[WiX-users] Bit of a twist

2006-09-06 Thread Lerudjordet, Morten Minge
Title: Bit of a twist Hi, been fooling around with the IIS extension a couple of days. I found out that I needed to be able to give the user a choose of Website to install to, just so no typing error can occur. As I did not find any extensions that can be used to read the state of the IIS

Re: [WiX-users] Bit of a twist

2006-09-06 Thread Rob MacFadyen
Morton, I'm not sure why calling a script makes the code messy and maintenance much harder. Especially compared to calling a dll. Here's the script I use to load a dropdown list of available (already defined) websites on a server. Note: It sets the property WEBSITE to the name of the first

Re: [WiX-users] Checkbox and SQL scripts

2006-09-06 Thread Rob MacFadyen
Petrut, Did you get an answer to this? How where you planning on executing the SQL Scripts? If through a custom action of your own then you need to add a condition to the custom action (more or less, something like: COMBOBOXVALUE = X). This looks like: Custom After=InstallFiles

[WiX-users] ClickThrough Warning

2006-09-06 Thread Kamil Krawczyk
Title: ClickThrough Warning Hello While using ClickThrough, in the midle of the build process (creating msi file) I'm receiving this warning: Wix warning: The Registry element has been deprecated. Please use one of the new elements which replaces its functionality: RegisteryKey for

[WiX-users] IIS folders and WebVirtualDirs

2006-09-06 Thread Nick Meredith
Hi, We are trying to create a number of installers, one for a common module website and a number for various add-on modules each of which will install a separate website but rely on the common module having been installed first. We wish them to all install Virtual Directories to a

[WiX-users] IE version in condition table

2006-09-06 Thread Vitaliy Ilyin
Hi guys,   Could you please help me? How to specify minimum version of Internet Explorer in condition table?   I have found an example on how to do it for NET Framework version, have not found an example for IE version.   Condition Message=You must install the Microsoft .NET

Re: [WiX-users] how to not show feature size

2006-09-06 Thread Bob Arnson
Don Tasanasanta wrote: Is there a way to not show the size of a particular feature in the SelectionTree but still have the other features show their size? I don't think so. The EventMapping table doesn't support conditions so everything ends up getting mapped between the

Re: [WiX-users] Elevating custom action on Vista

2006-09-06 Thread Bob Arnson
Dana Gutride wrote: Is it possible to elevate a custom action that is called during the UI sequence in Vista? During my install, I'm doing prerequisite checks during the UI sequence, a couple of them require administrative privileges to complete. I'm seeing some mixed information online

Re: [WiX-users] Elevating custom action on Vista

2006-09-06 Thread Dana Gutride
I'm using a custom action to detect the presence of an installed SSL Cert in IIS and also to retrieve the port number of the default web site.DanaOn 9/6/06, Bob Arnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Dana Gutride wrote: Is it possible to elevate a custom action that is called during the UI sequence in

[WiX-users] Weekly Release

2006-09-06 Thread Joe Harbert
Is there going to be a release this week? We missed last week and there are some features I'd like to try out that should now be in the latest release. Thanks, Joe Harbert - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to

Re: [WiX-users] Weekly Release

2006-09-06 Thread Bob Arnson
Joe Harbert wrote: Is there going to be a release this week? We missed last week and there are some features I'd like to try out that should now be in the latest release. Probably not this week -- Justin's preparing a massive change for Votive that requires some build-machine changes.

Re: [WiX-users] IE version in condition table

2006-09-06 Thread Bob Arnson
Vitaliy Ilyin wrote: Could you please help me? How to specify minimum version of Internet Explorer in condition table? MSI doesn't expose the IE version as a built-in property like MsiNetAssemblySupport. You can use a FileSearch to look for a particular version of

Re: [WiX-users] IE version in condition table

2006-09-06 Thread Wilson, Phil
This looks useful: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/164539/ Phil Wilson From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob ArnsonSent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 11:22 AMTo: Vitaliy IlyinCc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.netSubject: Re: [WiX-users] IE version in condition

Re: [WiX-users] Elevating custom action on Vista

2006-09-06 Thread Dana Gutride
We're using ADSI and COM to access the IIS metabase to read those values. If there is a way to do that with the registry as an unelevated user, please let me know as I certainly prefer using registry searches over custom actions and I wasn't aware that those values are also stored in the registry.

Re: [WiX-users] IE version in condition table

2006-09-06 Thread Bob Arnson
Wilson, Phil wrote: This looks useful: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/164539/ Very! Thanks -- that goes into the Bucket o' Useful Knowledge.g -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Using Tomcat but need to do more?

[WiX-users] Installing files to wrong drive

2006-09-06 Thread Scott Sam
In our installation, we put out files to two directories. One set of files gets put in the program files directory (INSTALLDIR), depending on how many drives are available the other set gets put on the drive of their choice (INSTALLDIR2). Installdir2 defaults to the drive with the most

Re: [WiX-users] Elevating custom action on Vista

2006-09-06 Thread Chesong Lee
Be aware that Elevated Custom Actions and User Account Controls in Vista are separate matters. Elevated Custom Action allows non-privileged users to perform privileged actions if Group Policy allows elevation for MSI installation. As for Windows Vista, in most cases if custom actions

Re: [WiX-users] Elevating custom action on Vista

2006-09-06 Thread Bob Arnson
Chesong Lee wrote: As for Windows Vista, in most cases if custom actions are involved, regardless of Elevation is allowed for MSI installation in Group Policy, UAC dialog should appear and MSI process should have as much privileges as the logon user has. But only

Re: [WiX-users] Elevating custom action on Vista

2006-09-06 Thread Bob Arnson
Dana Gutride wrote: We're using ADSI and COM to access the IIS metabase to read those values. If there is a way to do that with the registry as an unelevated user, please let me know as I certainly prefer using registry searches over custom actions and I wasn't aware that those values

Re: [WiX-users] ClickThrough Warning

2006-09-06 Thread Bob Arnson
Title: ClickThrough Warning Kamil Krawczyk wrote: While using ClickThrough, in the midle of the build process (creating msi file) I'm receiving this warning: Wix warning: The Registry element has been deprecated. Please use one of the new elements which replaces its