Re: [WiX-users] Change behaviour
Ed Russell wrote: I might be being stupid here - I have a component element which I use to update a number of registry settings based on inputs into a dialog during an install. I've put it in it's own Feature which all seems to work fine on the main install... Now I want users to be able to re-run the install, select the Change option, update these values and have them re-written into the registry... But it doesn't seem to want to do anything... Am I missing anything obvious? Or is this how the Installer Change behaviour works? A modify/change operation lets users choose different sets of features to install. It doesn't reinstall everything, which is the problem you're running into. Your component is installed so the only thing a change operation can do is remove it. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Compiling with Iis schema
Graham D. Ambrose wrote: The Component element contains an unhandled extension element 'iis:WebVirtualDir'. Please ensure that the extension for elements in the 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/IIsExtension' namespace has been provided. Could someone please give me an example candle compile line that works. candle.exe -ext WixIIsExtension ... -- sig://boB http://bobs.org ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Custom Properties....
Ed Russell wrote: Property Id=FOOBAR1 Value=Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=[INSTALLDIR]FooBar.mde;User Id=Foo;Password=Bar;/ You need a custom action to access formatted-type strings. Use Custom Property=FOOBAR1 Value=... / and schedule it when the other properties have their values set. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Wrapping Edit Boxes
Owen Evans wrote: Not sure if this is possible with MSI, but basically I want to be able to have an edit box that automatically word wraps. Ive tried multi-line but that doesnt do the job. Is there anyway of achieving this. Basically, the control styles that MSI exposes are the only ones supported. There's no concept in MSI of custom controls or subclassing or anything along those lines. Basically I want a user to be able to paste in a big block of Cipher Text and not to have to put in newline characters in the block but for the Installer to wrap it so that it doesnt scroll off to the right (without scroll bars [as it currently does]) Is that really a one-time (install-time) procedure? If not, you're better off prompting the user the first time the app runs. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] question mark instead of colon in components registry keys
Mike Gallaway wrote: What causes the paths inHKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\Components to contain question marks instead of colons? Short answer: It doesn't matter. That's data maintained by MSI, so as long as it's happy with what it writes, everything still works. As to why...no idea.g -- sig://boB http://bobs.org ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] What makes ClickThrough per-user?
Don Tasanasanta wrote: i have tried creating a simple one file install that installs to appdata only and has no registry entries but i can't get it to install with user only access. i keep getting the same error: "This installation is forbidden by system policy. Contact your system administrator." Does a verbose log have more details? so iwas wondering what elements/tags in the clickthrough project allow it to install with user access only. Per-user installs don't require any magic -- they're the MSI default, actually. I tested it on XP with a limited-user account. ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"? Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2003/01/wi" Product Id="000C1109---C000-0046" Name="TestFileProduct" Language="1033" Version="0.0.0.0" UpgradeCode="5942F3FD-1C1A-48D2-9C92-E360ECC235FF" Manufacturer="Microsoft Corporation" Package Id="----" Description="Test File in a Product" Comments="Test from: wix\examples\test\assembly\product.wxs" InstallerVersion="200" Compressed="yes" / Media Id="1" Cabinet="product.cab" EmbedCab="yes" / Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir" Directory Id="AppDataFolder" Name="AppData" Directory Id="TESTFILEPRODUCTDIRECTORY" Name="testassm" LongName="Test File" Component Id="TestFileProductComponent" Guid="00030829---C000-0046" DiskId="1" File Id="TestFileProductFile" Name="test.txt" Source=".\test.txt" KeyPath="yes" / /Component /Directory /Directory /Directory Feature Id="TestFileProductFeature" Title="Test File Product Feature" Level="1" ConfigurableDirectory="TESTFILEPRODUCTDIRECTORY" ComponentRef Id="TestFileProductComponent" / /Feature UIRef Id="WixUI_FeatureTree" / /Product /Wix -- sig://boB http://bobs.org ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Determine if in rollback mode from non-deferred customaction.
dangle123 ... wrote: How do I rollback an immediate (not deferred) custom action? You don't. Immediate CAs shouldn't change the system, so there's nothing to roll back. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] What makes ClickThrough per-user?
Don Tasanasanta wrote: this is the install log that i'm getting from your example code. Does ClickThrough generate an MSI that installs for you? What's the value of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Installer\DisableUserInstalls? -- sig://boB http://bobs.org ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] What makes ClickThrough per-user?
Don Tasanasanta wrote: ClickThrough generated a wix file with several errors. i was able to repair the errors and run the resulting MSI but i didn't install under the User context. all the test installs i have created have all worked under Admin (as expected). i have tested with DisableUserInstalls = 0 and also deleted the value all together. both with the same result: install failed. i'm testing onXP Pro. i'm going to try it on win2000 and see if there's a difference. i don't understand it. from all that i've read this should be working. its perplexing. I've never seen this kind of problem except on a system with harsh group policy lockdowns. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Printing Eula Page.
Kalappa Pattar wrote: It prints my eula page. EULA page has got 7 pages. Here all the 7 pages are being print. I want only the first page to be printed not all the 7 pages. Could anyone tell me how to handle this in WIX code? There's no support for that in the PrintEula custom action. I've never heard anyone ask for this before -- why would you want to prevent someone from printing the full EULA? -- sig://boB http://bobs.org ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Printing Eula Page.
Kalappa Pattar wrote: The content in French is not being printed properly. The problem the each line is getting printed in separate page. So when I print its 120 pages. Thats why I thought of printing only the first page. I do not know what the reason is. .(I tried a lot to fix that) I haven't heard of that before. Does the French text show correctly in the UI? The PrintEula CA just uses EM_FORMATRANGE to have the RTF control print itself, so it's nothing WiX has control over. So I thought of printing only the first page, not all the pages It would be great if you provide me some inputs on this. The only thing I can suggest is adding support for page ranges to PrintEula. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Setting attribute based on Condition
rchiodo wrote: Is it possible to set a generic attribute based on a condition? Only if the attribute accepts formatted text. Most don't. Permanent, for example, turns into a bit in the Component table and therefore has to be set at compile time, not install time. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Moving my wix 2 project into wix 3...
