I found the answer. First it occurred to me, that I did not CARE which of the
two files were found, as long as
at least ONE of them was. So I modified my code to look for BOTH of them
independently and then as long as
one was found, do the install. It really helped to SPELL the file name properly
too.
<Property Id="PATH32" >
<RegistrySearch Id="Path32" Root="HKLM" Key="<actual key covered by
NDA>" Name="Path" Type="raw" />
</Property>
<Property Id="PATH64" >
<RegistrySearch Id="Path64" Root="HKLM" Key="<actual key covered by
NDA>" Name="Path" Type="raw" />
</Property>
<Property Id="ADDIN32" >
<DirectorySearch Id="AddinDir" Path="[PATH32]" >
<FileSearch Id="AddInFileSearch" Name="<actual file name covered by
NDA>" />
</DirectorySearch>
<Property Id="ADDIN64" >
<DirectorySearch Id="AddinDir" Path="[PATH64]" >
<FileSearch Id="AddInFileSearch" Name="<actual file name covered by
NDA>" />
</DirectorySearch>
</Property>
<Condition Message="<message not relevant to the problem>"
><![CDATA[Installed OR (ADDIN32 OR ADDIN64)]]></Condition>
Dane Anderson
ACRO Service Corp.
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Today's Topics:
1. How to determine current culture in WiX preprocessor
(Oleksandr Y. Nechyporenko)
2. Verifying existance of a file using multiple properties
(Dane Anderson (Acro Service Corp))
3. Re: Installed app not showing up in add/remove programs (Blair)
4. Re: Same app, different versions (Blair)
5. Re: Same app, different versions (Gary Smith)
6. Re: How to determine current culture in WiX preprocessor (Blair)
7. Re: Verifying existance of a file using multiple properties
(Bryan Reich)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:20:57 +0200
From: "Oleksandr Y. Nechyporenko" <alexnc69...@gmail.com>
Subject: [WiX-users] How to determine current culture in WiX
preprocessor
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Hi All,
Is it possible to determine the culture using preprocessors directives?
I.e. I can specify in the Project Properties -> Build -> Cultures to Build
several cultures. For example "en-US;uk-UA". After that I will receive 2 MSIs
after the build. But I want to include some specific components to first MSI
for en-US and some specific components to second MSI for uk-UA.
The easiest way to do it is to use preprocessor directives. But I can't
understand, how I can check for which culture the current build is preformed
using <?if ?> operation.
Thanks.
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:12:09 +0000
From: "Dane Anderson (Acro Service Corp)" <a-daa...@microsoft.com>
Subject: [WiX-users] Verifying existance of a file using multiple
properties
To: "wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net"
<wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
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I need to set up a launch condition that prohibits install if a particular file
is NOT installed on the machine. What I have tried (that did not work) was:
<Property Id="PATH32" >
<RegistrySearch Id="Path32" Root="HKLM" Key="<actual key covered by
NDA>" Name="Path" Type="raw" />
</Property>
<Property Id="PATH64" >
<RegistrySearch Id="Path64" Root="HKLM" Key="<actual key covered by
NDA>" Name="Path" Type="raw" />
</Property>
<Property Id="ADDIN" >
<DirectorySearch Id="AddinDir" Path="[PATH32]" >
<FileSearch Id="AddInFileSearch" Name="<actual file name covered by
NDA>" />
</DirectorySearch>
<DirectorySearch Id="AddinDir" Path="[PATH64]" >
<FileSearch Id="AddInFileSearch" Name="<actual file name covered by
NDA>" />
</DirectorySearch>
</Property>
<Condition Message="<message not relevant to the problem>"
><![CDATA[Installed OR ADDIN]]></Condition>
The reason for TWO directory/file search nodes is, the one installer package
must support installing on both 32 and
64 bit machines, and the registry key differs on the two platforms.
On a 32 bit machine it is
HKLM/SOFTWARE/<value covered by NDA>
and on a 64 bit machine it is
HKLM/SOFTWARE/Wow6432Node/<value covered by NDA>
(The two <value covered by NDA> are the same).
According to the Wix Docs, the Directory/File search nodes that do NOT find the
file should not pass a value to the parent, giving me just the one that DID
find the file.
Since my own test machine is a 64 bit machine, I commented out the 32 bit
directory search, and it STILL is not working.
Any suggestions on how I can make this work?
Dane Anderson
ACRO Service Corp.
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:52:05 -0800
From: "Blair" <os...@live.com>
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Installed app not showing up in add/remove
programs
To: "'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.'"
<wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
To understand this issue: your application (when it was per-user) was installed
into the original user's account (not the admin's account). The admin simply
allowed the installation (in UAC it is called "over-the-shoulder"
authorization).
Most installations should have Package/@InstallScope set to declare exactly
what kind of installation they are.
-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Smith [mailto:gary.sm...@holdstead.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 9:12 AM
To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.'
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Installed app not showing up in add/remove programs
> Sounds like your package is per-user. See the Package/@InstallScope
element.
Yes, setting the InstallScope to perMachine seems to have solved this issue.
