order (TARGET DIR is getting assigned after your script runs).
I haven't tried to modify TARGETDIR with a custom action , so I can't begin to
tell you what the problem is yet.
Thanks
Pierson
From: Guna S [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 1:17 AM
To: Pierson Lee (Volt
From: Michael Thurlkill
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 3:46 PM
To: Pierson Lee (Volt); Chandra Mohan
Subject: RE: capturing errors from deployment using octopusCLI
We're using Wix. Chandra did most of the work, but I know just enough to be
dangerous.
From: Pierson Lee (Volt)
Sent: Tuesday
: Rob Mensching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 12:29 AM
To: Blair Murri
Cc: Pierson Lee (Volt); wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] IIS issues during install/uninstall
That WiX v3 build is about 6 months old. If you're going to be using WiX
v3, you
: Pierson Lee (Volt); wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] New to WIX, trying to get a UI to appear in my MSI
Lanteigne, Alan wrote:
I got it from here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=105970package_id=16,
which was a link for Votive 3.0 download page
Are you getting it from wix.sourceforge.com?
From: Lanteigne, Alan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 1:22 PM
To: Pierson Lee (Volt); wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: New to WIX, trying to get a UI to appear in my MSI
I installed 3.2015, the latest votive
You have to add a reference to the WixUI component dll.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lanteigne, Alan
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 12:05 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] New to WIX, trying to get a UI to appear in my MSI
Hello, I
No. sounds like a bad dll? Weird. You installed the latest version of Votive?
Maybe try and reinstall it...
From: Lanteigne, Alan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 12:48 PM
To: Pierson Lee (Volt); wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: New to WIX, trying to get
Hello all-
I'm getting occasional (and increasingly frustrating) issues with IIS Web
Site/applications and IIS Application Pools in IIS when using a WiX 3.0 Created
MSI package where the sites/app pools are getting installed on the wrong level
of the metabase then not uninstalling properly,
The only thing I can think of is that if you specify the user account, and then
as part of the MSI try and start the service, if the service start fails, I
think the installer fails too. (not a very good check, I know).
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Just FYI - The WiX toolset is used to help write custom MSI packages but still
need to follow the underlying Windows Installer rules and guidelines. I don't
think the issues that you are mentioning are issues that pertain only to WiX
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I'm looking to see if anyone has a good guide to writing upgrades. What I am
attempting to do is upgrade certain components in my upgrade MSI if a previous
version exists, but not deploy the other components. A specific example is my
installer package installs a website that needs an SSL cert.
Were these changes made to version 3 also?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Mensching
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 12:46 PM
To: Surendra Katari; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WriteMetabaseChanges: failed to open '/LM/W3SVC/4/'
Are there any weird issues that anyone knows of with WiX Msis installing IIS
app pools and sites through Admin (/x) installs? I'm doing it and it seems to
be putting the keys in the IIS metabase for the App Pool values in places where
it causes my App Pools to come up with Invalid Application
Hmm. I am wondering if it is the host header then, because this is just a
recent problem that's shown up and the other 4 sites uninstall properly, it is
just this one package.
From: Mike Dimmick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 3:38 PM
To: Pierson Lee (Volt); 'david adams
uninstall properly, it is
just this one package.
From: Mike Dimmick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 3:38 PM
To: Pierson Lee (Volt); 'david adams'; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Wierd IIS issue with Wix install/uninstall
As I said, because
this one package.
From: Mike Dimmick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 3:38 PM
To: Pierson Lee (Volt); 'david adams'; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Wierd IIS issue with Wix install/uninstall
As I said, because it doesn't remember the ID number
I am currently installing 4 sites packaged with WiX. I have it installing
app_pools, sites and the necessary files and file structures with each of these
4 on the same server. I noticed some weird behavior today, particularly in
uninstallation.
When I go to uninstall one of my sites, its not
3:04 PM
To: Pierson Lee (Volt); wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Wierd IIS issue with Wix install/uninstall
WiX only looks at the combination of IP address(es), port number, and Host
header. If any of those have been changed post-installation, the custom action
may either
) because you're specifying everything
prior to the part where it is installing the files and not during the
installfiles step.
From: Ravit Shapira
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 2:35 PM
To: Pierson Lee (Volt); wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: Re: [WiX-users] How to change TARGETDIR to e drive
If you think it is already installed, you can check the registry for a key that
shows it installed and make that key the condition on whether or not you
install your file
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jcafaro10
Sent: Friday, July 27,
Anything that runs a Windows installer based install won't work because windows
installer doesn't like running multiple instances simultaneously. The only way
I've been able to trick it is to get the subsequent msi to kick off at the
end(very end) of the installation process but it sounds like
are: E:\Web\EmailShare\, ,
From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 1:09 PM
To: Pierson Lee (Volt)
Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Administrative install and File/Folder Sharing
Pierson Lee (Volt) wrote:
I'm doing a remote admin
You don't need it as a custom action. Just specify a property Property
Id=TARGETDIRe:\/Property
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ravit Shapira
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 11:46 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to change
I'm doing a remote admin installation using an internal MSI deployment tool. My
problem is that when I go to set the folder permissions for a FileShare it's
telling me I don't have permissions to do this.
