FOLDER and abc.txt in the installed directory along with Notepad.exe and Readme.txt. Rick -Original Message- From: Chad Petersen [mailto:chad.peter...@harlandfs.com] Sent: Friday, July 12, 2013 1:18 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML

Re: [WiX-users] help needed including directories

2013-07-12 Thread Chad Petersen
with Notepad.exe and Readme.txt. Rick -Original Message- From: Chad Petersen [mailto:chad.peter...@harlandfs.com] Sent: Friday, July 12, 2013 1:18 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] help needed including directories I compiled and linked

Re: [WiX-users] Response file for silent installation

2013-05-15 Thread Chad Petersen
Look at what you pointed to. It's an article from 2006 dealing with InstallSheild 12 (NOT 2012) so it is very old. Some of it still applies to older projects but I don't think that applies to a Basic MSI project. If you run your MSI with MSIEXEC.EXE command line parameters to generate a

Re: [WiX-users] Hide/blank out Passwords in MSI log file

2013-05-02 Thread Chad Petersen
Try setting this Property Id= CA_WebAppPoolPassword.SetProperty Hidden=yes/ -Original Message- From: Steven Ogilvie [mailto:steven.ogil...@titus.com] Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 2:56 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Hide/blank out

Re: [WiX-users] Hide/blank out Passwords in MSI log file

2013-05-02 Thread Chad Petersen
If possible paste in a snippet of your log file around where the password is seen. I tried for a long time to hide passwords using the same method. But it was some built-in custom actions that were logging my passwords rather than code I'd written myself. Property Id=ConfigureIIsExec

Re: [WiX-users] Cannot create major upgrade installer

2013-03-28 Thread Chad Petersen
I'd bet you haven't changed this variable. Id=$(var.ProductCode) While in there make sure this is set to what you want also. Version=$(var.VersionNumber) Make sure you do keep this one the same (it is if you get the message you mentioned) UpgradeCode=$(var.UpgradeCode) -Original

Re: [WiX-users] Remove Existing Products

2013-02-15 Thread Chad Petersen
Check to see if the InstallShield is a Per-user or Per-machine install and compare that to your WiX installer. A per-user install can't be removed by a per-machine install. If ALLUSERS isn't set or is set to 0 then that's per-user. If ALLUSERS is set to 1 then it's per-machine. -Original

Re: [WiX-users] List of all InstallUISequence InstallExecuteSequence actions/events

2013-01-18 Thread Chad Petersen
+1 for Orca. I use it a ton to inspect the resulting MSI and see if it looks like it built like I wanted it to. You can sort by Sequence number in those two tables to see what relative order things go in. Very handy. -Original Message- From: John Cooper [mailto:jocoo...@jackhenry.com]

Re: [WiX-users] Changing DirectoryRef

2013-01-08 Thread Chad Petersen
these various Windows folders in my DIRECTORYREF its not taking. How can I overcome this problem. -Original Message- From: Chad Petersen [mailto:chad.peter...@harlandfs.com] Sent: 07 January 2013 23:28 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Changing

Re: [WiX-users] Changing DirectoryRef

2013-01-07 Thread Chad Petersen
In addition to that you might want to read up on the ROOTDRIVE property as it appears it is somewhat involved in the symptoms you are describing. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa371372(VS.85).aspx Also, don't forget about the well-known properties that identify various Windows

Re: [WiX-users] Drive Problem

2013-01-02 Thread Chad Petersen
If you gather a verbose log file you might search it for the word ROOTDRIVE. This property can alter where an installation automatically goes. You can set ROOTDRIVE manually in your WiX code, too. Property Id=ROOTDRIVE Value=C:\ / -Original Message- From: Chaitanya

Re: [WiX-users] Propogating Environmnet variables

2012-12-18 Thread Chad Petersen
That Windows for you. Existing CMD consoles don't get updated environment variables. Happens with no installer involved, too. For example, open a CMD Prompt. Then go to your Environment variables and alter your Path. The altered Path won't show up in the running CMD Prompt, but new CMD Prompts

Re: [WiX-users] Problem in Major upgrade

2012-11-07 Thread Chad Petersen
A person does need to use OnlyDetect=no to have a product removed. With it set to yes it will only detect that it is there, but not remove it. It's at least one thing to try. -Original Message- From: Chaitanya [mailto:chaita...@pointcross.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 1:43 AM

Re: [WiX-users] Getting values from listbox

2012-10-04 Thread Chad Petersen
Is your property all uppercase letters? Making it all uppercase makes it public, otherwise it is private. Also if the property is being set in the UI sequence and then being called in the Execute sequence you probably need to add it to SecureCustomProperties.