Thanks.
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:52:53 -0800
From: "Blair" <os...@live.com>
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Same app, different versions
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Yes.
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From: Gary Smith [mailto:gary.sm...@holdstead.com]
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To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.'
Subject: [WiX-users] Same app, different versions
I have my installer for my library that installs just fine. For versioning
controls issues, I need to be able to run the multiple different versions of
the application. These are installed in the GAC and the file system. The file
system includes the version number (c:\programs files\myapp\x.x.x.x\bin). For
the product name for the installer, it's myapp x.x.x.x
Is installing a second version of the same application as simple as changing
the product guid? What's the best approach for this?
Gary-
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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:05:08 -0800
From: Gary Smith <gary.sm...@holdstead.com>
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Same app, different versions
To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.'
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>
> Yes.
>
...
>
> I have my installer for my library that installs just fine. For
> versioning controls issues, I need to be able to run the multiple
> different versions of the application. These are installed in the GAC
> and the file system. The file system includes the version number
> (c:\programs files\myapp\x.x.x.x\bin). For the product name for the
> installer, it's myapp x.x.x.x
>
> Is installing a second version of the same application as simple as
> changing the product guid? What's the best approach for this?
>
Blair,
Thanks for the follow up. I have an msbuild task that generates a guid based
upon the version number (i.e. the version number x.x.0.0 is converted to a
string, then MD5'd) to give us a guid that is unique to each version but always
reproducible. I'll try this as the product id and see how that works.
Generally, when we make small incremental changes that don't break
functionality, we increment x.x.0.0. These should be replace (as they are
really updates) whereas the rest of the might be different functionality.
Thanks for the follow up.
Gary-
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Message: 6
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:09:31 -0800
From: "Blair" <os...@live.com>
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to determine current culture in WiX
preprocessor
To: "'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.'"
<wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
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The culture (as it comes from the .wixproj file) is currently used in linking
and binding, not compiling. It is possible construct the build system such that
you compile just one time and then link for each culture.
As a result, the preprocessor doesn't necessarily ever have a way to know what
culture(s) will eventually be built.
What you need is a way to reference (component groups, perhaps) to include (or
not) fragments in a culture-specific way. Let me think about this, I'm sure we
can come up with a way.
The way I solved this at a previous position I was in won't apply here, because
they didn't use MSBuild/wix.targets to build their MSIs, so they were able to
run candle once per-culture.
-----Original Message-----
From: Oleksandr Y. Nechyporenko [mailto:alexnc69...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 10:21 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] How to determine current culture in WiX preprocessor
Hi All,
Is it possible to determine the culture using preprocessors directives?
I.e. I can specify in the Project Properties -> Build -> Cultures to Build
several cultures. For example "en-US;uk-UA". After that I will receive 2 MSIs
after the build. But I want to include some specific components to first MSI
for en-US and some specific components to second MSI for uk-UA.
The easiest way to do it is to use preprocessor directives. But I can't
understand, how I can check for which culture the current build is preformed
using <?if ?> operation.
Thanks.
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Message: 7
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:11:09 +0000
From: Bryan Reich <bryan.re...@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Verifying existance of a file using multiple
properties
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
<wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
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Do you know what component(s) install the file in question? If so using
ComponentSearch would likely be a better approach.
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Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 2:12 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Verifying existance of a file using multiple properties
I need to set up a launch condition that prohibits install if a particular file
is NOT installed on the machine. What I have tried (that did not work) was:
<Property Id="PATH32" >
<RegistrySearch Id="Path32" Root="HKLM" Key="<actual key covered by
NDA>" Name="Path" Type="raw" />
</Property>
<Property Id="PATH64" >
<RegistrySearch Id="Path64" Root="HKLM" Key="<actual key covered by
NDA>" Name="Path" Type="raw" />
</Property>
<Property Id="ADDIN" >
<DirectorySearch Id="AddinDir" Path="[PATH32]" >
<FileSearch Id="AddInFileSearch" Name="<actual file name covered by
NDA>" />
</DirectorySearch>
<DirectorySearch Id="AddinDir" Path="[PATH64]" >
<FileSearch Id="AddInFileSearch" Name="<actual file name covered by
NDA>" />
</DirectorySearch>
</Property>
<Condition Message="<message not relevant to the problem>"
><![CDATA[Installed OR ADDIN]]></Condition>
The reason for TWO directory/file search nodes is, the one installer package
must support installing on both 32 and
64 bit machines, and the registry key differs on the two platforms.
On a 32 bit machine it is
HKLM/SOFTWARE/<value covered by NDA>
and on a 64 bit machine it is
HKLM/SOFTWARE/Wow6432Node/<value covered by NDA>
(The two <value covered by NDA> are the same).
According to the Wix Docs, the Directory/File search nodes that do NOT find the
file should not pass a value to the parent, giving me just the one that DID
find the file.
Since my own test machine is a 64 bit machine, I commented out the 32 bit
directory search, and it STILL is not working.
Any suggestions on how I can make this work?
Dane Anderson
ACRO Service Corp.
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