Re: [WiX-users] questions about 64 bit installs

2008-05-16 Thread Mike Dimmick
for less money. Itanium still has the edge on floating-point performance of native Itanium code, but is still pretty poor - despite JIT-compiling x86 code - on 32-bit code.) -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Sam Sent: 16 May 2008 18

Re: [WiX-users] Installing .NET 3.5 redist?

2008-05-16 Thread Mike Dimmick
SP1. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/products/cc533447.aspx for details. -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Painter Sent: 16 May 2008 02:28 To: Neil Enns; Kelly Leahy Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; wix-users

Re: [WiX-users] yep - back to being 100% frustrated

2008-05-16 Thread Mike Dimmick
. Given the amount of flexibility required, you may well want to just supply scripts and allow the DBA to run them after creating databases themselves, and that’s the approach we’re taking (the application server supports server farms with a SQL Server database for shared state). -- Mike Dimmick

Re: [WiX-users] yep - back to being 100% frustrated

2008-05-16 Thread Mike Dimmick
. -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Palmer Sent: 13 May 2008 19:58 To: Josh Rowe Cc: WiX Users Subject: Re: [WiX-users] yep - back to being 100% frustrated On a Mac you would just drag and drop the application icon. The very

Re: [WiX-users] Recursive folder deletion

2008-04-20 Thread Mike Dimmick
. -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ryan O'Neill Sent: 16 April 2008 16:08 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Recursive folder deletion I'm adding a cleanup routine to the installer we have and the .Net framework

Re: [WiX-users] using for %i processing commands in custom actions

2008-04-13 Thread Mike Dimmick
)? Are you aware that you can grant a SQL Server login to a Windows security group? That might be a better option, using SqlStrings to create the login to the group, and using User and Group elements to add the users to the group. -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto

Re: [WiX-users] Update Problems with versioned files (oxc)

2008-04-13 Thread Mike Dimmick
the file is always (conceptually) replaced. To reduce the number of file copying operations and potentially the number of CABs that have to be retrieved, if the MsiFileHash table has a row for this file, the file is hashed; if the hash matches the file is not replaced. -- Mike Dimmick -Original

Re: [WiX-users] Vista, UAC off, registry writes virtualized

2008-03-31 Thread Mike Dimmick
. Otherwise (which for most people is the case), set ALLUSERS to 1. Always test with UAC on, because it's the more restrictive environment and your customer may have it turned on (it is of course the default). Don't assume that nerds have it turned off: I have it enabled. -- Mike Dimmick

Re: [WiX-users] product search using product code?

2008-03-30 Thread Mike Dimmick
store, if ALLUSERS=1. -- Mike Dimmick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Arnson Sent: 29 March 2008 20:16 To: Donal McWeeney Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] product search using product code? It doesn't do

Re: [WiX-users] WiX, MSI checksum and overwrite behaviour

2008-03-30 Thread Mike Dimmick
. -- Mike Dimmick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Georgi Shopov Sent: 26 March 2008 00:17 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] WiX, MSI checksum and overwrite behaviour Hi, can any body give me suggestion what

Re: [WiX-users] Deciding if Wix is right for us

2008-03-30 Thread Mike Dimmick
and DirectorySearch elements to locate it. -- Mike Dimmick - Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk

Re: [WiX-users] does current wix drop provide support for a public property such as msiexec /i myservicedeliverable.msi propertySettings=environmentSpecificPropertySettings.xml ...?

2008-03-30 Thread Mike Dimmick
with GetPrivateProfileSection). XML is overkill for this purpose, since there's no hierarchy to speak of, and probably more prone to being broken with out-of-date/security-'fixed' XML parsers. -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert

Re: [WiX-users] Re compiling WiX C++ libs for 64-bit

2008-03-30 Thread Mike Dimmick
to go with opening the right key for the component. -- Mike Dimmick - Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk

Re: [WiX-users] How to compile and link project example?