Re: [WiX-users] modify XML file using utils:XmlConfig...

2012-09-19 Thread Chad Petersen
Your ElementPath isn't pointing to anything beyond your root element of appplicationSettings, as far as I can tell. You need to use XPath to specify the inner text of that deeper element. Seems it is almost always some trial and error to nail these. I like to create a mini installer that does

Re: [WiX-users] Bug? UpgradeVersion element causing LGHT0094 error

2012-07-11 Thread Chad Petersen
I was able to get past this error in your example by adding this inside the Fragment InstallExecuteSequence RemoveExistingProducts After=InstallInitialize / /InstallExecuteSequence -Original Message- From: Don Walker [mailto:don.wal...@versaterm.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 11,

Re: [WiX-users] Question on RemoveFolderEx

2012-05-30 Thread Chad Petersen
What version of WiX are you using? I don't believe that RemoveFolderEx would be available until WiX 3.6. Something to consider, at least. -Original Message- From: Shyam Kannam [mailto:shyam.kan...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 10:44 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [WiX-users] Install Failed, Log Attached

2012-04-26 Thread Chad Petersen
Not sure it's what you want, but what I typically do in this case is run REGASM /Regfile to generate a .REG file and then use Heat to convert that .REG file into a .WXS fragment that I can then include in my project. -Original Message- From: Sam Youtsey [mailto:sam.yout...@gmail.com]

Re: [WiX-users] Setting MsiLogFileLocation property

2012-03-15 Thread Chad Petersen
I was also going to point out that Rob already responded with the same info and you don't get much more WiX Team than that. -Original Message- From: Wilson, Phil [mailto:phil.wil...@invensys.com] Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 11:07 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML

Re: [WiX-users] Setting MsiLogFileLocation property

2012-03-15 Thread Chad Petersen
A good test anyone can try. Run a command something like this. MSIEXEC.EXE /L*v C:\Foobar\test.log /I path to MSI For that log folder that you point to make sure the C:\Foobar directly DOES NOT EXIST. Note how MSIEXEC.EXE will simply error out rather than creating the Foobar folder in which

Re: [WiX-users] Setting MsiLogFileLocation property

2012-03-15 Thread Chad Petersen
-us/library/windows/desktop/aa372847.aspx Edwin G. Castro Software Developer - Staff Digital Channels Fiserv Office: 503-746-0643 Fax: 503-617-0291 www.fiserv.com Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail -Original Message- From: Chad Petersen

Re: [WiX-users] Mouseover

2012-03-05 Thread Chad Petersen
Check out the ToolTip attribute of the Control element. Should do exactly what you are looking for. At least that is how I use it. -Original Message- From: James DellaRosa [mailto:jdellar...@aspexcorp.com] Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 12:35 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [WiX-users] Mouseover

2012-03-05 Thread Chad Petersen
] Mouseover That works as far as a hover over event is concerned thanks! Now a more difficult concept... is there a way to make it so that the ToolTip attribute can reference another control, say a text control? -Original Message- From: Chad Petersen [mailto:chad.peter...@harlandfs.com] Sent

Re: [WiX-users] How to reference a wxs file from another

2012-03-02 Thread Chad Petersen
An option I use on the candle command line is just to pass an arg of *.wxs rather than calling each. Likewise on the light command I pass in *.wixobj. I find it cuts down on the length of the command line. -Original Message- From: Ian Williams [mailto:iawil...@microsoft.com] Sent:

Re: [WiX-users] Check running installer by Administrator or not

2012-03-01 Thread Chad Petersen
Is this happening across all supported operating systems or have you been able to narrow it down to something like Windows 2008 Server and Windows 7, for example? Sounds like UAC *might* be involved. When logged in as the Domain User in Administrators group do a right click on your MSI and choose

