Re: [WiX-users] How can I use DefaultVersion for unversioned files?
On 6/19/2010 4:06 AM, Stefan Kuhr wrote: is it possible to use the DefaultVersion attribute for unversioned files? No. DefaultVersion just sets the File.Version column. See the MSI SDK doc for the File table for limitations. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Set package name dynamically
On 6/21/2010 5:49 PM, Matt Johnson wrote: Is this a safe approach? No. It's undocumented internal MSI data. Every time somebody mucks with it, there's one more reason the MSI team has to waste time supporting broken apps instead of moving the platform forward. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] How to add a warning dialog?
On 6/21/2010 5:36 AM, Bijay Agarwal wrote: I have to check for the presence of a product. If the product is absent I need to use a warning msg and then continue the installation without exiting. Check the WiX setup source code; it has a warning dialog like you're describing. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] MaintenanceWelcomeDlg bitmaps
On 6/15/2010 4:33 AM, Óscar Alberto wrote: I have created a msi with customized bitmaps (the company logo and all that stuff). While doing a normal installation, the images looks good; the problem comes when I try to make a patch: the msp file continues using the default bitmaps. Check a verbose log to see if the Binary table is being updated. A patch might not be able to update the bitmaps soon enough to be shown in the UI in the target .msi. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Can we control registration of Components from a COM DLL
On 6/8/2010 1:47 AM, vijay chander wrote: Here i'm trying to attain functionality through COM DLL which would be similar to installation using the following command: msiexec /i sampleInstaller.msi PROPNAME=1 /qb http://www.joyofsetup.com/2007/05/30/feature-conditions-and-ui/ -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Odd ProcessComponents behavior in an upgrade
On 6/11/2010 4:05 PM, Alan Sinclair wrote: Unavoidably in AppV2.MSI Myfile.inf has moved to a new component, CompB, with new GUID. That violates component rules, so all bets are off. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367849%28VS.85%29.aspx -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug?
On 6/8/2010 12:20 PM, bpackard wrote: embedded, the other may not be. When the Package is set to Compressed=yes the external file cannot be found - the msi expects it to be in the SourceRoot, even though it is supposed to be in a subordinate folder. That's how MSI works with loose files in an otherwise-compressed package. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Candle is ignoring preprocessor arguments
On 6/8/2010 6:22 PM, Adam Langley wrote: C:\Program Files\Windows Installer XML v3\bin\candle.exe -dTasks=D:\TFSBuild\Temp\Product\Installers_v1.0_Trunk\Sources\Tasks\ Put quotes around the entire -d argument. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.0 error with .net 4
On 6/9/2010 9:04 PM, John Ketchpaw wrote: Using this config file, WiX v3.5 contains an updated .config file for SfxCA. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] minor upgrade and RemoveExistingProducts
On 6/7/2010 8:10 AM, warne warne wrote: Hi, is it any way possible possible to do a minor upgrade and automatically remove related products in the background? No, that's a major upgrade. The scenario is I made some bug fixes to our product that dont seem to warrant a major upgrade. My version numbers are only going from, say, 2.0.1 to 2.0.2. http://www.joyofsetup.com/2008/12/29/neither-more-nor-less/ -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Feature Selection Using ADLOCAL property in WiX
On 6/7/2010 2:48 AM, Bijay Agarwal wrote: Property Id=ADDLOCAL Value=ALL/ The MSI doc says you should not set ADDLOCAL to all. Use AddLocal in Publish elements instead. Then check a verbose log to see which features are being installed. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Use a custom localization file to overwrite default for error code
On 6/7/2010 12:13 PM, pmarkey wrote: Is there a way to ensure the system will use the custom version of Error1730 instead of the default version found in the WixUI_en-us.wxl file without modifying the default version directly? Just include it without the Overridable attribute; it will override the one in WixUI_en-us.wxl. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Optional Custom Actions?
