Alex Shevchuk

From MSI to WiX, Part 26 - Shortcut: To pin or not to pin?

Alex Shevchuk — Thu, 13 May 2010 21:16:00 GMT

As you may already know , Windows 7 supports setting properties on shortcuts and MSI 5.0 provides MsiShortcutProperty table to enable setting shortcut properties from installation package. Let's start with updated nonadvertised shortcut sample from...(read more)

From MSI to WiX, Part 25 - Installable Items - Updating XML files using XmlFile

Alex Shevchuk — Wed, 27 May 2009 22:34:00 GMT

To use XmlFile element we need to: Add reference to WixUtilExtension extension. Add util namespace to <Wix> element: <? xml version = " 1.0 " encoding = " UTF-8 " ?> < Wix xmlns = " http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi...(read more)

From MSI to WiX, Part 24 - DLL Custom Actions - Get property value and obtaining/changing session information

Alex Shevchuk — Tue, 26 May 2009 22:20:00 GMT

In previous post we looked at how to set propery's value. Getting property value is more involved because we need to make sure that provided memory buffer for property value is big enough to hold the value. Function MsiGetProperty is used to get a property...(read more)

Documentation on WiX API

Alex Shevchuk — Fri, 22 May 2009 05:50:00 GMT

I just want to let everybody know that I am working on documenting WiX API, namely - wcautil and dutil libraries. I don't mind if this will become part of official WiX documentation. In fact, I hope - it will, because I personally, would like to see...(read more)

From MSI to WiX, Part 23 - DLL Custom Actions - Logging and setting properties

Alex Shevchuk — Sun, 17 May 2009 07:20:00 GMT

Let's start with setting property value using MSI API MsiSetProperty . This function takes three parameters: An installation handle, originally passed to custom action's function by Windows Installer. Name of the property to set or remove. ...(read more)

From MSI to WiX, Part 22 - DLL Custom Actions - Introduction

Alex Shevchuk — Sat, 16 May 2009 07:24:00 GMT

Today I am starting a mini series on writing C++ custom actions. Let's start with wizard-generated custom action project. Start Visual Studio and select "C++ Custom Action Project". Set "CAIntro" as the name of the project. Before we will start...(read more)

Можно ли использовать данные, полученные при использовании RegistrySearch в RegistryValue

Alex Shevchuk — Thu, 14 May 2009 23:24:00 GMT

English version is here . Вопрос: Можно ли использовать данные, полученные при использовании RegistrySearch в RegistryValue? Нечто вроде этого: <Property Id="PROP1"> <RegistrySearch Id="search1" Root="HKLM" Key="somekey...(read more)

Как сохранить значения свойств использовавшихся при начальной установке

Alex Shevchuk — Thu, 14 May 2009 09:35:00 GMT

English version is here . Один из наиболее часто задаваемых вопросов - как сохранить значение свойства, которое было присвоено свойству во время инсталлирования программы (присвоенное либо через параметер в командной строке или через пользовательский...(read more)

Preserving properties used during install

Alex Shevchuk — Thu, 14 May 2009 05:15:00 GMT

Русская версия здесь . One of the most common questions is how to preserve the value of property used during install (either passed through command line or properties like INSTALLLOCATION which can be changed in the UI) so that it can be used during...(read more)

Is it possible to use RegistrySearch result in RegistryValue?

Alex Shevchuk — Tue, 12 May 2009 08:50:00 GMT

Русская версия здесь . This post is an answer to this question sent to wix-users mailing list: Is it possible to use RegistrySearch result in RegistryValue? Something like this: <Property Id="PROP1"> <RegistrySearch Id="search1...(read more)