Re: [WiX-users] Several questions related to: Automatic version update, Prompt for installation path, Desktop Shortcut

2012-02-23 Thread Chad Petersen
I can probably answer one fairly easily. For the shortcut put it inside of your file element File Id=HelloWorld Source=$(sys.SOURCEFILEPATH) Shortcut Id=DesktopShortcut Directory=DesktopFolder Advertise=yes Name=Hello World Icon=HelloWorld.exe Icon Id=HelloWorld.exe

Re: [WiX-users] MSI not creating Virtual Directory

2012-01-04 Thread Chad Petersen
Do you have a separate WebSite element in your code? I see the WebSite attribute on the WebVirtualDir element, but I'm not seeing the WebSite element. Maybe you didn't paste in into your e-mail. iis:WebSite Id=Default Description=[WEBSITE_NAME] iis:WebAddress Id=PortNum

Re: [WiX-users] Util:FileShare or FileSharePermissions isremoving additional users on minor/small updates.

2011-12-12 Thread Chad Petersen
If you open up your MSP in Orca does it have a FileShare and/or FileSharePermissions tables? It sounds like it does based off of the behavior you describe, but I'd hope it doesn't because I'd think (ideally) your minor update should leave the shares and permissions alone that were created by the

Re: [WiX-users] Conditional Components based on OS ?

2011-12-08 Thread Chad Petersen
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa370556(v=vs.85 ).aspx Would probably look about like this. You don't have to use CDATA blocks, but my example used the symbol so I just went with it. Component Id=XP Guid=[yourguid] Condition![CDATA[(VersionNT = 501)]]/Condition

Re: [WiX-users] Wix Uninstall - MaintenanceTypeDlg, VerifyReadyDlg Dialog sequence is Shown Twice

2011-12-06 Thread Chad Petersen
The inner text in a Publish element is the Condition expression. An inner text of 1 says to always do it. I could be off here, but it seems like you just need to set up a proper Condition for each inner text to only show the given dialog under a given condition. Mine look a bit like this Publish

Re: [WiX-users] Use files in temp dir during installation

2011-11-29 Thread Chad Petersen
That does seem overly complex right out of the gate. Have you taken a good look at the Binary element? This is how I make my files available to my custom actions without having to copy anything to the local computer. Might not be what you are after, but it's worth mentioning. -Original

Re: [WiX-users] removing broken installations from Windows XP

2011-11-29 Thread Chad Petersen
Microsoft used to provide the Windows Clean-up Utility (MSIZAP.EXE was one common name) but I believe they must have removed it from their web site. This might be a viable copy of that same program. They seem to indicate the author is Microsoft Corp.

Re: [WiX-users] install file from subfolder

2011-11-16 Thread Chad Petersen
Absolutely possible. Wouldn't be much fun if all files on installation media had to be in the same folder. Wouldn't even work for files with the same names that should go into different subfolders like you are asking about. On your hard drive just set up the folders the way you ultimately want

[WiX-users] Validating Web site in IIS7 - WiX 3.5

2011-10-21 Thread Chad Petersen
Trying to figure out the right approach to validate that a Web site already exists during my install. In IIS6 I used GetObject(IIS://localhost/w3svc) and queried that for the info the user typed in. Any of you that target IIS7+ how are you dealing with this? I am using a Web site locator for an

Re: [WiX-users] Validating Web site in IIS7 - WiX 3.5

2011-10-21 Thread Chad Petersen
ServerManager class. -- John Merryweather Cooper Jack Henry Associates, Inc. (Premier Tech, Inc.) Build Install Engineer - jXchange Office: 913-341-3434 x791011 jocoo...@jackhenry.com -Original Message- From: Chad Petersen [mailto:chad.peter...@harlandfs.com] Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 1

Re: [WiX-users] Validating Web site in IIS7 - WiX 3.5

2011-10-21 Thread Chad Petersen
if end if next FindElement = -1 End Function Thanks, Greg -Original Message- From: Chad Petersen [mailto:chad.peter...@harlandfs.com] Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 12:53 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Validating Web site

Re: [WiX-users] Using wix how to always overwrite a file?