On 6/7/2010 8:58 PM, Manuel Aude wrote: Property Id=DOTNET35SP1INSTSomeDir\dotnetfx35.exe/Property That won't work -- you can't install the .NET Framework as a custom action. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Detach Databases on Uninstall
On 6/2/2010 7:06 PM, Nathan Zaugg wrote: I think I now have some insight. The reason I can't connect is because WIX detected that SQL Server was using a file that was included in the installation and stopped SQL Server during the uninstall. WiX doesn't do that (unless you tell it to) but MSI might. Check a verbose log to see what happened when. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Stopping/deleting a DIFxApp driver when uninstalling
On 6/2/2010 10:47 AM, Bruce Cran wrote: ServiceControl Id=sctp_service Name=Sctp Start=install Stop=both Remove=uninstall/ That might work but note that MSI explicitly says it doesn't support drivers as services. The sctp service (a kernel driver) works without problems during installation but it never gets stopped or removed during uninstallation. As I recall, that's usually handled via flags in an .inf file; DifxApp doesn't do it directly. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Files repaired on Modify
On 6/2/2010 3:25 AM, Rob Hamflett wrote: I'm seeing some behaviour I don't understand. If you modify an installation, but don't actually add or remove any features, then I thought nothing happened. If I delete a folder before the modify, then the installer repairs it. I'm not seeing anything in the log thought that indicates why this is happening. See InstallValidate logging for what MSI plans to do. How would I detect that the installer is actually doing something? I have conditons based on a feature being installed (feature=3), a feature being removed (feature=2) and a feature being repaired (REINSTALL feature). This all works pretty well, but not for this instance. Would I have to have conditions based on the components instead? Yes, custom actions should be declarative and use component states like all the MSI actions. Features are just convenient collections of components; when it comes to installing/repairing/etc, MSI works on the component level. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Custom dialogs - once more
On 5/27/2010 5:14 AM, xx wrote: author a dialog with a sequence number of -1 reveals that the Wix publish dialog tag refuses to take negative numbers. Unless I missed something, I suspect that I may probably be able to replace any dialog, but not the ExitDialog, UserExit and FatalError dialogs, because those three have negative Sequence numbers. Take a look at the source for those dialogs; the Show element supports the exit dialogs just fine. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Component with feature condition not actioned
On 5/26/2010 12:14 PM, Nick Ramirez wrote: Anyone know more about the -1 action state during the UI portion? http://www.joyofsetup.com/2008/04/09/feature-states-in-component-conditions/ -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Writing own Wix Extension
On 4/29/2010 3:57 AM, vunder wrote: this.schema = LoadXmlSchemaHelper(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly(), Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Extensions.Xsd.InterBase.xsd); Check your extension assembly using ILDasm or Reflector to make sure the resource name is correct. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.5 Source Code
On 4/27/2010 1:56 AM, Neil Sleightholm wrote: Also, which do you think should work - building from the zip or cvs or both? CVS -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] PropertyRef WIX_SUITE_WH_SERVER
On 4/26/2010 7:18 PM, gapearce wrote:
I think you need to check one more bit. The example you linked to
previously doesn't check the suite name.
It does:
if (VER_SUITE_WH_SERVER == (ovix.wSuiteMask VER_SUITE_WH_SERVER))
{
WcaSetIntProperty(LWIX_SUITE_WH_SERVER, 1);
}
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Re: [WiX-users] calling DLL function from InstallUISequence
On 4/27/2010 11:23 AM, glenneroo wrote: InstallUISequence Custom Action=ReadConfigFiles After=InstallDirDlg / Show Dialog=ServerConfigDialog After=ReadConfigFiles / /InstallUISequence Once the UI sequence starts the modal wizard pages, processing is controlled by control events, not sequence scheduling. Use DoAction control events to call your CA. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] ServiceInstall does nothing in WiX 3.5?
On 4/28/2010 1:35 AM, Navid Azimi-Garakani wrote: MSI (s) (24:DC) [22:30:46:016]: Doing action: InstallServices MSI (s) (24:DC) [22:30:46:016]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: ActionText Action start 22:30:46: InstallServices. Action ended 22:30:46: InstallServices. Return value 1. That's the log from the script generation phase; check later in the log for the execution phase. The sequence conditions were updated as such: Not necessary. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Multiple Versions of Features?
On 4/26/2010 10:42 PM, Navid Azimi-Garakani wrote: Is this late enough so upgrade does not modify anything outside of the feature? Yes, if none of the components in those features was updated. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] What does Light do?
On 4/26/2010 10:53 AM, Nick Ramirez wrote: I've looked through the source code for Light and I think I've generally got a good idea about the order of things. I'm just not sure we've found all the ways to optimize. Difficult to say without really knowing your system. In general, bottom-up optimization will produce fewer gains than a design optimization. For example, what about using language packs? That way, you're never creating redundant cabinets. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] PropertyRef WIX_SUITE_WH_SERVER
On 4/25/2010 6:41 PM, gapearce wrote: Thanks for the hint, Bob. I ran the installer and produced a log, but I don't see anything obviously wrong in there. (But I'm a noob). I ran this on a WH Server, using V3.0.5419 of WiX, and it prevents me from installing. Which release of WHS? I tested the code back when I added it, and I believe that was in the WHS RTM timeframe. The CA uses the same code recommended by the SDK, so I'm not sure why it would stop working...Can you try it out? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724451%28VS.85%29.aspx -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Checkbox tree for file type association
On 4/26/2010 2:21 AM, Lisa Gracias wrote: I know the Winamp installer uses NSIS, but does Wix (or rather, Windows Installer) have something similar that would let me create a checkbox tree? Nope. You can get a feature tree or you can get checkboxes but not even a checkbox list view. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.5 Source Code
On 4/25/2010 4:17 PM, Neil Sleightholm wrote: The details are here http://neilsleightholm.blogspot.com/2008/10/how-to-create-wix-build-mach ine.html, they are all broken in CVS for 3.5 and not in the binaries zip at all. That's the same as in v3.0, right? Like I said, any that are missing from the binaries .zip file would be a bug. If space is the issue then either CVS needs to be fixed or the files should be available for download in another form. I have raised this as a bug before but the interest in fixing it seems to be limited. CVS should be fixed. If v3.5 broke the fixed v3.0 binary files, please enter a bug for Rob. I realise I am in a minority of people that want to build the WiX source but it does suffer from works on my machine. Well, we don't use the .zip files so we rely on users to report issues. We can't fix the space problem directly, but we (Rob) can fix the CVS problem. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Multiple Versions of Features?
