[WiX-users] Burn: FailureRestartText mentions 'rollback'

2012-11-21 Thread Bruce Cran
When a reboot is pending, Burn fails with the message: You must restart your computer to complete the rollback of the software. I'm wondering why it mentions 'rollback' because in this case the reboot is pending following a successful installation of a driver. -- Bruce Cran

[WiX-users] WixStdBA: options browse dialog doesn't work in Server Core

2012-11-21 Thread Bruce Cran
-86b7ce3796bb). -- Bruce Cran -- Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day

Re: [WiX-users] Burn: associating checkbox with feature installation of specific MSI?

2012-11-21 Thread Bruce Cran
On 13/11/2012 15:49, Rob Mensching wrote: What about using a Feature/Condition instead? Thanks, that works. -- Bruce Cran -- Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get

[WiX-users] Burn: won't /layout with reboot pending

2012-11-26 Thread Bruce Cran
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[WiX-users] wcautil.lib in 3.7 RC: LNK4099 warnings (vc110.pdb not found; linking as if no debug info)

2012-11-26 Thread Bruce Cran
object as if no debug info wcautil.lib in 3.7 is 528KB vs. 1.5MB in 3.6. What's changed, and should I update my project settings to fix the warning? -- Bruce Cran -- Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud

Re: [WiX-users] WiX Bootstrapper Bundle creating uninstall shortcut in program files

2012-11-27 Thread Bruce Cran
documented and so might disappear. -- Bruce Cran -- Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc

Re: [WiX-users] Extract packages from bootstrapper?

2012-11-30 Thread Bruce Cran
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Re: [WiX-users] Extract packages from bootstrapper?

2012-11-30 Thread Bruce Cran
On 30/11/2012 21:39, Steven Ogilvie wrote: Thanks very much Bruce... Do you know if this will be done for 3.7? Since we've had 3.7 RC I suspect not. I suspect it's quite low down the priority list and so would need someone to contribute a patch. -- Bruce Cran

[WiX-users] WixStdBA retry 'cancel' button not working?

2012-12-03 Thread Bruce Cran
Has anyone else found that the cancel button on the error retry dialog in WixStdBA doesn't work (in 3.7 RC)? I find clicking it displays the same error with an OK button before just retrying anyway. The error when this occurs is Could not access network location. -- Bruce Cran

Re: [WiX-users] v3.7.1126.0 on Monday, November 26, 2012

2012-12-03 Thread Bruce Cran
of the files. -- Bruce Cran -- Keep yourself connected to Go Parallel: BUILD Helping you discover the best ways to construct your parallel projects. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net

Re: [WiX-users] WixStdBA retry 'cancel' button not working?

2012-12-04 Thread Bruce Cran
: package.msi, encountered error: 0x80070643. Retrying... -- Bruce Cran -- LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant support Improve your

Re: [WiX-users] Feature or Chained MSI?

2012-12-05 Thread Bruce Cran
to work. I've not used GPO, but I think it needs a .msi file in order to install an application? -- Bruce Cran -- LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial Remotely access PCs and mobile devices

[WiX-users] WDK 8.0, Driver Verifier and XP/2003 compatiblity

2012-12-19 Thread Bruce Cran
ExFreePoolWithTag and the driver hangs in RtlpUnwindPrologue (it runs fine without DV enabled). The system's still active, but the driver just never gets any further. -- Bruce Cran -- LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime

Re: [WiX-users] WDK 8.0, Driver Verifier and XP/2003 compatiblity

2012-12-19 Thread Bruce Cran
On 19/12/2012 21:09, Bruce Cran wrote: I know this isn't recommended, but is there some incompatibility between WDK 8.0 and XP/2003 that prevents drivers running correctly with Driver Verifier? We're finding that when Driver Verifier is enabled our driver gets so far initializing

Re: [WiX-users] Transition from InstallShield to WiX

2012-12-29 Thread Bruce Cran
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[WiX-users] Adding/deleting project configurations

2013-01-05 Thread Bruce Cran
Is adding or deleting project configurations in Visual Studio supposed to work (in WiX 3.7)? With VS2010 when I try and add or remove a configuration to the WiX project in the solution's Configuration Manager it doesn't give any error message but no changes are applied. -- Bruce Cran

[WiX-users] Identical left and right sub-expressions in plan.cpp - bug?