2011-10-18 Thread Chad Petersen
Another option is to use the RemoveFile/ element tied to the same Component as your File/ element. This will always clear out the existing file prior to the current install writing the new one. Works for rollback and uninstall. Component Id=Filetxt DiskId=1 Guid=someguid RemoveFile

Re: [WiX-users] Replacing .Net v.3 Assemblies with .Net v.4Assembliesduring Major Upgrade

2011-10-18 Thread Chad Petersen
That's very odd. The old MSI that installed those v.3 assemblies is the one that should be removing them, not the newer MSI. If you don't consider the upgrade, but just uninstall that older MSI through Control Panel does it not remove the GAC'ed files? The Major Upgrade simply uninstalls that

Re: [WiX-users] Replacing .Net v.3 Assemblieswith.Net v.4Assembliesduring Major Upgrade

2011-10-18 Thread Chad Petersen
are the files being GAC'ed in the old installer? Custom action or using the File element attributes? -- John Merryweather Cooper Jack Henry Associates, Inc. (Premier Tech, Inc.) Build Install Engineer - jXchange Office: 913-341-3434 x791011 jocoo...@jackhenry.com -Original Message- From: Chad

Re: [WiX-users] New file not installed

2011-08-17 Thread Chad Petersen
I'm used to Major upgrades removing the previous release(s) so only the newest major version shows in Add/Remove Programs. But, that probably won't work if you have OnlyDetect=yes. And maybe that's not what you want to do. You might also check a clean install to see if all four files get

Re: [WiX-users] New file not installed

2011-08-17 Thread Chad Petersen
. Do these files contain Version information yes, all files have strong names Is each file in its own Component? yes Kurt -Original Message- From: Chad Petersen [mailto:chad.peter...@harlandfs.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 1:51 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML

Re: [WiX-users] How do you share dll's between executabled files

2011-06-28 Thread Chad Petersen
We place some of our shared files in C:\Program Files\Common Files\our company name -Original Message- From: Robert Hermann [mailto:rob.herm...@nicewareintl.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 1:14 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] How do you

Re: [WiX-users] How do you share dll's between executabled files

2011-06-28 Thread Chad Petersen
Oh, and there is a known property called CommonFilesFolder as documented here. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367994%28VS.85%29.aspx So, makes it real easy to use. -Original Message- From: Chad Petersen [mailto:chad.peter...@harlandfs.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 1:46

Re: [WiX-users] Show Installer Log file

2011-06-21 Thread Chad Petersen
I'd suggest taking one step back. You mention a log file created in the temp folder. Have you tried running your installer when the temp folder doesn't exist or the TEMP variable isn't defined? If you are calling MSIEXEC /L*v and wanting it to log to a TEMP folder I recommend you try it in

Re: [WiX-users] Control keyboard chortcut

2011-06-03 Thread Chad Petersen
Your isn't working like that already? Well, it's a simple fix, but may be needed in quite a few places. In the following example the amp; in front of the character you want to use as the hotkey should do the trick. Control Id=Next Type=PushButton X=230 Y=243 Width=57 Height=18 Default=yes

Re: [WiX-users] need pointers to docs on file-versioning

2011-06-02 Thread Chad Petersen
Versioning is built into certain files like DLLs and EXEs and not into other files like XML and text files. That much has nothing to do with WiX or MSI. Files are either versioned or they aren't. MSI simply reflects those versions, by default. -Original Message- From: Dave Combs

Re: [WiX-users] Application Shortcut Not Placed

2011-06-02 Thread Chad Petersen
What I find immediately odd is that your sample shows single quotes around double quotes on the Target/ attribute. I'm thinking it should be one or the other, but not both. Maybe it's correct, but it is different than the manual shows, too. -Original Message- From: Jonah Dahlquist

Re: [WiX-users] Excluding file types

2011-05-13 Thread Chad Petersen
Heat /? shows usage. Looks like -ke is keep empty directories. I don't see a way to exclude files, but maybe somewhere in the mix. -Original Message- From: CoolBreeze [mailto:coolbreeze...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 11:20 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer

Re: [WiX-users] missing assemblies referenced by Custom Action

2011-05-11 Thread Chad Petersen
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/0c6xyb66.aspx -Original Message- From: Kurt Jensen [mailto:kurt.jen...@us.ophiropt.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 7:44 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] missing assemblies referenced by

Re: [WiX-users] Publishing to GAC

2011-05-10 Thread Chad Petersen
I might have missed but does this happen during a clean install, upgrade or both? -Original Message- From: Kurt Jensen [mailto:kurt.jen...@us.ophiropt.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 1:05 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Publishing to

Re: [WiX-users] WiX force copy file.

2011-04-13 Thread Chad Petersen
Check a verbose log file and it should say why it is not replacing that file. Typically because it is newer than the file you hope to replace it with. The RemoveFile element can be handy for some of these types of issues. Not positive it's what you'll want, but maybe. -Original

Re: [WiX-users] WiX force copy file.

2011-04-13 Thread Chad Petersen
file is unversioned but modified I will look at RemoveFile. It seems kind of counter intuitive that on installation I want to remove a file. Would I put the RemoveFile element in the same component as the component that is installing the file? -Original Message- From: Chad Petersen

Re: [WiX-users] WiX force copy file.

2011-04-13 Thread Chad Petersen
BUYSEASONS 262-901-2000 Office 262-901-2312 Fax kev...@buyseasons.com -Original Message- From: Chad Petersen [mailto:chad.peter...@harlandfs.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 2:25 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WiX force copy file. Yes

Re: [WiX-users] WiX force copy file.

2011-04-13 Thread Chad Petersen
My syntax is a bit different than yours, but you might try removing the [WPFINSTALLDIR] property from your RemoveFile element. But, I always nest my Components under a Directory element, so our approach is somewhat different. -Original Message- From: Kevin Burton

Re: [WiX-users] Problem searching GAC for installed assembly

2011-03-31 Thread Chad Petersen
be missing something simple, because it doesn't seem that it should be so difficult to get this to work. On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Chad Petersen chad.peter...@harlandfs.comwrote: If you run a CMD prompt and change to c:\windows\assembly folder and then do a DIR

Re: [WiX-users] Problem searching GAC for installed assembly

2011-03-31 Thread Chad Petersen
Oh, and an easy way to see what each MSI was used for is to open the C:\Windows\Installer folder in Explorer and add the Subject column to the details. I can immediately see what each MSI belongs to. Quite informative. -Original Message- From: Chad Petersen [mailto:chad.peter

Re: [WiX-users] Problem searching GAC for installed assembly

2011-03-31 Thread Chad Petersen
PM, Chad Petersen chad.peter...@harlandfs.comwrote: Oh, and an easy way to see what each MSI was used for is to open the C:\Windows\Installer folder in Explorer and add the Subject column to the details. I can immediately see what each MSI belongs to. Quite informative. -Original Message

Re: [WiX-users] Registry check for Acrobat reader

2011-03-30 Thread Chad Petersen
I think this is happening because your Silverlight check has a version number in the registry Data and the URLProtocol has no value in the registry Data for that string. I think you might need to check a setting that would actually have a value. As soon as I put a value of Test in the URLProtocol

Re: [WiX-users] Registry check for Acrobat reader

2011-03-30 Thread Chad Petersen
You might check with Adobe and see what their recommended method is for detecting their application. I've had good luck doing that with third party apps I've needed to detect. Never actually needed to check for Acrobat myself. -Original Message- From: kim [mailto:contactme...@gmail.com]

Re: [WiX-users] Problem searching GAC for installed assembly

2011-03-28 Thread Chad Petersen
If you run a CMD prompt and change to c:\windows\assembly folder and then do a DIR you will likely see GAC, GAC_32 and GAC_MSIL as subfolders. Yours is apparently in GAC_MSIL. From there it has folders following a name similar to your DLL name. Then a version specific folder in which your DLL will

Re: [WiX-users] Error 1923 upgrading a service

2011-03-24 Thread Chad Petersen
Is this a major upgrade or a minor upgrade? Sounds like the uninstall of the older version might not be removing the service. Verbose log file might be helpful. You can also hit Cancel during an install to effectively pause it (then hit Resume to continue) to look at the state of the machine at

Re: [WiX-users] Get computer name??

