Re: [WiX-users] Patching a product without ProductVersion property

2015-06-28 Thread Tunney, Stephen
Patchwiz or Pure WiX style? From: Nir Bar [nir@panel-sw.com] Sent: June 28, 2015 6:34 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Patching a product without ProductVersion property We have a legacy product that was distributed without

Re: [WiX-users] Impossible to install Wix 3.8 or 3.9 !

2015-06-19 Thread Tunney, Stephen
That sounds like a bug. Log one please! -Original Message- From: Fabrice MAUPIN [mailto:fmau...@iback.fr] Sent: June-19-15 2:17 AM To: 'General discussion about the WiX toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Impossible to install Wix 3.8 or 3.9 ! Hi, I found the problem. It was just a

Re: [WiX-users] Patches no longer working for a specific RTM using WiX 3.7 + Pure WiX Patching

2015-06-10 Thread Tunney, Stephen
: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com] Sent: June-09-15 1:56 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Patches no longer working for a specific RTM using WiX 3.7 + Pure WiX Patching I've been digging a lot deeper into what is going on when installing

Re: [WiX-users] Patches no longer working for a specific RTM using WiX 3.7 + Pure WiX Patching

2015-06-10 Thread Tunney, Stephen
want to have a large number of WiX versions floating around as both WiX and our own products mature over time. Thanks, Stephen -Original Message- From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com] Sent: June-10-15 1:46 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re

Re: [WiX-users] Patches no longer working for a specific RTM using WiX 3.7 + Pure WiX Patching

2015-06-10 Thread Tunney, Stephen
. ___ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset | http://www.firegiant.com/ -Original Message- From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 6:37 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Patches no longer working

Re: [WiX-users] Download Msi or Exe with Bundle

2015-06-10 Thread Tunney, Stephen
Rob et. al. I have a question regarding upgrading WiX. We have several RTMs that have been produced using 3.7 and 3.9. Is it supported to move producing updated installers+patches to newer versions of WiX? My concern is that I don't want to have a large number of WiX versions floating

Re: [WiX-users] Patches no longer working for a specific RTM using WiX 3.7 + Pure WiX Patching

2015-06-09 Thread Tunney, Stephen
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Re: [WiX-users] Patches no longer working for a specific RTM using WiX 3.7 + Pure WiX Patching

2015-06-09 Thread Tunney, Stephen
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[WiX-users] Patches no longer working for a specific RTM using WiX 3.7 + Pure WiX Patching

2015-06-08 Thread Tunney, Stephen
Hello all, I have run across quite the puzzle last week. We have been generating patches for several RTM versions of our products since December or 2013 with Pure WiX patching and 3.7. Just recently (about a week ago) the patch scripts are generating MSPs for ONE of the versions that do not

Re: [WiX-users] Patches no longer working for a specific RTM using WiX 3.7 + Pure WiX Patching

2015-06-08 Thread Tunney, Stephen
: [1348] [1348] MSI (c) (44:AC) [19:40:49:510]: Machine policy value 'DisableUserInstalls' is 0 [1348] [1348] MSI (c) (44:AC) [19:40:49:510]: MsiApplyPatch is returning: 1642 [1348] What else would you guys like to see? -Original Message- From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun

Re: [WiX-users] Patches no longer working for a specific RTM using WiX 3.7 + Pure WiX Patching

2015-06-08 Thread Tunney, Stephen
in my PWP process? -Original Message- From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com] Sent: June-08-15 3:45 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Cc: Tuchlinsky, Dave Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Patches no longer working for a specific RTM using WiX 3.7 + Pure WiX

Re: [WiX-users] Patches no longer working for a specific RTM using WiX 3.7 + Pure WiX Patching

2015-06-08 Thread Tunney, Stephen
field{5E2919A9-F948-4919-A5B1-308BB807A179}/field /row I hope I'm going in the right direction. Maybe someone has some insights out there? :) -Original Message- From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com] Sent: June-08-15 3:48 PM

Re: [WiX-users] Generating unique and stable GUIDs in foreach loops

2015-05-27 Thread Tunney, Stephen
Hey Samer, Just reading over the WiX documentation for Component@GUID values here: http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/xsd/wix/component.html This value should be a guid that uniquely identifies this component's contents, language, platform, and version. If omitted, the default value

