I am writing a Wix installer to install .NET assemblies to the GAC. Easy... My question is: is it possible to future proof this scenario so that I can pull ANY assemblies found in an existing network folder and register each of them - without having to hardcode the exact assembly names? This would allow me to create a single MSI that co...
I'm just starting out with WiX 3 and can't figure out why it can't understand the Icon attributes in my .wsx file. I get the error message: Error 2 Unresolved reference to symbol 'Icon:Sample.exe' in section 'Product:{95DB18C7-24DC-474D-B58C-DC91AFD912F3}'. The section it is complaining about is: <Shortcut Id="startmenuSample" Direct...
Following some example code on the net, I got my first WiX installer to work. However, it placed my program menu shortcut directly on Program Menus. I really want to create a folder, Sample, in Program Menus for my link. Original Code: <Shortcut Id="startmenuSample" Directory="ProgramMenuFolder" Name="Sample 0.5" WorkingDirectory='IN...
I'm fighting with the InstallerDefinition.dslsetup file in a DSL setup project. I'm getting the following error: Running transformation: The setup project could not retrieve the output path for project 'PsiTraffic.Modeling.PomModel.Dsl' from the environment. Ensure that this project exists in the solution. Only Visual C# and Visual Basi...
How do I install a service with some additional files in WiX, and define what file is the actual service EXE file? Scenario: I had a service which was just a single EXE file, and installed it as a Windows NT service in WiX with this code: <Component Id='InstallMyServiceComponent' Guid='{....}' DiskId='1'> <File Id='InstallMyServiceE...
I am using WIX for an installer package. When I uninstall the package by double clicking the original msi package everything is fine. When I uninstall from the control panel it gives me a miminal UI uninstallation. I have written into my MSI a custom action which asks the user whether they want to uninstall some databases etc. This does...
I am trying to create a website installer and am using wix. i am using this tutorial http://www.dalun.com/wix/01.05.2007.htm i had to change my script to use <Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi"> because it was complaining about <Wix xmlns='http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2003/01/wi'> so my script looks...
I started to write an Installer with Wix. I've spent several days reading blogs and studying tutorials. Last night I couldn't sleep, so I sat down in Fireworks and drew the folliwing picture. That's my understanding so far of how Windows Installer / Wix work. Is there anything wrong? Do you have any suggestion to complete this graph? ht...
Hi, I'm fairly new to WIX. Bare with me. I wish to install Microsoft POS (Point of service) with my installer, after installing .net fx, sql server compact edition, etc. I am willing to supply the downloaded exe with installer (no need to get it from the web). I've found this link. The article in the link indicate that you need to ca...
When I'm running (multiple) lengthy custom actions, can I update the GUI's status text with some info on the progress? ...
I have a WiX 3 project that has hundreds of files, and I can't seem to figure out how to include them all using a wildcard. I have tried this: heat.exe" dir ".\!Build" -gg -ke -template:fragment -out "Files.wxs" This produces a fragment .wxs file, but I'm not sure what to do with it. Any help would be much appreciated. ...
I'm attempting to apply custom rights to a folder as part of a WiX 3.0.4318.0 installer. In terms of the Security properties UI in explorer, I want to add Modify to the rights for BUILTIN\Users. Obviously it needs to be resilient against localisation of the user name. So based on my research to date, I want at least: <CreateFolder Dir...
I am just starting to use Wix and would like to use heat to extract the outputs from my Visual C++ projects to source Wix files. This seems to work great for my C# projects, however, whenever I run heat on a C++ project I get an error: heat project MyProject.vcproj -pog:Binaries -cg MyGroup -nologo -out MySource.wxs heat.exe : error HE...
Following the excellent suggestion I have moved some variables to wxi file. How do I include it in wxs file? ...
I am a beginner of Wix, I make a msi, and install it in windows7,but the application only work correctly when runas administrator. Can somebody give me some suggest? ...
More specifically I want to test whether Oracle ODP.Net is installed on a machine. I want to do this by testing for the HKLM\SOFTWARE\ORACLE\ODP.NET registry key. The actual values used by ODP.Net are stored in HKLM\SOFTWARE\ORACLE\ODP.NET\2.111.6.20 however I assume that this lower level key's name will change as updates are released b...
Some executable files have resources marked "language neutral". Is it possible to package these binaries using WiX? The error I receive is: error LGHT0204 : ICE03: Invalid Language Id; Table: File, Column: Language, Key(s) Setting the Product.Language attribute to '0' does not fix the problem. ...
Hi there, I'm facing an issue with my wix installer. I have a custom dialog that contains an edit control linked to a property. At runtime if I change the value in the edit control I see from the log that the property is properly updated with that new value. But it seems that when the installUISequence ends the property is reset to it...
I am adding elements to an XML file during installation using the XmlFile element: <util:XmlFile Id="SetOracleDialectProperty" Action="createElement" ElementPath="//hibernate-configuration/session-factory" Name="property" Sequence="9" File="[INSTALLLOCATION]Config\hib...
Hello, I need to install plugins (or add-ons) to an application we write. I user WiX for the installer of the application. A plugin is, in my mind, an optional part of the application. It needs to integrate into the file-system structure of the application, but it can also be added later, even by someone who does not have control over th...