On 4/26/2010 2:22 PM, Navid Azimi-Garakani wrote: Is it possible to upgrade only a specific feature within an MSI? No, but if you use late scheduling for RemoveExistingProducts, components that are unchanged in the upgrade product won't be modified during the upgrade. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Speeding up Light command
On 4/22/2010 12:45 PM, Pally Sandher wrote: If only I could get the same sort of improvements out of msimsp.exe too They don't have multiple cabs, so the same approach doesn't work. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] illegal MsiFileHash entries
On 4/23/2010 6:24 PM, Alan Sinclair wrote: File Id=lwf.cat CompanionFile=lwf.inf Name=lwf.cat Vital=yes Source=Z:\sdk\install\lwf.cat / Can you file a bug? Companion files should be versioned files; ICE60 implies they must be. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] PropertyRef WIX_SUITE_WH_SERVER
Check a verbose log for the WixQueryOsInfo custom action. On 4/22/2010 6:34 PM, gapearce wrote: Bump? -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.5 Source Code
On 4/25/2010 8:26 AM, Neil Sleightholm wrote: Rob, could I suggest that as a first step we (I don't mind helping if that helps) get the source zip file working? At the moment it is not complete and that is why I use CVS. Also, as of 3.5.1623.0 it fails to build due to missing/incorrect files. Which? We still have the limited-space issue, which is why we intentionally exclude large binaries, which are available both in CVS and from the binaries .zip. If there are other source files missing, that's a bug. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] heat.exe: Add attribute Win64=yes to Component elements?
On 4/22/2010 7:29 PM, Sascha Beaumont wrote: No, heat doesn't harvest 64-bit information. I just do a find/replace (sed would work from the command line if it needs scripting) Find: Guid=* Replace: Guid=* Win64=yes If you use the -arch switch, Candle will do that for you. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Light performance with cabinets and merge modules
On 4/21/2010 8:41 PM, Nick K wrote: If I create merge modules, and then place each merge module into its own .cab (for the final .msi), will that tell light not to un-pack and re-pack all the files? No. Merge modules have their own embedded .cabs but their files need to be sequenced based on how their components are merged in. Or, alternately, will I see more performance improvement if I assign a RAMdisk or similar? Sure. Binding takes two kinds of resources: i/o, to collect the files and write them out; and CPU, if you compress the .cabs. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Change Existing Service User Account
On 4/21/2010 7:08 AM, stevenjly...@hbosplc.com wrote: Will ServiceInstall 'update' an existing service? Probably, but note that it will also uninstall the service when the product is uninstalled. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] How do you extract COM registration info from a 64-bit DLL or TLB?
On 4/22/2010 1:08 PM, Younie, Bradford wrote: Now, I need to produce a 64-bit version of the same product, but I build it all on a 32-bit computer. When heat tries to harvest the data from the 64-bit DLL and TLB, it fails. I understand why it fails: it can't load the 64-bit DLL on a 32-bit system. But is there a way around it? Don't harvest the 64-bit component; harvest the 32-bit and use the same authoring compiled for 64-bit. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] What does Light do?
On 4/22/2010 1:57 PM, Nick Ramirez wrote: We'd like to optimize our calls to Light and any info about the order of things would really help. It would also be implementation-dependent and likely to change. What are you looking to optimize? -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Speeding up Light command
On 4/17/2010 5:53 AM, S.P wrote: I want to create an install package with WiX,but light command is very very slow. It takes about 5 hours to run and create the install package. My install package will copy 45478 files and 2190 folder on system.So it includes a large number of files to copy.Could you please help me if there is anyway to speed this up, without increasing the size of the resulting file? http://www.joyofsetup.com/2008/03/29/wix-performance-tip-use-multiple-cabinets/ -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Customizing the dialog sequencing to form loops
On 4/16/2010 6:43 PM, Vishwajit Walke wrote: LicenseDlg - SharePointversionDlg - SharePointWebAppPortDlg - Initiates Spawn dialog on certain condition - PortNotAvailableDlg From this SpawnDialog PortNotAvailableDlg, I've two options : 1. Click Next To Navigate to next Custom Dialog and that is SharePointAdminSetupDlg 2. Click Back To Return to the dialog SharePointWebAppPortDlg A spawned dialog can't start another wizard-style sequence. It should simply return to go back to the dialog under the spawn. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Problem with build order under MSBuild 4.0
On 4/14/2010 5:08 PM, Sironi, Mark wrote: I did some digging in the Wix2010.targets file and found the below target, ResolveProjectReferences. It looks like the secondMSBuild/ command should be invoked to actually build the project (based on the comments). However when the build runs via MSBuild, BuildProjectReferences is blank at this point (despite being true pretty much everywhere else in the build), which causes the secondMSBuild/ to get skipped. I haven't tried it yet, but I bet if I force that task to run everything will work. Please file a bug; sounds like something's getting lost somewhere. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Install x64-DLL
On 4/16/2010 9:04 AM, Thomas Kehl wrote: Mmhh - this isn't a warning - ist an error - I cannot compile it with this. Is there a switch, that I can handle this as a warning and ignore it? It's not supported -- that's why it's an error. The MSI SDK is clear that 32-bit packages cannot contain 64-bit components. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Deferred custom action creates directories in the installation directory
On 4/14/2010 11:07 AM, Dariel Marlow wrote: That's exactly why it is of concern; it doesn't remove the temp directory after running. The other is not a native-code custom action, both are managed. Probably one is run from an installed assembly and the other is in the Binary table? Please file a bug on the directory not getting deleted. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Deferred custom action creates directories in the installation directory
