[WiX-users] Setting installer Property value from a SQL DB field?
I need to set a property in our installer by reading it from a SQL database table. I would like to do it during launch condition evaluation before the file copy. Has anyone done this in WIX? Thanks in advance, chandra - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] FW: custom actions
Add a condition checking NOT Installed in InstallExecuteSequence/InstallUISequence. Ex: Custom Action=SetARPINSTALLLOCATION After=CostFinalize ![CDATA[NOT Installed]] /Custom From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Saranath Aravamudhan Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 2:38 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] FW: custom actions Thanks Saranath _ From: Saranath Aravamudhan Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 2:36 PM To: Windows Installer XML Subject: custom actions Hi- Can you please let me know how to restrict custom actions to run only during the installation and not during the un-install? Thanks Saranath - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] How to put '\' in the customaction as it is ?
Thanks for the suggestion, but doing that caused the failure of schtasks With 1631 error. Thanks for the quot; suggestion. But fixing the backslash in square brackets fixed the issue. CustomAction Id=CleanupTaskInstall Directory=CompDir Return=asyncNoWait ExeCommand=' schtasks.exe /Create /RU [SQLUSERNAME] /rp [SQLPASSWORD] /SC [CLEANUPFREQUENCY] /ST 01:00:00 /TN DBCLEANUPTASK [\\]quot;[#CLEANUP_EXE][\\]quot;' - chandra -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 3:32 AM To: Chandra Rentachintala Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: How to put '\' in the customaction as it is ? Hi You can use quot; as below. ExeCommand=' schtasks.exe /Create /RU [SQLUSERNAME] /rp [SQLPASSWORD] /SC [CLEANUPFREQUENCY] /ST 01:00:00 /TN DBCLEANUPTASK /TR quot;[#CLEANUP_EXE]quot;' / Thanks Bibhuti Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:18:18 -0700 From: Chandra Rentachintala [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WiX-users] How to put '\' in the customaction as it is ? To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I am adding a scheduled task thru the installer like this. CustomAction Id=CleanupTaskInstall Directory=CompDir Return=asyncNoWait ExeCommand=' schtasks.exe /Create /RU [SQLUSERNAME] /rp [SQLPASSWORD] /SC [CLEANUPFREQUENCY] /ST 01:00:00 /TN DBCLEANUPTASK /TR [#CLEANUP_EXE] ' / and it works fine in adding scheduled task, but not starting due to schtasks error. I found out from the support site http://support.microsoft.com/?KBID=823093 that I need to put \ around the executable path to make it work. I verified this using command line and it works fine. I want to put this in WIX code, but ICE is complaining that it is not the correct format. Is there a way I can escape this sequence and achieve \[#CLEANUP_EXE]\ from [#CLEANUP_EXE]. Thanks in advance, chandra - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] MessageQueue PubCA
From Fredrik Grohn [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail You need to include the PubCA compiler extension on the command line. Here is an example: candle queues.wxs -ext Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.PcaCompiler,pcaext When you link it you also need to include pubca.wixlib: light queues.wixobj %WIX_HOME%\ca\pubca.wixlib -out queues.msi -ext Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.PcaCompiler,pcaext (%WIX_HOME% is the directory where you have WiX installed on you system.) - Chandra -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Derek Cicerone Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 12:33 PM To: 'david adams'; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] MessageQueue PubCA You need to pass in the pubca extension. For v2, it should look something like this: -ext assembly, class (or maybe its class, assembly - I don't remember - it was always too verbose for me :) (I'm not sure of the specifics for pubca unfortunately - perhaps a fellow dev can help out here). Derek -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of david adams Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 12:23 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] MessageQueue PubCA Derek: d:\program files\windows installer xml\bin\candle d:\development\vs2003\services\rti\risktechinterfaces\risktech interfaces wix install\crawford.risktech.interfaces.wxs d:\development\vs2003\services\rti\risktechinterfaces\risktech interfaces wix install\crawford.risktech.class.library.wxs d:\development\vs2003\services\rti\risktechinterfaces\risktech interfaces wix install\cwa.common.wxs d:\development\vs2003\services\rti\risktechinterfaces\risktech interfaces wix install\cwd.anonymousauth.wxs d:\development\vs2003\services\rti\risktechinterfaces\risktech interfaces wix install\cdx.impersonations.wxs d:\development\vs2003\services\rti\risktechinterfaces\risktech interfaces wix install\cmq.common.wxs I am getting the error in the last *.wxs file that was created (cmq.common.wxs). David Adams MSN MessengerID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Derek Cicerone [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'david adams' [EMAIL PROTECTED],wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] MessageQueue PubCA Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 08:29:09 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from winisp-fe1.winisp.net ([192.197.157.82]) by bay0-mc4-f15.