2013-01-14 Thread Bruce Cran
-package.execute) -- Bruce Cran -- Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video

Re: [WiX-users] Repairs and runtimes

2013-01-15 Thread Bruce Cran
is a patched version of the affected library, Microsoft automatically updates library files that are centrally-deployed (installed in System32 Directory). -- Bruce Cran -- Master SQL Server Development, Administration, T-SQL, SSAS

Re: [WiX-users] Repairs and runtimes

2013-01-16 Thread Bruce Cran
hell - but isn't the answer not to use 'a' for exactly this reason? -- Bruce Cran -- Master Java SE, Java EE, Eclipse, Spring, Hibernate, JavaScript, jQuery and much more. Keep your Java skills current with LearnJavaNow

Re: [WiX-users] Set font color in WiXUIExtension UIs

2013-02-03 Thread Bruce Cran
Isn't it just a case of overriding the strings in an additional wxl file? I've done that when using dark backgrounds. -- Bruce Cran Sent from my iPhone On 31 Jan 2013, at 17:51, Rob Mensching r...@robmensching.com wrote: It is possible. You can create your own UI. I guess I disagree

Re: [WiX-users] Redisplay MSI's UI when Bootstrapper is run a second time

2013-02-03 Thread Bruce Cran
You can't display a feature tree, but it does support adding checkboxes to the options page which can be used to select features. -- Bruce Cran Sent from my iPhone On 31 Jan 2013, at 17:54, Karl Werner karl.wer...@gmail.com wrote: Can you have the wix standard bootstrapper prompt the user

Re: [WiX-users] Creating a bootstrap application and need a more simple UI

2013-02-11 Thread Bruce Cran
Install button. From http://neilsleightholm.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/wix-burn-tipstricks.html all you need to do is use the WixStandardBootstrapperApplication.HyperlinkLicense BA and set WixStdbaLicenseUrl to be empty. -- Bruce Cran

Re: [WiX-users] Creating a bootstrap application and need a more simple UI

2013-02-11 Thread Bruce Cran
On 11/02/2013 20:43, joshh wrote: That is really close to what I am looking for. The only improvement I can think of would be to reduce the size and have a short message. And maybe a background logo like the wix ui can have. I agree - it's a bit bare without the eula. -- Bruce Cran

Re: [WiX-users] Creating a bootstrap application and need a more simple UI

2013-02-11 Thread Bruce Cran
rather than using the MSI UI. Neil, From an earlier message: My issue isn't the installer UI but rather the bootstrapper UI (If that makes sense). So this _is_ about the Burn UI. -- Bruce Cran -- Free Next-Gen

Re: [WiX-users] Bundle registered in ARP after prerequesitesare installed

2013-02-13 Thread Bruce Cran
On 13/02/2013 08:01, Ogrodowski, Sabine (ehem. Frauenhoffer) wrote: Thank you for your reply. I know, that it can be that simple to use the WixNetFxExtension. Unfortunately I need to also install on machines that have no internet access and so I can't use it. That's why I copied some part

Re: [WiX-users] Mail from Rob marked as spam

2013-02-20 Thread Bruce Cran
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[WiX-users] This collection is read-only error in Visual Studio 2012

2013-02-25 Thread Bruce Cran
I've come across a few problems with the WiX 3.7 plugin with Visual Studio 2012. Today I tried to add a reference to a bootstrapper project by double-clicking on the project name was told This collection is read-only; trying it again but clicking the Add button worked. Has anyone else come

[WiX-users] Debugging VS2012 plugin crashes?

2013-02-27 Thread Bruce Cran
I created an MSI project where if I go into the Build tab in the project settings and try to change anything, Visual Studio 2012 crashes. Is there any way of finding out what's going wrong? -- Bruce Cran -- Everyone

[WiX-users] Burn: hang after Apply Complete on Vista

2013-03-12 Thread Bruce Cran
, restart: None, ba requested restart: No and then always hangs, with all 3 threads stuck in GetMessageW. It works with 2008R2: is there a known bug with Vista/2008R1? -- Bruce Cran -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we

Re: [WiX-users] Burn: hang after Apply Complete on Vista

2013-03-12 Thread Bruce Cran
On 12/03/2013 20:49, Rob Mensching wrote: Is the task scheduler enabled and running? If not, try that and see if the problem goes away. Unfortunately it is already running. I'll do some more debugging to see what's going on. -- Bruce On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Bruce Cran br

[WiX-users] Platform-specific references (difxapp_x64 etc.)

