Using Wix 3.5, I have a Custom Action that requires an interop .NET assembly.
When I run the installer, it complains that the assembly is not found.
I've searched for info on how to package the DLL file in the MSI, but only
instruction seems to be for Visual Studio, and use of CopyLocal flag.
Sorry, due to legal reasons, I cannot really post my Patch wxs file. But it's
basically the same file used in both patches. The only difference between
patches are:
1. In PatchCreation element, the Id attribute is different, auto-generated
GUID is used each time we patch.
2. In Family
*Bump.* Anyone?
-Original Message-
From: George Fleming [mailto:gef...@microsoft.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2014 12:35 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Applying two patches causes version number confusion
Our patches are cumulative, and uninstall
Our patches are cumulative, and uninstall is disabled. When I apply one patch,
and then go to //Control Panel/Programs/Program and Features/Installed Updates,
it looks something like this, and it's correct:
My Program
Hotfix for my program MyPrograma.b.c.d
Using Wix3.5, I modified a CustomTable to add a new column, and using this
new column as the primary key. This custom table is used by a custom action
during patching.
In doing so, I get a msimsp error 0xc00e5173, and a message Cannot Generate a
Primary Transform.
Searching the Internet, I
that the existing installed product that's being
patched did in fact install that feature. The verbose log should say something
about the feature state as absent, present etc.
---
Phil Wilson
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 4:21 PM, George Fleming gef...@microsoft.com wrote:
Yes, AAA
explain what Advertise means, and why my patch
fails sometimes because it's in that state?
Thanks,
George
-Original Message-
From: George Fleming [mailto:gef...@microsoft.com]
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2014 2:13 PM
To: General discussion about the WiX toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] What does
:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368012(v=vs.85).aspx
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Phil Wilson
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 10:14 AM, George Fleming gef...@microsoft.com wrote:
Does anyone know the meaning of '!' and '' in front of AAA below?
Custom Action='_xxx' After='_yyy'
![CDATA[!AAA=3
2:35 PM
To: General discussion about the WiX toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] What does '' and '!' inside CDATA[] do?
Is AAA a feature?
-Original Message-
From: George Fleming [mailto:gef...@microsoft.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 2:33 PM
To: General discussion about the WiX toolset
Does anyone know the meaning of '!' and '' in front of AAA below?
Custom Action='_xxx' After='_yyy'
![CDATA[!AAA=3 And PATCH And BBB=0]]
/Custom
Custom Action='_zzz' After='_xxx'
![CDATA[AAA=3 And CCC1 And DDD=1]]
/Custom
Thanks,
George
Message-
From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 4, 2013 1:13 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT and patches
Ship the patch in a Bundle.
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 10:04 AM, George Fleming gef
I have two applications, a MSI and a bootstrapper/UI that invokes the MSI. To
prevent double ARP entries, we set the ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT property in the
bootstrapper bundle.
This works fine, except when we apply a patch. Because the MSI is blocked, so
is its patch. We cannot see it, and
I recently made some changes to installer code, and now it doesn't install
properly. Investigations show that if I install without /qn option at command
line, everything works as expected. If installed with /qn option (which also
requires installer to run as admin), the variable INSTALLFOLDER
to set this.
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-Original Message-
From: George Fleming [mailto:gef...@microsoft.com]
Sent: Thursday
I would like do something like this:
CustomActions.cs:
[CustomAction]
Public static ActionResults MyCustomAction(Session session)
{
...
NativeMethod.XYZ xyz = new NativeMethod.XYZ();
}
NativeMethods.cs:
internal static class NativeMethods
{
application is just a repair with all relevant patch transformations
applied to the msi.
Check if your MSI repairs correctly.
Do you persist SERVICEACCOUNT and SERVICEPASSWORD?
-Original Message-
From: George Fleming [mailto:gef...@microsoft.com]
Sent: 13 June 2013 22:54
To: WiX-users
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From: George Fleming [mailto:gef...@microsoft.com]
Sent: 14 June 2013 17:25
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Patching error
What do you mean by repairs correctly? The patch log shows errors, so I
assumed that means it didn't repair correctly?
I
Message-
From: George Fleming [mailto:gef...@microsoft.com]
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2013 1:17 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Patching error
I installed the patch using command line...
Msiexec /p My.msi /L*v log SERVICEACCOUNT=xxx
I following online instructions and created a patch (msp file). There were no
errors during the creation. When I tried to verify the patch by applying it, I
got following error:
MSI (s) (C0:F0) [13:36:29:463]: Executing op: ActionStart(Name=CreateUser,,)
MSI (s) (C0:F0) [13:36:29:463]:
Default SQL Database IP port is 1443. Is it possible to change this value?
I don't see any port attribute in the SqlDatabase element of Wix.
George
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Wix already has a separate instance attribute. So for Server attribute,
specify server,port?
-Original Message-
From: John Cooper [mailto:jocoo...@jackhenry.com]
Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 1:33 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Is it
I have a deferred custom action that has Impersonate set to yes to execute
some SQL commands. Conditionally, it also needs to start a Windows Service.
Windows service fails to start because impersonate of yes lacks sufficient
privileges. Is there any way to change the impersonation within the
Running Wix 3.6, I had to follow one of many examples on the net on adding
PackageGroup to my code to check/install .NET 4.0, just to get my Setup to
build.
Here's the thing...I know Setup requires .NET to run, but I DONT want to check
for .NET, and I don't want to package the .NET installer.
