[WiX-users] Creating shortcut using IWshRuntimeLibrary from custom action fails with unable to find dll

2011-12-11 Thread shanmukha sainath addepalli
Hi, I have written a custom action in c# which creates shortcut to an executable using WshShellClass of IWshRuntimeLibrary. I have referrenced Interop.IWshRuntimeLibrary.dll in my custom action project. But execution of custom action fails with unable to find this dll. How we can make that dll

[WiX-users] create permanent folder in My Documents but remove its registry key

2011-12-11 Thread Giuliano M. Laudone
Hi all, I am completely new to WIX and to the Windows Installer in general and I have a question that probably just shows how much of a noob I am. I would like the installer to create a folder in My Documents and this folder will be used by the users to save and store their own files. So I would

Re: [WiX-users] Burn, ManagedBootstrapperApplication, SQL and Custom Detection

2011-12-11 Thread Bob Arnson
On 10-Dec-11 13:43, Roy Chastain wrote: Is there a mechanism to employ a custom detection in the Burn ManagedBootstrapperApplication that would affect the install/no install status of an ExePackage? OnPlanPackageBegin lets you change the request state. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/

Re: [WiX-users] Can't use property expansion in Control-Publish

2011-12-11 Thread Bob Arnson
On 08-Dec-11 02:09, Nevskiy, Alexander wrote: On executing light.exe I got the following error: error LGHT0094 : Unresolved reference to symbol 'CustomAction:[CustomSerialValidateProp]' in section 'Product:{3E8964C7-5FA5-4740-A3D6-191E2043963C}' According to

Re: [WiX-users] Building Burn

2011-12-11 Thread Bob Arnson
On 07-Dec-11 16:19, Brad Wildenborg wrote: and am using NAnt 0.91. I'm mostly just after getting access to the Burn utility, so if anyone could help me get it built or link to where I could download a prebuilt version, that would be wonderful. It's part of every WiX v3.6 build: x86\burn.exe.

Re: [WiX-users] Admin access for ICEs and NIT

2011-12-11 Thread Bob Arnson
On 06-Dec-11 12:35, Gary Gocek wrote: Is it correct to say that if LIGHT is allowed to run the internal consistency evaluators (ICEs, light runs them by default), and if NIT is used to run unit tests, that the account performing these actions requires admin rights? (WIX 3.5, Windows Server

Re: [WiX-users] Wix Uninstall - MaintenanceTypeDlg, VerifyReadyDlg Dialog sequence is Shown Twice

2011-12-11 Thread Bob Arnson
On 07-Dec-11 11:29, Robert Hermann wrote: Anybody have any ideas Use Orca to look at the ControlEvent table. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Learn Windows Azure Live! Tuesday, Dec 13, 2011 Microsoft is

[WiX-users] Detect VC++ runtime version on target system

2011-12-11 Thread Helge Kruse
The WiX help recommends to deploy the Visual C++ runtime using merge modules. I refer to section How To: Install the Visual C++ Redistributable with your installer. While this is possible, I don't want to include the MSM in every MSI I will generate. Instead I prefer to add this to the

[WiX-users] How to handle restarts in burn required by dependencies?

2011-12-11 Thread Roy Chastain
I have two restart situations that do not work. 1) - On Windows 7, .NET framework requires a reboot. (Interestingly it does not on XP.) I must do that reboot, because I have managed code that is used later in the install sequence to check if one of the dependencies is installed. I have set the