Is there an easy way to elevate the MSI installation so that it will attempt to
setup the
You can't set the installUI level (as I've been told) via the MSI. If you have
a UI, it will be called. You can condition the UI to pop up particular screens
if an INI file is not available, but the base UI screen (welcomedlg) will still
be brought up in both cases.
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Public properties in WiX are specified by the fact that the Property Id (the
name) is all in Caps
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Magus
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 12:02 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users]
You need to do a registrysearch. Look at registrysearch in the documentation
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Österreicher
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 2:42 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Add Registry
There is not a way to specify a directory. You will need to specify each file
explicitly to have it be part of the installation
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lingappa
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 3:48 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users]
Would it be worthwhile to do a filesearch and if it doesn't exist to then
install the component and change the file (in a different feature)?
That would be the way I'd do it, but I have yet to use the NeverOverwrite
option.
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Binary Key - takes a binary tag with a dll/exe and will run it without
extracting/installing it (the Binary is only valid at installtime)
File key - an extracted file that you need to access at install time also.
This file will also be available after installation as per your file tag.
From:
and what the user
wanted. The logic might have been slightly off but I found a different way to
do it anyways (custom actions).
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From: Sebastian Brand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 6:53 AM
To: Pierson Lee (Volt)
Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
This looks like either you don't have permission to edit the metabase or the
metabase doesn't exist.
Do you have the lines from the wix patch regarding writing to the /W3SVC/1/Root
?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Petrut Andrei
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007
Is there a property within the Wix I can set conditionally (dependent upon a
registry key) whether or not to display a UI?
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I had the same problem and had to use a custom action to write it to the
property after AppSearch had been completed. What is the proper way of doing
this?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Benas
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 3:05 AM
To:
Or if you want it only on uninstall, the condition REMOVE=ALL should work
also
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wilson, Phil
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 12:12 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Executing a custom action on uninstall
In order to set the property to include another property you have to use a
CustomAction
Try CustomAction Id=PropertyCA Property=QtExecDeferred
Value=quot;[TOOLS]/mytool.exequot; /
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of steve baker
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 11:22 AM
This is a general question related to the Component / tag.
If I were to set the Transitive flag within the Component / to yes would it
reevaluate the conditional at the time of uninstall or is it only on Modify and
installation that it looks at the Transitive flag?
Thanks
Pierson
my program won't uninstall)
and it isn't running the commands either.
TIA
-Pierson
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From: Stefan Pavlik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 1:30 AM
To: Pierson Lee (Volt)
Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Annoying
I've created an MSI that, through a UI, will determine from a public property
that is selected through a radio button, which feature to install.
It uses the feature conditional that changes the level of the feature.
If I set the same property from a command-line, it doesn't evaluate and both
I'm at my wit's end trying to figure out this RemoveFolders problem so any help
will be greatly appreciated.
I am attempting to remove 2 folders that I created on install ONLY if all 3
registry keys I'm checking for do not exist.
My Component for removeFolders looks like this:
Component
It should complete. You'll need to find the flags to do it silently but you are
right, there is no guarantee when it will complete or that it will finish if it
encounters an error.
From: sanjay bhaskar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 6:13 PM
To: Pierson Lee (Volt); wix
That's the same thing I'm doing. You have to use a bootstrapper. If you're
using VS 2005, you can use the setup project and it will allow you to check for
.net framework .
The other way you can do it (which I did, but am having a heck of a time) is to
call the .net Framework redistributable at
Hi-
I am having difficulty forcing an installation of vjredist.exe (Microsoft
Visual J# .NET 2.0 Redistributable package) with my MSI. Currently, its
checking to see if the registry entry is there, then it calls it for a silent
install. I'm getting an error telling me that I already have a
I actually want to run it during if it isn't installed, but I can't seem to do
that.
From: Francis Kam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 4:59 PM
To: Pierson Lee (Volt)
Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Incorporating vjredist.exe in a WiX Project
I replaced the stock ones in that folder, but I also have two lines:
WixVariable Id=WixUIBannerBmp Overridable=yes
Value=Bitmaps\bannrbmp.bmp/
WixVariable Id=WixUIDialogBmp Overridable=yes
Value=Bitmaps\dlgbmp.bmp/
I don't have problems with the chm file that comes with the
First of all, you probably need to set a public propertyProperty Id=MYPROPERTY
/. Then you assign the property to the combo box, so that when your directory
tag is called, it will look for that property.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
I created a custom dialog box. Its along the lines of a another dialog box
(copy one from the WixUI) and just add a username and password field and two
properties, one to hold each one. If you're still having problems with this,
let me know (I'm actually working on a password checker right now
I'm trying to compare two properties together (does property A = Property B?)
and it doesn't' seem to be working.
