Re: [WiX-users] Creating Registry Key

2013-12-15 Thread Blair Murri
Only with a custom action -Blair From: Suvrajyoti Panda Sent: ‎Thursday‎, ‎December‎ ‎12‎, ‎2013 ‎9‎:‎51‎ ‎PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Hi All, May be this is a trivial question to ask, but below is what i want to achieve: I am creating registry

Re: [WiX-users] What does setting KeyPath attribute of the Component element to yes means?

2013-12-15 Thread Blair Murri
No. But directories can’t be versioned, so installation, repair and removal are only controlled by the component’s feature(s) state and action values and possibly the component’s own condition. -Blair From: uni Sent: ‎Thursday‎, ‎December‎ ‎12‎, ‎2013 ‎9‎:‎16‎ ‎PM To: General

Re: [WiX-users] How to build wix toolset from source ?

2013-12-15 Thread 郭龙仓
Thank you so much . I will follow the instructions. 2013/12/13 Wesley Manning wmann...@dynagen.ca If you are going to dive into the source code there is another wix mailing list, Wix-devs, you might want to sign up for. You are lucky thought as someone just recently asked a similar

Re: [WiX-users] Where is wixstdba.dll ?!!

2013-12-15 Thread 郭龙仓
Thanks ! 2013/12/13 Wesley Manning wmann...@dynagen.ca It's under src/ext/BalExtension/wixstba. You don't need to change the dll. There's a theme file (theme.xml) and a corresponding culture file (has a .wxl extension). You can change the .wxl file to Chinese. Although if you look under

Re: [WiX-users] ICE Errors and how to resolve

2013-12-15 Thread Bob Arnson
On 12-Dec-13 13:40, Brian Enderle wrote: I have the following ICE errors and am not sure how to track down the root cause or how to repair. Can someone explain how I can find the cause of these errors and fix them? I am trying to use the Crystal Reports 13.0.7 MSM file to deploy CR with my

Re: [WiX-users] Feature request

2013-12-15 Thread Bob Arnson
On 12-Dec-13 14:52, Tunney, Stephen wrote: Can melt simply rebase the wixpdb if I were to point it to an already existing melt output directory? I basically don't want to have melt re-output everything to the -x argument again. Nothing on the help syntax for 3.7 indicates a way of doing

[WiX-users] ExecXmlFile error 1603

2013-12-15 Thread kaizen__ hotmail . com
Hi All, I'm getting the following error when performing a 'Change' action from my installer (installation itself went fine, no errors thrown).I've read that this is most likely a situation involving the file already being open for read/write (I'm writing to web.config files), and so ExecXmlFile

[WiX-users] Help, Custom Action not working in InstallUISequence...

2013-12-15 Thread StevenOgilvie
Hey all, I hope someone can help me out here I am banging my head on this one... A little history, I have a Web Server installer that creates a Web App Pool and a Web Site. I have a Welcome, License, Choose DB, Choose Web Site info etc...pages in my UI In the Web Site info I have an edit box for

[WiX-users] Help, Custom Action not working in InstallUISequence...

2013-12-15 Thread kaizen__ hotmail . com
Are you sure you should be using CAQuietExec, and not CAQuietExec64?And you should probably be using the AppCmd in Sysnative instead of the 32-bit version in SysWOW64 (which would match the CAQuietExec64 command).I have had some problems with using 32bit system executables to modify system

Re: [WiX-users] Help, Custom Action not working in InstallUISequence...

2013-12-15 Thread Steven Ogilvie
Yes I tried it via the command line and it all works... I have this set up: ?if $(var.Platform) = x64 ? ?define PlatformCAQuietExecDLLEntry = CAQuietExec64? ?define PlatformQtExecCmdLine = QtExec64CmdLine? ?else ? ?define PlatformCAQuietExecDLLEntry = CAQuietExec? ?define

Re: [WiX-users] Help, Custom Action not working in InstallUISequence...

2013-12-15 Thread StevenOgilvie
I got it working... (my bad should have googled more) but in case anyone else is having issues here is what i did: CustomAction Id=CA_Upgrade_Apppool.SetProperty Property=$(var.PlatformQtExecCmdLine) Value=quot;[SystemFolder]inetsrv\appcmd.exequot; stop apppool

Re: [WiX-users] Creating Registry Key

2013-12-15 Thread Suvrajyoti Panda
Thanks for the solution Blair. Would try this. Regards, SuvraJyoti On 15-12-2013 16:24, Blair Murri wrote: Only with a custom action -Blair From: Suvrajyoti Panda Sent: ‎Thursday‎, ‎December‎ ‎12‎, ‎2013 ‎9‎:‎51‎ ‎PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall by Installer not removing the path created if that path is open on the system

2013-12-15 Thread Suvrajyoti Panda
Hey Wesley, checked it on a reboot, that does not work. The structure is still there. Any others suggestions guys? Regards, SuvraJyoti On 13-12-2013 20:13, Wesley Manning wrote: It might be removed on a reboot. If you had folder open, then windows installer can't uninstall it. But I think