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.2444); Fri, 4 Aug 2006 08:29:12 -0700 Received: from derekclap ([67.168.109.53]) by winisp-fe1.winisp.net over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Fri, 4 Aug 2006 08:29:11 -0700 X-Message-Info: LsUYwwHHNt3660MmjhEvYg2f34OAemlKtU9j2Z7TuGo= X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: Aca31W62MXvabLltSXSP4lp+t2VLjQABRJBw X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2922 Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Aug 2006 15:29:12.0012 (UTC) FILETIME=[BC8368C0:01C6B7DA] What does your command line look like for candle? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of david adams Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 7:51 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] MessageQueue PubCA I am getting the following [CANDLE] error [CNDL0005] from my WiX Fragment file that configures as Microsoft Message Queue. I get the same error whether I use the MessageQueue element (with / without an in-element xmlns attribute definition) or pca:MessageQueue element (with / without an xmlns:pca attribute definition in the outer WiX element. I notice that the element is not available via Intellisense in VS.NET (using Votive). I am running WiX / Votive v.2.0.4421.0 VS.NET v1.1 / v2.0. Error Message: d:\MYFOLDER\CMQ.Common.wxs(10) : error CNDL0005 : The Component element contains an unexpected child element 'MessageQueue'. ... Fragment User Id=ntwkService Domain=NT AUTHORITY Name=NETWORK SERVICE / DirectoryRef Id=TARGETDIR Component Id=CreateMessageQueue Guid=AC1B0EAE-905D-4532-99D1-400FBA70799D MessageQueue xmlns=http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2005/02/pubca; Id=mQ Label=RiskTech Interfaces Message Queue PathName=.\Private$\rtiQ MessageQueuePermission Id=permissionNetworkService User=ntwkService PeekMessage=yes ReceiveMessage=yes WriteMessage=yes / /MessageQueue /Component /DirectoryRef Feature Id=MsgQueue Level=1 Title=Message Queue Description=Creates Private Message Queue ComponentRef Id=CreateMessageQueue / /Feature /Fragment ... David Adams MSN MessengerID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- -- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVD EV
Re: [WiX-users] password is incorrectly set during ServiceInstall
It turned out to be Local Security Policy issue than of password. Adding the service user to the Log on as a service rights under Administrative Tools - Local Security policy /Secutity Settings/Local Policies/User Rights Management in XP and similar one in 2003 fixed the issue. Apparently setting the logon as user/password thru the services.msc service properties is setting this rights by default, so it was working thru that path. Is it possible to add this as part of the ServiceInstall code in Wix? Thanks to chris leon from wix list for finding this solution. - chandra -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chandra Rentachintala Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 10:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] password is incorrectly set during ServiceInstall Yes. It has a $ at the beginning of password. How to overcome this problem as we can't predict what kind of passwords people use at customer locations?. Is there a way to tell wix/msi to take Password string as it is? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phil Wilson Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 7:14 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] password is incorrectly set during ServiceInstall Is there a $ at the start of the password? It occurs to me that if Windows Installer is seeing a $ at the start of the password in square brackets it could be attempting to do substitution for a component path (that's what $ at the start of a name means). Phil Wilson -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phil Wilson Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 7:48 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] password is incorrectly set during ServiceInstall A dependency issue seems most likely in the circumstances. What happens if you install the service but don't attempt to start it during the installation? Does it start manually from the services applet? If it does you know that the account is fine but something like a dependent Dll or assembly is missing when the service is started. If it doesn'r start at reboot time, this can be a dependency on another service that you haven't configured. As an aside, you should look at MsiHiddenProperties as a way of not exposing passwords in a log! Phil Wilson From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Mensching Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 6:00 PM To: 'Chandra Rentachintala'; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] password is incorrectly set during ServiceInstall The error message from StartServices is pretty dismal. The same message is presented for pretty much all reasons. More like than not, you service won't start because some dependency is missing or something else. You should be able to try diagnosing the service start while the dialog box is up... From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chandra Rentachintala Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 1:41 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] password is incorrectly set during ServiceInstall I have my service installed like this and it installs the service correctly, but service is unable to start due to login failure. ServiceInstall Id='MyServiceInstall' DisplayName='myservice' Name='myservice' ErrorControl='ignore' Type='ownProcess' Vital=no Start=auto Account='[SERVICEDOMAIN]\[SERVICEUSERNAME]' Password='[SERVICEPASSWORD]' / I traced the logs and the password is correct there. If I set the same password in services.msc, it works fine. ServicePassword has couple of '$' chars in it, if that is of any significance. Anyone hit this issue and found the solution, let me know. Thanks Chandra - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists
Re: [WiX-users] password is incorrectly set during ServiceInstall
Yes. It has a $ at the beginning of password. How to overcome this problem as we can't predict what kind of passwords people use at customer locations?. Is there a way to tell wix/msi to take Password string as it is? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phil Wilson Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 7:14 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] password is incorrectly set during ServiceInstall Is there a $ at the start of the password? It occurs to me that if Windows Installer is seeing a $ at the start of the password in square brackets it could be attempting to do substitution for a component path (that's what $ at the start of a name means). Phil Wilson -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phil Wilson Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 7:48 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] password is incorrectly set during ServiceInstall A dependency issue seems most likely in the circumstances. What happens if you install the service but don't attempt to start it during the installation? Does it start manually from the services applet? If it does you know that the account is fine but something like a dependent Dll or assembly is missing when the service is started. If it doesn'r start at reboot time, this can be a dependency on another service that you haven't configured. As an aside, you should look at MsiHiddenProperties as a way of not exposing passwords in a log! Phil Wilson From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Mensching Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 6:00 PM To: 'Chandra Rentachintala'; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] password is incorrectly set during ServiceInstall The error message from StartServices is pretty dismal. The same message is presented for pretty much all reasons. More like than not, you service won't start because some dependency is missing or something else. You should be able to try diagnosing the service start while the dialog box is up... From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chandra Rentachintala Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 1:41 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] password is incorrectly set during ServiceInstall I have my service installed like this and it installs the service correctly, but service is unable to start due to login failure. ServiceInstall Id='MyServiceInstall' DisplayName='myservice' Name='myservice' ErrorControl='ignore' Type='ownProcess' Vital=no Start=auto Account='[SERVICEDOMAIN]\[SERVICEUSERNAME]' Password='[SERVICEPASSWORD]' / I traced the logs and the password is correct there. If I set the same password in services.msc, it works fine. ServicePassword has couple of '$' chars in it, if that is of any significance. Anyone hit this issue and found the solution, let me know. Thanks Chandra - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
[WiX-users] conditional disabling ConfigureIIS custom action?
I am using sca.wixlib (wix 2.0) and it comes with ConfigureIIS action in InstallExecuteSequence. Our installation has multiple features and only few of them needs IIS pre-requisite check. Currently when we run the installer with features which dont need IIS, this custom action is still getting executed and throwing an ignorable dialog with message Cannot connect to Internet Information Server. I tried adding conditional custom action explicitly in the installexecutesequence in my code for ConfigureIIS but it is not showing up in the msi when I open it in Orca. If anyone already done conditionally disabling wix sca.wixlib custom actions, let me know. Thanks in advance, chandra Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
[WiX-users] Launching another msi based on selection of feature
In my installer there are 4 features to customize for a given machine and only one of it depends on a vendor package. I want to run the vendor product msi or setup.exe when that package is not present on the machine and corresponding feature is selected, during my setup sequence. Is there a way to do that with WiX or any available non-commercial bootstrappers? I found in web, a managed custom action sample which uses System.Configuration.Install.Installer class from .Net to trigger Custom action methods at install/commit/rollback/uninstall operations, but not able to launch another msi from there. Did anyone ran into this scenario and got it working? Thanks in advance. - Chandra ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