Harrborg Richard wrote: Hello! Trying code from link below in [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005 (build 3.0.1821.0). http://shmarya.net/?cat=28 I have replaced the smile with difx:Driver! I dont find any documentation on using the new schema changes in wix 3. For example, what is required to compile with the element Driver? I guess candle must have some link to the difxapp.xsd? DIFx support is in the WixDifxAppExtension. Try using WixCop on your original sources -- it should correctly update them to use the new schema. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Referencing $loc variable values in custom dlls
Zhong Xinyi wrote: I understand that we can access localization variables strings using $(loc.var) in our wix source files. However, is there anyway that I can access these strings in my custom action dll? Using MsiGetProperty? If not, any other solutions? Loc variables are resolved at bind time, so they're replaced in the final .msi. They don't exist at install time. You can use the same localization approach to put messages into MSI tables; see WcaErrorMessage in wcawrap.cpp for an example. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Questions about Component, Features and Minor Upgrades
Igor Lemsky wrote: Previously I mainly use major upgrades with changes of product codes. Now I need minor upgrades which allow more soft upgrade - just reinstall and also allow patches. Major upgrades for some strange reasons doesn't allow it. Don't allow what? You're right that removing components requires changing the product code, which in turns means using a major upgrade. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Customizing dialog sets
Neil Sleightholm wrote: In the online help there is this paragraph: "You can most easily add and remove dialogs from the stock dialog sets by copying one of the existing sets and modifying it. For an example, see the project in the doc/examples/wixui/custom directory." This example doesn't seem to exist, is it missing from the downloads? Is the example available somewhere? It's currently broken, which is why it hasn't been added. It's on my bug list but hasn't come up the priority list yet. All I want to do is remove the License dialog as it is not appropriate for internal releases. Is there an easy way to remove it? What the example shows is copying one of the "set" fragments (e.g., WixUI_InstallDir.wxs) and modifying the properties and adding/removing DialogRefs to point to different dialogs. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Customizing dialog sets
Albert van Peppen wrote: This way there is no need to build a seperate wixlib and you can keep everything in one project easily. True, though you're recompiling more every time than if you built a new .wixlib. It would be neat if you could 'override' a specific dialog. Then you you can change a single dialog tou your own needs without all the other fuss.. The reason you need a new "dialog set" fragment for that is that there's no way to specify an order for which property values should take precedence. As said; it works for me. Now in Wix-2.0. But i don't know if it'll work in Wix-3.0 (most likely not ?) But then again, i hope the UI handling in Wix-3.0 is somewhat 'better' (don't ask me how to define 'better' :-) ) In WiX v3, it will be easier to override a dialog when I get around to replacing the current properties with WiX variables because they have explicit overriding. We've also pulled out the controls' Publish elements into the dialog set fragments. That will let you add functionality in one place more easily. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] How ro create CustomAction Type 34?
Peter G. Sakhno wrote: Hello. I need to run external stand-alone exe-file that is not part of the installation package and is not included into Binary table. Does anybody can explain how to create such custom action using WiX? I tried following: CustomAction Id=ExeFile ExeCommand=[SourceDir][ExeFilePATH]\Myprogram.exe Return=ignore / You need to use Property=[path][to]program.exe and ExeCommand=command line arguments. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Registry Issue
jdrake wrote:
So I try it myself and just when I think it all works I discover that:
Registry Id=REM_Interface Root=HKCR
Key=Interface\{3311A504-2A50-42D8-8E06-A2F6B9D0B614}
Action=removeKeyOnUninstall /
does NOT remove the key on uninstall, so I have to say HUH? Am I just too
stupid to understand the wonder of WiX?
MSI automatically removes a key when it removes the last value under
that key. So you don't need a special action; just omit it. If you still
have issues, take a look at a verbose log; usually, MSI logs when it
does (or doesn't do) something because of a pre-existing reason.
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Re: [WiX-users] UILevel?
Jiamin Zhu wrote: Thank you for the responses. The reason I asked is because when clicking Add/Remove program in the control panel, the application is removed with default UILevel = 3 (no Yes, that's the behavior of the Add/Remove Programs applet. It always uninstalls MSI packages in basic mode after prompting. The only thing you can do is set ARPNOREMOVE to force a user to use maintenance mode -- and surface a Remove option in your maintenance UI. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Displaying a Message Box during install/uninstall
John Robbins wrote: I'd like to display a message box on a non-fatal warning during my install. Additionally, because of a bug in Visual Studio (I'm installing add-ins), I want to show a message box on uninstall. Given my limited WiX and MSI knowledge, I don't see how to do the display unless I do a complete custom UI. Am I missing something simple? Any help greatly appreciated. In a full UI, you can use MsiProcessMessage to display message boxes. (See http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/msi/setup/sending_messages_to_windows_installer_using_msiprocessmessage.asp for details.) And you can always construct a normal MSI dialog and use a SpawnDialog control event to show it. But that won't work for a standard uninstall because ARP runs the uninstall in basic UI mode. One approach is to use ARPNOREMOVE to force ARP to run maintenance mode for any uninstall. That's in full UI mode so you can use MsiProcessMessage and/or standard MSI dialogs. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] UI Issue with .Net Framework Detection
Chuck wrote: I just grabbed the 2.0.4221... version and rebuilt everything. It now displays my message box if .Net 2.0 isn't installed but it doesn't do that until after all of the UI components have been displayed?! Any thoughts on how to get this to run first? In my InstallExecuteSequence I have the Custom Action set to run After="LaunchConditions". Take a look at your MSI in Orca. Is there a LaunchConditions entry in InstallUISequence? If so, what's the sequence? Are you customizing WixUI? Are you using any .wixobj or .wixlib built with a prior version of WiX? Basically, WiX should now add a LaunchConditions action to both InstallUISequence and InstallExecuteSequence. (WixUI isn't involved.) If it's not, we need to figure out the circumstances where it doesn't. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] XmlFile - specification misimplementation
Darren Kulp wrote: XmlFiles XPath implementation is incorrect with regard to position indexing. The XmlFile CA does almost nothing with the XPath you provide. It stores it and passes it to MSXML. MSXML provides the implementation of XPath. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] [WiX-devs] Assignment agreement and updatesand/or enhancements
