Re: [WiX-users] Dialogs during the uninstall

Windows Installer doesn't support that in the standard UI (it runs the uninstall in basic UI). You'd have to write a bootstrapper and take over the ARP registration yourself. On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Robert Hermann wrote: > How do you program WIX to display custom dialogs during an uninst

Re: [WiX-users] AdvanceUI for the default installation being [ProgramFilesFolder]

The APPLCIATIONFOLDER Directory will end up resolving to ProgramFilesFolder with this code. Why do you want to install straight into ProgamFilesFolder? That seems odd. On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Andres Juarez wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > In the exemple in the SDK to use the AdvanceUI: > > > >

Re: [WiX-users] How to specify files in Installer package

I usually just write an XSL transform. heat supports that. On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Blair wrote: > Two ideas that come to mind: One is to use msbuild to call heat (or some > other system that can calculate a list of files given an exclusion pattern) > and the other is to write an extensio

Re: [WiX-users] failed while processing WebDirs

Yes, you can override the localization String/@Id="msierrIISFailedReadWebDirs" On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 8:03 AM, Tales Aguiar wrote: > Hello, > > > > My first version of my installer has created a duplicated 'Default Web > Site' > on client server. I made changes to use Web Site locator, but now t

Re: [WiX-users] Two Custom Action entry points in one C++ Dll and WcaLog failure

Nope. On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Tony Juricic wrote: > I verified that WcaInitialize() is called. This is immediate CA that is the > target of a control event : > > Value="CAValidateFolder" Order="2">1 > > Is logging available to such custom actions? > Thanks! > > -Original Message

Re: [WiX-users] table contains an action '' -- how to find it ??? (Light warning 1055)

Wow, that's trippy. The table name *and* the action name are both blank. The mergemod.dll (from the Windows Installer team) is responsible for populating that data. You might try building the MSI then using Orca to merge in the module and see if it comes up with a better error. On Mon, Dec 7, 2009

Re: [WiX-users] WIX extension: CreateWixSimpleReferenceRow doesn't work with custom tables?

Symbols are not created for primary keys in tables unless the tableDefinition/@createSymbols="yes". On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 6:33 AM, Maciej Oszutowski wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm developing WIX extension which creates number of custom tables. One of > them is similar to InstallExecuteSequence, another

Re: [WiX-users] Patching problems with alternate directories

The location that the components you are patching are already installed. Could you share a log that shows it not working in that circumstance? -Original Message- From: XorPtr [mailto:reaper4...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 1:55 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subj

Re: [WiX-users] How to specify files in Installer package

Two ideas that come to mind: One is to use msbuild to call heat (or some other system that can calculate a list of files given an exclusion pattern) and the other is to write an extension to heat. -Original Message- From: Markus Gaugusch [mailto:w...@gaugusch.at] Sent: Wednesday, December

Re: [WiX-users] Conditions in merge modules

WiX exposes (for the most part) all of the power of native Windows Installer. LaunchConditions are exposed by the Condition elements under the Product and Fragment elements and result in entries into the LaunchCondition table (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/aa369752.aspx) which is processed by t

Re: [WiX-users] How Do I Verify Group Membership?

Believe me, I hear you. I went through all this when I was on the install team at Medium Sized Corporation. MSC initially had a philosophy of trying to cram everything into the install. Eventually, they learned that the tools used in "post install configuration" were useful in maintenance operat

Re: [WiX-users] Instance transforms with the msi

Here's the key point from the SDK: * To keep the nonfile data of each instance isolated, the base package should collect nonfile data into sets of components for each instance. The appropriate components should then be installed based on conditional statements that depend on the instance identifie

Re: [WiX-users] How Do I Verify Group Membership?

Enter Requirement X: There should be no post-install configuration. I tell you, these requirement peoples just love to get in the way! ;-) BTW: I completely agree with you. I'm just pointing out that sometimes we get forced to implement ugly requirements. I have to choose my battles. This one is

Re: [WiX-users] How Do I Verify Group Membership?

I don't think I would try to cram this into the installer. If the installer isn't going to change the group membership, then it shouldn't be gathering the information to query the group membeship. Do it after installation time with a standalone configuration utility. That way they can change w

[WiX-users] AdvanceUI for the default installation being [ProgramFilesFolder]

Hi All, In the exemple in the SDK to use the AdvanceUI: ... For a per-machine installation, the default installation location will be [ProgramFilesFolder][ApplicationFolderName] What would it be the approach if I want to use the AdvanceUI

Re: [WiX-users] how to change style of Control

In article , Baris Taze writes: > Is there a way to change the style of a Control in WixUI? > For example, background color, foreground color, font size, font type (bold, italic), font name (Tahoma, etc).. You can change the text style used on a control. See

Re: [WiX-users] How Do I Verify Group Membership?

