Re: [WiX-users] Downgrading a Bundle ?

2015-04-22 Thread Rob Mensching
A BA (native or managed) could be implemented to support downgrades. As I would guess, wixstdba does not (normally it'd be a very surprising and bad thing). _ Short replies here. Complete answers over there: http://www.firegiant.com/

Re: [WiX-users] Too Many Events Using InstallLogModes

2015-04-22 Thread Phil Wilson
Can't you put a switch statement in your code to figure this out? Look for MSIHandle text in each type? Or simply prefix the message with the message type before logging it? Well at least temporarily to see what's going on anyway. --- Phil Wilson On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 7:30 AM,

Re: [WiX-users] Downgrading a Bundle ?

2015-04-22 Thread Martin Cornelius
Rob Mensching-7 wrote I would be surprised if wixstdba supported downgrades but Burn does. Did your test below use wixstdba? Hi Rob, my Test indeed uses wixstdba, in particular : BootstrapperApplicationRef Id=WixStandardBootstrapperApplication.RtfLicense

Re: [WiX-users] Too Many Events Using InstallLogModes

2015-04-22 Thread Mark A. Richman
Keith, you may be correct. I think my performance issue might just boil down to DTF interop being generally inefficient for my intended purpose. What I've implemented is a silent handler which sends install progress messages over a WCF duplex channel to another machine. This app has a GUI which

[WiX-users] Restart Manager doesn't preserve folders open in Windows Explorer after restart.

2015-04-22 Thread Kashif Md.
Hi, For long I have been working with the old files in use dialog in windows installer. But now after dropping support for Win XP I wanted to explore the new restart manager functionality. I read at couple of places that restart manager is used by shell extensions to restart explorer.exe

Re: [WiX-users] Too Many Events Using InstallLogModes

2015-04-22 Thread Keith.Douglas
I may be wrong, but in my experience *any* log contains those. Keith Douglas Statistics Canada | 170 Tunney's Pasture Driveway, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6 Statistique Canada | 170, promenade Tunney's Pasture, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6 keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca Telephone | Téléphone 613-854-5589 Facsimile |

[WiX-users] R: WiX Burn use UILevel from simple UI

2015-04-22 Thread Marco Tognacci
Yes this is the same issue that I found, is there any plan for integrating it??? Inviata dal mio Windows Phone Da: Sean Hallmailto:r.sean.h...@gmail.com Inviato: ‎22/‎04/‎2015 01:41 A: General discussion about the WiX

[WiX-users] heat.exe: How to generate unique but human readable IDs for directories, components and files

2015-04-22 Thread bogser
When heat.exe harvests directory it generates unique but human unreadable directories, components and files IDs: Directory Id=dir44C327128861C709AEDB0EA3555D0587 Name=MyDirectory Component Id=cmp04CA6ED916B15D4A669AAC63FB00ECD3 Guid={8EE35AF9-6CEF-43E7-91FA-C341B8D764FF} File

Re: [WiX-users] heat.exe: How to generate unique but human readable IDs for directories, components and files

2015-04-22 Thread Nir Bar
You can run heat with unique IDs and then apply a XSLT transform to prefix each ID with the file name. - Nir Bar Freelance Developer Mail: nir@panel-sw.com Web: www.panel-sw.com - C++ On Windows, Linux and Embedded Platforms - WiX InstallShield -- View this message in

Re: [WiX-users] heat.exe: How to generate unique but human readable IDs for directories, components and files

2015-04-22 Thread bogser
Yeah, I know. For now there is some post-build script that corrects all IDs every time my merge module built. But this is workaround. The most proper way is native support of unique human-readable names in heat.exe I think. -- View this message in context:

[WiX-users] R: R: WiX Burn use UILevel from simple UI

2015-04-22 Thread Marco Tognacci
Sorry For my English.. The question is: Is there any Plan to design and the implement this feature in a future release of WiX? As the expected answer is not, is there any hope to see this feature implemented in a future release of WiX? Inviata dal mio Windows Phone

Re: [WiX-users] R: WiX Burn use UILevel from simple UI

2015-04-22 Thread Rob Mensching
Integrate what? It's an unimplemented feature request. There is nothing to integrate until someone designs then implements the feature. _ Short replies here. Complete answers over there: http://www.firegiant.com/ -Original

Re: [WiX-users] Too Many Events Using InstallLogModes

2015-04-22 Thread Mark A. Richman
I read the docs. None of what I've read so far shows which log level (InstallLogModes) will show/hide the following type of messages: MSI (c) (E8:30) [16:46:35:016]: Creating MSIHANDLE (28312) of type 790531 for thread 6448 MSI (c) (E8:30) [16:46:35:047]: Closing MSIHANDLE (28312) of type 790531