Re: [WiX-users] Can WiX do this for me?

2010-04-22 Thread Phil Sayers
http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/ -Original Message- From: Ansis Māliņš [mailto:ansis.mal...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 7:44 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Can WiX do this for me? Bump. On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Ansis Māliņš

Re: [WiX-users] Creating MSI for non admin user

2010-04-13 Thread Phil Sayers
If you need something per-user and you can live with the limitations about what icons/shortcuts you can place, you may want to look at ClickOnce. -Original Message- From: Sanjay Poria [mailto:sanjay.po...@xanalys.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 9:11 AM To:

Re: [WiX-users] facing trouble when run the application after installation - EventType : clr20r3

2009-12-08 Thread Phil Sayers
I knows this is old, but if you haven't resolved this... Making an assumption that the .Net application in question already has top level error handlers for the Application.ThreadException event. Does the application work on the problem machine if you run it as an administrator? If yes, then go

[WiX-users] nice wix 'how to' IIS website install

2009-08-14 Thread Phil Sayers
Bumped into this today. http://www.cmcrossroads.com/content/view/13160/120/ looks like a decent starting point if you're looking to build an installer that needs to work with existing websites. -- Let Crystal Reports

Re: [WiX-users] COM+ services fail to start

2009-07-29 Thread Phil Sayers
Have you tried capturing a verbose log file? To do this... open up a command prompt. And try this command... Msiexec /I Path to your MSI /lv* C:\yourlogfile.txt Then crack open C:\yourlogfile.tx in notepad and read it. It can be challenging at first to understand it, maybe some other list

Re: [WiX-users] Creating Scheduled Tasks using Wix

2009-07-27 Thread Phil Sayers
Hi Jim, I think we both found the same wix snippet to manipulate scheduled tasks. I had to shuffle it around a little, and this is what I ended up with: CustomAction Id=CreateScheduledTask Return=check Directory=MyDirectory ExeCommand=quot;[SystemFolder]SCHTASKS.EXEquot; /CREATE /SC DAILY /TN

Re: [WiX-users] Creating Scheduled Tasks using Wix

2009-07-27 Thread Phil Sayers
Wouldn't be complete without the custom action to remove the task for uninstall. CustomAction Id=RemoveScheduledTask Return=ignore Directory= MyDirectory ExeCommand=quot;[SystemFolder]SCHTASKS.EXEquot; /DELETE /TN quot; My Scheduled Task Name quot; /F / -Original Message- From: Phil

Re: [WiX-users] Creating Scheduled Tasks using Wix

2009-07-27 Thread Phil Sayers
! Jim -Original Message- From: Phil Sayers [mailto:p...@cds-am.net] Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 12:23 PM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Creating Scheduled Tasks using Wix Wouldn't be complete without the custom action to remove

Re: [WiX-users] Updating web.config field value depending on if machine's 64bit or 32bit

2009-07-14 Thread Phil Sayers
' Thanks lots. Erica -Original Message- From: Phil Sayers [mailto:p...@cds-am.net] Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 1:28 PM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Updating web.config field value depending on if machine's 64bit or 32bit To the best of my

Re: [WiX-users] Updating web.config field value depending on if machine's 64bit or 32bit

2009-07-13 Thread Phil Sayers
XmlFile is your friend. -Original Message- From: Erica Chang (PROJECT) [mailto:eri...@microsoft.com] Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 1:59 PM To: 'wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net' Subject: [WiX-users] Updating web.config field value depending on if machine's 64bit or 32bit Hi, I have a

Re: [WiX-users] Updating web.config field value depending on if machine's 64bit or 32bit

2009-07-13 Thread Phil Sayers
To the best of my knowledge As long as your installer is tagged correctly as a 32bit installer by setting the Platform attribute of the Package node to x86 like this: Package Id=* InstallerVersion=200 Compressed=yes Languages=1033 Platform=x86 InstallPrivileges=elevated

Re: [WiX-users] Ask user for many details?

2009-06-08 Thread Phil Sayers
Do you really want an installer? Or are you looking for a wizard ui to gather data points? -Original Message- From: Adam Schirmacher [mailto:adam.schirmac...@electrolux.com] Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 3:44 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Ask user for

Re: [WiX-users] Ask user for many details?

2009-06-08 Thread Phil Sayers
This should get you moving in the right direction. Labels, data entry boxes...etc. http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson2.php#2.5 -Original Message- From: Adam Schirmacher [mailto:adam.schirmac...@electrolux.com] Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 3:44 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [WiX-users] Edit Control, trap textchanged possible?

2009-05-15 Thread Phil Sayers
Height=17 Property= MYPASSWORD / From: Phil Sayers [mailto:p...@cds-am.net] Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 8:29 AM To: 'wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net' Subject: Edit Control, trap textchanged possible? Hello everyone, I have a custom dialog with 3 Controls of type Edit. Each one linked

Re: [WiX-users] Installing fonts

2009-05-13 Thread Phil Sayers
Have you seen the RegisterFonts element? -Original Message- From: Kim Gybels [mailto:kim.gyb...@metris.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 12:29 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Installing fonts Hi, What is the correct way to install fonts using Wix? I always

Re: [WiX-users] MSI Factory

2009-05-08 Thread Phil Sayers
Wix, Vb.net, c#..etc... are supported by #develop. Just because you don't need to use #develop for its support of the .Net languages does not mean you cannot use it for Wix development. At the end of the day windows installer helps you deploy, update, repair remove resources on a computer. Wix