2008-03-29 Thread Mike Dimmick
candle, module.wixobj, on the command line. -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Siegfried Heintze (Aditi) Sent: 28 March 2008 23:16 To: 'wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net' Subject: [WiX-users] How to compile and link project example

Re: [WiX-users] WiXSqlExtension issue on Vista with UAC

2008-03-23 Thread Mike Dimmick
on all possible exit paths to ensure that further custom actions using the same server process would run with the correct credentials, however. -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sajo Jacob Sent: 23 March 2008 04:46 To: Bob Arnson Cc: wix

Re: [WiX-users] How to set Title in Summary Information Stream

2008-03-16 Thread Mike Dimmick
only recommend doing this for WiX v3.0. There's no chance that a change this trivial would get into v2.0 (IMO). -- Mike Dimmick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Arnson Sent: 14 March 2008 17:54 To: fgc Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [WiX-users] WIX PerformanceCounter element failing on Windows 2000

2008-03-10 Thread Mike Dimmick
wix.sourceforge.net/releases? -- Mike Dimmick -Original Message- From: Krause, Henning [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 March 2008 19:09 To: Mike Dimmick; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] WIX PerformanceCounter element failing on Windows 2000 Hello, I just had time

Re: [WiX-users] Writing Property to Registry

2008-03-07 Thread Mike Dimmick
these properties unless you have a really good reason not to. If you don't want them set automatically, set the NOUSERNAME and NOCOMPANYNAME properties. -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dustin Johnson Sent: 07 March 2008 17:13 To: wix-users

Re: [WiX-users] Error 1303

2008-03-07 Thread Mike Dimmick
to install the prerequisites (as EXEs, MSIs or whatever) then your MSI package. -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ravit Shapira Sent: 06 March 2008 02:18 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Rob Mensching Subject: [WiX-users

Re: [WiX-users] Shared assemblies in GAC and reference counts

2008-03-07 Thread Mike Dimmick
. -- Mike Dimmick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ns12 Sent: 06 March 2008 15:31 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Shared assemblies in GAC and reference counts When installing applications that use shared assemblies

Re: [WiX-users] ICE66 with light v3.0.3829.0

2008-03-03 Thread Mike Dimmick
to change from currently just reporting based on the presence of the new fields, to reporting based on whether the contents of the field in any row is non-null. -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neil Sleightholm Sent: 03 March 2008 08:49

Re: [WiX-users] Prevent registry key from being removed duringuninstall? AND Only create not existing registry entrieswhile install?

2008-02-25 Thread Mike Dimmick
values are edited. Stick to the bare minimum required to allow the components to be located - do the rest in initial program startup. -- Mike Dimmick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Beyer, Ingo Sent: 25 February 2008 16:42 To: wix-users

Re: [WiX-users] Setting Estimated Size and Version

2008-02-25 Thread Mike Dimmick
displayed in the Add or Remove Programs list of Control Panel. No mention of doing it in the original package! I think the idea was that OEMs would set it for anything they didn't want their users to uninstall. -- Mike Dimmick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

[WiX-users] PerfCounter on NT 4.0?

2008-02-25 Thread Mike Dimmick
I'm currently trying to adapt our performance counter text string registration from being done in our own code (picked up from Jeff Richter's book Programming Server-Side Applications for Windows) to use the LoadPerfCounterTextStrings API and, ultimately, the PerfCounter element in WiX. Something

Re: [WiX-users] Vista, C Root, Hello world, Windows 3.1

2008-02-21 Thread Mike Dimmick
would recommend treating whatever is installed as immutable except by the next version of the installer. -- Mike Dimmick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simon Topley Sent: 19 February 2008 15:51 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject

Re: [WiX-users] Failed to read IISWebSite table. (-2147024774 )

2008-02-14 Thread Mike Dimmick
in the month that it was released.) There is now an RSS feed at http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/wix3.feed. -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Buckingham Sent: 14 February 2008 19:12 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [WiX-users] Installing an assembly to the GAC - how does it actinupdates?