On 4/13/2010 9:52 PM, Dariel Marlow wrote: I have another installer that is running with elevated privileges and its deferred custom actions are executing from the windows\installer directory. I can't find why one runs from the program files directory while the other runs from windows installer directory. Is there a setting or a way to specify? The other is probably a native-code custom action; MSI uses its own directory for temporary files. Is there a reason it matters where it runs from? DTF appears to always clean up the directories it creates. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall problems
On 4/14/2010 9:26 AM, Johann Taferl, T-AU wrote: try using the windows installer clean up to delete the entry in your software list. Avoid MsiZap at all costs: It modifies MSI's knowledge of what's installed but doesn't actually remove any resources. Instead of mucking around with trying to clean up, just use virtual machines: http://www.joyofsetup.com/2007/09/24/test-your-setups-virtually/. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] To set property with the value of another property, use a CustomAction with Property and Value attributes?!
On 4/14/2010 2:58 AM, Erich Nurr wrote: now only the defined value ( - ) will be set and not the Value of the Property which should be like: c:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\aspnet_regiis.exe You're not setting that property; you're setting the property ASPNETREGIIS. Don't confuse properties, which are an MSI concept, with preprocessor variables, which are a WiX concept. Let's try this from another angle: What are you trying to do? There might be a better way than a custom action, which are notoriously fragile. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Disable feature when feature already installed
On 4/13/2010 10:02 PM, puyo puy wrote: Thanks for your quick response. Is that possible to detect the spelling check feature and display “Feature already installed” when it already installed by other product? AFAIK, the feature tree control doesn't support that. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Crash in Votive project build
On 4/13/2010 6:23 AM, John Aldridge wrote: That seems to have done the trick... no crashes for a week now, and we were getting one every few days. Thank you! Good to know but you shouldn't have to; there's a bug lurking there. Could you turn on verbose MSBuild logging and capture another failure? That should be good enough in a bug report to get the MSBuild/Votive folks on the case. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Deferred custom action creates directories in the installation directory
On 4/13/2010 6:11 PM, Dariel Marlow wrote: When running the deferred custom action, a directory is created in the installation directory. The log files says that the custom action is being extracted to a temporary folder. Why is it not doing this in the typical temp directory? Security: It ensures that the CA DLL is run from an appropriately ACL'd directory, so a nonprivileged user can't overwrite a DLL that the MSI server runs with elevated privileges. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] To set property with the value of another property, use a CustomAction with Property and Value attributes?!
On 4/13/2010 10:43 AM, Erich Nurr wrote: Warning 2 The 'ASPNETREGIIS' Property contains '[ASPNETREGIIS]' in its value which is an illegal reference to another property. If this value is a string literal, not a property reference, please ignore this warning. To set a property with the value of another property, use a CustomAction with Property and Value attributes. i runned the msi file and looked into the logfile and the [ASPNETREGIIS] is empty like the warning told it. How to fix this? and why it doesnt work like the code with ExeCommand=[ASPNETREGIIS] ? Like the warning says, you can't do that. The reason is that the value of a property is a literal, while the ExeCommand attribute value is of type Formatted. That's required to have MSI format the string. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Disable feature when feature already installed
On 4/13/2010 8:18 PM, puyo puy wrote: I got multiple products that will deploy the same feature. For example Word, Excel and PowerPoint standalone MSI will deploy spelling check feature. If any of these products already installed spelling check feature, running other products setup will disable the spelling check feature but need to keep reference count. That's based on components, not features. As long as you follow the components rules, installing a feature with the same components as another product is essentially a no-op except for increment the component reference count. I try the following code to disable Spelling Check feature when it already installed but these codes never works, Spelling Check always enable, even it already installed. Because features are local to the product being installed; the feature hasn't been installed for this product so the install state is absent. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Issue using ps:snapin versus installutil.exe
On 4/12/2010 10:27 AM, Michael Clark wrote: I have a PowerShell snapin that I'd like to use the ps:SnapIn however when I use it my SnapIn gets registered with the wrong name and version number. If I use the InstallUtil.exe program the snapin gets registered properly. Anyone have any Idea as to what might be wrong? Most likely, your InstallUtil self-registration code does something differently. What does it look like? -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] RegistrySearch on two properties
On 4/13/2010 10:38 AM, Rodney Schuler wrote: RegistrySearch Id=TheirProductName Root=HKLM Key=Software\TheirCompany\TheirProduct\[THEIRCURVER]\[THEIRCURLANG] Name=ProductName Type=raw/RegistrySearch You can't rely on using the results of one AppSearch in another like that because there's no guaranteed order to how the rows in the AppSearch table are processed. Some AppSearches can be chained together but not registry. I believe an immediate custom action would be required. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall problems
On 4/13/2010 9:04 AM, Jeffrey Bindinga wrote: Where should I be looking in this case? Verbose log. It will show you what MSI decided to do with each feature and component. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Heat: How to generate preferred layout style?
