Re: [WiX-users] Struggling to get bal:Condition to work (wix burn)

2012-01-27 Thread Boyd Ludlow
As per this post http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8691061/wix-3-6-burn-bootstrapper-fails-to-elevate On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 4:40 AM, Bob Arnson b...@joyofsetup.com wrote: On 26-Jan-12 11:18, Boyd Ludlow wrote: I know that a bug currently exists when using burn that it errors rather than

Re: [WiX-users] Wix Bootstrapping Issues

2012-01-27 Thread Blair
An MSI file is a document, not an executable. -Original Message- From: Andrew Collier [mailto:acoll...@gmx.com] Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 8:47 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Wix Bootstrapping Issues If I build a use msbuild

Re: [WiX-users] How does Torch decide which files changed?!

2012-01-27 Thread Blair
Torch marks up the database changes. Including -p causes it to leave the unchanged portions of the database intact so they will be present for Pyro to use in its processing. It is Pyro that looks at the two files and determines if they are the same or not, and it promotes files that compare as

[WiX-users] Visual C++ 2010 Merge Module

2012-01-27 Thread Joost van Zoest
I have made an installer in WIX which embeds 2 merge modules: the Microsoft_VC100_CRT_x86.msm merge module, and my own module (let's call this one MyMergeModule.msm for now). When I embed the VC merge module before MyMergeModule, I get a lot of warnings that some actions can not be merged from

Re: [WiX-users] Install 3.6 on clean VM

2012-01-27 Thread Neil Sleightholm
To help me provide some more information on this bug (no text on install UI) could someone let me know what is required on Windows 7 to enable the UI to work? I am assuming there is something as the same UI does not appear the same on Windows XP. Thanks Neil Neil Sleightholm

Re: [WiX-users] Visual C++ 2010 Merge Module

2012-01-27 Thread John Bergman
Where did you get the merge module for the VC 10.0 Runtime? I have been looking for one for quite some time. John -Original Message- From: Joost van Zoest [mailto:jzo...@siqura.com] Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 3:14 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Visual

Re: [WiX-users] Visual C++ 2010 Merge Module

2012-01-27 Thread Bob Arnson
On 27-Jan-12 04:14, Joost van Zoest wrote: I have made an installer in WIX which embeds 2 merge modules: the Microsoft_VC100_CRT_x86.msm merge module, and my own module (let's call this one MyMergeModule.msm for now). When I embed the VC merge module before MyMergeModule, I get a lot of

Re: [WiX-users] Install 3.6 on clean VM

2012-01-27 Thread Bob Arnson
On 27-Jan-12 07:00, Neil Sleightholm wrote: To help me provide some more information on this bug (no text on install UI) could someone let me know what is required on Windows 7 to enable the UI to work? .NET v4 I am assuming there is something as the same UI does not appear the same on

Re: [WiX-users] Visual C++ 2010 Merge Module

2012-01-27 Thread Bruce Cran
On 27/01/2012 15:59, John Bergman wrote: Where did you get the merge module for the VC 10.0 Runtime? I have been looking for one for quite some time. If you have Visual Studio 2010 installed, it's in C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Merge Modules -- Bruce Cran

Re: [WiX-users] Install 3.6 on clean VM

2012-01-27 Thread Neil Sleightholm
On XP you get a UI that looks like the standard BA UI - although my XP machine didn't have .Net4 on it. Neil -Original Message- From: Bob Arnson [mailto:b...@joyofsetup.com] Sent: 27 January 2012 16:27 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Install 3.6 on clean VM

Re: [WiX-users] Bundled Installer Not installing under ALLUSERS

2012-01-27 Thread DuBois, Joseph
Maybe I miss-stated. As you can see from the snipet below I am attaching the ALLUSERS to the individual packages, but not sure how to attach it to the BUNDLE. MsiProperty Name=ALLUSERS Value=1/ Thanks for any help. Joe ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? Wix

Re: [WiX-users] Bundled Installer Not installing under ALLUSERS

2012-01-27 Thread Blair
Do you possibly need to add the ForcePerMachine attribute to your MsiPackage elements? Blair -Original Message- From: DuBois, Joseph [mailto:joseph.dub...@childrens.harvard.edu] Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 6:56 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re:

Re: [WiX-users] Wix Weekly Builds?

2012-01-27 Thread Peter Hull
Is there any chance you could put a date and/or a changeset number by each release so we can see easily what's new in each one? Thanks, PeteĀ  -- Try before you buy = See our experts

[WiX-users] Burn Cache Directory

2012-01-27 Thread Romeo S.
Hi, How do I find out what is the current cached directory used by my BA? I Need to pass some properties to my MSI which is a complete path of a file that is compressed and cached to the BA. I don't see any StringVariables in the Burn log file that I can use at runtime. Thanks, Romeo -- View

Re: [WiX-users] Burn Cache Directory

2012-01-27 Thread Blair
Can your MSI use the Windows Installer SourceDir property? When installing it should be set to the directory where the MSI and its attendant files were cached. Blair -Original Message- From: Romeo S. [mailto:dfox.mxyzp...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 5:39 PM To:

Re: [WiX-users] Install 3.6 on clean VM

2012-01-27 Thread Bob Arnson
On 27-Jan-12 12:53, Neil Sleightholm wrote: On XP you get a UI that looks like the standard BA UI - although my XP machine didn't have .Net4 on it. Ah, yes, that's the WixStdBA in pre-req mode. Any managed BA gets it to bootstrap .NET 4.0 if necessary before trying to load the managed BA

Re: [WiX-users] Bundled Installer Not installing under ALLUSERS

2012-01-27 Thread Bob Arnson
On 27-Jan-12 09:55, DuBois, Joseph wrote: As you can see from the snipet below I am attaching the ALLUSERS to the individual packages, but not sure how to attach it to the BUNDLE. MsiProperty Name=ALLUSERS Value=1/ Right but if WiX, while building the bundle, thinks that all your

[WiX-users] msp patch does not update one of files

2012-01-27 Thread Sergey
Hello, I've created msp patch for my product. It must convert 3.1.4 version to 3.1.5 After I install it, it updates all needed files, changed in 3.1.5, except one file. This file is key file of component, containing only this file. How can I explore why it is happening? When I open msp file in