The application is for me to verify that a password and a confirm password
that they type in are the same before continuing on the dialog.
! - - Dialog Snippet - -
Control
Ignore this. I found my problem. I don't need the not-equal comparison.
Thanks
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pierson Lee
(Volt)
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 12:18 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Property comparisons
I'm trying
Hi-
I'm getting this weird error when running my custom action:
MSI (s) (B8:F4) [17:21:34:509]: Doing action: QtExec
Action 17:21:34: QtExec.
Action start 17:21:34: QtExec.
MSI (s) (B8:C4) [17:21:34:509]: Invoking remote custom action. DLL:
C:\WINNT\Installer\MSI547.tmp, Entrypoint: CAQuietExec
Check out the Files / tag.
As long as you don't make it permanent, during the uninstall process it will
remove the files.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ravikumar
Gopinath
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 10:48 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject:
Here's a weird one. I am attempting to set the ACL permissions on a folder that
I am creating so that the user I have can have full control on the folder too
(two lines down inside the directory tag, I do a fileshare tag also, but that
one works).I have a CreateFolder / tag with a Permission
=ShareUser
GenericAll=yes /
/util:FileShare
/Component
/Directory
From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 7:20 PM
To: Pierson Lee (Volt)
Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users
Yes it is empty. The only reason I can think of is that the folder itself is
shared (using the file share option) and I can't figure out how to unshared it.
From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 9:36 PM
To: Pierson Lee (Volt)
Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Using the following code, the folder isn't removed on uninstall. Any reason why?
Could it be because the folder is shared? If so, how do I remove a folder share
on uninstall.
Thanks:
--pierson
Directory Id=EmailShareDir Name=EmailShare
Component
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Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 11:43 AM
To: Pierson Lee (Volt)
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] (no subject)
Hello Pierson,
Pardon, but I had to do a similar thing recently in a switchover from
InstallShield 11.5 to WIX installers in which there was a shared flag for any
file in a folder where
, June 22, 2007 12:04 PM
To: Pierson Lee (Volt)
Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] (no subject)
Thanks for your quick response.
My use of a shared file used to be done with a reference count type mechanism
in IS 11.5 where let's say Application A installs MyRuntime.dll
5:21 PM
To: Pierson Lee (Volt)
Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Installer Design
Pierson Lee (Volt) wrote:
To accomplish my first goal of being able to choose one of two, do I want to be
looking at Merge Modules?
No. Just use features; the stock feature-selection
high enough it will get the lower level one too. Is it to be
done through conditions?
From: Mike Dimmick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 12:40 PM
To: Pierson Lee (Volt); 'Bob Arnson'
Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Installer Design
You could
This might be slightly off topic for the thread.
I am looking to create an installer that seems complex in my mind
I want it to be able to install 1 of two applications dependent upon user
input. It either installs a service or a set of websites, depending on what the
user chooses on the UI.
Do you have any source I can look at? I can't seem to duplicate this.
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Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 1:27 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Remove Guid from
that SS_INSTALL_COM is a property of the component and attaching
the GUID to make it unique.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 2:33 PM
To: Pierson Lee (Volt); wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Remove Guid
I'm getting the following error message when trying to create a .wxs file using
heat. I started trying to get the whole directory but I located the file that
its having a problem on and I'm trying to determine why I continue to get the
error message on even just using heat on that specific
The MSI completes with a line in the add/remove programs but the application
pools are not created in the IIS metabase.
From: Rob Mensching
Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2007 9:44 AM
To: Pierson Lee (Volt); wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: Adding items to IIS: What am I doing wrong?
What's
I actually ended up rewriting it from scratch and it seemed to work the second
time. Don't know what the difference was. Thanks for everyone's help!
From: Rob Mensching
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 12:18 PM
To: Pierson Lee (Volt); wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: Adding items to IIS
Another question:
I am attempting to remove a folder set that I created during install in the
uninstall process, but its two-fold.
1. I need to ask the user if they want to remove the folders during the
uninstall process (which I can do on a dialog window with a check box during
the
My eventual goal is to be able to create a website through WiX, but currently
this is supposed to add two new Application Pools in IIS and it isn't even
doing that. What am I doing wrong? Any help would be great. Thanks
--Pierson
code
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
Wix
My eventual goal is to be able to create a website through WiX, but currently
this is supposed to add two new Application Pools in IIS and it isn't even
doing that. What am I doing wrong? Any help would be great. Thanks
--Pierson
code
?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?
Wix
Interesting, because in the help documentation for the IIS Schema, it shows
that the I don't have a RecycleTime element anymore
FYI (and I forgot to post) I'm using v 3.0.2925
From: Francis Kam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 5:20 PM
To: Pierson Lee (Volt)
Cc: wix-users
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