On 4/11/2010 11:21 PM, jeff00seattle wrote: I read within some blog pertaining to WiX, is that the preferred layout style is to separate the definition of the directory Directory from the file components that are within it by using DirectoryRef, and listing the components within these. For ease of authoring, which doesn't really apply to Heat. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] How to resolve WiX Warning: Too Many Components within Feature ?
On 4/12/2010 1:01 AM, Sascha Beaumont wrote: Are you planning to support installation on Win9x systems? If so, then yes you should address this warning. However if you're not planning to support Win9x systems you can safely ignore this limitation. ICE47 is suppressed by default in WiX v3.5 -- it doesn't apply to NT-based OSes. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] can we use wix 3.0.5419 release candiate for Wix 3.0 with Visual studio 2010
On 4/12/2010 7:48 AM, MYFLEX wrote: what are the steps i should follow to work with visual studio 2010? Download WiX v3.5 from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/. WiX v3.0 doesn't know about VS2010. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Remove the license page
On 4/12/2010 7:15 AM, Pally Sandher wrote: No problem. It's only been posted to the list 5 times in the last 3 months it's only the 3rd result when searching for WiX Remove license dialog on Google so it's easy to never have come across it before. Hey, it's #2 on Bing. *http://letmebingthatforyou.com/?q=WiX Remove license dialog http://letmebingthatforyou.com/?q=WiX%20Remove%20license%20dialog* -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] How to resolve WiX Warning: Too Many Componentswithin Feature ?
On 4/12/2010 8:00 AM, Benjamin Podszun wrote: (Maybe related: Why is heat generating a component per file anyway? http://www.joyofsetup.com/2008/12/30/paying-for-upgrades/ -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] installlocation at runtime with customaction
On 4/12/2010 3:26 PM, lewisv wrote: I figure a custom action called after costinitialize could get the locations just fine. Even return the default directories as needed. My question though is how to organize the directory xml, and put my directories in there. If you're setting the target directories via custom action, the hierarchy in your authoring doesn't matter; you'll overwrite the defaults. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Version of WiX that groks .NET 4.0 assemblies?
On 4/12/2010 5:35 PM, Dan Thompson (SBS) wrote: What's the roadmap for 3.5? Like, when will it be released? I'm hesitant to ship an MSI built by a non-release version of WiX. When it's ready is the stock answer. http://www.joyofsetup.com/2010/03/20/serial-monogamy-with-your-development-tools/ -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] 64-bit WiX
On 4/12/2010 9:33 PM, Navid Azimi-Garakani wrote: I realize that this has been a long standing issuehttp://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=9EE4B5B02235CB43ACFE2376CC2F11F0D03891%40ntxbeus04.exchange.xchg but I am working on getting the WiX toolset to compile and run as 64-bit processes. This is necessary because we're running into a BadImageFormatException when trying to invoke WiX via a 64-bit MSBuild process. How are you doing that? The shipping wix.targets already supports 64-bit MSBuild. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Heat
On 4/10/2010 12:01 PM, Thomas Svare wrote: Thanks Bob. We've got some dll's that support the current versions of MS Exchange and we only build the 64 bit versions. Yep, that's a use case that Heat doesn't currently cover. It's only going to get more important as time goes on, but it's a non-trivial effort to port all the 32-bit native code needed. Unfortunately, nobody's offered to pick up the work so it stays in the queue... -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Changed Package/@InstallPrivileges attribute
On 4/9/2010 4:21 PM, Jan Bilek wrote: We are executing one application (as a deferred CA with Impersonate attribute set to 'No') during the installation process to create a registry key with permissions for user who started the installation. 1. Per-machine installers should avoid setting permissions based on the user -- how else can other users get the same functionality? 2. Don't use a custom action for that -- use RegistryKey/RegistryValue/Permission. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Run ca on install fail
On 4/9/2010 10:34 AM, Scharp, Craig wrote: I would like to run a custom action that runs if the install fails. Has anyone successfully done that? I f so, any suggestions would be great. See Custom/@OnExit in WiX.chm and InstallExecuteSequence Table in the MSI SDK. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] how to use heat to harvest VS projects
On 4/8/2010 5:27 PM, Neil Sleightholm wrote: But there wouldn't be any project references as they are external assemblies. OK. Feel free to file the bug; there are others in the triage team that are more sympathetic to harvesting. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Searching for existing files but only once