2008-02-14 Thread Mike Dimmick
), so it works by accident. If your assembly isn't being shared between multiple products, what's it doing in the GAC? -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michal Peled Sent: 14 February 2008 13:14 To: Michal Peled; wix-users

Re: [WiX-users] Custom command line parameters in Wix

2008-02-14 Thread Mike Dimmick
You can set properties on the command line. Msiexec /i MyMsi.msi AUTOLOGIN=1 Then test the AUTOLOGIN property as appropriate, e.g. in the Condition for a component or action. -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Srilatha Punna

Re: [WiX-users] Tallow output and incorrect registration absolute path

2008-02-12 Thread Mike Dimmick
Best practice is to use a file ID Formatted value, in this example you would use [#file_0]. -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Jaworski Sent: 12 February 2008 14:43 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users

Re: [WiX-users] WIX PerformanceCounter element failing on Windows 2000

2008-02-12 Thread Mike Dimmick
weekly release? Have you tested this on a completely clean, freshly installed Windows 2000 system? -- Mike Dimmick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Krause, Henning Sent: 12 February 2008 20:02 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject

Re: [WiX-users] heat.exe generates different output on Vista vs. XP andcrashes for some DLLs

2008-02-05 Thread Mike Dimmick
with breaking this rule.) -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kirill Kovalenko Sent: 05 February 2008 15:58 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] heat.exe generates different output on Vista vs. XP andcrashes for some

Re: [WiX-users] Microsoft's Merge Modules and COM problem in WiXv2

2008-01-28 Thread Mike Dimmick
(especially one built on a later platform and deployed on an older one: result = trashed system). -- Mike Dimmick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Jaworski Sent: 28 January 2008 19:03 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX

Re: [WiX-users] newbie question

2008-01-28 Thread Mike Dimmick
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=1657736group_id=1 05970atid=642714 aid=1657736group_id=105970atid=642714), although that's for WiX 3.0. It may be worth adding your note to it as well. Having said that, the aim is to only fix serious bugs in version 2.0. -- Mike Dimmick

Re: [WiX-users] ClearCase Dynamic View issue

2008-01-26 Thread Mike Dimmick
You may also find Junfeng Zhang's blog entry 'Diagnosing SideBySide failures' helpful. http://blogs.msdn.com/junfeng/archive/2006/04/14/576314.aspx. -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of martin lavelle Sent: 25 January 2008 13:37

Re: [WiX-users] Condition strings that are too long

2008-01-25 Thread Mike Dimmick
=SubExpr1Result Value=1 / And then you schedule that action before you need the result, setting the action's condition to the subexpression you're trying to eliminate. -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Calin Iaru Sent: 25 January

Re: [WiX-users] Does an installer database know if it's upgraded?

2008-01-25 Thread Mike Dimmick
UPGRADINGPRODUCTCODE. -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Calin Iaru Sent: 25 January 2008 09:39 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Does an installer database know if it's upgraded? The installer adds some

Re: [WiX-users] CNDL1024 error using include files

2008-01-24 Thread Mike Dimmick
in the include file are explicitly listed in the document which includes it. Presumably not having .NET Framework 1.1 Service Pack 1 also tended to cause XmlExceptions at this point, but it's certainly not the only possible reason. -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto

Re: [WiX-users] Merge Module Custom Actions

2008-01-24 Thread Mike Dimmick
Use InstallExecuteSequence. WiX generates ModuleInstallExecuteSequence table entries if you're building a merge module. -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas Svare Sent: 24 January 2008 22:26 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [WiX-users] Trouble with Light in Visual Studio 2008 and Team Build2008

2008-01-23 Thread Mike Dimmick
AppDomain has its own copy of static variables.) I suggest logging a bug at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=105970 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=105970atid=642714 atid=642714. -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Arild

Re: [WiX-users] Client Only Installation

2008-01-22 Thread Mike Dimmick
Firstly I'd try the latest weekly release from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/. The first two digits of the build number are the 'month number' so the version you're using is now 8 months old. If the problem persists it sounds like a bug. -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL

Re: [WiX-users] MSI removing system file on uninstall

2008-01-22 Thread Mike Dimmick
only have a single file in a component, and there should definitely be only one executable file in a component, and it should be the key path. -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bryan C. Boettcher Sent: 22 January 2008 18:07 To: wix

Re: [WiX-users] Giving fulltrust in deferred Custom action

2008-01-22 Thread Mike Dimmick
the policy is ultimately stored in the security.config file, but the schema for this is not officially documented and you are supposed to use either caspol.exe or the security policy configuration console. -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

Re: [WiX-users] Is there a directory property forCSIDL_COMMON_DOCUMENTS ?

