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Excellent postings, very useful. It's always good to see real examples
Can you point me to some information on how to keep the package from registering itself so that every time the install package is started it will function like it was the first time installation? I realize this is not very normal but that is the way my company wants this particular package to work. I came across some property settings that might cause this type of functionality but I did not write them down. And I really would rather not have a CA that launches msizap.exe to remove the install information. Thanks. Lyle
Thank you so much for this blog. It helped me out tramendously in understanding Wix. One of the best one I found on the net that explains everything with real example... I am keeping this blog as my favorite..
To Lyle Hollenbeck:
Sorry for being so late. Sounds, like you need Major Upgrade. It will require some extra work on your part, but the good news is that there will be no need for msizap.
I really appreciate and enjoy your tutorial - it is one of the few great WIX / MSI resources.
Is there a reason why i cant access the Chapters 4 & 18? (I cant wait to see how the story ends!) :)
Thanks again,
We here at Harley-Davidson salute you as an honorary "Rider" -
большое спасибо!
I really appreciate your work here. We are moving from using the built-in Visual Studio deployment projects to using WiX. Your blog has been very helpful!
Are you going to update this to reflect 3.0?
Great stuff! Would be nice if a chapter would be dedicated to x64/64 bit installers.
Alex this is a very good and large post, thanks for spending time on it!
On adding the <Property Id="ALLUSERS">1</Property>, i can install the .msi to all users of the machine, but only thru Administrator account.
But when i tried to install the same .msi with a non-admin user rights, i received an error saying "You do no have sufficient privileges, please logon as adminstrator and retry the installation".
Can anyone help plz me to write a script, when i install the .msi from a non-admin user, i should not receive admin privileges error msg.
Thanks in advance..
Regards,
Vinod K
Hello everyone,
When tried to run Wix v3 scripts i've received the following errors
1. error LGHT0204 : ICE43: Co
mponent C_Rel has non-advertised shortcuts. It should use a registry key under HKCU as its KeyPath, not a file.
2. error LGHT0204 : ICE57: Co
mponent 'C_Rel' has both per-user and per-machine data with a per-machine KeyPath.
Can any one please help me in resolving the above things.
Thanks in advance.
You need to read Part 10-Shortcuts (http://blogs.technet.com/alexshev/archive/2008/02/20/from-msi-to-wix-part-10-shortcuts.aspx) to understand the difference between advertised and non-advertised shortcuts.
Hi Alex,
I created a wix file using the Major upgrade wix file sample described by you. It works great.
The wix file I created is for a Visual studio package application.
I am facing a problem in the upgrade scenario. When I install a new build of the msi, if Visual studio is running, I get a UI from the installer with two options
1. Automatically close applications and attempt to restart them after setup is complete
2. Do not close applicaiotns
The check box is set for the first option.
When I click OK. Visual studio crashes during closing and gives an option to debug or close.
WHen I hit debug, there is a access violation exception in devenv.exe.
Do you know why this is happening.
Any help on this would be great.
Thanks,
Abhishek
Hi Abhishek,
Sorry, I don't know why Visual Studio crashes when Restart Manager is trying to shut it down. You need to ask Visual Studio people why this is happening.
Thanks Alex for your response. I would like to know how I get this dialog automatically when I am performing an upgrade.
What part of wix code brings up that dialog. Is it an out of box feature.
Read about FilesInUse (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368592(VS.85).aspx) and MsiRMFilesInUse (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370379(VS.85).aspx) dialogs. If you are using any flavor of Wix UI, you have them already. This topic (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372466(VS.85).aspx) has fairly good explanation on using RestartManager in Windows Installer.
Hi,
How can I get the IP address and the port address of my system that should be dynamically generated in a text box using wix.Is there any way to get the address using any property or any env variable? please help
Siddharth
Hi, could you provide such tutorial for installin COM objects? How to handle the restart PC, so that the setup continues afterward, from where it had stopped?