I have a msi that installs fine. But if msi is invoked by a Wix setup, I get:
Exception thrown by custom action:
System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the
target of an invocation. --- System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load
file or assembly
I have Wix code that looks something like this to start a Windows service using
a virtual service account:
File Id= Name=$(var.RunbookService.exe) KeyPath=yes
Source= /
ServiceInstall Id='***'
Name='***'
DisplayName=''
-Original Message-
From: George Fleming [mailto:gef...@microsoft.com]
Sent: April-03-13 5:41 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Windows Service always starts (even when I don't want it
to)
I have Wix code that looks something like this to start a Windows service
If I have a Directory tree:
Directory Id=TARGETDIR Name=SourceDir
Directory Id=$(var.ProgFilesId)
Directory Id=AAA Name=AAA
Directory Id=bbb Name=bbb
Directory Id=ccc Name=ccc /
/Directory
/Directory
/Directory
/Directory
And a
Running Wix 3.7, I have a feature with several ComponentGroupRef's:
Feature Id=, Title=, Level=1
ComponentGroupRef Id=one /
ComponentGroupRef Id=two /
...
ComponentGroupRef Id=xxx /
ComponentGroupRef Id=yyy /
/Feature
I need to yyy to execute after xxx because of a dependency (it needs
Running Wix 3.6.1922, I have a Setup.exe that's a custom managed boostrapper
application. When I execute, I see two or three instances of Setup.exe in the
Task Manager. Problem is, when the Setup.exe terminates (normally or
abnormally), it almost always leaves an instance of Setup.exe still
With Wix 3.6.1922, I manually add the WixToolPath, WixTargetsPath and
WixTaskPath to my .wixproj file. If I use absolute paths, there's never any
problem. However, due to build servers not having Wix installed, I must use
relative paths, and that's where I run into all kinds of problems,
:
BootstrapperApplicationRef Id='ManagedBootstrapperApplicationHost'
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 8:58 PM, George Fleming gef...@microsoft.comwrote:
I have an Burn app that works with Wix 3.6. The Bundle.wxs looks
something like this:
BootstrapperApplication Id='ManagedBootstrapperApplicationHost'
SourceFile
I have a solution with a Wix Boostrapper project, and several other c++/c#
projects. The Boostrapper project, the project that creates the EXE file,
cannot be set to be the startup project. Although the solution compiles and a
setup.exe gets build, nothing happens when I run the setup.exe.
doesn't do anything.
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 9:58 AM, George Fleming gef...@microsoft.comwrote:
I have a solution with a Wix Boostrapper project, and several other
c++/c# projects. The Boostrapper project, the project that creates the EXE
file,
cannot be set to be the startup project
][2013-03-13T11:54:57]e000: Error 0x80131040: Failed to create UX.
[127C:12C0][2013-03-13T11:54:57]e000: Error 0x80131040: Failed to load UX.
[127C:12C0][2013-03-13T11:54:57]e000: Error 0x80131040: Failed while running
Any pointer on what's wrong?
-Original Message-
From: George Fleming
I have an Burn app that works with Wix 3.6. The Bundle.wxs looks something
like this:
BootstrapperApplication Id='ManagedBootstrapperApplicationHost'
SourceFile=$(var.WixToolsDir)\Burn\mbahost.dll
Payload SourceFile=$(var.WixToolsDir)\SDK\BootstrapperCore.dll
?
-Original Message-
From: George Fleming [mailto:gef...@microsoft.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 11:28 AM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Can Wix Boostrapper project be a VS Startup
project?
So any tip on how I can debug my
I have a global property that's modifiable by the user via command line
parameter. How do I convert it to uppercase before using it in a Condition
statement?
For example, if global is CREATETABLE, I could do something like this:
Condition![CDATA[(CREATETABLE=YES) OR (CREATETABLE=yes) OR
I have been using VS2010SP1 with Wix3.7, and everything works. Recently, I
installed VS2012. When I tried to open the installer solution using VS2012, I
got a warning that .wixproj is not supported, and the wix project does not
load. I re-installed Wix3.7, but that did not help. I also
.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade to Visual Studio 2012
I'm guessing a typo and the first one should be VS2008SP1 not 2012, if so the
when you go from 2008 to 2012 the easiest option is to reinstall WiX as it
needs to register with Visual Studio.
Neil
-Original Message-
From: George
From Wix documentation page,
http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/daily_builds.htm, it says to modify
.wixproj file and add following lines:
WixToolPath$(SourceCodeControlRoot)\wix\3.6.3220.0\/WixToolPath
WixTargetsPath$(WixToolPath)Wix.targets/WixTargetsPath
I need to create a database, and let user choose Windows Auth or SQL Auth. It
looks like you could do it with two different components, and two separate
conditions, but that doesn't seem very elegant and creates duplicate code.
I see old threads such as this that seem like a better solution,
We currently have an IIS Web Service that is deployed using Web Deploy (with
binaries in a zip file, and other xml files). I am trying to figure out how
best to change this to an MSI using Wix.
So far, I haven't found any good example on how best to do this. Is there some
good way I can
Using Wix 3.7, I want to create a database if the CREATEDATABASE parameter is
set on command-line, but then always execute the create login SQL command
(which may fail because the login already exists). So my Wix code looks
something like this:
ComponentGroup Id=SqlComponents
, 2013 12:24 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Two references to same SqlDatabase
SqlString/@SqlDb. When nested under SqlDatabase that attribute is set to parent
element.
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:05 PM, George Fleming gef
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