Correct. And my installer requirements is to validate that the accounts specified happen to meet certain requirements, such as being a member of a specified group. My requirements say to check for this error condition and do not allow the installer to modify the system if the user specified bad

Re: [WiX-users] Quiet Execution Custom Action - run a temporary executable

Nope, this an immediate CA, that's all it does. You can use another immediate CA to delete the file or with some more code build a deferred CA and/or a wix extension that has this behavior. dB. @ dblock.org Moscow|Geneva|Seattle|New York -Original Message- From: Blair [mailto:os...@li

[WiX-users] add import in wixproj

How do I go about adding an import to WiX project file in VS? I'm writing a solution wizard which creates several projects and one of them is WiX project for which I need to add one more import tag. I have access to EnvDTE.Project object named proj. I tried adding import using ((WixProjectNode)p

[WiX-users] how to change style of Control

Is there a way to change the style of a Control in WixUI? For example, background color, foreground color, font size, font type (bold, italic), font name (Tahoma, etc).. I want to change this per control, not the per dialog or the whole WIX UI. eg: How to change style of this item? -Baris --

Re: [WiX-users] Validation on UI dialogs

In article <481222.60726...@web30401.mail.mud.yahoo.com>, Sankaranarayanan writes: > For validating the fields in Custom UI for empty / null values - I am calling a Custom action on "DoAction" event of the Next Button and spawing a new dialo g if all the input values are correctly entered.

Re: [WiX-users] How Do I Verify Group Membership?

You create /local/ accounts and groups, not domain accounts. If you also need domain permissions, then your installation instructions specify what local accounts/groups need to be added to what domain group. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download

Re: [WiX-users] Validation on UI dialogs

The current custom action code is in C#. Any chances for setting the focus through managed code :( -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Validation-on-UI-dialogs-tp4141605p4142556.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --

Re: [WiX-users] Validation on UI dialogs

Unless there is a much more elegant method, you may try a good ole' Win32 method: - use Spy++ to find the dialog ID of the control (s): - use Setup Window title to find the dialog HWND (you may be doing this already to parent your message window) - get HWND of the control using GetDlgItem - call

Re: [WiX-users] Dialogs during the uninstall

How do you program WIX to display custom dialogs during an uninstall ? I'm uninstalling my app from the Control Panel and I want to give the user the ability to keep or drop A database. Rob Hermann Senior Software Developer Niceware International, LLC 10437 Innovation Drive Suite 147 Milwauke

Re: [WiX-users] Multiple installed instances and maintenance mode

One file? Then use a self-extracting bootstrapper :) On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Kevin Garman wrote: > Well ya...I'm really trying to keep everything contained in a single > file (ie. the msi). > > Thanks though. > > > > > > On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 10:38 -0800, Blair wrote: > >> Bootstrapper.

Re: [WiX-users] Patching problems with alternate directories

When you refer to the "currently installed location", are you referring to the location that my product installs to by default or the location selected by the user. If the latter, then the patch should be installing to that location. Blair-2 wrote: > > Are your patches MSP files performing eit

Re: [WiX-users] How to specify files in Installer package

Hi Blair! Those directories contain many files and I don't want to specify them by hand. And if I want to ignore .svn directories, I'm fully out of luck. Additionally, I tried to split up my project into several trees like that: - framework\bin (common binary files, xml schema, ...) - framework\c

[WiX-users] Windows installer problems when users choose install directory.

This is actually another cry for help on what's probably a related issue with installing a patch when users install to an alternate directory. The original issue was that when patching our product the patch only works when the user installs to the default directory, if they choose their own the p

Re: [WiX-users] Conditions in merge modules

To get a feel for how wix works, I created an installer project which produces an .msi file. It includes conditions at the Product level (are those launch conditions?) that check for os version and .net version, exiting the install if the condition is not met. I'll convert that project into a merg

[WiX-users] Validation on UI dialogs

Hi All, For validating the fields in Custom UI for empty / null values - I am calling a Custom action on "DoAction" event of the Next Button and spawing a new dialog if all the input values are correctly entered. Incase of any blank values - I popup a message box from the custom action code to