[WiX-users] PreprocessorExtensions and accessing them from one another

2015-05-27 Thread Tunney, Stephen
Hey everyone, I'm trying to write a new preprocessor extension and have it internally access the instance of another preprocessor extension already instantiated by the compiler. Can I do this or do I have to evaluate the function within my XML and have that value passed in as an argument into

Re: [WiX-users] PreprocessorExtensions and accessing them from one another

2015-05-27 Thread Tunney, Stephen
And more importantly, how would I write tests for these extensions? Can I invoke the core somehow via a unit test or do I need to write a little XML and test the output a-la blackbox testing? Stephen Tunney -Original Message- From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com

Re: [WiX-users] MSI Buttons become Unresponsive on Server 2012R2 and Windows Installer Service 5.0

2015-04-14 Thread Tunney, Stephen
Can you upload your fix snippet for inspection? -Original Message- From: John Cooper [mailto:jocoo...@jackhenry.com] Sent: April-14-15 4:06 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] MSI Buttons become Unresponsive on Server 2012R2 and Windows Installer

Re: [WiX-users] How to supersede a minor update in next patch.

2015-03-24 Thread Tunney, Stephen
If all have supercede set, then patch 1.0.3 would apply to BOTH 1.0.1 AND 1.0.2 as long as ProductCodes and UpgradeCodes match up. -Original Message- From: Nir Bar [mailto:nir@panel-sw.com] Sent: March-24-15 1:54 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to

Re: [WiX-users] Writing a C++ Custom Action Project

2015-03-13 Thread Tunney, Stephen
A general rule with C++ CAs that I follow: Put ALL of your local/stack variables above the WcaInitialize call. I run into weird behaviour (crashes, access violations, etc.) if I don't. This is true when running in VS2010 and VS2013 compilers. -Original Message- From: Sarvagya Pant

[WiX-users] WiX 3.9 R2 NuGet package

2015-03-04 Thread Tunney, Stephen
Hey everyone, Trying to use the NuGet package for our next product release that is upgrading us from 3.7 to 3.9 R2. I have the nuget package installing for the solution but this seems to have a chicken/egg problem. I don't have WiX installed on the machine. Therefore the wixproj projects

Re: [WiX-users] Including files to installer with bindpath -bestpractice?

2015-03-04 Thread Tunney, Stephen
that are included in the installer, although i'm not sure if pyro lists all errors. Maybe it stops after a while. Any help is highly appreciated! Best regards, Jani From: Tunney, Stephen stephen.tun...@nuance.com To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date

Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.9 R2 NuGet package

2015-03-04 Thread Tunney, Stephen
. That won't happen until 4.0 stabilizes. There are no plans for releasing 3.x by Nuget package. The nuget package in 4.x will not include the VS integration, you will still need to install WiX for that. On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Tunney, Stephen stephen.tun...@nuance.com wrote: Hey everyone

Re: [WiX-users] Including files to installer with bindpath - best practice?

2015-03-04 Thread Tunney, Stephen
What command line arguments do you have for your light command that generates your wixmsp? -Original Message- From: Jani C Oinonen [mailto:jani.c.oino...@consultant.husqvarnagroup.com] Sent: March-04-15 5:03 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Including files to

[WiX-users] 3.9 RC2 Installer Sitting at CA for a long time

2015-03-03 Thread Tunney, Stephen
:( Nothing else is running on the machine. Action 14:40:52: RollbackCleanup. Removing backup files I'm looking at SysInternals Process Explorer and nothing looks pegged: CPU is at 10% RAM is low disk I/O doesn't seem crazy either Log files are: WiX Toolset_v3.9.1208.0_20150303143601 WiX

Re: [WiX-users] 3.9 RC2 Installer Sitting at CA for a long time

2015-03-03 Thread Tunney, Stephen
log. :) On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 3:17 PM, Jeremiahf jeremi...@gmail.com wrote: What is your CA code? logs? On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 3:02 PM, Tunney, Stephen stephen.tun...@nuance.com wrote: :( Nothing else is running on the machine. Action 14:40:52: RollbackCleanup. Removing backup

Re: [WiX-users] 3.9 RC2 Installer Sitting at CA for a long time

2015-03-03 Thread Tunney, Stephen
...@gmail.com] Sent: March-03-15 5:22 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] 3.9 RC2 Installer Sitting at CA for a long time The only two processes On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Tunney, Stephen stephen.tun...@nuance.com wrote: That's exactly what I'm

