I can't do better than refer to the documentation for ICE60 at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa369003.aspx.
"Failure to fix a warning reported by ICE60 generally leads to a file being needlessly reinstalled when a product repair is done. This happens because the file to be installed in the repair and the existing file on disk have the same version (they are the same file) but different languages. The file table lists the language as null, but the file itself has a language value in the resource. Based on the file versioning rules, the installer favors the file to be installed, so it is recopied needlessly." I believe the installer is using the Translation key in the VarFileInfo of the resources to get the list of languages from the already-installed version. WiX - specifically, light - is supposed to get the language information at build time, unless you have specified the -sf or -sh switches. I would not advise using these switches as they suppress ALL the version information collection, throwing you into the chaos of unversioned files (where last-installed wins). Why does Windows Installer want you to duplicate all this information in the database, when it's already in the files? To prevent it having to obtain the file (potentially a CAB download from the Internet, for HTTP MSIs) just to discover that it wasn't needed. -- Mike Dimmick -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted Berg Sent: 02 January 2008 23:27 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] ICE60 and DefaultLanguage I am packaging third party DLLs in my .msi file. These DLLs do not contain a Language entry in their resource bundle. When I validate the MSI I get an ICE60 warning for each of these DLLs: "The file <component name> is not a Font, and its version is not a companion file reference. It should have a language specified in the Language column." If I manually add the value 1033 to the Language column for each of these entries I no longer get the validation warning. I have added a DefaultLanguage="1033" attribute to the <File/> element for each of these libraries, but this value seems to be ignored. I still get empty Language column values for these files. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