2008-01-22 Thread Mike Dimmick
If you link with the WixUtilExtension in WiX v3.0, you can use the WIX_DIR_COMMON_DOCUMENTS property. See the topic OSInfo custom actions in WiX.chm. -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Palmer Sent: 22 January 2008 21:32

Re: [WiX-users] WIX XML manipulation

2008-01-22 Thread Mike Dimmick
[\[]last()[\]] Otherwise Windows Installer thinks [last()] is a property and tries to evaluate it, and an error occurs as () aren't valid in a property name. This feature is present to allow properties to be used to control the XPath. -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [WiX-users] Vista not prompting for administrator duringauto-healing?

2008-01-22 Thread Mike Dimmick
In recent versions of WiX, set Package/@InstallPrivileges to elevated to inform Windows Installer that the package needs to be elevated. -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bryan C. Boettcher Sent: 22 January 2008 17:19 To: wix-users

Re: [WiX-users] CustomTable

2008-01-21 Thread Mike Dimmick
these extra actions do by referring back to the InstallShield project. -- Mike Dimmick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of SaiTeja Sent: 21 January 2008 10:53 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] CustomTable Hi, Can anyone

Re: [WiX-users] V3 build errors

2008-01-20 Thread Mike Dimmick
You need to pass the appropriate WiX extensions to candle when compiling, and to light when linking. candle -ext WixUtilExtension,WixSqlExtension light -ext WixUtilExtension,WixSqlExtension -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

Re: [WiX-users] if-statement

2008-01-18 Thread Mike Dimmick
All actions can be conditioned in the appropriate sequence table. In WiX syntax, the condition is the inner text of the Custom element (i.e. between the Custom . and /Custom tags). -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roy Li Sent: 18

Re: [WiX-users] Installing Windows services using Existing user

2008-01-18 Thread Mike Dimmick
session as far as I know. It also wouldn't have worked for subsequent users logging on through Fast User Switching on Windows XP. -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Arnson Sent: 19 January 2008 02:04 To: shapla Cc: wix-users

Re: [WiX-users] Closing program on uninstall

2008-01-17 Thread Mike Dimmick
. The defaults are to prompt for a reboot but not do anything else. If you want the application to actually be closed, set CloseMessage to 'yes'. -- Mike Dimmick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 January 2008 12:38 To: [EMAIL

Re: [WiX-users] SQLExtension -- RESEND

2008-01-17 Thread Mike Dimmick
://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=105970 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=105970atid=642717 atid=642717. -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Quattro IV Sent: 17 January 2008 18:31 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX

Re: [WiX-users] upgrade does not work

2008-01-17 Thread Mike Dimmick
with incorrect values, which then overwrote the correct migrated ones? See the SDK for 'Authoring a Conditional Please Wait. Message Box' for how to ensure that costing is complete before proceeding with the UI. -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [WiX-users] major upgrade with merger module

2008-01-16 Thread Mike Dimmick
numbers and you should always version DLLs, EXEs and anything else that supports versioning through resources. -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roger Yen Sent: 16 January 2008 21:02 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX

Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.0.x platform support for Win2008 and WinVista

2008-01-14 Thread Mike Dimmick
for this. One note: rollback doesn't work because the backup/restore APIs that WiX uses were not implemented for IIS 7.0. -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tullen, Frank Sent: 14 January 2008 09:56 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Cc

Re: [WiX-users] IIS Extensions: managed pipeline mode

2008-01-10 Thread Mike Dimmick
Feature not supported because we're still using IIS 6.0's metabase API, which hasn't been extended to support any of IIS 7.0's new features (and they broke the backup/restore features used to support rollback, so rollback doesn't work on IIS 7.0). -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL

Re: [WiX-users] WiX, IIS AppPool and Users

2008-01-09 Thread Mike Dimmick
this for you if you set it manually; password not being passed from scheduler to deferred custom action correctly. -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dror Cohen Sent: 09 January 2008 11:17 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users

Re: [WiX-users] IIS 7.0 Custom Actions

2008-01-09 Thread Mike Dimmick
, of course (track record says it will get broken). So I guess our TODOs are to completely rebuild all the current functionality, in parallel with the old (running the old CAs on IIS 6.0, the new on IIS 7.0), then add the new functionality as new elements and attributes in some way. -- Mike