Re: [WiX-users] Custom action without having to install .net

2015-02-18 Thread Tunney, Stephen
You might look into this: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dotnetnative.aspx We have had success with this in writing a couple of very simple CAs for experimentation (starting tomcat service bootstrappers, SQL Server CAs). Stephen Tunney Nuance Communications, Inc. Solutions Architect,

Re: [WiX-users] [WIX]: Japanese MSI package creation

2015-02-04 Thread Tunney, Stephen
All, Just because you have that header at the top doesn't mean that your file is ENCODED in UTF-8. Open the wxs file in VS and go to File-Advanced Save Options. Ensure that the codepage you want is specified. -Original Message- From: Dileep S [mailto:dileep.sanamp...@gmail.com] Sent:

Re: [WiX-users] Problems running heat under LocalSystem service

2015-01-30 Thread Tunney, Stephen
Try running as local system from the command line with SysInternals PsExec https://technet.microsoft.com/en-ca/sysinternals/bb897553.aspx I think it is psexec -S cmd.exe (or powershell depending on your needs). Then try running heat again and see what permissions issues you are getting. Also

Re: [WiX-users] Problems running heat under LocalSystem service

2015-01-30 Thread Tunney, Stephen
privileged and/or protected under law. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us immediately at i...@intrigma.com and delete the original message and any attachments. On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Tunney, Stephen stephen.tun...@nuance.com wrote: Try running as local system from

Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.5 projects don't load properly with new Perforce plugin for vs2010

2015-01-28 Thread Tunney, Stephen
Does downgrading your client bring you back to a working state? If so, time to talk to Perforce. The P4 client for all versions of VS = 2010 have been... touchy from my experience (this pain stretches all the way back to 2001). I've never fully embraced them until 2012 when they finally got

Re: [WiX-users] Adjusting result of heat.exe?

2015-01-27 Thread Tunney, Stephen
Here's a little diddy I wrote up for the JDK. Some minor modifications will be required. There are two files JDK.HeatTx.xsl ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? xsl:stylesheet version=1.0 xmlns:xsl=http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform; xmlns:wix=http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi;

Re: [WiX-users] NuGet official Support

2015-01-16 Thread Tunney, Stephen
. _ Short replies here. Complete answers over there: http://www.firegiant.com/ -Original Message- From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com] Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2015 2:00 PM To: General discussion about

Re: [WiX-users] NuGet official Support

2015-01-16 Thread Tunney, Stephen
answers over there: http://www.firegiant.com/ -Original Message- From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com] Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 7:07 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] NuGet official Support What versioning questions do you

[WiX-users] MBA Application - No controls showing up on my main view

2015-01-16 Thread Tunney, Stephen
Hello Everyone, Trying to create a window for my main view. I get the window showing up but no controls and no text. Just the standard MSI icon. I know I'm invoking the right class since the Run method defined below has a MessageBox.Show(...) and I'm getting that message box. Anyone have

Re: [WiX-users] MBA Application - No controls showing up on my main view

2015-01-16 Thread Tunney, Stephen
(tm) -Original Message- From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com] Sent: January-16-15 4:40 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] MBA Application - No controls showing up on my main view Hello Everyone, Trying to create a window for my main

Re: [WiX-users] Modifying a MSPs contents

2015-01-15 Thread Tunney, Stephen
since it is all generated from WiX source. Cheers! Stephen -Original Message- From: Bob Arnson [mailto:b...@joyofsetup.com] Sent: January-14-15 11:04 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Modifying a MSPs contents On 13-Jan-15 14:35, Tunney, Stephen wrote

[WiX-users] NuGet official Support

2015-01-15 Thread Tunney, Stephen
When are we going to expect Official support for a NuGet and/or Chocolatey and/or OneGet package for WiX? :) -- New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. GigeNET is offering a free month of

Re: [WiX-users] Dark a WiX StdBA or MBA?

