Re: [WiX-users] Beginning Question

2007-08-07 Thread jcafaro10
Thanks all, I was a little confused I was thinking that Wix and MSBuild did basically the same thing and you could use one or the other. Sorry Bob Arnson-6 wrote: jcafaro10 wrote: Well I think how it works is the version number is stored somewhere so we need to check it out to modify

[WiX-users] Beginning Question

2007-08-06 Thread jcafaro10
In our MSBuild proj we have several UsingTask lines that link to some assemblies. I'd like to use some of this functionality in my Wix Installer but unfortunately, copying all of the UsingTask lines didn't work because UsingTask isn't a child of something or other. Any way to get this to work?

Re: [WiX-users] Beginning Question

2007-08-06 Thread jcafaro10
point to a step in the sequence. So you could have a custom action that came After=InstallFiles or Before=StartServices. Brian Poploskie -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jcafaro10 Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 12:06 PM To: wix-users

Re: [WiX-users] Beginning Question

2007-08-06 Thread jcafaro10
Looked at the tutorial and reworked some of the code. I'm still not sure what to do with the Import Project, or if I even need it but here's what I have now. Binary Id=MSBuild.Community.Tasks.AssemblyInfo SourceFile=MSBuild.Community.Tasks.dll / Binary Id=MSBuild.Community.Tasks.Math.Add

Re: [WiX-users] Beginning Question

2007-08-06 Thread jcafaro10
] On Behalf Of jcafaro10 Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 3:34 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Beginning Question Looked at the tutorial and reworked some of the code. I'm still not sure what to do with the Import Project, or if I even need it but here's what I

[WiX-users] Checking if something is installed

2007-07-30 Thread jcafaro10
In my installer I'd like it to check if something is already installed on my machine before trying to install it. There are some prerequisites that the user needs to have but if they're already installed I don't want them to install them again. I know it involves checking for something in the

[WiX-users] Uninstalling prerequisites

2007-07-30 Thread jcafaro10
My program comes with a lot of prerequisites but when you uninstall the program I'd like it to uninstall the prerequisites too. How can I get it to do that? Do I just have to find the uninstallers for the program or is there something else? -- View this message in context:

Re: [WiX-users] bootstrapper?

2007-07-30 Thread jcafaro10
jcafaro10 wrote: Figured it out. This works provided there are product .xml files where I need them to be. Problem is I'll have to generate this manually b/c this is for msbuild not wix and tfs doesn't support msbuild apparently Edit: Actually I was thinking what if I just had

[WiX-users] Build Events

2007-07-30 Thread jcafaro10
I'd like to get my bootstrapper exe to be built while I'm building my Wix file instead of going into the command line and doing it separately. I figured I could do some kind of ExeCommand to get it to work but I'm not quite sure where or how to add that in. Can Wix do that? I know I can

Re: [WiX-users] Error code 2753?

2007-07-27 Thread jcafaro10
that you're not actually installing. Phil Wilson -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jcafaro10 Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 2:48 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Error code 2753? Trying to get my installer

Re: [WiX-users] Error code 2753?

2007-07-27 Thread jcafaro10
Custom Action=DotNetInstall After=InstallFinalize $Install=3 /Custom /InstallExecuteSequence jcafaro10 wrote: Well I'm sure that my system has .NET on it so is there a conditional check I'd add somewhere to not try and install it if I already have

Re: [WiX-users] Error code 2753?

2007-07-27 Thread jcafaro10
MSI file, and if it's not being installed from your MSI file then you get error 2753. Phil Wilson -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jcafaro10 Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 6:43 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re

Re: [WiX-users] Error code 2753?

2007-07-27 Thread jcafaro10
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/msi/setup/installlevel.asp I went here and read up about the install level stuff. So if everything has an install level of 1, everything will install all the time. If I want things to install on complete and not typical I have

Re: [WiX-users] Error code 2753?

2007-07-27 Thread jcafaro10
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jcafaro10 Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 2:48 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Error code 2753? Trying to get my installer to work. It works for the main files but there are some files I don't want to install unless I click Complete

Re: [WiX-users] Error code 2753?

2007-07-27 Thread jcafaro10
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jcafaro10 Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 10:17 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Error code 2753? Well now if I change my InstallExecuteSequence code to look like

Re: [WiX-users] Error code 2753?

2007-07-27 Thread jcafaro10
only if the applications is currently installed (i.e. you are uninstalling it). You want 'NOT Installed' for your condition. -- Bill Arnette www.starwitness.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jcafaro10 Sent: Friday, July

Re: [WiX-users] Error code 2753?

2007-07-27 Thread jcafaro10
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jcafaro10 Sent: 26 July 2007 22:48 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Error code 2753? Trying to get my installer to work. It works for the main files but there are some files I don't want

Re: [WiX-users] Error code 2753?

2007-07-27 Thread jcafaro10
installed on my machine. Is that the registry check? How do I do that? jcafaro10 wrote: I think I fixed it kind of...by putting in INSTALLLEVEL = 1000 in my installexecutesequence it seems to work...no more 2753 errors. Now to figure out how to get .NET, itechlogger, and SQL to install. Yes

[WiX-users] About custom actions

2007-07-26 Thread jcafaro10
I'm new to Wix and I'm using Wix 3. So far I've been able to figure out everything I need to do except one thing. I need to install a few exe's after the main program installs. Here's what I have. It doesn't run the exe's though. One thing I did notice however, after installing the program

[WiX-users] Error code 2753?

2007-07-26 Thread jcafaro10
Trying to get my installer to work. It works for the main files but there are some files I don't want to install unless I click Complete (as Opposed to typical, I'm using mondo). It copies the files correctly regardless but when I also want it to run the ones that it copies. I think the