Frederik Carlier wrote: I think it would be worth creating a space where people can contribute their own additions to WiX that are of signification value but did not make it through the legal process. A WiX-contrib project, or something like that. So go ahead and create it.g I still think the single copyright owner argument is void; anyone is free to extend WiX without signing the agreement and then you have a mix of Microsoft-copyrighted code and 3th-party copyrighted code. Anyone who does that -- and cares -- then has one more licensing headache to worry about. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] WixUI_InstallDir problems
Title: WixUI_InstallDir problems Nordvik, Christer wrote: And then I end up with the following folder structure: C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\MyApp\v2.0.0\bin C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\MyApp\v3.0.0 It seems that the bin folder doesn't receive the new value of INSTALLLOCATION so it uses the previous value. Any idea as to what is causing this behavior? I'm afraid that's how it works. WixUI_InstallDir lets you specify at install time the path of one directory. Subdirectories and parent directories aren't affected. However, you can have custom actions set the subdirectory paths based on the chosen "root." -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] WiX Tutorial - Lesson 2 User Interface - First Steps 2.1
Crouch, John wrote: My votive2.msi did not install a WixUI_en-us.wxl file - Is the tutorial out of date? No, it's the Votive installer that's out of date. Justin and I have a revamp of the installer on our plates, but it'll be a bit before that happens. In the meantime, just download the binaries .zip file matching the Votive version; all the files you need are there. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] [WiX-devs] Assignment agreement and updatesand/or enhancements
Frederik Carlier wrote: But yes, that is essentially what I am talking about: a place where we can put good code, that can't make it into WiX because of people not trusting Microsoft, a stubborn boss, the WiX developers having a bad hair day or whatever reason. That's not the same thing as NAnt-Contrib. It's one thing if a new feature is in incubation. It's another if the contributor has no intention of trying to get it into the project. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] InstallUtil and GACing the same assembly
Simon Burgess wrote: And that is what I have tried in my example but for some reason while the installutil actions are being performed (see InstallUtilFail.txt) the assemblypath value changes from this location on the file system to a GAClike location (when as you say the GACing of the assembly should come later on) and the installutil operation fails because it is not in the GAC yet Are you saying InstallUtil requires that assembly to be in the GAC? AFAIK, there's no way to do that. MSI doesn't install assemblies destined for the GAC; it hands them off to Fusion, which takes care of them. It's an excellent example of why setup should be declarative and not dependent on running the same things you're installing. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] [WiX-devs] Assignment agreement and updatesand/or enhancements
Rob Mensching wrote: 2. I've never found the Apache assignment agreement either but I never looked hard. MSN Search is great...g http://www.apache.org/licenses/ Contributor License Agreements The ASF desires that all contributors of ideas, code, or documentation to the Apache projects complete, sign, and submit (via snailmail or fax) an Individual Contributor License Agreement (CLA) [PDF form]. The purpose of this agreement is to clearly define the terms under which intellectual property has been contributed to the ASF and thereby allow us to defend the project should there be a legal dispute regarding the software at some future time. A signed CLA is required to be on file before an individual is given commit rights to an ASF project. Interestingly, they say "desires" and "commit rights," not "requires" and "submit rights." -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] How to use the MSBuild Tasks without Visual Studio
Christian Elberfeld wrote: is it possible to use the wix 3.0/2.0 MSBuild Tasks in a Sharp Develop 2.0 Project ?? Cause SharpDevelop uses MSbuild to build the Projects this would be fine. And is it possible to build this Soulution using MSBuild on a build Server without SharpDevelop / Visual Studio ? Yes, you just need .NET 2.0, which is where MSBuild itself is. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] How to set a condition, that prevents custom actions on error
Markus Libiseller wrote: I would like to ask you for help about a problem Ive with my setup-project: Ive written a setup, that starts a custom action after the completion of the setup. In this custom action the client is registered to the server and further configurations are done. I would like to set a condition that prevents the execution, if an error happened earlier. What kind of error? Errors should cause an installation rollback. If you have custom actions that support "warnings," you can have them set a property you can check for. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Conditional Uninstallation
Akshay Bhargava, Noida wrote: At the time of uninstalltion I want to check if a particular service is running or not .for this I have written a function code in my dll .I have also written a CustomAction corresponding to this DllEntry. The function in my dll returns o if service is not running and 1 if service is running. Now I do not know how to check the return value and take further actions like displaying a dialog box if the service is running . I have defined my custom action like CA functions return success or failure, not status info. If you need to communicate from a CA to the setup UI or another CA, you'll need to have the CA set a property. For more details, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url="">. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] How to set a condition, that prevents custom actions on error
Markus Libiseller wrote: Thanks for your answer. I would like to set a property that prevents the start of my custom action in cases of installation failures, perhaps if the service could not be installed or anything. How can I set a property (lets call it installationError) in the WIX-file that gets the value true if any errors happened? I would like handle this case in the custom action. Please keep wix-users on the list so everyone can participate. If an installation action fails, the whole install fails. There are exceptions for custom actions, where errors can be ignored -- and a few rare cases, such as marking services as non-vital -- but they don't record their errors. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Install the same file into multiple directories
Klimek Manuel wrote: I already stfw'ed and rtfm'ed, and tried the autocompletion feature in the wix xml files to identify any commands I could be missing, but I just couldn't find any hint on how to install the same file with the same GUID into two different directories as two different features in one msi. You can't do that -- the same component GUID can't install the same file to two different directories for the same product. That violates MSI component rules. If you want a file to be entirely private, it needs its own component GUID. Generally, if a file is shared within a single product, it would go into a shared directory. The only solution I see is to create multiple fragments with components with unique GUIDs for each merge module, but that would make the fragment concept useless to me. You can use variables to keep one source file but build it with multiple GUIDs. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Path the file in Binary table
Eddie Tse wrote: Files in the Binary table get extracted by the installer to a temporary folder upon execution. Is there a way to get the full path to the temporary file using just an Id from the binary table? No. MSI extracts the files only for the duration of the custom action call. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Should WiX add support for installingWindowsinstrumentation features?