2015-01-13 Thread Tunney, Stephen
Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer | Enterprise Service Applications | Continuing Development Jack Henry Associates, Inc.® | Lenexa, KS  66214 | Ext: 431050 |jocoo...@jackhenry.com -Original Message- From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 13

[WiX-users] Modifying a MSPs contents

2015-01-13 Thread Tunney, Stephen
Hello all again Another question about modifying installers. This time patches. I'm looking through the Microsoft.Deployment.WindowsInstaller.dll and I see a few methods for enumerating transforms and I *read* TransformInfo objects but I do not see any way to manipulate those objects (with

[WiX-users] Dark a WiX StdBA or MBA?

2015-01-13 Thread Tunney, Stephen
Can a BA be processed by a dark or melt type application? -- New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn. Choose from 2

Re: [WiX-users] Creating patches using wixout (-bf flag deprecated)

2015-01-08 Thread Tunney, Stephen
You need to start using the bindpath variables in your wxs sources. Melt will take care of pointing the wixpdb to the new location. -Original Message- From: Nick Ramirez [mailto:nickra...@hotmail.com] Sent: January-08-15 2:39 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re:

Re: [WiX-users] Creating patches using wixout (-bf flag deprecated)

2015-01-08 Thread Tunney, Stephen
Melt kind of does an administrative install of the database (msi or msm). It updates the wixpdb Data entries to point to the new location for the files. -Original Message- From: Nick Ramirez [mailto:nickra...@hotmail.com] Sent: January-08-15 3:04 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [WiX-users] What is this code doing?

2014-12-18 Thread Tunney, Stephen
It is ensuring that an empty directory named Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Help It seems a bit odd that DirectoryRef elements aren't being used. We would need to see more of the Fragment/file to know EXACTLY where this directory structure will land. is created. Stephen

Re: [WiX-users] Patch sequencing problem - Small update + a supseding hotfix

2014-12-02 Thread Tunney, Stephen
Superseding really *should* mean that the update you are providing is meant to include the fixes from all previous fixes. If the result is a file gets rolled back as part of a hotfix then so be it. Stephen Tunney Nuance Communications, Inc. Solutions Architect, Imaging Division Waterloo,

[WiX-users] Unhandled exception when launching MBA

2014-12-02 Thread Tunney, Stephen
Hey everyone, Trying to create an MBA based on .NET 4.5. Everything compiled correctly but when I launch the exe I get an unhandled exception: An unhandled Microsoft NET Framework exception occurred in ExpressMBA.exe [4400]. When I attach the VS 2013 debugger the breakpoint is sitting at the

Re: [WiX-users] Unhandled exception when launching MBA

2014-12-02 Thread Tunney, Stephen
Bingo! That did it :) Thank you for the heads up Phill!!! -Original Message- From: Phill Hogland [mailto:phogl...@rimage.com] Sent: December-02-14 2:15 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Unhandled exception when launching MBA I'm not sure if this comment

Re: [WiX-users] Patch sequencing problem - Small update + a supseding hotfix

2014-12-01 Thread Tunney, Stephen
I'm going to assume that you have the binaryref tag in your patch family. The pure WiX patching method has a bug in torch that doesn't update the path for binary entries in the upgrade path. Nor does melt extract the binary file for you. You will need to do these things manually at the moment

[WiX-users] .wixpdb usage

2014-11-19 Thread Tunney, Stephen
Hello Everyone and good day, As part of our automated build process I back up all generated .wixpdb files. I'm just wondering how useful these are when debugging a crash or hang of an MSI when given a dump file from a customer. Can they be used at all? I need the .wixpdb files for

Re: [WiX-users] .wixpdb usage

2014-11-19 Thread Tunney, Stephen
/ -Original Message- From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 10:32 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] .wixpdb usage Hello Everyone and good day, As part of our automated build process I back up all

Re: [WiX-users] Generate mst files based on wixout instead of MSIs (to reduce build time)

2014-11-12 Thread Tunney, Stephen
Rule #1: You must use bindpaths in your RTM msi. -Original Message- From: SE [mailto:evensi...@gmail.com] Sent: November-12-14 1:59 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Generate mst files based on wixout instead of MSIs (to reduce build time) Hi Tobias,

[WiX-users] Directory ID character case - Does it matter

2014-10-21 Thread Tunney, Stephen
of this pattern utilizing the preprocessor foreach. There are hundreds of files, components, and directories that match this exact pattern for us, and the list of languages we are going to be supporting going forward will only get larger. Thanks! Stephen Tunney Stephen Tunney Nuance