Re: [WiX-users] Running WiX utilities from a script

2009-05-07 Thread Phil Sayers
If you have a wixproj file, you can use MSBuild and everything should be taken care of. If you don't have VS.Net, then sharpdevelop is free and supports creating wixproj files. -Original Message- From: Reuss, Matthias [mailto:matthias.mr.re...@siemens.com] Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009

Re: [WiX-users] Setting a Vista Firewall rule

2009-05-05 Thread Phil Sayers
FirewallException element -Original Message- From: Chris Lord [mailto:chris.l...@atterotech.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 10:44 AM To: wix-users Subject: [WiX-users] Setting a Vista Firewall rule My application uses a .NET object that requires the use of TFTP. Unfortunately, on a

Re: [WiX-users] How would I register a COM+ service using Wix(DCOMCNFG)

2009-04-27 Thread Phil Sayers
I use something like this to create a COM+ app... I think my need for CreateFolder comes from something else in my wxs that I haven't had time to work out, but I found that I needed it for my situation. This works for me,using Wix 3.0.4603 At the top of your wxs file... include...

Re: [WiX-users] How would I register a COM+ serviceusing Wix(DCOMCNFG)

2009-04-27 Thread Phil Sayers
register a COM+ serviceusing Wix(DCOMCNFG) Phil, Thanks for the info. I'll give this a try but let me ask. When you say COM+ is this going to appear under the COM+ Applications folder or under the DCOM Config Folder? Thx -Original Message- From: Phil Sayers [mailto:p...@cds-am.net] Sent

Re: [WiX-users] How would I register a COM+ serviceusing Wix(DCOMCNFG)

2009-04-27 Thread Phil Sayers
the COM+ Applications folder or under the DCOM Config Folder? Thx -Original Message- From: Phil Sayers [mailto:p...@cds-am.net] Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 11:42 AM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How would I register a COM

Re: [WiX-users] votive causing massive pauses in Visual Studio

2009-03-18 Thread Phil Sayers
I don't have a solution for you, but I know that the smarter people here will want to know the versions of the tools you are using. [1]wix/votive [2]visual studio edition service pack level. [3]operating system service pack level. -Original Message- From: Adam Langley

Re: [WiX-users] Advice on Click Through technology wanted

2009-03-05 Thread Phil Sayers
I'm not in a position to help, but clarification about whether the original poster meant to say Click Once Or Click Through would be helpful before this discussion goes a lot further. -Original Message- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009

Re: [WiX-users] excluding directories from heat

2008-12-22 Thread Phil Sayers
you could use the subversion export command to create a copy of just yyour files, and none of the hidden files that svn uses for housekeeping. -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:rob.mensch...@microsoft.com] Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 8:35 PM To: General discussion for

Re: [WiX-users] Wix#

2008-12-18 Thread Phil Sayers
+1 for Phil's book. It significantly helped me start to think about deployment scenarios/problems in terms of windows installer concepts. I blame Phil for my conversion from VS setup projects to wix. (the other Phil) -Original Message- From: Jody Belka [mailto:lists-...@pimb.org] Sent:

[WiX-users] file placement struggles.

2008-12-05 Thread Phil Sayers
hello, I'm repackaging a 3rd party product that we have purchased and integrating some of our own additional files so we can get our deployment down to a 1-click process and not have to rely on people not making mistakes. The files that we provide are webservices and get dropped into the

Re: [WiX-users] file placement struggles.

2008-12-05 Thread Phil Sayers
=WebServicesDir Name=WebServices Directory Id=WebserviceBin Name=bin / /Directory /Directory /Directory /Directory Directory Id=SystemFolder / Directory Id=SomeDirectoryId/ /Directory -Original Message- From: Phil Sayers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 05

Re: [WiX-users] Logging

2008-10-06 Thread Phil Sayers
anyone else received this message almost 10 times today? -Original Message- From: Peter Vestergaard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 6:47 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Logging I am using the command line

Re: [WiX-users] Remote Installtion

2008-09-18 Thread Phil Sayers
This may get you going in the right direction. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/apps/user/usapvb02.msp x?mfr=true to install on a remote machine it's all about how you execute the msi file, there's not much you can do once the msi has started to be processed by the installer

Re: [WiX-users] Generate MSI during install

2008-05-16 Thread Phil Sayers
projects, for a server, and for a client. Than add a Custom Action to the first one (server), which will launch a batch file for compiling and linking the second one (client). MBR, Yuri -Original Message- Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 10:05:47 -0400 From: Phil Sayers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WiX

Re: [WiX-users] Build behavior for WiX projects

2008-04-17 Thread Phil Sayers
At the moment in visual studio a Setup Project only builds in Release configuration by default. (at least thats how it works on my system here) I can see having wix projects match this beahavior to keep consistency with the installer building project types, but that is only one scenario for the

Re: [WiX-users] Redistributing WiX in order to build custom installersfor customers

2008-02-19 Thread Phil Sayers
I've had the exact same idea slowly fermenting in my head. Interested in how you make this work and any hiccups along the way. We still need to do some work with our product before we can make time to spend on the install story, but med-long term this is definitely of interest here.

Re: [WiX-users] Detecting Which version of SQL is installed

2007-11-26 Thread Phil Sayers
is this a .net 2.0 product? If so, can't you package the .mdf and .ldf sql database log files with your app and use the new connection string options on the System.Data.SqlClient to point to the database files and use those as your sql database instead of needing an installed instance? lower