Phil Wilson wrote: There are other issues with Installer classes too. As Rob M has pointed out, anything that's installed with code is outside the Windows Installer ref counting scheme. If you install a shared item with MSI and follow the usual component id rules it just works. Two products can share the same resource (registry entry, service, file) and you can uninstall one without impacting the other. When services and registry entries (snap-in registration, COM registration etc) are installed with code like Installer classes there is no reference counting. Products sharing these resources are easily broken by uninstalling one of them. Regarding Microsoft has adopted the Installer classes as the standard way to install things , it's more accurate to say that Microsoft has adopted them as the standard way for *developers* to install things. This is Visual Studio that started them, remember, to provide a way for developers to get their things installed without building MSI files (mainly with InstallUtil). The idea that Installer classes should be used in production environments can pretty much be shot down based on the ref counting issue alone. The rest of it (the fragility, loading the CLR, kb 906766, lack of repair) are other things that make Installer classes undesirable. Do you mind if I make a macro of this message and re-post it at regular intervals?g -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Should WiX add support for installingWindowsinstrumentation features?
John Vottero wrote: Reposting this message at regular intervals (either manually or automatically) does no good whatsoever. That doesn't change the fact that it's a well-written message. If there are problems with the Installer based classes they should be reported to Microsoft so that the problems can be fixed. Easy fix: Make Installer sealed.g Running arbitrary code during installation is bad. It's self-reg, except worse. The entire design of MSI is based on the idea of describing your setup and letting MSI interpret the description. Running code is bad and should be avoided whenever possible. If you read the documentation for the Installer classes, it never implies that they are merely developer hacks that shouldn't be used in a production environment. In fact, Visual Studio provides the InstallUtilLib custom action to call Installer classes from an MSI. True. And it's an excellent example of why many folks suggest avoiding .vdproj. Don't all custom actions have the potential to break reference counting? Why use the reference counting argument against one custom action but not others? Yes they do -- and QuietExec is often abused. But there's a difference between running arbitrary code in a CA and running a well-designed CA whose operations are described via data in tables in the package. Quite simply, it's hard to do good CAs. Even if you were to argue that there's too much coding overhead to do declarative setup, it's hard to argue against uninstall and rollback CAs. Yet often it's exactly that kind of resilience that people skip when writing one-off CAs. We see it all the time, even inside Microsoft. (That's why but VS does it isn't much of an excuse.) Installer classes have way too much momentum and too many supporters within Microsoft to be ignored, it's time for WiX and Windows Installer to figure out how to support them. Or lobby the supporters to come to their senses. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Wix and 64-bit questions
Kelly Summerlin wrote: My question is this, is it possible to use the same Wix files to build one MSI that will deploy the files and registry settings to 32-bit or 64-bit determined at runtime? No. An MSI package must be marked as 64-bit before it can install 64-bit components into the 64-bit parts of the file system and registry. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=""> for details. You can use the same WiX source but you'll need two packages. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Votive Versions
Alan Waddington wrote: 1. The compiler reports that it is version 2.0.2328 even though I used the votive-2.0.4221.0 installer. This same installer has installed v2.0.4221 on an Windows XP machine. Is this correct? No. Did you have a previous version installed? There's only one copy of the binaries in the .msi. Windows 2000 should work but I don't know how much testing it's gotten. 2. The compiler fails due to a 'fatal error CNDL0027: The 'Type' attribute has an invalid value according to its data type'. This line compiles correctly under v2.0.4221 on the Windows XP machine. The Registry schema changed quite a while ago, which is consistent with such an old version of WiX. Worst case, you can use the binaries .zip file to update the Windows 2000 installation. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] GAC and call Custom Action
John Hidey wrote: Here is my problem everyone. I have a msi that installs several files into the gac. I DO NOT create a shadow copy of these files on the file system until my property called CREATESHADOW has a value of 1. These assemblies have installers in them that I need to call. (I know managed installers in not recommended but have to get done quickly) When I put my custom action in and call InstallUtilLib the file isnt actually on the file system. Is there a way to have InstallUtilLib refer the file via its temporary location that is used by the installer? Thoughts? There is no temporary location. Files to be installed into the GAC aren't put down until the install is being committed. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Should WiX add support for installingWindowsinstrumentation features?
John Vottero wrote: This is mostly tool for developer to get the cmdlet working. Release setup should set the registry keys explicitly. See, it's not just WiX crazies!g It just sets series of registry keys. We need to document the keys which vendors need to set for registering snapins. I will open a bug for this. Will the PowerShell team create a WiX extension? There is no plan for V1. OK, that's good news. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Should WiX add support for installingWindowsinstrumentation features?