Re: [WiX-users] Directory ID character case - Does it matter

2014-10-21 Thread Tunney, Stephen
- From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 10:27 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Directory ID character case - Does it matter Hey everyone, I've got a large number of directories and files that look like

Re: [WiX-users] Directory ID character case - Does it matter

2014-10-21 Thread Tunney, Stephen
-Original Message- From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 11:15 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Directory ID character case - Does it matter Thank you for your fast response, John. Now the next question. I

[WiX-users] WiX 3.x Installs are mutually exclusive. Why? :)

2014-10-02 Thread Tunney, Stephen
Hey guys, Just ramping up to upgrade from 3.7 to 3.9 and it appears as though I can only have 1 version installed (via the installer) at a time on my development box. This has me a touch concerned. I would really like to maintain older versions of our product with the version of WiX that

Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.x Installs are mutually exclusive. Why? :)

2014-10-02 Thread Tunney, Stephen
)wixtasks.dll/WixTasksPath /PropertyGroup in your project to point it at the desired WiX version. -Original Message- From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com] Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2014 1:29 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] WiX 3.x

[WiX-users] WiX 3.9 RTM

2014-09-30 Thread Tunney, Stephen
Hey Rob, Bob Just curious as to how you feel about the stability of 3.9.901.0 (RC3). Do you feel that it will become the RTM? Thanks, Stephen Tunney Nuance Communications, Inc. Solutions Architect, Imaging Division Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Re: [WiX-users] LGHT0284: Support for more than 260 characthers in Path?

2014-09-15 Thread Tunney, Stephen
Does prepending the path with \\?\ help out at all? http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bclteam/archive/2007/02/13/long-paths-in-net-part-1-of-3-kim-hamilton.aspx Stephen Tunney Nuance Communications, Inc. Solutions Architect, Imaging Division Waterloo, Ontario, Canada stephen.tun...@nuance.com

Re: [WiX-users] LGHT0284: Support for more than 260 characthers in Path?

2014-09-15 Thread Tunney, Stephen
. _ Short replies here. Complete answers over there: http://www.firegiant.com/ -Original Message- From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 7:15 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users

Re: [WiX-users] What should i sign (digitaly)?

2014-09-12 Thread Tunney, Stephen
A signature doesn't just say this is something I wrote though. Authenticode *should* be used to ensure that what you have provided to your customers hasn't been modified in any way (malicious or not). Authenticode also assists with code getting around annoying anti-virus behaviour as well. We

Re: [WiX-users] Burn to MSI -- Secure password -- Best Parctice

2014-08-28 Thread Tunney, Stephen
Is there a wiki article or anything on security best practices where this stuff could be captured a little more formally? -Original Message- From: Sean Hall [mailto:r.sean.h...@gmail.com] Sent: August-27-14 6:44 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users]

[WiX-users] Manager Bootstrapper issue with requirement for .net framework

2014-08-18 Thread Tunney, Stephen
Hello everyone, I'm attempting to write my first bootstrapper (YAY) and I've decided that the managed bootstrapper would be ideal for our organization. I'm trying to get a quick and dirty sample up and running with a dummy MSI inside that installs its own WXS file. Running WiX 3.8 RTM with

Re: [WiX-users] Manager Bootstrapper issue with requirement for .net framework

2014-08-18 Thread Tunney, Stephen
The configuration file must be named BootstrapperCore.config. The easiest thing to do is just add Name=BootstrapperCore.config to the Payload of your config file. On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Tunney, Stephen stephen.tun...@nuance.com wrote: Hello everyone, I'm attempting to write my

Re: [WiX-users] How do I create a FirewallException for a port range?