On 4/9/2010 3:52 PM, Castro, Edwin G. (Hillsboro) wrote: Therefore, when one has a question one needs to formulate it so that the question demonstrates understanding. A general format for a question is I'm trying to ... I have tried ... I read that ... I don't understand why ... Can you point me to ... In other words, provide the context that shows that you've done your homework and that all the ideas haven't clicked yet. With this context it is much easier for those of us that want to provide help to do so because we understand the context better and we know what you have already discovered on your own. Many times all we need to do is confirm what you already thought was the case. In other cases, we can point you to other documentation that can help. I'd add that it's useful to ask about the goal you're trying to reach, rather than the particular solution you've chosen. It's especially common with MSI that the normal I'm a developer who writes code to solve problems approach has yielded a solution that can be accomplished more easily by fitting in with the MSI model. And RTFM works well there. And, of course, here's a link to How To Ask Questions The Smart Way: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html. Full of snark and especially relevant is the Questions Not To Ask section. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Changed Package/@InstallPrivileges attribute
On 4/9/2010 8:15 AM, Pally Sandher wrote: InstallPrivileges can only be set to either limited or elevated. I'm assuming you mean InstallScope in which case yes that's all it does according to the documentation - InstallScope controls the package elevation bit (equivalent to InstallPrivileges) and the ALLUSERS property. I added it because it was an easy mistake to set InstallPrivileges=elevated and forget to set ALLUSERS=1. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] How to set the file properties for the MSI generated by WiX
On 4/8/2010 9:46 PM, Patrick van der Velde wrote: I've noticed that the MSI files created by WiX have some of their file properties (e.g. Authors, Revision number etc.) set to values that must be produced by WiX. However I'm uncertain how to go about setting those values. They're set by attributes in the Package element or by WiX when they must have a certain content (e.g., Revision Number is the package code). -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] WiX cannot install certificate - Error 26352 installing certificate
On 4/9/2010 8:06 AM, Andy Clugston wrote: You sure? Still looks closed. I hate bad Web apps. Open now. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Problems during upgrade
On 4/9/2010 4:41 AM, Simon wrote: the file: c:\users\[USER]\AppData\Local\Temp\IXP000.tmp\ is not a valid installation package for the product Does anyone have an idea what could be causing this? Check a verbose log. Sounds like the upgrade needed the original package but your self-extractor didn't cache it. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Heat
On 4/9/2010 12:46 PM, Thomas Svare wrote: SelfReg. How do I harvest registration information from 64 bit dlls? Heat doesn't support 64-bit DLLs. Use it on the 32-bit version; unless it's a horribly-written DLL, the self-reg info will be essentially the same, once it's put in a 64-bit component. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Forcing conditional feature install
On 4/7/2010 9:55 PM, Jeff Perrigo wrote: I am trying to do an admin install of an MSI with a conditional feature and I need the feature to be installed regardless of the condition. As documented, admin installs install all features except those with level 0. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Votive Missing Project Templates (VS 2008 SP1)
On 4/6/2010 6:31 PM, Alex Ivanoff wrote: 3.5.1602 still no project/item templates in VS 2008 SP1. There's no bug on that issue. Please file one with details. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Wix 3.0 with VS2010
On 4/8/2010 6:58 AM, Rhodes, John wrote: Does anyone know if there any issues or even if its possible to run Wix 3.0 integrated with VS2010? No, WiX v3.0 doesn't support it. There are no breaking changes in the core toolset, so I'd recommend v3.5 over trying to hack bits of it into v3.0. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] how to use heat to harvest VS projects
On 4/6/2010 5:23 PM, Neil Sleightholm wrote: I have checked this again and using heat with the options -pog:Binaries -pog:Satellites -pog:Content the referenced assemblies are not included. I thought they'd end up as Content. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] WiX cannot install certificate - Error 26352 installing certificate
On 4/7/2010 7:49 AM, Andy Clugston wrote: WixIIsExtension.dll version: 3.0.5217.0 Try upgrading to WiX v3.0 RTM. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Action: 'DuplicateFiles' in InstallExecuteSequence table must come after the 'InstallFiles' action.