John Vottero wrote: Are you saying that it's impossible to create a good Installer based Installer class? No. That's fine with me, who do I start with? I just need some direction from Microsoft. Right now, I have the PowerShell team saying use these Installer based classes to install your Cmdlets but the Windows Installer/WiX people are saying Yuck, don't use that crap!. What am I supposed to do? Ask the PowerShell team to do the right thing for their customers and their customers's customers. Worst case, they should document what the installer classes do so anyone can do it, regardless of tool. Better yet, they can provide merge modules, .wixlibs, or WiX extensions for strongly-typed authoring. Best of all, they can work with the WiX team to ship them in the box. Some teams already do some of it, but it's driven by customer demand. If they don't hear from customers that it's an issue, they're going to (logically) do the simplest thing. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Controls with Conditions
Michael Cline wrote: Is there any way to update the property with every key press? No. Unfortunately, MSI only updates properties on focus change. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Question: Migrating Existing Installer to Windows Installer
Rick Glos wrote: We just released version 5.0 of our product. Spending 6 weeks updating our installer (we have a custom C# installer). I can see our new customers instead using a new .msi for later versions (5.5, 6.0, etc). What do I do about our existing customers when they wish to upgrade? Theyve never installed originally with a Windows Installer. How do I get them on the same track? MSI has support for automatically upgrading other MSI installations to later versions. You won't be able to use that with your custom installer but you can fake it. For example, use RegistrySearch or FileSearch to locate old installations, then provide UI that prompts them to uninstall first. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] ISAPI Filter installation hangs IIS
James Carter wrote: [exec] E:\delivery\Dev\wix_public\src\ext\iisextension\wixlib\IIsExtension.wxs(70) : error LGHT0102 : The localization variable !(loc.ConfigureIIs ) is unknown. Please ensure the variable is defined. The WiX extensions now support localization, which means you have to specify the culture for the localizable strings. Pass -cultures:en-us to use English strings. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] GAC and call Custom Action
John Hidey wrote: Is there a way to do what I want to do. I would think that this can be done. Many installers do this, but maybe they use a C++ custom action which does the registry for them. Any thoughts? Or they just use standard MSI support for registration. Calling GAC'd assemblies isn't really feasible. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Launch Checkbox
Shmarya Rubenstein wrote: InstallUISequence Custom Action=LaunchConfig After=ExecuteAction ![CDATA[LAUNCHCONFIGURATIONCHECKED]] /Custom /InstallUISequence After MSI has processed the ExecuteAction action, it stops following the sequence in InstallUISequence. Instead, it uses only the negative sequence numbers to show success or failure. Instead, publish a DoAction control event from the Finish/Close button on the success dialog. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Launch Checkbox
Shmarya Rubenstein wrote: Ok... Now I'm getting the following Exception from wix: Which version of WiX? Can you open a bug with a file that reproduces the exception? -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] rfc: Package element changes
Derek Cicerone wrote: That is an excellent point what if we keep the ???... syntax just for Product/@Id in that case and go with the recommendations below for everything else? Any chance of a different syntax? @Id="*" maybe, keeping with the wildcard scheme? -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Require License Agreement Dialog (no silent setups)
John Robbins wrote: After an hour of Googling, I can't see how to disallow silent installs. The default WiX installs allow you to specify \q to MSIEXEC.EXE and you get a silent install. However, that allows you to skip checking the license agreement option, which my client doesn't like. What's the WiX magic I need to do to not allow my install to be run in silent mode. I tried a condition of UILevel=5, which worked for installs, but would never allow an uninstall (thank goodness for MSIZAP!). MsiZap?! shudder You use VMs, right?g Try UILevel=5 OR Installed instead. That'll let the ARP uninstall happen. Of course, one benefit, er, side-effect of using structured-storage files for the MSI database is that anyone can use Orca on it...even without reading a EULA... -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Require License Agreement Dialog (no silent setups)
Bob Arnson wrote: John Robbins wrote: After an hour of Googling, I can't see how to disallow silent installs. The default WiX installs allow you to specify \q to MSIEXEC.EXE and you get a silent install. However, that allows you to skip checking the license agreement option, which my client doesn't like. What's the WiX magic I need to do to not allow my install to be run in silent mode. I tried a condition of UILevel=5, which worked for installs, but would never allow an uninstall (thank goodness for MSIZAP!). MsiZap?! shudder You use VMs, right?g Try "UILevel=5 OR Installed" instead. That'll let the ARP uninstall happen. Of course, one benefit, er, side-effect of using structured-storage files for the MSI database is that anyone can use Orca on it...even without reading a EULA... And I'd be remiss if I didn't point out that not supporting silent installs breaks a lot of QA and SMS scenarios... -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] How to use SelfRegCost?
Peter G. Sakhno wrote: My question is what value should be provided for that attribute? In documentation said that it should be the cost of registering the module in bytes. How to calculate that cost? MSI knows your file sizes but it can't see what your self-reg code is going to do. For typical registration, it doesn't much matter. But if you do something odd, like creating a cache of several megabytes, you need to tell MSI so it can determine if there's enough disk space. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Performance issues
Title: Performance issues Simon Topley wrote: I'm sure this is a problem others have encounted. I have now replace our suite of installsheild products with spanky new WIX versions. I have managed to elimitnate a large amount of redundant code (previous installers copied large amounts of file that were never used). Most of the installers are now half the size in compressed form. Dispite this the installation process now takes longer (so I'm told, I intend to run some performance tests later today). Is there a standard explaination for this that I can give to people (i.e. talk to city hall) I am playing with the idea of having internal versions (products that will only be used by testers and support staff) as uncompressed in the hope that most of the time is being spent extracting files. Was the InstallShield package also compressed? Are the tests being run over the network? Sometimes bandwidth constraints make it faster to have a compressed image. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] group policy
Standa Kunc wrote: I would like to create msi package (executable, shortcuts, file association) and use it with Group Policy in MS Windows Server 2003. Both server and client (MS Windows 2000) are running under Virtual PC (this should not be problem). I just can not do it properly. Could someone provide me example wxs file? I do not know what I am doing wrong. What problems are you having? Have you seen the doc and tutorial link at http://wix.sourceforge.net/? Group policy and SMS just need MSI packages that support silent installation. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] WixUI_Minimal without license agreement
Scott Sam wrote: I want to use the Minimal wixui because I want the user to be able to just click next and have the install go, but I dont want eula in it. Is there any way to use the regular welcomeDlg in place of the WelcomeEulaDlg. I get an error 2803 when I click the next button when I tried just changing the dialogRef. What am I missing? How about a low-tech solution? Put a simple readme in License.rtf and set the LicenseAccepted property to '1' -- that enables the Install button. Otherwise, you'll need to create a new dialog; the existing WelcomeDlg is designed to be the first page in a wizard, not the last. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] ScrollableText Control type
Magus wrote: OK I've been having a really bad time with this. For some reason it won't display anything. I want it to display information form a .txt file since its a lot smaller than a .rtf I have'nt really seen anywhere that says this won't work and in all the other controls it works just fine. Is there something I'm missing? I've even tried using Orca and replacing the what goes in here and it say that .txt is a proper format. The doc for the ScrollableText control says: Enter the RTF text string into the Text column of the Control table. There's nothing that says it will work, so you can't assume it supports plain text. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] group policy
Please keep wix-users on the thread so everyone can participate. Standa Kunc wrote: There are no dialogs in my setups so I suppose they support silent installation. Or is there anything else needed to create silent installation? Some checklist for silent installation? If you use standard Windows Installer actions, you get silent-install support for free. If you use custom actions, you have to ensure you code them correctly to work with different UI levels. Feature Id='MyFeature' Title='My 1st Feature' Level='1' AllowAdvertise='yes' TypicalDefault='advertise' I'm not a Group Policy expert, so I'm not sure what's wrong, but my first guess would be that you're assigning an advertised feature. The product is present but without something to engage the advertisement, no features are actually installed. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] cab files getting corrupted
Simon Porter wrote: File Id="KRB5" Name="KRB5.INI" Vital="yes" DiskId="1" Source="settings.cab" / File Id="KRB" Name="KRB.CON" Vital="yes" DiskId="1" Source="settings.cab" / File Id="KRBREALM" Name="KRBREALM.CON" Vital="yes" DiskId="1" Source="settings.cab" / That creates three files in your setup, all of which contain the contents of settings.cab. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Control Default=yes - maybe
Calin Iaru wrote: An Install button may not be selected although I specified Default=yes for that Control. Looking closer at it, seems that the first button to be selected is also first button that is specified for that dialog. That would explain why a setup wizard has the Back button selected instead of Remove. In the case of WixUI, at least, that's intentional. Default buttons shouldn't have "destructive" behavior. I use control conditions in VerifyReadyDlg to show the Remove button and then make Back the default. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] FW: Re: MessageQueue PubCA
Justin Rockwood wrote: Yes, they should be installed with Votive but they're currently not. Bob has been working on a fix for that, but it's not in yet. Yeah, it's been a low priority while Votive is in such active development. When Justin does his next big checkin, the setup will be updated to match. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] How to show FilesInUse dialog _always_ ?
