[WiX-users] [Personal note: goodbye to Wix-Users, and thanks]

I'm changing jobs in two weeks, and with the change in responsibility I'll be leaving the Wix-users community. I subscribed to the list last year and was able to successfully - and relatively painlessly - change our products from InstallShield to Wix. Almost all of that invaluable knowledge came

Re: [WiX-users] Get Target machine name

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the machine name, use the ComputerName property. Tris Hodges wrote: I assume you meant like the following.. $(sys.COMPUTERNAME)? I believe this is set at compilation […] No, Calin meant the Windows Installer property ComputerName, see the Windows Installer

Re: [WiX-users] SecureCustomProperties from Merge Module

Daryn Mitchell originally wrote: ... merge module's ... SecureCustomProperties ... how should the merge module get the result of its file search during Vista repair? Bob Arnson wrote: The only thing I can think of is a custom action that adds your property

[WiX-users] SecureCustomProperties from Merge Module

the result of its file search during Vista repair? Thanks, Daryn Mitchell - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct

Re: [WiX-users] Custom action sequencing problem

-Original Message- From: wix-users On Behalf Of Boris Krivonog ... Attached is a simple VS 2005 project which locates a process by name and sends it a WM_CLOSE. That's really generous of you, Boris. Thanks for sharing that with the community. Daryn.

Re: [WiX-users] Multilingual Support

-Original Message- Yes, I know the short answer is 'no' ... installers that can make a single multilingual install package ... isn't there some creative work-around for this? Multi-Language MSI Packages without Setup.exe Launcher

Re: [WiX-users] condition expression syntax (ICE79)

-Original Message- I have a feature with the ID=SomeFeature. Custom Action=MyAction After=InstallFinalize$SomeFeature/Custom This throws an ICE79 error. However, changing the $ to a ! is fine. $ is for components, and ! are for features. (Conditional Statement Syntax

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action Rollback Implementation

-Original Message- From: Sneha Gharpure the WriteToRegistry action is called only during the installation and therefore the condition Not Installed. I am not sure about the condition for WriteToRegistry_Rollback. I have tried both- Installed and Not Installed Custom

Re: [WiX-users] Service started stoped but Not removed from Servcies.msc

-Original Message- I have one service related binary(guardsvc.exe) It is started properly while installing and stoped while uninstalling. The problem is it is not deleted the corresponding registry key(HKL\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\guardsvc.exe) and because of this registry

[WiX-users] Shared components and ?Comp1 Component State condition

is locally installed on the computer... Question: So what is the correct way for the Product2 install to know that the shared component is already installed locally by Prodcut1? Thanks for any suggestions Daryn Mitchell, Software Developer, Faronics Corporation Note: I haven't tried

Re: [WiX-users] Re Post: Msi Logging

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:wix-users- Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Re Post: Msi Logging I dont have idea about bootstrapper. Could you tell me in detail or send me the url http://www.nabble.com/forum/Search.jtp?forum=4468local=yquery=bootstrapper

Re: [WiX-users] show progress text for custom action

Adam Langley wrote: ... the Progress Text in the dialog shows Removing Backup Files during the execution of my slow custom action, it never renders my text ... CustomAction ... Execute='commit' ... / My guess: You should make your action be deferred instead of commit. a) Wix

Re: [WiX-users] Problems in running vbscript during install

Your CustomAction needs to be defined differently. Instead of ExeCommand, use VBScriptCall='' (value = blank to just run the script, or put the name of the VBScript function). ExeCommand attribute tries to execute an EXE, not run VBScript. Also I'm pretty sure that deferred custom actions have to

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action type 1042 and 18

Here's a couple of possibilities: 1) If you've got an existing MSI you're converting to Wix, use the Wix tools (Dark) to decompile it into Wix markup. 2) Very handy Custom Action Type Calculator on the InstallShield web site makes the guess and test go much quicker. (Needs IE, doesn't work in

Re: [WiX-users] What do I do with per-user data when I uninstall?

Rob Hamflett wrote: The general advice is usually to offer the option of deleting files/settings for the current user. I like this, but as a beginner setup guy I'm unclear on where exactly I'm supposed to offer that option. My natural inclination is to put it in the UI during the uninstall

Re: [WiX-users] Directory in user profile but not in RemoveFile table

From: Jeff Hunsaker Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 1:55 PM I'm adding a program menu which should be created if it's not there. Other programs install to this menu so I do not want to delete it at uninstall. My XML looks like this: [...] error LGHT0204 : ICE64: The directory scmworkbench is

Re: [WiX-users] Problem with registering COM dll

I see that the use of [INSTALLDIR] in the registry entry - perhaps edited by hand? - does not match the the TARGETDIR DirectoryRef. This is not guaranteed to be an error, e.g. if you've ensured that the two properties are equal, but it seems fragile. You can check the installed registry entries

Re: [WiX-users] Problem writing registry values

Anidil, Does it help if you pass Value='1' instead of Value='#0x0001(1)'? Daryn. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anidil [...] Now that i don't get permission denied message after prefexing # for all the DWORD types as follows :

Re: [WiX-users] How to call an exe

I found it very easy to debug a DLL CA with the debugger: I figured the DLL in the binary table has to be extracted before the code can be called, right? So the following seemed to work for me to debug an error I was getting while developing the CA: 1) Use a debug version of the DLL 2)

Re: [WiX-users] changing setup at runtime

Also for an concise example of using the Automation interface you might find it helpful to look at WiRunSQL.vbs in the Installer SDK / Platform SDK. Use of the script is described in Examples of Database Queries Using SQL and Script http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368562.aspx Daryn.

Re: [WiX-users] Any interest in a beginner's tutorial?

Rennie, I'd be very happy to see a more beginner-oriented tutorial to help with getting started. I'm currently evaluating whether to switch from InstallShield to WiX, and there are still things I have not yet got running/tested in WiX. I'm a software developers who happen to also do setup -- as

Re: [WiX-users] Sequence of Install?

Does it fix that if you schedule it after='InstallFiles' instead of CreateFolders? Daryn. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JCWrs Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 12:39 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Sequence

Re: [WiX-users] Error in German?

Kevin Burton wrote: Durint installation I briefly see a German message appear during the progress: dialog. When there is an error I see an error dialog piop up that is entirely in German. snip/ [] Do you know how to change that? I've been learning WiX this week and I saw the same behaviour