2014-07-10 Thread Tunney, Stephen
Pre-processor loop ?portRangeList=1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9? ?foreach dynaPortAwesomeness in $(var.portRangeList)? fire:FirewallException Id=MyFirewallException Name=!(loc.CASFirewallExceptionDescription) Port=$(var.dynaPortAwesomeness) Protocol=tcp Scope=any IgnoreFailure=yes

Re: [WiX-users] How to mix hand-generated and auto-generated .wxs content

2014-07-09 Thread Tunney, Stephen
Sounds like you need to give a component group name in your heat call -cg MyComponentGroup Add the wxs file generated from heat to your project. Add the a ComponentGroupRef to your feature or another componentgroup depending on your preferences to the hand rolled wxs file. Done -Original

Re: [WiX-users] heat throws error on Windows 7

2014-06-30 Thread Tunney, Stephen
Just happy to be of assistance :) From: eric [eric.bu...@lmco.com] Sent: June 30, 2014 10:07 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] heat throws error on Windows 7 Thanks for the help, scubasteve! In my hunt, I realized that it

Re: [WiX-users] heat throws error on Windows 7

2014-06-23 Thread Tunney, Stephen
That sounds like a permissions problem to me. Check your windows-based ACLs for all files and folders involved in your process. Did you install WIX from a Cygwin command line? -Original Message- From: eric [mailto:eric.bu...@lmco.com] Sent: June-23-14 9:06 AM To:

Re: [WiX-users] heat throws error on Windows 7

2014-06-22 Thread Tunney, Stephen
Does ./MyFolder exist? From: eric [eric.bu...@lmco.com] Sent: June 21, 2014 11:14 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] heat throws error on Windows 7 I ran heat from the commandline with a command in the following form: heat dir

Re: [WiX-users] Torch output, how to force wixmst XML output instead of CAB

2014-06-15 Thread Tunney, Stephen
wrong. -Original Message- From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com] Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2014 6:25 PM Also, I have been looking at this file in more detail. The file itself is encoded with ANSI, but the XML header tag states that the XML is in UTF-8

Re: [WiX-users] Build warning request

2014-06-15 Thread Tunney, Stephen
I do believe the sample I gave for the last bug I fixed can show this exact behaviour. I will work on fixing this next week when I'm back from business travel. Think I have time to squeeze this in for 3.9? Stephen From: Bob Arnson [b...@joyofsetup.com]

Re: [WiX-users] Build warning request

2014-06-13 Thread Tunney, Stephen
executors based on available disks. So an MSI generated on E:\\ will not melt properly without bindpaths when melted on D:\\ or even a different path on the same disk. From: Tunney, Stephen [stephen.tun...@nuance.com] Sent: June 12, 2014 8:45 PM

Re: [WiX-users] Main MSI with sub-msi's

2014-06-13 Thread Tunney, Stephen
A bundle can contain a collection of executables, MSIs, MSPs. They can all be compressed within the bundle. Read up on Burn and WixStdBA and WixManagedBootstrapper. Stephen Tunney Nuance Communications, Inc. Solutions Architect, Imaging Division Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

[WiX-users] Build warning request

2014-06-12 Thread Tunney, Stephen
Hey WiX team, Can we perhaps put a compiler warning in if a bindpath isn't used? And perhaps also add a build error when a user tries to use pure wix patching method without a bindpath? Would be thrown during the light.exe phase when outputting a wixmsp file. Thoughts? Stephen Tunney Nuance

[WiX-users] Torch output, how to force wixmst XML output instead of CAB

2014-06-12 Thread Tunney, Stephen
Hey Bob, I had posted this question earlier but I guess it got lost in the piles of emails going out to your adoring fans ;) In my torch command I have -xi -xo set, and I'm still getting a cab file with a .wixmst extension? How do I force this to be the expected XML file? What causes the

Re: [WiX-users] Build warning request

2014-06-12 Thread Tunney, Stephen
. From: Bob Arnson [b...@joyofsetup.com] Sent: June 12, 2014 6:48 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Build warning request On 6/12/2014 1:15 PM, Tunney, Stephen wrote: Can we perhaps put a compiler warning in if a bindpath isn't used? Bind

Re: [WiX-users] Torch output, how to force wixmst XML output instead of CAB

2014-06-12 Thread Tunney, Stephen
instead of CAB On 6/12/2014 3:40 PM, Tunney, Stephen wrote: I had posted this question earlier but I guess it got lost in the piles of emails going out to your adoring fans ;) No, I'm just busy. :) In my torch command I have -xi -xo set, and I'm still getting a cab file with a .wixmst

Re: [WiX-users] Torch output, how to force wixmst XML output instead of CAB

2014-06-12 Thread Tunney, Stephen
Also, I have been looking at this file in more detail. The file itself is encoded with ANSI, but the XML header tag states that the XML is in UTF-8. Is this intentional? -Original Message- From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com] Sent: June-12-14 9:01 PM To: General

Re: [WiX-users] Is it possible to add an existing file to Visual Studio WiX Setup project without it making a local copy?