2013-03-13 Thread Bruce Cran
I have to choose to reference either difxapp_x86 _or_ difxapp_x64, but building a 32-bit msi with difxapp_x64 referenced seems to work. -- Bruce Cran -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster

Re: [WiX-users] how to deal with the service removal during upgrade and repair in WIX?

2013-03-16 Thread Bruce Cran
-msi -- Bruce Cran -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar

Re: [WiX-users] Building Wix 3.6

2013-03-19 Thread Bruce Cran
the projects individually. -- Bruce Cran -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar

Re: [WiX-users] Building Wix 3.6

2013-03-19 Thread Bruce Cran
On 19/03/2013 12:31, Bruce Cran wrote: Clone https://hg.codeplex.com/wix : hg clone https://hg.codeplex.com/wix -b wix38 Sorry ignore most of that - those instructions are for WiX 3.8 not 3.6. To get 3.6 you just need to use -b wix36 when cloning and follow the instructions

Re: [WiX-users] How to pass some arguments during major upgrade to obsoleted msi to prevent removing RegistryKey

2013-03-22 Thread Bruce Cran
the key. -- Bruce Cran -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar

Re: [WiX-users] Question about conditional statements in elements

2013-03-23 Thread Bruce Cran
-1234-123456789012}. That seems to imply it shouldn't be changed from one build to the next but only when the major, minor or revision fields are changed. -- Bruce Cran -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make

Re: [WiX-users] Sign the msi

2013-03-28 Thread Bruce Cran
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Re: [WiX-users] system32 install issue

2013-04-07 Thread Bruce Cran
; the syswow64 folder contains 32-bit binaries. -- Bruce Cran -- Minimize network downtime and maximize team effectiveness. Reduce network management and security costs.Learn how to hire the most talented Cisco Certified

Re: [WiX-users] Can't install Wix 3.8 on Windows XP

2013-04-11 Thread Bruce Cran
On 11/04/2013 14:23, Sergey Yukhno wrote: Can't install Wix 3.8 on Windows XP. Wix38.exe is not valid Win32 application. That looks like a problem with the VS 2012 settings. I thought we'd fixed them all - what build are you trying to install? -- Bruce Cran

Re: [WiX-users] WiX vs NSIS

2013-04-16 Thread Bruce Cran
IntOp $R2 $R2 +1 StrCpy $R3 $R1 1 $R2 StrCmp $R3+8 StrCmp $R3 $R0 0 -3 StrCpy $R3 $R1 $R2 IntOp $R2 $R2 +1 StrCpy $R4 $R1$R2 StrCpy $R1 $R3$R4 IntOp $R2 $R2 -2 Goto -9 StrCpy $R0 $R1 Pop $R4 Pop $R3 Pop $R2 Pop $R1 -- Bruce Cran

Re: [WiX-users] WiX vs NSIS

2013-04-17 Thread Bruce Cran
://nsis.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/nsis/NSIS/trunk/ shows that work is going on, and the Unicode version at http://www.scratchpaper.com/ had a release last year. -- Bruce Cran -- Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable

Re: [WiX-users] REMOVE ME PLEASE

2013-04-24 Thread Bruce Cran
On 24/04/2013 10:01, Kagiso Seboni wrote: Please remove me from the Mailing List You can unsubscribe via the mailing list interface at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Bruce Cran -- Try New

[WiX-users] RelatedBundle, 'Detect' action and result

2013-04-26 Thread Bruce Cran
I'm trying to detect products that can't be installed at the same time as ours, and found RelatedBundle's 'Detect' action. However, I can't see a way of getting the result - is there a way to put the result in a variable? -- Bruce Cran