Alexander Biryukov wrote: Unfortunately, ServiceControl with Stop='install' always stops service, it is not dependent on that updating service or not. True, but better to stop more services than reboot. Also it does not solve the problem with locked non executable files. MSI doesn't support that -- the FilesInUse dialog is geared toward users who can close their apps, not arbitrary executables. WiX v3 includes a CloseApplications custom action and you can use to shut down arbitrary executables. I'm not sure how well it works with services, however, so you might want to experiment. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Multiple SelectionTree in one Dialog Box
Calin Iaru wrote: I was thinking that maybe I can group under Feature/SelectionTree under a Fragment or some parent element that I don't know about. The thing is that more feature trees mean more reset buttons - and so it could lead to a hidden tree containing just one feature which is selected by publishing SelectionNoItems events. If that button is a checkbox, then that would be a quick workaround to SdFeatureTree. Otherwise, back to square 1 where one must write a DLL which contains these checkboxes and the inherent more opportunities to fail. It's not high priority though. The selection tree works off the Feature table in the .msi. You can usually group components into features and subfeatures to create the selectability you want. But the UI is going to be limited by what the control can do. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] cab files getting corrupted
Simon Porter wrote: I'm not sure what the error is. Do you mean it should be something like this instead? File Id=KRB5 Name=KRB5.INI Vital=yes DiskId=1 Source=settings.cab/KRB5.INI / File Id=KRB Name=KRB.CON Vital=yes DiskId=1 Source=settings.cab/KRB.CON / File Id=KRBREALM Name=KRBREALM.CON Vital=yes DiskId=1 Source=settings.cab/KRBREALM.CON / The Source attribute specifies the file that should be installed. It doesn't support getting a file from a .cab. You need to specify a file, uncompressed, on the system that links the .wixobj. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action on Condition
Magus wrote: I have a custom action that is only suppose to run during installation. How would I set it up so that it doesn't do the custom action on uninstall. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/msi/setup/examples_of_conditional_statement_syntax.asp for examples. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Error code 2762
Bahar Shah wrote: After I finish my installation I get the unexpected error occured installing this package. The error code is 2762 Any idea why I might be getting this error ? I suspect this is due to a deferred custom action. Any idea on how to get rid of this ? Deferred CAs must be sequenced before InstallFinalize. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Large font in a SelectionTree
Brian Simoneau wrote: Large font in a SelectionTree I am creating a user interface using large fonts. I set the DefaultUIFont property to a TextStyle with a large font size. This correctly uses the large font size for text controls, buttons, and other controls. The problem is that in the SelectionTree control where you select whether you want a feature to be installed or not, the text within the drop-down box is not using the large font size. Does anyone know how to make that text use a TextStyle? Interestingly, the feature names in the SelectionTree are correctly displayed with the large font size. The drop-down is a menu so it uses the system menu font. I suspect it's not overridable. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] check/change screen resolution
roxana wrote: I'd like my MSI package to check the screen resolution for the logged-in The ScreenX and ScreenY properties are set by MSI. and to change it to 1280/1024. There's no built-in way to change the resolution. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Set Installdir
Alexander Gnauck wrote: works now if i put it in InstallUISequence. InstallUISequence Custom Action=SetInstallDir After=LaunchConditions/ /InstallUISequence What happens if the Install runs silent then without UI? It wouldn't work -- you need to put it in both the UI and execute sequences. Or, don't use a custom action at all. If you use the same name for both the Property/RegistrySearch as in your Directory Id, the AppSearch custom action will set both. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Calling a custom action from a Dialog
Magus wrote: I have a custom action dll that using a win32 dialog box, because I needed on the fly text in a scrollable text window. What I want done is for the actual Wix dialog box that follows (back button) to bring up that dialog anyone ever do this before? You'd have to modify the WixUI dialogs to support that. They use the NewDialog control event and you'd have to change it to DoAction. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Calling a custom action from a Dialog
Magus wrote: I'm not using the WixUI at all. Created my own UI's, but the problem is when I go back to the win32 dialog my Msi dialog doesn't go away, so changes done in my win32 dialog dont' affect anything like pressing the cancel button to exit the program, I'm thinking I could just make my own win32 windows and change values in the of Msi properties that way It will just do what I need it to do and be a whole lot easier to do it. Yes, mixing native UI and MSI dialogs is messy at best. You can do an external UI handler, Chesong suggests, or do a simple UI that kicks off a basic MSI UI installation using the MSI API. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Vista -Error in SchedServiceConfig
Derek Cicerone wrote: Does the service control manager (I assume thats what SCM stands for) require admin access now? If it does, well need to tag the SchedServiceConfig CA as non-impersonated. Right now, SchedServiceConfig is an immediate CA. This might be kinda tricky... -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Vista -Error in SchedServiceConfig
Chesong Lee wrote: sc.exe in Vista (5472) does work fine for querying services and does not work for starting/stopping services without privileged access. If the current SchedServiceConfig does not work fine, it may require review for Vista UAC friendliness, not for changing it to deferred CA. Agreed. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Vista -Error in SchedServiceConfig
Bahar Shah wrote: Should I assume this to be an Vista specfic issue ? Very likely. Can you open a bug at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=105970atid=642714, preferably attaching an .msi that reproduces the problem? -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] MSBuild Tasks