2014-06-09 Thread Tunney, Stephen
You can also do this by right clicking on the project and Add -- Existing Item.. When you find the file you want, don't double click, go down to the Add button and you will notice a tiny arrow to the right, click and then select Add As Link. That should do it, and eliminates having to modify

Re: [WiX-users] Bug in torch - wixmst output is not in XML format

2014-06-09 Thread Tunney, Stephen
: June-08-14 10:37 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Bug in torch - wixmst output is not in XML format On 6/8/2014 11:13 AM, Tunney, Stephen wrote: Re: [WiX-users] Bug in torch - wixmst output is not in XML format -xo doesn't produce a text file if there are files

Re: [WiX-users] Bug in torch - wixmst output is not in XML format

2014-06-09 Thread Tunney, Stephen
/2014 9:06 AM, Tunney, Stephen wrote: It might be a case of The Mondays but I'm at a loss at what you are getting at :( What are these other files that might get output by torch? How can I supress their output? Rename the .wixmst to .cab and open it in explorer. You'll see binaries in the .cab

[WiX-users] Bug in torch - wixmst output is not in XML format

2014-06-08 Thread Tunney, Stephen
Hey everyone, I've got the following command line for torch after applying melt to a WiX-built MSI. It is a fairly large MSI (500 megs with cabs embedded). Starting 'C:\Program Files (x86)\WiX Toolset v3.8\bin\torch.exe -nologo -p -xo -xi

Re: [WiX-users] Managed Bootstrapper application - internal msi UI appearing *behind* the bootstrapper UI

2014-06-06 Thread Tunney, Stephen
* the bootstrapper UI I'm assuming you have this in your value in your MsiPackage chain? DisplayInternalUI=yes On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Tunney, Stephen stephen.tun...@nuance.com wrote: Does anyone know how I can fix this? We are hitting this with an internal UI is being displayed on the screen

[WiX-users] Managed Bootstrapper application - internal msi UI appearing *behind* the bootstrapper UI

2014-06-05 Thread Tunney, Stephen
Does anyone know how I can fix this? We are hitting this with an internal UI is being displayed on the screen. Doesn't look too good :( Stephen Tunney Nuance Communications, Inc. Solutions Architect, Imaging Division Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

[WiX-users] HeatDirectory MSBuild task dying with BadImageFormatException

2014-05-16 Thread Tunney, Stephen
Hey everyone, Ok, I've added a BeforeBuild target in my wixproj to run heat on a directory using the HeatDirectory task. I see in my logs that msbuild is successfully calling lit, candle, etc. successfully but I get the following error from heat :( Thoughts? I get this whether I run

Re: [WiX-users] HeatDirectory MSBuild task dying with BadImageFormatException

2014-05-16 Thread Tunney, Stephen
? Stephen Tunney Nuance Communications, Inc. Solutions Architect, Imaging Division Waterloo, Ontario, Canada stephen.tun...@nuance.com 519-880-7463Office NUANCE.COM The experience speaks for itself (tm) -Original Message- From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com] Sent

Re: [WiX-users] [WiX-devs] Is anyone adding outbound firewall exceptions?

2014-04-29 Thread Tunney, Stephen
You are correct, Rob. I reply blindly at times. Both mailing lists get placed in the same folder with my outlook rules set up as such. -Original Message- From: TimM [mailto:timmay...@smarttech.com] Sent: April-29-14 9:44 AM To: wix-d...@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-devs]

Re: [WiX-users] Localized strings not in Wix Extensions

2014-04-29 Thread Tunney, Stephen
It is better to have everything in your wxl file, then you can change presentation strings in one spot, and leave your code alone :) You could use a hardcoded string but you will find in the long run it just isn't worth it. en-US is default (case-insensitive I think). Enjoy. -Original

Re: [WiX-users] Debugging Managed Bootstrapper Application

2014-03-24 Thread Tunney, Stephen
System.Diagnostics.Debugger.Launch() at the beginning of your CA will do the job nicely :) -Original Message- From: gowri.malas...@non.agilent.com [mailto:gowri.malas...@non.agilent.com] Sent: March-24-14 3:24 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Debugging