[WiX-users] Burn incorrectly logging 'MajorUpgrade' operation

2013-04-26 Thread Bruce Cran
: a.b.c.d, language: 0 operation: MajorUpgrade Shouldn't it be logging 'operation: None'? -- Bruce Cran -- Try New Relic Now We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring

Re: [WiX-users] File version always 1.0.0.0

2013-06-01 Thread Bruce Cran
= v6.2) DisableModify=yes Off-topic, but Windows Blue will be a free upgrade from Windows 8 and Server 2012 and will be v6.3 - so using such a restrictive Condition may be a bad idea. -- Bruce Cran -- Get 100

[WiX-users] Burn: installer doesn't restart after reboot when variables are specified on cmdline

2013-06-13 Thread Bruce Cran
to appear immediately and installation continues, so it seems it's just missing the RunOnce entry to start it after login. -- Bruce Cran -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net

[WiX-users] Installing a transport provider into the winsock catalog from an MSI file

2009-11-23 Thread Bruce Cran
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Re: [WiX-users] Setting msi's file version

2009-12-14 Thread Bruce Cran
? Not a big deal, just wondering... See the 1st answer at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/151250/how-do-i-embed-a-file-version-in-an-msi-file-with-visual-studio -- Bruce Cran -- Return on Information: Google

[WiX-users] Expanding an env var at install time when writing to the registry

2009-12-15 Thread Bruce Cran
:\Program Files (x86)\Product. Applications seem to differ between installing files under system32, CommonProgramFiles and under ProgramFiles and the only advice I've read is that files shouldn't be installed under system32 any more. -- Bruce Cran

Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.5 Help file

2009-12-17 Thread Bruce Cran
fail in the same way). CHM files only work if they're trusted: that normally means they need copied to a local disk first, and if downloaded from the Internet they need unblocked - in the General tab of the file's Properties, click 'Unblock'. -- Bruce Cran

Re: [WiX-users] Clarification on the MSI security

2009-12-22 Thread Bruce Cran
an Authenticode signature: if someone modifies the database after it has been signed then the signature will be marked as invalid and any user attempting to run/open it will be warned that it has been changed. -- Bruce Cran

Re: [WiX-users] 32/64-bit setups

2009-12-28 Thread Bruce Cran
://www.bluestop.org/viewvc/repos/sctpDrv/wix/ -- Bruce Cran -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market

Re: [WiX-users] Major Upgrades and Versions

2010-01-15 Thread Bruce Cran
...@version changes from 1.2.3 to 1.2.4 will the MSI produced behave as a major upgrade? You can set Product/@Id to * to automatically produce a new Id. -- Bruce Cran -- Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference

[WiX-users] Avoiding hard-coding the path to the WiX SDK when using the WDK

2010-01-15 Thread Bruce Cran
developers are going to have to change for their machines? -- Bruce Cran -- Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference

[WiX-users] Problems with DIFxAPP and major upgrade

2010-01-15 Thread Bruce Cran
://www.bluestop.org/SctpDrv/tmp/msi_log_20100115.txt - the source file containing the components is at http://www.bluestop.org/viewvc/repos/sctpDrv/wix/module-common.wxs?revision=44view=markup . -- Bruce Cran

Re: [WiX-users] Avoiding hard-coding the path to the WiX SDK when using the WDK

2010-01-16 Thread Bruce Cran
a custom installation too. -- Bruce Cran -Original Message- From: Bruce Cran [mailto:br...@cran.org.uk] Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 5:06 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Avoiding hard-coding the path to the WiX SDK when using the WDK I'm using

Re: [WiX-users] Avoiding hard-coding the path to the WiX SDK when using the WDK

2010-01-16 Thread Bruce Cran
and which launches the build so that it copies all the headers, libraries and tlb files from 'Program Files' to 'inc' and 'lib' directories under my project first. -- Bruce Cran -- Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference

Re: [WiX-users] Testing installers

2010-01-30 Thread Bruce Cran
the installation of Windows, take snapshots and replay failures for debugging, and from watching the demos at http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/sikuli/ it seems Sikuli is flexible enough to automate the button clicking involved in installing an application through MSI. -- Bruce Cran