Re: [WiX-users] Vista Verification Test Case 23 Custom Actions using InstallUtilLib

2008-01-08 Thread Mike Dimmick
://robmensching.com/blog/archive/2007/04/19/Managed-Code-CustomActions-n o-support-on-the-way-and-heres.aspx. The answer I'm afraid is to move whatever custom action is necessary into the application code, or rewrite your custom action in unmanaged C++. -- Mike Dimmick -Original Message

Re: [WiX-users] How to create help file shortcut icon?

2008-01-08 Thread Mike Dimmick
is ridiculous). Microsoft's position on cloning icons for standard metaphors, so that icons are used consistently across the whole system, has generally been permissive, however. -- Mike Dimmick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of SaiTeja Sent: 08

Re: [WiX-users] Merge Module source

2008-01-08 Thread Mike Dimmick
://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=f9d19334-61ec-48cf -bb4e-3aec65edd50bdisplaylang=en displaylang=en. Note, however, that they're a bit buggy - the bugs are documented at http://www.installsite.org/pages/en/bugs_msi.htm#wimsm. -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [WiX-users] How to detect if UAC is turned on

2008-01-07 Thread Mike Dimmick
. -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Palmer Sent: 07 January 2008 14:45 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to detect if UAC is turned on On Jan 4, 2008 6:04 PM, Chesong Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can I

Re: [WiX-users] How to create help file shortcut icon?

2008-01-02 Thread Mike Dimmick
SourceFile=myhelpicon.dll / When they say the EXE binary format they actually mean a Portable Executable file - a resource-only DLL is acceptable. It does not actually have to be executable. -- Mike Dimmick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

Re: [WiX-users] ICE60 and DefaultLanguage

2008-01-02 Thread Mike Dimmick
already in the files? To prevent it having to obtain the file (potentially a CAB download from the Internet, for HTTP MSIs) just to discover that it wasn't needed. -- Mike Dimmick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted Berg Sent: 02 January 2008

Re: [WiX-users] Crystal Reports Merge Module Installation Woes

2007-12-30 Thread Mike Dimmick
suggested InstallExecuteSequence (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372038.aspx) into the MSI, regardless of whether the actions are needed or not. -- Mike Dimmick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 December

Re: [WiX-users] Wix 3.0 and IIS 7.0

2007-12-30 Thread Mike Dimmick
. PowerHell cmdlets are right out (managed custom actions are bad). It really seems like installing websites from an MSI installer wasn't even considered. -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michal Peled Sent: 30 December 2007 16:09

Re: [WiX-users] Using XmlFile in a merge module

2007-12-28 Thread Mike Dimmick
tool for viewing .msm contents, the contents of the ModuleInstallExecuteSequence table from the .msm (specifically the SchedXmlFile row). -- Mike Dimmick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of csellers Sent: 27 December 2007 23:00 To: wix-users

Re: [WiX-users] error CNDL0014

2007-12-28 Thread Mike Dimmick
to identifiers). I'm not sure if it's possible to define a new type based on String with no additional restrictions. -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McCann, Jerome Sent: 27 December 2007 17:52 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall a Website

2007-12-21 Thread Mike Dimmick
the WiX philosophy of only installing exactly what the source says - it's remarkably clean in that respect - but right now the IIS custom actions seem very fragile. -- Mike Dimmick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Mensching Sent: 21 December

Re: [WiX-users] Detecting .net framework 3.5 with wix v2

2007-12-17 Thread Mike Dimmick
/ /Property I don't think this syntax has changed since v2.0 so this should drop straight into your project. -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tobias Holm Sent: 17 December 2007 17:51 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX

Re: [WiX-users] Elevating msi on vista.

2007-12-17 Thread Mike Dimmick
Server grants the 'sysadmin' server role only to the BUILTIN\Administrators Windows security group server logon, and to the 'sa' SQL Server logon. I would have thought that any problems in this area would already have been addressed. Which exact version of WiX are you using? -- Mike

Re: [WiX-users] Changing Icons

2007-12-14 Thread Mike Dimmick
.) Particularly you shouldn't use anything that isn't yours to ship. I don't think there's a problem with using extensionless IDs for ARPPRODUCTICON but I'd stick with using .ico, at least for an actual .ico file, in case. -- Mike Dimmick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [WiX-users] Unicode. Unicode?