[WiX-users] Code signing issue and soon-to-be-released patch

2014-02-14 Thread Tunney, Stephen
Everyone should be aware of the issue and be prepared to re-sign their binaries and installers :( http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2013/12/10/ms13-098-update-to-enhance-the-security-of-authenticode.aspx -- Android

Re: [WiX-users] how to pass values from command line to wix installer

2014-02-13 Thread Tunney, Stephen
installer Thank you Tunneyit worked :) On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Tunney, Stephen stephen.tun...@nuance.comwrote: And please excuse the poor formatting of my message :) -Original Message- From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com] Sent: February-11-14 9:56

Re: [WiX-users] how to pass values from command line to wix installer

2014-02-11 Thread Tunney, Stephen
And please excuse the poor formatting of my message :) -Original Message- From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com] Sent: February-11-14 9:56 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] how to pass values from command line to wix installer

Re: [WiX-users] how to pass values from command line to wix installer

2014-02-11 Thread Tunney, Stephen
This looks like an issue (perhaps not a bug) with WIX schema validation during compliation of the wxs file. It is checking your .wxs file against an xsd schema that limits the possible attribute values for @AnonymousAccess to the literals yes and no. I've hit this before with other items and

[WiX-users] Possible bug in CAs when uninstalling a patch

2014-02-06 Thread Tunney, Stephen
Hey guys, I've got a couple of custom actions set in InstallExecuteSequence that has no conditions. I want these CAs to execute when modifying a feature to do some backup and restore functionality. The CAs run fine for normal install, patch install, feature uninstall etc. However the CAs do

[WiX-users] ManagedBootstrapperApplication - sans UI

2013-12-27 Thread Tunney, Stephen
Hey guys, I'm trying to use the managed bootstrapper and all I want the bootstrapper to is elevate privileges and have the MSI embedded in the EXE. What would be the fastest way to do this? So far I can't seem to get around having the .net prerequisite UI showing up for some reason. Stephen

Re: [WiX-users] Strange problem with printer driver installation

2013-12-27 Thread Tunney, Stephen
Another might be the fact that you have a x64 and x86 version of the your driver being installed? -Original Message- From: Carter Young [mailto:ecyo...@grandecom.net] Sent: December-27-13 10:05 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Strange problem with printer

Re: [WiX-users] Signing all DLLs and EXEs in project

2013-12-18 Thread Tunney, Stephen
Make sure you set the number of files in the item group to under 1000, there is a limit to the length of the command line that signtool (and windows) will accept :) Stephen Tunney Nuance Communications, Inc. Solutions Architect, Imaging Division Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Re: [WiX-users] Feature request

2013-12-17 Thread Tunney, Stephen
toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Feature request I think rebasing a wixpdb is a great feature request. If it hasn't already been filed, please add one. Blair From: Tunney, Stephen Sent: ‎Thursday‎, ‎December‎ ‎12‎, ‎2013 ‎11‎:‎57‎ ‎AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML

[WiX-users] Feature request

2013-12-12 Thread Tunney, Stephen
Hello all, Ok, I finally have Pure WiX Patching working on my projects. I have a small issue though. Melting all of our RTM products takes about 35 minutes to complete. What I have found is that if I zip up this collection of goodies and stick it on the network share ONCE, I can copy it

Re: [WiX-users] Can't add a comment to an existing bug on wixtoolset.org

2013-12-10 Thread Tunney, Stephen
, if you refresh, you'll see your comment is there. -Original Message- From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com] Sent: Monday, December 9, 2013 3:05 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Can't add a comment to an existing bug

[WiX-users] Can't add a comment to an existing bug on wixtoolset.org

2013-12-09 Thread Tunney, Stephen
Anyone else having this problem? I'm running Chrome on win7 pro x64. Stephen Tunney Nuance Communications, Inc. Solutions Architect, Imaging Division Waterloo, Ontario, Canada stephen.tun...@nuance.commailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com 519-880-7463 Office NUANCE.COM The experience speaks for

Re: [WiX-users] Can't add a comment to an existing bug on wixtoolset.org

2013-12-09 Thread Tunney, Stephen
Message- From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com] Sent: December-09-13 2:31 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Can't add a comment to an existing bug on wixtoolset.org Anyone else having this problem? I'm running Chrome on win7 pro x64

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