Re: [WiX-users] Windows Installer XML toolset version 3.0.4805

2010-02-17 Thread Bruce Cran
On Wednesday 17 February 2010 08:01:35 iPetr wrote: Hello! I need the Windows Installer XML toolset version 3.0.4805. Can any body provide me this version of WiX? You should be able to get the specific version from the repository and build it yourself. -- Bruce Cran

[WiX-users] Unresolved symbols from _filevers...@12 in WiX 3.5.1710.0

2010-05-12 Thread Bruce Cran
referenced in function _filevers...@12 4c:\users\bruce\desktop\sctpdrv\wix\objfre_wxp_x86\i386\setup.dll : error LNK1120: 3 unresolved externals Do I need to link in another library, or has something else changed recently? -- Bruce Cran

Re: [WiX-users] Unresolved symbols from _filevers...@12 in WiX 3.5.1710.0

2010-05-12 Thread Bruce Cran
On 13/05/2010 06:11, Bruce Cran wrote: I upgraded WiX from a version from a couple of months ago to 3.5.1710.0 and started getting the following linker errors: Sorry, I saw the answer just seconds after posting: I needed to add version.lib. -- Bruce Cran

[WiX-users] Stopping/deleting a DIFxApp driver when uninstalling

2010-06-02 Thread Bruce Cran
to be removed as soon as the uninstallation had finished. I'm using WiX 3.5.1728.0. Is this a limitation of DIFxApp, or am I missing something in my WiX sources? -- Bruce Cran

Re: [WiX-users] Stopping/deleting a DIFxApp driver when uninstalling

2010-06-03 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 08:17:32 -0400 Bob Arnson b...@joyofsetup.com wrote: 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

Re: [WiX-users] createAndRemoveOnUninstall for registry VALUE?

2010-06-04 Thread Bruce Cran
InstalledComponent1. The registry values are automatically created during installation and removed during uninstallation as standard. -- Bruce Cran -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day

[WiX-users] ProgramFilesFolder and ProgramFiles64Folder, GUIDs and merge modules

2010-06-05 Thread Bruce Cran
there are no dependencies between the directories it shouldn't matter which gets installed first, but I'd like to get rid of the warning if possible. -- Bruce Cran -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's

Re: [WiX-users] UAC - random name

2011-02-16 Thread Bruce Cran
the random number with the name of the MSI file or ProductCode. How do I do that? Maybe you could point me to the right area in the documentation. You can set it with the /d flag if you use signtool to sign the MSI. -- Bruce Cran

[WiX-users] Query about use of UAC shield on Install button

2011-03-24 Thread Bruce Cran
, or if they instead mean immediate in terms of workflow, not time - i.e. users aren't allowed to interact with the UI between clicking the button and getting the elevation prompt, though the UI can update? -- Bruce Cran -- Enable

Re: [WiX-users] Query about use of UAC shield on Install button

2011-03-24 Thread Bruce Cran
has the shield icon: I'm wondering if it should use the shield icon on the button at all if the elevation request doesn't happen straight away. I'm tending towards yes, since it's a sign that the action that will occur will need to run as Administrator. -- Bruce Cran

Re: [WiX-users] Query about use of UAC shield on Install button

2011-03-24 Thread Bruce Cran
property set. -- Bruce Cran -- Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to meet the growing manageability and security demands of your customers. Businesses are taking advantage of Intel(R) vPro (TM

Re: [WiX-users] Query about use of UAC shield on Install button

2011-03-24 Thread Bruce Cran
to the timing of the UAC prompt. Since Microsoft developers work on WiX I guess it's not seen as a major fault if an application doesn't elevate immediately after clicking a button with a shield icon. -- Bruce Cran -- Enable

Re: [WiX-users] Urgent Please help: Could not open key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\MyAppAssembly....

2011-03-24 Thread Bruce Cran
SP3 box. Please suggest any solution to this problem. You should get a log by running msiexec /l*vx msilog.txt /i name of msi file . That'll tell you what the installer is doing at each step. -- Bruce Cran -- Enable

Re: [WiX-users] Generate SSL certificate during install time

2011-04-20 Thread Bruce Cran
instead? -- Bruce Cran -- Benefiting from Server Virtualization: Beyond Initial Workload Consolidation -- Increasing the use of server virtualization is a top priority.Virtualization can reduce costs, simplify management

Re: [WiX-users] Why are we using a mailing list vs forum?

