Re: [WiX-users] Bundle elevation error in WinXP

2014-02-12 Thread Rob Mensching
0x800705b4 means the parent process timed out waiting for the elevated child process to respond. Something is going wrong internal to Burn. We aren't getting other reports of this issue, so you may have a unique repo. Might start by debugging the elevation code in src\burn\engine\core.cpp CoreEl

Re: [WiX-users] Bundle elevation error in WinXP

2014-02-12 Thread Евгений Волошин
Thanks for your reply. I've checked my installed programs and removed all related components. But error is still the same. New log with no found related packages: If I use internal msi that doesn't reqire PerMachine permissions, my installation works as expected. This error occurs only when inst

Re: [WiX-users] Launch third party application installation at front

2014-02-12 Thread karthikrangaraj
Is there any example? Is it possible create an interface and display the installation inside the interface? Thank you. - Wix 3.8 users -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Launch-third-party-application-installation-at-front-tp759262

Re: [WiX-users] Launch third party application installation at front

2014-02-12 Thread Wesley Manning
WixstBa doesn't have an option (the standard bootstrapper application (BA) you get by default). You might be able to write your own BA to do it but it's a significant amount of work. -Original Message- From: karthikrangaraj [mailto:kranga...@dnpphoto.eu] Sent: February-12-14 11:24 AM T

Re: [WiX-users] Launch third party application installation at front

2014-02-12 Thread Steven Ogilvie
Aha, Then I think you are out of luck :( -Original Message- From: karthikrangaraj [mailto:kranga...@dnpphoto.eu] Sent: February-12-14 4:25 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Launch third party application installation at front Hi Steve, the user have follow

Re: [WiX-users] Launch third party application installation at front

2014-02-12 Thread karthikrangaraj
Hi Steve, the user have follow the instructions to install license keyto do this yet have to follow some instructions. That's the problem if not we could run silent install. Thank you. - Wix 3.8 users -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.n

Re: [WiX-users] Launch third party application installation at front

2014-02-12 Thread Steven Ogilvie
Can you not run the install silently? Try running the EXE with myexe.exe /? To see if it has any help associated with it If it is just really clicking next, next blah blah then silent is the way to go... -Original Message- From: karthikrangaraj [mailto:kranga...@dnpphoto.eu] Sent: Febr

Re: [WiX-users] WiX-users Digest, Vol 93, Issue 42

2014-02-12 Thread Steven Dyson
re :1 Bevan Weiss Windows Service. I resolved the issue. This was my first wix install... I was missing a "File Id" Thank you for replying. On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 3:46 PM, wrote: > Send WiX-users mailing list submissions to > wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > To subscribe or unsubsc

Re: [WiX-users] Launch third party application installation at front

2014-02-12 Thread karthikrangaraj
Hi Steve, the user supposed to do some clicks to install that application. That is the I need to bring that application to upfront. Thank you. - Wix 3.8 users -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Launch-third-party-application-instal

Re: [WiX-users] Launch third party application installation at front

2014-02-12 Thread Steven Ogilvie
Why not run the 3rd party app silently within burn? Does there have to be user interaction with it? -Original Message- From: karthikrangaraj [mailto:kranga...@dnpphoto.eu] Sent: February-12-14 3:01 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Launch third party applica

Re: [WiX-users] Launch third party application installation at front

2014-02-12 Thread karthikrangaraj
Hi Guys please help megive me some idea or is there any other way of doing it. I really appreciate your help & effort. Thank you. - Wix 3.8 users -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Launch-third-party-application-installation-a

Re: [WiX-users] how to auto-update like ClickOnce in WIX

2014-02-12 Thread Hoover, Jacob
Assuming you have git and aren't afraid to get a bit dirty, my fork is located here: https://git01.codeplex.com/forks/jchoover/wix and the branch is WIXFEAT4190. -Original Message- From: Hoover, Jacob [mailto:jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 7:59 AM To: Ge

Re: [WiX-users] CompilerExtension text string reported as invalid identifier

2014-02-12 Thread Phill Hogland
Yes Jacob you are correct. Thanks to both of you for poking me toward the correct direction. I really appreciate the good examples in the source code that you folks have put together and I am trying to get up to speed so that I can contribute back. Thanks. -- View this message in context: h

Re: [WiX-users] Windows Service windows 7

2014-02-12 Thread Bevan Weiss
There's quite a few things missing from this... Where is your ServiceInstall element? Where is your File element? Why are you setting LocalSystem permissions on a RegistryKey? (LocalSystem already has Administrator type registry access) WiX won't be trying to write into the EventLog that you have