2007-12-14 Thread Mike Dimmick
, for which see Multilingual User Interface in the SDK at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms776201.aspx. None of this obviously helps if you have already authored your application relying on being able to install localized strings in the installation package. -- Mike Dimmick -Original

Re: [WiX-users] Problems deploying Microsoft MSM moduleto SystemFolder

2007-12-13 Thread Mike Dimmick
The merge modules coming out of DevDiv have traditionally been, erm, less than reliable. For a list of some known faults in the VS6 merge modules, see http://www.installsite.org/pages/en/bugs_msi.htm#wimsm. -- Mike Dimmick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [WiX-users] Slightly advanced Registry...

2007-12-13 Thread Mike Dimmick
with actual keyboard layouts on keyboards. -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Rivers Sent: 13 December 2007 10:21 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Slightly advanced Registry... Hi all. I have a list

Re: [WiX-users] Changing Icons

2007-12-13 Thread Mike Dimmick
Set the ARPPRODUCTICON property. See the documentation of that property for how to use it. -- Mike Dimmick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Craig Miller Sent: 13 December 2007 22:32 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users

Re: [WiX-users] WiX 2 to 3: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-12-12 Thread Mike Dimmick
custom action or a FileSearch to set the property's value. -- Mike Dimmick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick Sent: 12 December 2007 15:19 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] WiX 2 to 3: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This code

Re: [WiX-users] Not able to use special charecters

2007-12-12 Thread Mike Dimmick
, that is, the encoding of the file is actually that declared in the ?xml? declaration's charset attribute. Visual Studio handles UTF-8 files correctly but others may not. -- Mike Dimmick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anidil Sent: 11 December

Re: [WiX-users] UTF8 in registry

2007-12-12 Thread Mike Dimmick
multiple times to get each additional language. -- Mike Dimmick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Hoyle Sent: 12 December 2007 12:16 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] UTF8 in registry Bob Arnson wrote: Tony Hoyle

Re: [WiX-users] UnInstalling

2007-12-12 Thread Mike Dimmick
to describe the files to be removed. -- Mike Dimmick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of SaiTeja Sent: 12 December 2007 12:53 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] UnInstalling Hi, My INSTALDIR refers to C:\Program Files

Re: [WiX-users] Files protected by windows

2007-11-07 Thread Mike Dimmick
'Operating System Property Values' in the Windows Installer SDK. -- Mike Dimmick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Craig0ss Sent: 07 November 2007 11:59 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Files protected by windows hi

Re: [WiX-users] WIX 3.0 toolset build problem.

2007-11-07 Thread Mike Dimmick
The WiX build tools look for the SDK in the registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0!InstallationFolder. If this value isn't present you need to reinstall the Windows SDK. -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [WiX-users] Re ferring to Icon in an exe - How is it done?

2007-11-07 Thread Mike Dimmick
(although you should not rely on this). That's why you should keep the size of this file down as far as possible. -- Mike Dimmick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cryptonomicon Sent: 06 November 2007 00:38 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [WiX-users] 2 WiX questions

2007-11-05 Thread Mike Dimmick
to 'yes'. I don't think WiX 2.0 allows these bits to be overridden for the standard dialog set, so I think you'd have to do a copy and paste. -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pat Higgins Sent: 05 November 2007 21:29 To: wix-users

Re: [WiX-users] Re ferring to Icon in an exe - How is it done?

2007-11-05 Thread Mike Dimmick
should _not_ use your actual program EXE in the Icon element, nor anything you're not supposed to redistribute, including any part of Windows itself. -- Mike Dimmick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cryptonomicon Sent: 05 November 2007 23:49

[WiX-users] WiX 3.0 post 3304 working for anyone?

