Re: [WiX-users] Adding paramater to msi that will set value in config file

2012-05-10 Thread Rob Mensching
Looks like you are passing your source code to the linker. That's like passing a .cpp file to link.exe. Won't work. Try passing the .wixobj(s). On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 6:49 AM, Charles Broadfoot charles.broadf...@microsoft.com wrote: Its telling me that the wix tag is invalid. I pasted the

Re: [WiX-users] Light could not find file ...\install.exe when using vc_red.msi

2012-05-10 Thread Rob Mensching
Wow, can you point to exactly where you got the vc_red.msi? The SuppressLooseFilePayloadGeneration was added to temporarily support some stupidly authored MSI files in Visual Studio. The plan was they would fix the MSIs and this attribute would be removed. It never occured to me that they may

Re: [WiX-users] Multiple port bindings in WebAddress property

2012-05-10 Thread Lars Augensen
80,81 just defaults to port 80, 81 seems to be ignored. Having two port properties yields this: 'Port' is a duplicate attribute name Creating two website elements then seems the way to go, but won't this result in two different websites? - Lars Augensen Software Engineer -Original

[WiX-users] Custom Action Type 19 in WiX 3.6 RC

2012-05-10 Thread Ravi Raj
I am using following but its not working (at-least OS check should work but its not): InstallExecuteSequence Custom Action='CA_IsPrivileged' Before='LaunchConditions' Not Privileged /Custom Custom Action='CA_OSCHECK' After='CA_IsPrivileged' Installed OR

Re: [WiX-users] Shortcut highlight in start mune post install

2012-05-10 Thread Simon Topley
Thank you phil, this clears it up, I have 2 shortcuts to one exe, just with a different argument. Simon -Original Message- From: Philip Sayers [mailto:p...@cds-am.net] Sent: 09 May 2012 15:22 To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Shortcut

Re: [WiX-users] Light could not find file ...\install.exe when using vc_red.msi

2012-05-10 Thread stewarth
Rob Mensching-7 wrote Wow, can you point to exactly where you got the vc_red.msi? The SuppressLooseFilePayloadGeneration was added to temporarily support some stupidly authored MSI files in Visual Studio. The plan was they would fix the MSIs and this attribute would be removed. It never

[WiX-users] Managing dependencies to preprocessor extensions

2012-05-10 Thread Morten Lemvigh
I have written a preprocessor extension that has a dependency to another assembly. When I try to build a setup project using that extension, I get an error saying: In the preprocessor extension that handles prefix 'somePrefix' while trying to call function 'someFunction' and exception has

Re: [WiX-users] Managing dependencies to preprocessor extensions

2012-05-10 Thread Simon Dahlbacka
The name in the error message and the name of the dll is spelled differently, can it be as simple as that? /Simon On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Morten Lemvigh morten.lemv...@novasoftware.se wrote: I have written a preprocessor extension that has a dependency to another assembly. When I

Re: [WiX-users] Managing dependencies to preprocessor extensions

2012-05-10 Thread Morten Lemvigh
On 10-05-2012 14:31, Simon Dahlbacka wrote: The name in the error message and the name of the dll is spelled differently, can it be as simple as that? Sorry, that is just a typo I introduced when replacing the original assembly name. The names are the same in the two places. /Morten

Re: [WiX-users] Multiple port bindings in WebAddress property

2012-05-10 Thread Lars Augensen
This turned out to be the best solution: iis:WebSite Id=WebSiteID Description=A_Web_Site SiteId=123456789 AutoStart=no StartOnInstall=no Directory=DIR iis:WebAddress Id=Web1 Port=80/ iis:WebAddress Id=Web2 Port=81/ /iis:WebSite - Lars Augensen Software Engineer -Original

[WiX-users] Managed bootstrap failing to load

2012-05-10 Thread Nigel Morse
Hi, I'm trying to create a managed bootstrap installer but the error log is telling me it's failing to create it: [0AFC:15D4][2012-05-10T17:38:07]: Setting string variable 'WixBundleOriginalSource' to value 'C:\temp\testbundle\Bundle.exe' [0AFC:15D4][2012-05-10T17:38:08]: Setting string

Re: [WiX-users] Managed bootstrap failing to load

2012-05-10 Thread Nigel Morse
*looks sheepish* Forgot the: [assembly: BootstrapperApplication(typeof(TestBa.TestBa))] All good now :) Cheers, Nigel -Original Message- From: Nigel Morse [mailto:nigel.mo...@red-gate.com] Sent: 10 May 2012 17:46 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Managed

Re: [WiX-users] light.exe error when merging VC100 merge modules for both x86 and x64

2012-05-10 Thread Bob Arnson
On 08-May-12 11:45, Gareth wrote: Up until now I have been able to merge VC90 merge modules of both x86 and x64 varieties into the same package without any problem. That's legal in an x64 package only. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/

Re: [WiX-users] Image PushButton Help

2012-05-10 Thread Bob Arnson
On 07-May-12 09:51, Dmuller720 wrote: But the question is still, can someone help me get a picture as the image for a rectangular button? Use @Bitmap=yes and @Text=Binary/@Id of bitmap. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/

[WiX-users] Using Torch.exe with Visual Studio (need WIX path)

2012-05-10 Thread Mike Schlueter
Hi, We have a WiX project using Visual Studio 2005, with WiX 3.5, and I want to use torch.exe to create a transform of the differences between the english and german versions of the installer. (I am using .wxl files to generate en-us and de-de versions of the installer.) How do I get to the

[WiX-users] I'm automating heat, could use some input

2012-05-10 Thread john.burak
The topic of automating Heat has come up several times on the Users list. I haven't seen anyone post an implementation. At work I'm about to write such an extension but /only/ concerning harvesting specific COM visible DLLs. I'm reading about Wix Extensions and brushing up on the Component

Re: [WiX-users] Using Torch.exe with Visual Studio (need WIX path)

2012-05-10 Thread John Cooper
I use the WIX environment variable which you can access just like a property. (i.e., $(WIX)). In this manner, the path to candle would be $(WIX)bin\candle.exe. -- John Merryweather Cooper Build Install Engineer - ESA Jack Henry Associates, Inc.(r) Shawnee Mission, KS 66227 Office:

Re: [WiX-users] using wix with powershell

2012-05-10 Thread john.burak
I've done it and it works fine. One tricky thing was working with PowerShell's parsing modes to get the arguments passed-in correctly (notice the back-tick-escaped double quotes in the $msBuildArgs parameter, below). If you manually use Candle/Light you have to worry about compiling fragments

Re: [WiX-users] using wix with powershell

2012-05-10 Thread Castro, Edwin G. (Hillsboro)
Here is what I consider a better powershell script to execute msbuild. What I really like about this script is that it finds msbuild on its own and sets a number of default values that can be overridden at call-time. This script is really good for command line usage. If I just needed to

Re: [WiX-users] Managing dependencies to preprocessor extensions

2012-05-10 Thread Morten Lemvigh
On 10-05-2012 14:00, Morten Lemvigh wrote: I have written a preprocessor extension that has a dependency to another assembly. When I try to build a setup project using that extension, I get an error saying: In the preprocessor extension that handles prefix 'somePrefix' while trying to call