On 4/6/2010 1:04 PM, Michael Schlitt wrote: I believe you have make something in the Component section point to a KeyPath and if there is not something in the Component Section that points to KeyPath then create a Registy Key that does this for you. This occurs when the package doesn't install any files. It's fixed in v3.5.1602.0. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] run executable during install
On 4/7/2010 1:16 PM, Andrew Ziem wrote: My MSI installs an application called SideCIC.EXE. It needs to initialize a Windows Event Viewer container which can be done if I run 'SideCIC.EXE /initialize'. WiX includes the EventSource element to create event sources without the need for fragile custom actions. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] how to use heat to harvest VS projects
On 4/8/2010 4:54 PM, Neil Sleightholm wrote: Afraid not, Content just includes icons, images etc (mainly useful for web apps). I have checked this with 3.0 and 3.5. I feel this is quite a big hole in the project harvester, is it worth a bug report? You can try.g I don't think it's a bug as such, given that project references to those projects would still harvest their output. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Launching two Processes after a WiX installation
On 4/8/2010 11:08 AM, Xmun wrote: Is there a way to launch two applications? WiX provides the custom actions to launch one; if you want two, you need to author those additional custom actions yourself. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] C++ Custom Action Dll not running on Windows Server 2008 R2
On 4/8/2010 1:14 PM, Sam Domonkos wrote: I know this is not specifically WiX 3.5, but I have a custom action that will run on XP 32bit, Windows7 32 and 64bit, but will not run on Windows Server 2008 R2. Use Dependency Walker to see if the DLL has dependencies you're not accounting for. Otherwise, generic advice: use a verbose log to see how far your code gets. (You didn't say how it fails so it's difficult to be more precise.) -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] WiX cannot install certificate - Error 26352 installing certificate
On 4/8/2010 9:55 AM, Andy Clugston wrote: Upgrading to the RTM (5419) did not help. Same issues. I reopened the old bug. Please attach sample authoring and a verbose log showing the problem. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Annoying dialog in the beginning of installation
I added another request: I got a report that the bug occurs most often on Virtual PC virtual machines and it seems to be a common issue on various blogs. On 4/4/2010 2:50 PM, Bob Arnson wrote: Please see http://www.joyofsetup.com/2010/04/04/bug-hunting/ for details how you can help track down the bug. On 4/3/2010 4:58 PM, s...@pacaccess.com wrote: I have a similar problem. It doesn't happen 100% of the time, and it doesn't have anything to do with large number of files (I only have 2 I'm installing and I've been told it's a bug). I haven't found a workaround so I added a custom string file (CustomStrings.wxl) to my project and added: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? WixLocalization Culture=en-us xmlns=http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/localization; String Id=WaitForCostingDlgTextDue to a bug in MSI, you are now seeing this message. Please ignore and continue./String /WixLocalization If anyone has a better solution, I'm all ears... Jeff On 4/2/2010 6:08 PM, Rajendra Magar wrote: Whenever I try to install my msi, I get a popup dialog with the message Please wait while the installer finishes determining you disk space requirements. and Return button. This is right after I accept the terms in the License Agreement followed by Install. The dialog stays until I hit Return and pops back up when I hit Install again. The installation eventually starts but I have to go through the same loop of seeing the dialog and returning from it at least 5-7 times. Could you please tell me what could be causing this behavior? I have a merge module (about 250M) that is part of the msi. Could the merge module be the reason? If you have a lot of files and/or components, it might take MSI a long time to finish costing. If you wait 10-15 seconds before clicking Install, do you get the same behavior? -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Annoying dialog in the beginning of installation
Please see http://www.joyofsetup.com/2010/04/04/bug-hunting/ for details how you can help track down the bug. On 4/3/2010 4:58 PM, s...@pacaccess.com wrote: I have a similar problem. It doesn't happen 100% of the time, and it doesn't have anything to do with large number of files (I only have 2 I'm installing and I've been told it's a bug). I haven't found a workaround so I added a custom string file (CustomStrings.wxl) to my project and added: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? WixLocalization Culture=en-us xmlns=http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/localization; String Id=WaitForCostingDlgTextDue to a bug in MSI, you are now seeing this message. Please ignore and continue./String /WixLocalization If anyone has a better solution, I'm all ears... Jeff On 4/2/2010 6:08 PM, Rajendra Magar wrote: Whenever I try to install my msi, I get a popup dialog with the message Please wait while the installer finishes determining you disk space requirements. and Return button. This is right after I accept the terms in the License Agreement followed by Install. The dialog stays until I hit Return and pops back up when I hit Install again. The installation eventually starts but I have to go through the same loop of seeing the dialog and returning from it at least 5-7 times. Could you please tell me what could be causing this behavior? I have a merge module (about 250M) that is part of the msi. Could the merge module be the reason? If you have a lot of files and/or components, it might take MSI a long time to finish costing. If you wait 10-15 seconds before clicking Install, do you get the same behavior? -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Annoying dialog in the beginning of installation
On 4/2/2010 6:08 PM, Rajendra Magar wrote: Whenever I try to install my msi, I get a popup dialog with the message Please wait while the installer finishes determining you disk space requirements. and Return button. This is right after I accept the terms in the License Agreement followed by Install. The dialog stays until I hit Return and pops back up when I hit Install again. The installation eventually starts but I have to go through the same loop of seeing the dialog and returning from it at least 5-7 times. Could you please tell me what could be causing this behavior? I have a merge module (about 250M) that is part of the msi. Could the merge module be the reason? If you have a lot of files and/or components, it might take MSI a long time to finish costing. If you wait 10-15 seconds before clicking Install, do you get the same behavior? -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Crash in Votive project build
On 4/1/2010 6:55 AM, John Aldridge wrote: I have a Votive(MSI) project in Visual Studio which sometimes crashes right at the end of the build with the traceback Try setting the RunWixToolsOutOfProc property in your .wixproj file and see if the crashes recur. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] First run notepad with my.cfg and only then start the service
On 4/1/2010 9:28 AM, Viv Coco wrote: shown to the user to modify as needed (I give the user the chance to change it by running notepad.exe with my conf file during installing) You can't run UI during InstallExecuteSequence. You should let the user configure after installation. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] how to use heat to harvest VS projects
On 3/31/2010 8:41 AM, Neil Sleightholm wrote: Afraid not that only gets the primary output not referenced assemblies. Aren't they in the content output group? -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Bug with components which contain only XMLConfig elements?
