Re: [WiX-users] Advertised feature install starting

2007-11-08 Thread Bob Arnson
John Hall wrote: Is that something I would have to do manually, or is there an MSI mechanism? The former or both: MSI doesn't cache full MSIs, so that you have to do manually. If you run the install from the full copy and don't delete it, MSI will use it during source resolution. Otherwise, y

Re: [WiX-users] Advertised feature install starting

2007-11-08 Thread John Hall
John Hall wrote: However, this installing per-user on demand could be quite useful. I would like to install some files per-user as well as the registry entries. How do I make sure the files that need to be installed are available? That requires caching the "re

Re: [WiX-users] Advertised feature install starting

2007-11-07 Thread Bob Arnson
John Hall wrote: *However, this installing per-user on demand could be quite useful. I would like to install some files per-user as well as the registry entries. How do I make sure the files that need to be installed are available?* That requires caching the "real" MSI and any external cabs.

Re: [WiX-users] Advertised feature install starting

2007-11-07 Thread Leo ...
Hi, I am trying to build the 'toolsrc' project for WIX version 3.0. I already have windows SDK version 6 installed but it failed to build MsgGen tool because of the following error: WixBuild.Common.targets(129,5): error : Please install the Windows SDK version 6000.0.0 (Windows Vista) or high

Re: [WiX-users] Advertised feature install starting

2007-11-07 Thread John Hall
John Hall wrote: It's an HKCU registry key that would have been created for the user who installed the application, but obviously not the user who is running. Is this the default behaviour for a key in HKCU even if the feature is not advertised? Yes, for an ad

Re: [WiX-users] Advertised feature install starting

2007-11-06 Thread Bob Arnson
John Hall wrote: It's an HKCU registry key that would have been created for the user who installed the application, but obviously not the user who is running. Is this the default behaviour for a key in HKCU even if the feature is not advertised? Yes, for an advertised shortcut. Also, is th

Re: [WiX-users] Advertised feature install starting

2007-11-06 Thread John Hall
I've got some machines that after a minor upgrade, unprivileged users unexpectedly get MSI launching a dialog saying that "the feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable". Administrators do not see the message. The installer was run as Administrator.

Re: [WiX-users] Advertised feature install starting

2007-11-05 Thread Bob Arnson
John Hall wrote: I've got some machines that after a minor upgrade, unprivileged users unexpectedly get MSI launching a dialog saying that "the feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable". Administrators do not see the message. The installer was run as Administr

[WiX-users] Advertised feature install starting

2007-11-05 Thread John Hall
I've got some machines that after a minor upgrade, unprivileged users unexpectedly get MSI launching a dialog saying that "the feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable". Administrators do not see the message. The installer was run as Administrator. I assume it is b