2011-03-24 Thread Chad Petersen
Actually, I've been using [ComputerName] since MSI 2.0. If you read those requirements a bit closer it goes on to say... Windows Installer on Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000. Which implies just about any version. The 4.0, 4,5 and 5.0 are required if you are on the newer OSes

Re: [WiX-users] Get computer name??

2011-03-24 Thread Chad Petersen
X2 Even installs where I never use [ComputerName] the verbose log file still lists the entry Property(C): ComputerName = my computer name Showing that this is always available for use in any install. -Original Message- From: Wilson, Phil [mailto:phil.wil...@invensys.com] Sent:

Re: [WiX-users] Get computer name??

2011-03-24 Thread Chad Petersen
Or you could publish the property just before entering your custom dialog, like in the preceding dialog. Publish Property=MACHINENAME Value=[ComputerName]1/Publish -Original Message- From: Skildum, Mathew [mailto:mathew.skil...@aspect.com] Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 12:59 PM To:

Re: [WiX-users] One install for multiple OS

2011-03-16 Thread Chad Petersen
I found OR Priviledged to work better than OR AdminUser. It actually triggered a Windows message rather than the message in the condition. !-- first make sure the platform is at least win 2003 -- Condition Message='Your operating system must be Windows 2003 or greater'![CDATA[VersionNT =

Re: [WiX-users] One install for multiple OS

2011-03-15 Thread Chad Petersen
I think it is because your Conditions are not mutually exclusive. -Original Message- From: Robert Hermann [mailto:rob.herm...@nicewareintl.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 2:25 PM To: 'wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net' Subject: [WiX-users] One install for multiple OS I've got an

Re: [WiX-users] Error 1723

2011-03-02 Thread Chad Petersen
I believe I might know what you are running into. You can't access things destined for the GAC *during* the install. You probably will need to expose a regular COM interface to your assembly and put it someplace accessible other (also) than the GAC. We've had to do this with some of our .NET

Re: [WiX-users] Error 1723

2011-03-02 Thread Chad Petersen
Of course, there's more than one way to skin a cat. Check out Phil's suggestion here http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-us/winformssetup/thread/9E48A3D0-ADF2-4CF3-B9BA-D5E9DE584C8F -Original Message- From: Colin LeMahieu [mailto:clemah...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 01,

Re: [WiX-users] Command line installation?

2011-02-24 Thread Chad Petersen
In another area of your code look for the Product/ element and make sure you change the Id= guid there as one necessary step. But, leave the UpgradeCode unchanged in that same element. Also make sure you increment your version number to something higher than that one you have already installed.

Re: [WiX-users] Command line installation?

2011-02-23 Thread Chad Petersen
I can offer some help. For the command line you append your PROPERTYNAME followed by an equal sign and then the value you want to assign to that property. Like this. msiexec /L*v c:\log.txt /i my.msi PROPERTYNAME1=value1 PROPERTYNAME2=value2 In my experience it seemed like if you gave it all

Re: [WiX-users] Command line installation?

2011-02-23 Thread Chad Petersen
Burton Senior Software Engineer BUYSEASONS 262-901-2000 Office 262-901-2312 Fax kev...@buyseasons.com -Original Message- From: Chad Petersen [mailto:chad.peter...@harlandfs.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 11:01 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re

[WiX-users] WixCreateInternetShortcuts: Error 0x8000ffff: failed to set shortcut

2011-01-31 Thread Chad Petersen
WiX version 3.0.5419.0 OK, my installer is working in a huge number of cases without hitting this error. We released back in November. Today I get a log file from a customer that doesn't get any on-screen error. The installer just suddenly rolls back on its own. The verbose log file shows these

Re: [WiX-users] WixCreateInternetShortcuts: Error 0x8000ffff:failed toset shortcut

2011-01-31 Thread Chad Petersen
that the installer is running as)? Does it work? (does StartRunhttp://e3server start a browser?) Do they have enough memory/disk space to create the shortcut? -Original Message- From: Chad Petersen [mailto:chad.peter...@harlandfs.com] Sent: 31 January 2011 17:36 To: General discussion