2011-05-18 Thread Bruce Cran
://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.windows.devel.wix.user/55266 ? -- Bruce Cran -- What Every C/C++ and Fortran developer Should Know! Read this article and learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help

Re: [WiX-users] size of installation in Add\Remove programs applet

2011-05-24 Thread Bruce Cran
to install. How can i set ARPSIZE according to real total size of files, user selected to install? Are there some other solutions of this problem? I don't know if it helps, but http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/gg558108.aspx explains how the size is estimated. -- Bruce Cran

Re: [WiX-users] Custom dialogs in wix 3.5?

2011-06-15 Thread Bruce Cran
/list/changesets?branch=wix35 . By the way I think Microsoft recommends a desktop icon not be created by default. -- Bruce Cran -- EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool

Re: [WiX-users] Burn: Community package definitions

2011-06-28 Thread Bruce Cran
it should be necessary. Someone figures it out once and that's it, everyone benefits. There are some good answers on stackoverflow.com. For example http://stackoverflow.com/questions/471424/wix-tricks-and-tips . I think you can also make wiki entries there. -- Bruce Cran

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstalling driver package with DPInst

2011-07-04 Thread Bruce Cran
recommends not uninstalling the driver when a user runs the uninstallation entry. -- Bruce Cran -- All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application

[WiX-users] Burn: bootstrap a single MSI, not showing BA UI at all

2011-10-24 Thread Bruce Cran
my own? -- Bruce Cran -- The demand for IT networking professionals continues to grow, and the demand for specialized networking skills is growing even more rapidly. Take a complimentary Learning@Cisco Self-Assessment

[WiX-users] BA: Shutdown() or Quit()?

2011-10-25 Thread Bruce Cran
The documentation for Burn says that a BA should call Shutdown() when it's finished. However, there doesn't seem to be such a method, while Quit() does exist. Has this been renamed at some point and the documentation is lagging behind? -- Bruce Cran

Re: [WiX-users] Burn UI

2011-10-25 Thread Bruce Cran
BA to do this. See the thread Burn: bootstrap a single MSI, not showing BA UI at all for Rob's answer :) -- Bruce Cran -- The demand for IT networking professionals continues to grow, and the demand for specialized

Re: [WiX-users] Burn UI

2011-10-25 Thread Bruce Cran
- the UI that developers get via Burn is much nicer (without the RSS feed, a different layout etc.), if incomplete in places. For example there's no explanation that a reboot is required at the end, just Reboot and Close buttons. -- Bruce Cran

Re: [WiX-users] WiX Weekly update is missing / message from sourceforge

2011-10-26 Thread Bruce Cran
:) I've also started creating a mirror at http://bluestop.org/wix - currently just a few files from codeplex exist at http://bluestop.org/wix/releases/ . I think I have plenty of bandwidth to support it. -- Bruce Cran

Re: [WiX-users] WiX Weekly update is missing / message from sourceforge

2011-10-26 Thread Bruce Cran
already do that for hosting other open source software. -- Bruce Cran -- The demand for IT networking professionals continues to grow, and the demand for specialized networking skills is growing even more rapidly. Take

[WiX-users] Configuring the version information in the bootstrapper?

2011-10-27 Thread Bruce Cran
to still be used to customize the executable properties. -- Bruce Cran -- The demand for IT networking professionals continues to grow, and the demand for specialized networking skills is growing even more rapidly. Take

Re: [WiX-users] Burn UI

2011-10-27 Thread Bruce Cran
use multi-page wizard applications on OS X for things like installing XCode. -- Bruce Cran -- The demand for IT networking professionals continues to grow, and the demand for specialized networking skills is growing even

[WiX-users] DIFx: MsiProcessDrivers, WdfPostDeviceRemove and scheduling

2011-11-03 Thread Bruce Cran
to be loaded. Since that's already been deleted, my custom action is failing. Should I be scheduling MsiProcessDrivers earlier in the InstallExecute sequence, or do people just avoid DIFx and use DPinst etc. for drivers? -- Bruce Cran