Neil Sleightholm wrote: Would it be possible for this version of wix.targets to be adopted by the team as the one that is currently distributed doesn't work with multiple wsx files? You might want to take a look at the WiX tasks/targets in WiX v3; it's been enhanced beyond what's in v2. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
[WiX-users] wix-3.0.2015.0-binaries.zip corrupted
I've downloaded it a couple of times but it's not a valid .zip file... -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] wix-3.0.2015.0-binaries.zip corrupted
Frederik Carlier wrote: Should be fixed, can you try it again? Works now. Thanks! -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] FW: WIX Question
Lee Gavitt wrote: In short, I'm looking for multiple browse buttons in one dialog with an updated text to provide feedback to the user. My desired end result will have 4-5 browse buttons in one dialog, each with their own feedback text. My 'feedback' terminology may be incorrect or confusing, so the best example I can provide is the label, location, and browse button in the ' CustomizeDlg.wxs'. Multiply that by say 4. Eventually, I want the variables to be registry smart, but I'll worry about that later. I think I have a handle on that. My read of the EventMapping table doc is that there's no way to disambiguate among multiple subscribers to the selection tree's events. All the tree's messages go to all subscribers. The general design is that the user can browse a directory for each feature, one at a time. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Error code 1631
Bahar Shah wrote: I am sure about the error code. I am pasting the actual install log entry Action ended 15:42:08: LaunchAgentUI. Return value 1631. Custom actions can return any UINT value. Check what values your CA returns. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Any idea what might cause this 1603 error or how to figure it out?
Joe Kaplan wrote: A snip of the log (with options varp) at that spot looks like this: Do you get anything more with '/l*v!' instead? -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Vista -Error in SchedServiceConfig
Bahar Shah wrote: How is that then I can install even though I am a normal user on WinXp and not on Vista? Like I said, it could be a Vista bug. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] MSBuild Tasks
Neil Sleightholm wrote: I have raised a request, id 1544363. Thanks. Could you let me know where the patch and assignment agreement is? That was (patch) and (assignment agreement). See http://blogs.msdn.com/robmen/archive/2004/04/14/112970.aspx for details. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Vs extensions - looking for an overview of the Help* elements
Hugues Valois wrote: I noticed the new VS extensions recently, but haven't been able to find any announcement, documentation or samples on those (except for the schema docs). I'm looking for an overview of the functionality provided by the various Help elements, so I can determine if it will fit our needs or not. The schema doc is the only doc available today. - Register with multiple collections (ex: VS.NET 2002, 2003, 2005) I believe that's possible. You need to register into multiple namespaces. - Perform merging (which usually takes a couple of minutes) Yes, that's the behavior of the custom actions in the Help 2.x CA merge modules. - Does not require the use of any merge module The help extension provides strongly-typed XML markup for the custom tables consumed by the custom actions in the Help 2.x CA merge modules. So those merge modules are required. However, you don't have to edit the template merge module, as the old doc recommended. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Any idea what might cause this 1603 error or how to figure it out?
Joe Kaplan wrote: Nope, nothing much more interesting (although I like those log flags and may use those from now on). '/l*v' is full detail. Adding the '!' causes the file to get flushed after every line; it slows down logging (sometimes a lot) but it guarantees the order's as correct as you can get in a multithreaded app. I tried regmon and filemon too and didn't see any obvious errors in there (although I did see a lot of activity that did not seem to get logged in the msi log such as all my files being deployed and then deleted). I'm pretty close to giving up on this one for now though, so unless you can think of something else, don't worry about it. Thanks for trying. Well, normally there's a more concrete error if the client-side process can't contact the server. But if it helps, blame the gnomes.g -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Ct: CheckBox control malfunction
Calin Iaru wrote: Actually there's a repaint message which fails every time the Dialog gets focus. Whatever control is on over a large bitmap - no matter if it's CheckBox, PushButton - the bitmap will appear first and the control will appear after the user hovers the mouse over that area. And even when the control appears, it still disappear when the dialog window is ordered behind another larger window. That's a z-order problem. Try changing the order you list Control elements. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] InstallUtil considered harmful... What next?
Joe Kaplan wrote: There is a gotcha though with the managed service installer classes. Not only does it create a service in the service database, but it also installs an event source for you in the application log for the service to write to. In order to support this behavior, you'll need to create some WiX authoring to create an Event Source. This is done by setting the proper registry elements in HKLM to create an Event Source. Interestingly, this week's release of WiX v3 (3.0.2023.0) includes this note in history.txt: BobArnso: Add EventSource strongly-typed authoring to WixUtilExtension Very new, so any feedback would be appreciated. There is another trick to be aware though, in that .NET event sources use the message DLL that comes with the .NET framework, and the registry will contain a path to that. You may need to make that dynamic based on the version of the .NET framework you are supporting. It could get a little tricky, but should not be too hard. Could you post what your registry looks like with that? I wasn't able to find any examples of managed event sources on any of my dev machines. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Feature size
Don Tasanasanta wrote: Is it possible to manually set the size (disk space requirement) for a feature? So that it will display in the selection tree. Take a look at the ReserveCost element. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] InstallUtil considered harmful... What next?