Re: [WiX-users] How do you fix this error? (id is too long, 72 characters max)

2010-12-10 Thread Chad Petersen
I think you'd mentioned before that it was during the compile, as opposed to the link, which I suspect, too. You can certainly break those down into two discreet steps to figure out which one it is. Assuming it is the compile then it would be in one of the .wixobj files, since that is what the

Re: [WiX-users] How do you fix this error? (id is too long, 72 characters max)

2010-12-10 Thread Chad Petersen
\platformclient Core.Data.DataManagement.Plugins.Client is the project name (and the assembly name + XPT). So you see my dilemma, short of renaming everything I am left with the warnings. To me, since the ID is generated, it seems like a bug... -Original Message- From: Chad Petersen

Re: [WiX-users] Run DB Scripts

2010-12-08 Thread Chad Petersen
Use the sql:SqlScript/ element is the WiX way to do it. Working very well for me. -Original Message- From: Anu Dev [mailto:queryl...@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 9:01 AM To: WIX Subject: [WiX-users] Run DB Scripts Hi How can I run DBScripts during the installation

[WiX-users] Shortcut Icons showing as generic

2010-10-25 Thread Chad Petersen
When installing my package the icon for normal file shortcuts are initially showing up as generic icons. Once a person double-clicks on a particular one then the icon changes to the correct one. We did not have this issue when compiling using WiX 2.0. In that version the Shortcut table in Orca

Re: [WiX-users] Shortcut Icons showing as generic

2010-10-25 Thread Chad Petersen
: ICE57: Component 'Autotaskconfigexe' has both per-user and per-machine data with a per-machine KeyPath. If I leave it as Advertise=yes then no ICE errors, but the original problem occurs where the icon shows generic until someone clicks it. -Original Message- From: Chad Petersen

Re: [WiX-users] File share missing after major upgrade

2010-10-13 Thread Chad Petersen
? -Original Message- From: Chad Petersen [mailto:chad.peter...@harlandfs.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 3:14 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] File share missing after major upgrade If I do a clean install of our product I see the two

Re: [WiX-users] File share missing after major upgrade

2010-10-13 Thread Chad Petersen
as the sequence involved. -Original Message- From: Chad Petersen [mailto:chad.peter...@harlandfs.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 7:59 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] File share missing after major upgrade No, the previous major release

[WiX-users] File share missing after major upgrade

2010-10-12 Thread Chad Petersen
If I do a clean install of our product I see the two file shares showing at the end of the install. However, when I do the major upgrade the file shares are there before I start the major upgrade and are missing by the time it is done. I've taken verbose log files of each and tried to compare

Re: [WiX-users] set a property based on different OS

2010-10-04 Thread Chad Petersen
Use a separate Component for each necessary shortcut and then apply a child Condition on each component based off of the VersionNT= property. Here's a good reference for VersionNT. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370556(v=VS.85).aspx -Original Message- From: Wu, Emma (GE

Re: [WiX-users] Issues when evaluating a condition

2010-10-04 Thread Chad Petersen
I was having the same issue after converting from Wix2 to Wix3. Once I added LaunchConditions After=AppSearch / To both InstallUISequence and InstallExecuteSequence then it started working right for me. Sounds like what you already tried. If so, use Orca to inspect both sequence tables and see

Re: [WiX-users] Issues when evaluating a condition

2010-10-04 Thread Chad Petersen
MSIEXEC /L*v [logfilename] /i [msifilename] Replace the square bracket variables with your log file name of choice and your MSI filename. -Original Message- From: Sean Farrow [mailto:sean.far...@seanfarrow.co.uk] Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 1:52 PM To: General discussion for Windows

[WiX-users] Uninstall question

2010-09-30 Thread Chad Petersen
Our product requires another product to be pre-installed. We then overwrite some of the other products files during our install as the integration points between our two products. If they are in Folder A and my product goes into Folder B, then it would be true that when we detect them we are