Re: [WiX-users] DIFx: MsiProcessDrivers, WdfPostDeviceRemove and scheduling

2011-11-03 Thread Bruce Cran
On 03/11/2011 11:54, Bruce Cran wrote: I'm writing an installer for a WDF driver, and am finding that MsiProcessDrivers is being run after files have been removed. The problem is that according to the documentation, I need to run WdfPostDeviceRemove() after the service has been deleted - which

[WiX-users] WiX 3.6 and System.ArgumentException (illegal characters in path) during build

2011-11-08 Thread Bruce Cran
, String file) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Tools.Light.Run(String[] args) Has anyone else come across this and know what the problem might be? -- Bruce Cran -- RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov

Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.6 and System.ArgumentException (illegal characters in path) during build

2011-11-09 Thread Bruce Cran
On 08/11/2011 19:03, Bruce Cran wrote: light.exe : error LGHT0001: Illegal characters in path. [C:\cygwin\home\mymsi.wixproj] It turned out that I had a stray in one of my variables which was being used in a path. -- Bruce Cran

Re: [WiX-users] Failed to install WiX v3.6

2011-11-16 Thread Bruce Cran
by default) in %TEMP% . -- Bruce Cran -- RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users

[WiX-users] Error LGHT1055 when linking both VC100 CRT and MFC merge modules

2011-11-22 Thread Bruce Cran
Language=0 SourceFile=C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Merge Modules\Microsoft_VC100_MFCLOC_x64.msm/ Merge Id=VC100_ATL_x64 DiskId=1 Language=0 SourceFile=C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Merge Modules\Microsoft_VC100_ATL_x64.msm/ Does anyone know how to fix this? -- Bruce Cran

Re: [WiX-users] PhysicalMemory issue

2011-11-23 Thread Bruce Cran
. If Windows can only see/use 3 GB since you're running 32-bit Windows and you've installed 8 GB then you really don't want PhysicalMemory to report 8 because nothing can use anything above 3. -- Bruce Cran -- All

Re: [WiX-users] Error LGHT1055 when linking both VC100 CRT and MFC merge modules

2011-11-23 Thread Bruce Cran
On 22/11/2011 18:19, Bruce Cran wrote: I'm trying to add both the Visual C++ 2010 CRT and MFC merge modules to my project, but when I link I get: 2Product.wxs(23): error LGHT1055: The AdminUISequence table contains an action 'CA_WindowsFolder_amd64_VC

Re: [WiX-users] How to disable CA if feature not installed

2011-11-24 Thread Bruce Cran
On 24/11/2011 02:45, Michael Janulaitis wrote: What does '=3' mean? See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa368012%28v=vs.85%29.aspx -- Bruce Cran -- All the data continuously generated in your

Re: [WiX-users] weekly updates

2011-11-30 Thread Bruce Cran
exceeded on Sourceforge and so the weekly builds had to be removed. -- Bruce Cran -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance

Re: [WiX-users] weekly updates

2011-11-30 Thread Bruce Cran
- just do a weekly hg pull -u, build the code and upload the files. -- Bruce Cran -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance

[WiX-users] Build 3.5.1902.0 MSI broken on Windows 7 amd64?

2010-07-03 Thread Bruce Cran
to http://www.cran.org.uk/~brucec/wix35_3.5.1902.0_log.txt.txt -- Bruce Cran -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu

Re: [WiX-users] Error when tryin to install the latest drop of the wix toolset

2010-07-04 Thread Bruce Cran
: Yep, the new patch dialogs are busted on WixUI_Advanced. For a temporary workaround, install from the command line with /qb. -- Bruce Cran -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO

Re: [WiX-users] COM registration of a DLL

2010-07-10 Thread Bruce Cran
://stackoverflow.com/questions/364187/how-do-you-register-a-win32-com-dll-in-wix3 for details of why you shouldn't be using it. -- Bruce Cran -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO

Re: [WiX-users] WiX problem on Vista

2010-08-02 Thread Bruce Cran
- http://www.virtualbox.org/) or VMWare Workstation. They allow you to take snapshots and roll back to a clean state within seconds. -- Bruce Cran -- The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug

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