Joe Kaplan wrote: Bob, you are my hero. :) I try.g Here is a WiX fragment produced by tallow of a registry dump of a custom event log and two sources that were produced by a .NET installer class run against the .NET 1.0 from a fairly old VS.NET install project I used in the past with names sanitized: Thanks -- I'll take a look. Are you planning to add some authoring for custom logs as well as sources? That too would be great! Yes. I needed event sources anyway, so I did that first. Plenty more to come... -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Feature issue
Calin Iaru wrote: I have an ExitDlg which launches notepad if Admin feature is selected. The problem is that the editor is launched even during typical setup, even though the feature level is set to 0. What am I doing wrong? Hard to say without seeing some code. What are you using as your condition? What does a verbose log say about the feature in InstallValidate? -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] How to not dispaly a dialog box when feature is not selected
Brad Edwards wrote: I have a Dialog Box that I need to display if a specific feature is selected in the feature tree. If I unselect the feature, the dialog box still displays. How do I keep it from displaying if the feature is de-selected. In the control event of the Next button, use a condition that checks the feature state (e.g., Feature2 -- see http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=""> for details). Do the same thing in the control event for the Back button of the dialog following. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] ControlEvent, DoAction, WixUI_minimal
Denis Kolygin wrote: Are there any way to populate ControlEvent table without adding all that UI/Dialog/Control/Publish into my .wxs file? No, but in WiX v3, you can add floating Publish elements to add behavior to existing controls. The idea behind is that I'm using WixUI_minimal and I would like to launch CA after user clicks Finish button on ExitDialog. It is not possible to schedule custom action in InstalleUISequence after ExitDialog. I can add required ControlEvent entry in installer with ORCA after it is built but I want candle and light to do the job. There's already support for that behavior in WiX v3. Just specify property values for WIXUI_EXITDIALOGOPTIONALCHECKBOXTEXT and ExitDialog shows a checkbox and sets WIXUI_EXITDIALOGOPTIONALCHECKBOX to '1' when checked. You can also show a text box by specifying WIXUI_EXITDIALOGOPTIONALTEXT. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] how to not show feature size
Don Tasanasanta wrote: Is there a way to not show the size of a particular feature in the SelectionTree but still have the other features show their size? I don't think so. The EventMapping table doesn't support conditions so everything ends up getting mapped between the selection tree and the labels. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Elevating custom action on Vista
Dana Gutride wrote: Is it possible to elevate a custom action that is called during the UI sequence in Vista? During my install, I'm doing prerequisite checks during the UI sequence, a couple of them require administrative privileges to complete. I'm seeing some mixed information online about this. This link ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/msi/setup/guidelines_for_packages.asp) says that you can elevate custom actions in the InstallUISequence as long as they are scheduled deferred. That doesn't really make sense to me as I thought you could only defer CA's in the InstallExecuteSequence. Any thoughts? That doc hurts.g Yeah, almost everywhere it says InstallUISequence, it means InstallExecuteSequence. Only actions in InstallExecuteSequence can be deferred which means only they can be elevated. What do you need elevation to check? -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Weekly Release
Joe Harbert wrote: Is there going to be a release this week? We missed last week and there are some features I'd like to try out that should now be in the latest release. Probably not this week -- Justin's preparing a massive change for Votive that requires some build-machine changes. Should be back up and running normally by next week's WiX night. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] IE version in condition table
Vitaliy Ilyin wrote: Could you please help me? How to specify minimum version of Internet Explorer in condition table? MSI doesn't expose the IE version as a built-in property like MsiNetAssemblySupport. You can use a FileSearch to look for a particular version of iexplore.exe or (better yet) mshtml.dll or shdocvw.dll. Check out the FileSearch/MinVersion attribute. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] IE version in condition table
Wilson, Phil wrote: This looks useful: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/164539/ Very! Thanks -- that goes into the Bucket o' Useful Knowledge.g -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Elevating custom action on Vista
Chesong Lee wrote: As for Windows Vista, in most cases if custom actions are involved, regardless of Elevation is allowed for MSI installation in Group Policy, UAC dialog should appear and MSI process should have as much privileges as the logon user has. But only deferred+noimpersonate CAs can elevate via UAC. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Elevating custom action on Vista
Dana Gutride wrote: We're using ADSI and COM to access the IIS metabase to read those values. If there is a way to do that with the registry as an unelevated user, please let me know as I certainly prefer using registry searches over custom actions and I wasn't aware that those values are also stored in the registry. I'm not sure they are; I'm just wondering if there's a LUA-friendly way of detecting them. I can see that COM (especially) would have problems. AFAIK, the IIS CAs in WiX work in LUA/UAC, for example. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] ClickThrough Warning
Title: ClickThrough Warning Kamil Krawczyk wrote: While using ClickThrough, in the midle of the build process (creating msi file) I'm receiving this warning: Wix warning: The Registry element has been deprecated. Please use one of the new elements which replaces its functionality: RegisteryKey for creating registry keys, RegistryValue for writing registry values, RemoveRegistryKey for removing registry keys, and RemoveRegistryValue for removing registry values... ClickThrough is still using the old schema; you'll have this problem until the next release, when Rob pushes out the new ClickThrough, which is amazingly better. Should be next week. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Elevating custom action on Vista
Wilson, Phil wrote: That's the whole point really. The general issue is that many custom actions are arguably incorrect because to access secure parts of the system theyrun with the installing user's privilege, who was therefore required to be privileged. The "right" thing is to run deferred with noimpersonation, requiring them in the scripted part of the execute sequence. To get them running with privilege in the UI sequence I believe the recommended solution is to launch the MSI with a manifested exe that will demand privilege with a UAC dialog so the MSI is launched with privilege. Correct. The UI sequence doesn't support elevation directly because you (generally) don't need elevated privs before you get into modifying the system. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] error when merging with msvbvm60.msm
Standa Kunc wrote: F:\tmp\wix\didakta-geometrie1-2002-klient\main.wxs : error LGHT0112 : Unresolved reference to symbol 'Merge:msvbvm60.1E64E430-36E0-11D2-A794-0060089A724B' in se ction 'Product:3A41A001-5F28-4598-8225-4A3A13878F73'. make.EXE: *** [all] Error 112 msvbvm60.msm is in the right directory. What is the problem? Really can't say without more detail. What do your Feature and Directory trees with the Merge and MergeRef elements look like? -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