Re: [WiX-users] Command Line ParameterstoDeferred CustomAction on Vista

2010-09-22 Thread Chad Petersen
CustomActionData is that magical packet of information passed from the installer to your deferred CustomAction using the Value= attribute. Then, your .exe (or VBScript or Javascript) has to set a variable to the value of Session.Property(CustomActionData); so it gets a copy of this information

Re: [WiX-users] Here is my product.wxs; How to install to two different directories: C:\Program Files\MyApp and C:\Windows\System32 directory

2010-09-14 Thread Chad Petersen
The folder is referred to as SystemFolder I'm fairly sure you can get away with only a DirectoryRef to it since it is a built-in property. -Original Message- From: Beekeeper [mailto:bria...@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 1:07 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [WiX-users] How to change an entry using XmlConfig

2010-08-31 Thread Chad Petersen
In your Value= line you will need to escape the square brackets. XMLConfig mentions this in the Value Attribute Description column. Opening bracket - [\[] Closing bracket - [\]] -Original Message- From: Alexander op de Weegh [mailto:alexan...@ipa-tp.nl] Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Re: [WiX-users] Default Install Drive to be Largest Free Space Drive of Physical Disk

2010-08-31 Thread Chad Petersen
That is handled by the ROOTDRIVE property. Not sure you can avoid USB drives, though. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa371372(VS.85).aspx -Original Message- From: Prabhat_IE [mailto:prabhat.n...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 2:00 PM To:

Re: [WiX-users] XMLConfig question

2010-08-27 Thread Chad Petersen
the Name= as then it will add to the elements text. util:XmlConfig Id=XMLMod50 File=C:\web.xml Action=create Node=value On=install ElementPath=/web-app/context-param[\[]param-name='DEFAULT_LOCALE'[\]]/p aram-value Name= Value=other Sequence=1 / Dave -Original Message- From: Chad Petersen

[WiX-users] XMLConfig question

2010-08-26 Thread Chad Petersen
I have an XML file that looks like this. The goal is to alter the en_US to some other value. web-app context-param param-nameDEFAULT_LOCALE/param-name param-valueen_US/param-value /context-param context-param

Re: [WiX-users] Question about using XmlFile (WixUtilExtension.dll in general, actually)

2010-08-26 Thread Chad Petersen
Try adding the xmlns:util=http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/UtilExtension; schema to the top of the file that has the XmlFile element in it. Mine looks like this Wix xmlns:xsi=http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance; xmlns=http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi;

Re: [WiX-users] XMLConfig question

2010-08-26 Thread Chad Petersen
param-nameDEFAULT_TIMEZONE/param-name param-valuePacific/param-value /context-param /web-app -Original Message- From: Chad Petersen [mailto:chad.peter...@harlandfs.com] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 11:26 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML

Re: [WiX-users] InternetShortcut and public properties

2010-08-11 Thread Chad Petersen
- From: Bob Arnson [mailto:b...@joyofsetup.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 8:18 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] InternetShortcut and public properties On 8/10/2010 3:54 PM, Chad Petersen wrote: Now that I'm past all my ICE errors I'm on to trying some new things

Re: [WiX-users] ICE34 error or Unresolved reference

2010-08-10 Thread Chad Petersen
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] ICE34 error or Unresolved reference On 8/9/2010 1:09 PM, Chad Petersen wrote: What would be appropriate defaults for these properties? It seems like it wants one of the choices from the RadioButtonGroup. For MaintenacneMode this would

Re: [WiX-users] ICE34 error or Unresolved reference

2010-08-09 Thread Chad Petersen
, August 07, 2010 7:53 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] ICE34 error or Unresolved reference On 8/6/2010 1:29 PM, Chad Petersen wrote: error LGHT0094 : Unresolved reference to symbol 'Property:MaintenanceMode' in section 'Fragment:UpdateUIStandard'. The message says

[WiX-users] ICE34 error or Unresolved reference

2010-08-06 Thread Chad Petersen
This is my last stumbling block on my WiX 2.0 to 3.0 conversion. The UI in all my projects is basically the same. It predates my use of WiX in our company, so I'm not sure where it came from, but it's not WixUI_Mondo, I do know that. The pre-existing RadioButtonGroup definition is causing me some

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