Re: [WiX-users] CompilerExtension text string reported as invalid identifier

2014-02-12 Thread Hoover, Jacob
Just a guess. But use GetAttributeValue not GetAttributeIdentifierValue when reading the Name attribute. -Original Message- From: Phill Hogland [mailto:phogl...@rimage.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 11:03 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] CompilerEx

Re: [WiX-users] Problems installing and starting a Windows service

2014-02-12 Thread Phil Wilson
It doesn't need to be the GAC - a dependency on something like the C++ runtime into SxS will cause the same problem. --- Phil Wilson On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 1:46 AM, John Walter wrote: > Thanks for the replies > > Phil, > > The log has this in about the WIX_ACCOUNT_LOCALSYSTEM > > MS

Re: [WiX-users] Windows Service windows 7

2014-02-12 Thread Neil Sleightholm
How are you installing it in a batch file, just using SC or are you using the installer util classes - if the latter then I think they are doing more than just installing. Why are you adding that registry key and setting the permissions? My guess is that you need to register the eventlog messa

Re: [WiX-users] CompilerExtension text string reported as invalid identifier

2014-02-12 Thread Phill Hogland
The Compiler Extension code is basically from Wix-Contrib with modifications that I added by studying the wix tools. (I added an attempt to get the InnerText of an element and use it as a condition. That change is not working yet. But in these examples I do not have any InnerText and 'condition'

[WiX-users] Windows Service windows 7

2014-02-12 Thread Steven Dyson
I created a dummy windows service for my first wix project. Ive added and http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=124407151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://

Re: [WiX-users] Read a value from a text file and use it in WIX source file

2014-02-12 Thread Walter Dexter
Sorry I forgot about this. Here's what I'm doing. I'm sure someone more experienced will have a much better way, but this works for me. First, in my "build.cmd" file, set "svt" envrironment variable to the contents of the "svnversion.txt" file: set /p svt= On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Suvr

Re: [WiX-users] Bundle elevation error in WinXP

2014-02-12 Thread Wesley Manning
You can't do a per-user to per-machine upgrade at all. MSI doesn't allow it from what I heard. -Original Message- From: Hoover, Jacob [mailto:jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com] Sent: February-12-14 10:05 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Bundle elevation

[WiX-users] Launch third party application installation at front

2014-02-12 Thread karthikrangaraj
I would like to launch a third party exe installer first so i referred this link http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19839600/wix-install-prerequisites-and-3rd-party-applications and I can launch the installer but it puts the `installer window behind the Wix installer dialog`. I have to bring the in

Re: [WiX-users] CompilerExtension text string reported as invalid identifier

2014-02-12 Thread Bob Arnson
On 11-Feb-14 19:33, Phill Hogland wrote: > In one test scenario it works as expected, but in another scenario the > 'text' 'string' which is passed to one of the columns results in the value > being treated as an 'identifier', which I do not understand. How are you setting the fields? -- sig://bo

Re: [WiX-users] Digitally signed MSI with signed external CAB's

2014-02-12 Thread Bob Arnson
On 11-Feb-14 14:56, Hoover, Jacob wrote: >To answer my own question, don't use an outdated MSI with a newer CAB file > (though I am still not certain why it caused the issue). I was under the > impression that if the CAB was signed there was no additional verification > done on the CAB. If

Re: [WiX-users] wix38.exe vs wix38-binaries.zip not the same?

2014-02-12 Thread Bob Arnson
On 11-Feb-14 10:22, Tony wrote: > Bob do you want me to file a bug, or has this been done already? Please file a new one. There was a bug on ComPlus but not the others. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Android app

Re: [WiX-users] Bundle elevation error in WinXP

2014-02-12 Thread Hoover, Jacob
This line: [14DC:15A8][2014-02-12T11:51:39]i103: Detected related package: {2DDC7E93-29AB-4260-A9DB-697F7FA88157}, scope: PerUser, version: 6.4.4.0, language: 0 operation: MajorUpgrade Makes me think something funky is going on. You are trying to upgrade a per user MSI to a per machine MSI? I

Re: [WiX-users] Bundle packages in ARP

2014-02-12 Thread Wesley Manning
>How about stopping the bundle acting like a product, i.e. not appearing in ARP >and acting more like the older style of Bootstrapper from the Windows SDK? Can't do, check Rob's/Bob's blog on wixtoolset.org. Burn is meant as a unified experience. You question comes up quite a bit here but burn