Re: [WiX-users] Multiple installed instances and maintenance mode

Well ya...I'm really trying to keep everything contained in a single file (ie. the msi). Thanks though. On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 10:38 -0800, Blair wrote: > Bootstrapper. > > -Original Message- > From: Kevin Garman [mailto:gar...@scadaware.com] > Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 8:3

Re: [WiX-users] How to specify files in Installer package

Can you call heat per-file instead of per-dir for those directories? -Original Message- From: Markus Gaugusch [mailto:w...@gaugusch.at] Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 1:47 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] How to specify files in Installer package Hi, I'm u

Re: [WiX-users] Multiple installed instances and maintenance mode

Bootstrapper. -Original Message- From: Kevin Garman [mailto:gar...@scadaware.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 8:30 AM To: wix-users Subject: [WiX-users] Multiple installed instances and maintenance mode Hi, I've used the information contained in the following posts: http://n2.nab

Re: [WiX-users] Conditions in merge modules

Are you talking about LaunchConditions, Feature conditions, or Component conditions? You can't "isolate" your merge module parts in a final MSI very easily, but you should be able to condition any/all of your components and/or custom actions your merge module contributes. -Original Message---

Re: [WiX-users] Quiet Execution Custom Action - run a temporary executable

dB, do you have a commit/rollback action that will subsequently erase that file from the disk? -Original Message- From: dB. [mailto:dbl...@dblock.org] Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 6:21 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Cc: Vladimir Iahnenco Subject: Re: [W

Re: [WiX-users] File table won't get transformed

How you condition the Japanese and English resources are up to you. Both must be in the CAB(s) if you intend to use a transform to supply the "translated" installation package that way, and so the file table must be the same for both original packages. You could make them separate features, or you

[WiX-users] Conditions in merge modules

I'm creating a merge module for inclusion in another company's msi package. It does not appear to be possible to put conditions (such as checking operating system version or .net installed version) in the merge module. How is that generally handled? Thanks.

Re: [WiX-users] Reserved directory Id names?

All the CommonFilesFolder values in merge modules are by convention appended with a mangled guid, but as far as I can tell the mechanism that rationalizes all the folder name properties from merge modules (such as CommonFilesFolder.guid) at merge time is indiscriminate. If the folder name from

Re: [WiX-users] multiple entries in add remove programs.

Assuming you did all that, and corrected the OnlyDetect value, then all I can think of now is that the Allusers value is not the same between the old version and the newer one. If you install and take an MSI log: Msiexec /I /l*v What does the log say, looking at all the FindRelatedProducts

[WiX-users] Multiple installed instances and maintenance mode

Hi, I've used the information contained in the following posts: http://n2.nabble.com/Multiple-Instance-Transforms-Walkthrough-Proposed-Simple-Addition-to-WiX-to-Make-Them-Easier-td708828.html The functionality that I'm after is as follows: -user installs instances by choosing from a list of avail

[WiX-users] failed while processing WebDirs

Hello, My first version of my installer has created a duplicated 'Default Web Site' on client server. I made changes to use Web Site locator, but now throw error (Failed while processing WebDirs). After some attempts I found that the error occurred because the IP Address was not set to 'All Un

Re: [WiX-users] multiple entries in add remove programs.

Hello All After playing two more days I made no progress. I tried all the advises I got, including rewriting the wxs file following the example in Neil Sleightholm's blog. I got the same two results: Major upgrade: (Using '*') every thing works but I got two entries in the Add Remove Programs. O

Re: [WiX-users] Quiet Execution Custom Action - run a temporary executable

Fyi, there's an immediate CA that extracts a binary stream into a file in http://msiext.codeplex.com/. CA_API UINT __stdcall BinaryWrite ( MSIHANDLE hInstall ) Saves a binary stream into a file. Parameters: BINARYWRITE_PROPERTYNAME The name of the Binary property that contains the da

[WiX-users] Reserved directory Id names?

I'm getting some behaviour which surprised me... if I have the following in a merge module then when I build an installer using this merge module, I get a number of messages like light.exe(0,0): warning LGHT107

[WiX-users] How to specify files in Installer package

Hi, I'm using WIX3 and try to make an installer package for our software. The software contains lots of files and folders, and some of them have to be treated specially (one for installing a Windows Service, several config files which should be preserved). Now I'm using heat to generate the lis

Re: [WiX-users] Problem with removing registry key containing version info and not removing an assembly while doing a major upgrade

I solved it by scheduling the RemoveExistingProducts standard action after InstallFinalize and I used RemoveRegistryKey element to remove registry keys that contain version information. Thanks -Original Message- From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com] Sent: 9. december 2009 07:56 To: 'Gene