Re: [WiX-users] [SPAM] Component Attributes
I want to thank Bob and Phil for the interaction and suggestions, and the Wix contributors for the Wca library. I reevaluated what I was trying to do and found that by calling WcaIsPropertySet(System64Folder) I was able to detect the platform (x64 or x86) from within my CA. I had originally tried to create a dismapi application but ran into too many roadblocks to use that approach. 1) The dismapi sample programs would not compile on my vs2010/Win 7 development system, even with the ADK and the Win 8.1 SDK installed and pointed at in the sample projects. My CA project got the same errors. 2) The dismapi is only distributed on Win 8 or later. To use a dismapi application on Win 7 (which is where I need to install NetFx3) a customer must install the ADK first. (The ADK or the dismapi.dll related files do not appear to be redistributable.) So while calling an API is prefered, I reverted to calling dism.exe. On Windows 8 or later I found that calling 'fondue.exe /enable-feature:NetFx3 /hide-ux:all' was simpler than calling dism.exe, as it handles the scenario where the payload has been removed and dism.exe throws and error. Thanks. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Component-Attributes-tp7592263p7592358.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Managing the Performance of Cloud-Based Applications Take advantage of what the Cloud has to offer - Avoid Common Pitfalls. Read the Whitepaper. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=121051231iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] [SPAM] Component Attributes
I understand that component attributes are bit flags. I want to test for the 64 bit flag in my immediate CA, which schedules a deferred CA, so that I know whether the CA is running on a x64 architecture. There are several examples in the source code of testing the component attribute flag in secureobj.cpp and XmlConfig.cpp, like this. BOOL fIs64Bit = iCompAttributes msidbComponentAttributes64bit; What I am struggling with is how to initialize iCompAttributes so that I can do this test in the CA. My long term goal is to figure out how to do the WixExtension with the dom parser, but for now I am using the Custom Table driven CA approach and focusing on writing the CAs using the Wix source as a teacher. So I am wondering how to either populate a row in my wxs file with the value that should be passed to iCompAttributes, or from within the immediate CA, how to use the Component_ identifier (which I also put in the Custom Table) to look up the iCompAttributes value (so that I can then implement code to test the flags). Maybe I am just making this issue hard since in the case of x64, I can also set a row value in the wxs Custom Table to x64. I was trying to avoid manually maintained literals and make use of testing the component attributes flags, but I need to figure out how to get the value to do the test. Thanks for giving me any suggestions. I appreciate the advice. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Component-Attributes-tp7592263p7592304.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Managing the Performance of Cloud-Based Applications Take advantage of what the Cloud has to offer - Avoid Common Pitfalls. Read the Whitepaper. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=121051231iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] [SPAM] Component Attributes
I'm assuming there isn't a simple check you could do based on VersionNT64 because you have a mix of 64 and 32 bit CAs, so... The kind of thing you'd do at run time is the usual SQL query game. MsiGetActiveDatabase, MsiDatabaseOpenView() with a SQL Select that returns the component's attributes, then MsiRecordGetInteger() . --- Phil Wilson On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 7:29 AM, Phill Hogland phogl...@rimage.com wrote: I understand that component attributes are bit flags. I want to test for the 64 bit flag in my immediate CA, which schedules a deferred CA, so that I know whether the CA is running on a x64 architecture. There are several examples in the source code of testing the component attribute flag in secureobj.cpp and XmlConfig.cpp, like this. BOOL fIs64Bit = iCompAttributes msidbComponentAttributes64bit; What I am struggling with is how to initialize iCompAttributes so that I can do this test in the CA. My long term goal is to figure out how to do the WixExtension with the dom parser, but for now I am using the Custom Table driven CA approach and focusing on writing the CAs using the Wix source as a teacher. So I am wondering how to either populate a row in my wxs file with the value that should be passed to iCompAttributes, or from within the immediate CA, how to use the Component_ identifier (which I also put in the Custom Table) to look up the iCompAttributes value (so that I can then implement code to test the flags). Maybe I am just making this issue hard since in the case of x64, I can also set a row value in the wxs Custom Table to x64. I was trying to avoid manually maintained literals and make use of testing the component attributes flags, but I need to figure out how to get the value to do the test. Thanks for giving me any suggestions. I appreciate the advice. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Component-Attributes-tp7592263p7592304.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Managing the Performance of Cloud-Based Applications Take advantage of what the Cloud has to offer - Avoid Common Pitfalls. Read the Whitepaper. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=121051231iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Managing the Performance of Cloud-Based Applications Take advantage of what the Cloud has to offer - Avoid Common Pitfalls. Read the Whitepaper. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=121051231iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] [SPAM] Component Attributes
Thanks for the ideas. I will study them. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Component-Attributes-tp7592263p7592319.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Managing the Performance of Cloud-Based Applications Take advantage of what the Cloud has to offer - Avoid Common Pitfalls. Read the Whitepaper. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=121051231iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] [SPAM] Component Attributes
On 31-Jan-14 11:42, Phill Hogland wrote: I am probably over looking something simple, but in a Wix Custom Table Row element, how do I indicate that I want the data in that row (to be passed to a CA) to be a component's attributes? Not sure what you mean. Attributes are usually represented as integer bit flags. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Managing the Performance of Cloud-Based Applications Take advantage of what the Cloud has to offer - Avoid Common Pitfalls. Read the Whitepaper. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=121051231iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
[WiX-users] [SPAM] Component Attributes
I am probably over looking something simple, but in a Wix Custom Table Row element, how do I indicate that I want the data in that row (to be passed to a CA) to be a component's attributes? -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Component-Attributes-tp7592263.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- WatchGuard Dimension instantly turns raw network data into actionable security intelligence. It gives you real-time visual feedback on key security issues and trends. Skip the complicated setup - simply import a virtual appliance and go from zero to informed in seconds. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=123612991iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