On 3/31/2010 6:06 AM, Pally Sandher wrote: gives the same error (as expected). I can work around this simply by adding a RegistryValue to each component setting it as the KeyPath for those components but does anyone know if this is expected behaviour or a bug with these types of components? Keypaths must be resources MSI knows about. XmlConfig isn't.g So yes, another resource is a good idea, or including XmlConfig only in another component with a known keypath (e.g., a file you're modifying with XmlConfig). -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] WixUI_InstallDir suggests wrong Program Files directory for norwegian version of Windows
On 3/30/2010 9:11 AM, Trond Andersen wrote: Directory Id=ProgramFilesFolder ProgramFilesFolder provides the default. Check a verbose log to see what MSI thinks the Program Files folder is named. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Wix 2.0: if some dll file(s) deleted, then we'll get Error 2836 in Repair mode
On 3/31/2010 2:31 PM, little.forest wrote: Actually we asked the vendor first, but they told us sorry, we don't support Wix... They don't have to support WiX, just MSI. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.0: Bug in LIGHT
On 3/31/2010 8:55 AM, Markus Karg wrote: tried to link it using LIGHT. LIGHT says that there is a duplicate in that fragment, so we checked the fragment. In fact, there is no duplicate: What's the exact error message? -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Version of WiX that groks .NET 4.0 assemblies?
On 3/31/2010 6:50 PM, Dan Thompson (SBS) wrote: We are upgrading our toolset to use .NET 4.0, but I found that light.exe failed, because it thought that a particular file was not a valid assembly. Not surprising, since light.exe probably uses standard reflection APIs, and can't grok a .NET 4.0 binary. Has anyone started building WiX for .NET 4.0? Grab the latest WiX v3.5 build. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] WiX, Votive, installed files and incremental builds
On 3/31/2010 4:07 AM, Michael Bednarek wrote: However, what about keeping track of additional files like config files, text files, etc for your application? There's nothing in WiX to communicate with build systems about the payloads. Feel free to file a feature request -- or implement it! -- it would be a good feature. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] netfx:NativeImage action issues
Please keep wix-users on the thread so everyone can participate. You can reschedule overridable custom actions by including them (optionally with a new condition) in your InstallExecuteSequence (and other *Sequence elements). On 3/30/2010 11:13 AM, Christopher Hughes wrote: Hi Bob, You state that it is possible to disable the NativeImage action with a condition by overriding it: / Is it possible to disable the NativeImage action with a condition?/ /Yes. It's overridable, so you can re-schedule NetFxScheduleNativeImage / /with a condition./ I have spent some time trying to figure out how to do this, but I am not getting anywhere. Do you need to modify the WIX source code or can it be overridden in my WIX solution? I would much appreciate it if you could point me in the right direction. Regards, Christopher Hughes -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Error 2812 when Navigating Through Custom Dialogs
On 3/28/2010 1:40 PM, Vishwajit Walke wrote: Publish Dialog=SharePointWebAppNameAndPortDlg Control=Back Event=Newdialog Value=SharepointVersion1/Publish ... Note : The error description for the code 2812 is The event[2] is not recognized in the Windows Installer Error Message Table. Events are case-sensitive. You have a typo. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Cndl0099 when using v3.5
On 3/29/2010 11:34 AM, Jeff Yates wrote: I had wix 3.0 installed and built four wix projects in vs 2008 sp1; 1 library and 3 installers referencing that wixlib. I compiled alll with pedantic warning level. Everything worked. Now, I have installed the beta of 3.5 and the installers fail to build, citing error cndl0099 in the autogenerated wixlib wxs file. Is this a bug or do I need to edit my source? Hard to say. What does the authoring that causes the error look like? -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] how to use heat to harvest VS projects
On 3/29/2010 3:56 PM, Neil Sleightholm wrote: I am afraid that is how heat works, it only finds the primary output and no referenced assemblies. If you want the referenced assemblies then you have to heat those projects or files independently. Or use the -pog switch, right? -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] light .h file extension shenanigans
On 3/29/2010 12:52 AM, si wrote: So it appears light is doing something funky based on the .h file extension. Is there any way to avoid this? WiX includes .h files and they work. Anything else odd? -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