Re: [WiX-users] how to auto-update like ClickOnce in WIX

2014-02-12 Thread Hoover, Jacob
I have a pull request for the core changes to 3.9. I am in the process of making my RTM build, after which I can get you yet another branch to look at which would include all my changes. Note, the WixUtil DLL isn't something "we" wanted to distribute with Wix. It's a simple light wrapper aroun

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action Failing on Clean Windows 8.1 machine

2014-02-12 Thread pmarshall
Found the solution to my own problem. The custom action had a config file for the dll, but it wasn't named CustomAction.Config. I added a CustomAction.Config file to the project, set it to a build action of "Content" and specified that the custom action should run against framework 4.0 Which s

[WiX-users] Bundle elevation error in WinXP

2014-02-12 Thread Евгений Волошин
Hello! I've got some strage behavior of Burn (WiX v 3.7/3.8) in windows xp. When I try to include msi installer in standart bundle setup pauses saying "Initializing..." and after several minutes shows error message 0x800705b4. When I open up logs I see that Burn failed to start installing msi tha

Re: [WiX-users] Can we extract the msi file from burn setup?

2014-02-12 Thread Rob Mensching
1. Dark.exe can decompile bundles to get the MSI out. 2. You could but if the Burn bundle has an MSI in it (very likely) then you'd end up with an MSI trying to install and MSI while and MSI is installing (albeit with Burn in the middle) and the Windows Installer doesn't support that. ___

[WiX-users] Can we extract the msi file from burn setup?

2014-02-12 Thread Vadivel Natarajan
Hi All, Kindly please help me to know is it possible to extract the msi file from burn exe(exe developed using burn bootstrapper concept)? Also, i want to know is it possible to pass an burn exe as Merge Module for installation package? Regards, Vadivel ---

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action Failing on Clean Windows 8.1 machine

2014-02-12 Thread pmarshall
Interestingly if I add the 3.5 framework to the machine I get a different error in the log: Action 10:41:33: GetOfficeVersions. Action start 10:41:33: GetOfficeVersions. SFXCA: Extracting custom action to temporary directory: C:\Users\DEVELO~1\AppData\Local\Temp\MSI806C.tmp-\ SFXCA: Binding to CL

[WiX-users] Custom Action Failing on Clean Windows 8.1 machine

2014-02-12 Thread pmarshall
I am having a problem with a custom action in my Wix installer, on a Clean Install of Windows 8.1. The machine has .NET Framework version 4.5 installed. My custom action dll targets Framework 4.0 and works on a Windows 7 machine ( though this also has the 2.0 Framework installed ). The config fo

Re: [WiX-users] Bundle packages in ARP

2014-02-12 Thread Rob Mensching
If they are all Bundles, they will all get ARP entries. ___ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset | http://www.firegiant.com/ -Original Message- From: GrahamAllwood [mailto:graham.allw...@live.co.uk] Sent: Wedn

Re: [WiX-users] Problems installing and starting a Windows service

2014-02-12 Thread John Walter
Thanks for the replies Phil, The log has this in about the WIX_ACCOUNT_LOCALSYSTEM MSI (c) (04!CC) [15:36:07:048]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Adding WIX_ACCOUNT_LOCALSYSTEM property. Its value is 'NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM'. But I do not think this is the issue as even if I set the account at "LocalSystem" the

Re: [WiX-users] how to auto-update like ClickOnce in WIX

2014-02-12 Thread Yu, Brian
Thanks Jacob, Is this something I can spike and see how it works? Could you send me the necessary files and instructions? It's a feature the business wants so I am trying my best to get a demo together. Brian -Original Message- From: Hoover, Jacob [mailto:jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com] Se

Re: [WiX-users] Bundle packages in ARP

2014-02-12 Thread GrahamAllwood
There is a mixture of MSI's and exe's. So for EXE's, there is no way to get them to appear in ARP? Pity! How about stopping the bundle acting like a product, i.e. not appearing in ARP and acting more like the older style of Bootstrapper from the Windows SDK? -- View this message in context:

Re: [WiX-users] Problems installing and starting a Windows service

2014-02-12 Thread Neil Sleightholm
I find this usually happens if something that your service requires is not present at the point at which the service is started. Does your service reference anything in the GAC, if so the GAC is not updated until after the service start. Neil >I have been having problems creating an installer th