2007-10-30 Thread Mike Dimmick
put a bug in the tracker I wanted to be sure. -- Mike Dimmick - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX

Re: [WiX-users] MMC Snapin

2007-10-30 Thread Mike Dimmick
.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa815156.aspx. Adding the snap-in to a console (.msc) file is then straightforwardly done through the MMC user interface. -- Mike Dimmick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Levon Levonian Sent: 30 October 2007 16:15

Re: [WiX-users] Managed Custom Action using InstallUtilLib.dll

2007-10-30 Thread Mike Dimmick
are private). Wix's support currently won't work on NT 4.0 because the APIs LoadPerfCounterTextStrings and UnLoadPerCounterTextStrings are used, not the lodctr.exe program. The APIs were added in Windows 2000. -- Mike Dimmick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [WiX-users] Install a Font

2007-10-30 Thread Mike Dimmick
- if there is a known component GUID for this file, you should use that (typically with a merge module or the third party's own installer), if not, I would set SharedDllRefCount to ensure that it's not removed prematurely. -- Mike Dimmick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [WiX-users] adding mimemap to Webvirtualdir

2007-10-30 Thread Mike Dimmick
no expert on website configuration, though. -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 October 2007 10:38 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] adding mimemap to Webvirtualdir Hi all, I want

Re: [WiX-users] WiX Localization - One Installer to support multipleLanguages

2007-10-30 Thread Mike Dimmick
the recommended one in the SDK. See Localizing a Windows Installer Package at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa369769.aspx. -- Mike Dimmick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sankaranarayanan Sent: 30 October 2007 06:16 To: wix-users

Re: [WiX-users] Custom actions launched from .MSM files

2007-10-30 Thread Mike Dimmick
the rows from multiple inputs into complete tables and resolves references from one fragment to another. -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Elena Diaconu Sent: 29 October 2007 22:17 To: 'Mike Dimmick'; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [WiX-users] intalling a microsoft office plugin with wix v3.0

2007-10-29 Thread Mike Dimmick
The WixOfficeExtension exists but is undocumented at present. That in itself would be enough to make me shy away from it. If you feel like living dangerously, grab the sources distribution and look at src\ext\OfficeExtension. -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto

Re: [WiX-users] Undefined reference in Type 35 custom action

2007-10-29 Thread Mike Dimmick
are not retargeted. -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Wood (OCS) Sent: 25 October 2007 19:34 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Undefined reference in Type 35 custom action I have an installer that includes

Re: [WiX-users] Custom actions launched from .MSM files

2007-10-29 Thread Mike Dimmick
. -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Elena Diaconu Sent: 29 October 2007 16:05 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Custom actions launched from .MSM files Dear WIX users, I have a problem when I am trying

Re: [WiX-users] custom action executing managed executables

2007-10-23 Thread Mike Dimmick
back to the old way for downlevel Windows. -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Dimmick Sent: 22 October 2007 23:17 To: 'Daniel Doubrovkine'; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] custom action executing managed

Re: [WiX-users] COM+ Application Setup Identity Problem

2007-10-22 Thread Mike Dimmick
Service, if you don't need network credentials, or Network Service (authenticates as the machine account in the domain), if you do. -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 October 2007 18:41 To: wix-users

Re: [WiX-users] Operating System language detection

2007-10-22 Thread Mike Dimmick
GetSystemDefaultUILanguage, I think. -- Mike Dimmick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gareth at Serif Sent: 22 October 2007 17:15 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Operating System language detection Does anyone

Re: [WiX-users] WiX v3 Sql Extension not executing SqlScript

2007-10-22 Thread Mike Dimmick
, was released last week on the 19th of October, and is about five months newer than the build you're currently working with, which is the latest on the SourceForge project page. -- Mike Dimmick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of EdB Sent: 18 October

Re: [WiX-users] Operating System language detection

2007-10-22 Thread Mike Dimmick
international coding should be reading Michael Kaplan's blog. -- Mike Dimmick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Sent: 22 October 2007 22:27 To: WiX Users Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Operating System language detection In article [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [WiX-users] custom action executing managed executables

2007-10-22 Thread Mike Dimmick
. Or you could simply see the code in src\ext\UtilExtension\wixext\UtilCompiler.cs from WiX v3.0 in the ParsePerformanceCategoryElement method. -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Doubrovkine Sent: 22 October 2007 22:30 To: wix

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