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Re: How to get elevated privileges from a MSI?

2008-07-24T19:02:55Z

It was indeed a custom action but this custom action was executed during
the UI phase and that's why it was failing. We found a workaround by
have 2 custom actions, one during the UI that does the checking but
actually does not require elevated privileges and a second one that use
the data produced by the first one to perform actions requiring elevated

Re: How to use a command prompt command to extract an MSI from an exe

2008-07-24T18:26:48Z

This looks like it:
[link]

Re: VC8 runtime merge module and COM registration on Vista, error 0x80

2008-07-24T18:24:00Z

The trick is to get the C++ runtime installed on the system first! Vista
uses fusion (.NET if you like) to install the C++ runtime (previous OS
versions did not), and as a result the runtime Dlls are not available until
the install is finished (InstallFinalize).

Re: Visual Studio setup - during upgrade, calls old version of custom action

2008-07-24T18:20:57Z

I think the KB article is trying to say that some of the identity attributes
of the assembly need to be different between the old and new assemblies,
such as strong name and assembly version so that the infrastructure doesn't
think that the two assemblies are identical.
Speaking of infrastructure, whether you know it or not you are using

How to use a command prompt command to extract an MSI from an exe

2008-07-24T16:18:01Z

Hello everyone
A week or so ago I happened to find a site which gave me a command prompt
command which could be used to extract the MSI file from the dotnetfx.exe
file, so the MSI could be distributed via Group Policy. I used this to
successfully extract the .NET Framework version 2.0 MSI, however I was

VC8 runtime merge module and COM registration on Vista, error 0x80

2008-07-24T07:37:00Z

I have a problem on Vista where my COM DLLs don't register (HRESULT =
0x800736B1) .. after Googling it seems this is caused by the C runtime not
being installed. (All other DLLs that are compiled with VC8 or supplied by
others register fine.)
My installer also works fine on Windows XP.
I install the VC8 runtime stuff with the merge modules

Re: Visual Studio setup - during upgrade, calls old version of custom action

2008-07-24T01:23:13Z

Thanks; I tried, but signing the class library with installer class did not
help, the installation still showed the same message from version1. Besides,
I don't use " LoadFrom method inside the System.Configuration.Install.d ll
file" - the only code in installer class is
msgbox ("before install v1")

Re: How to get elevated privileges from a MSI?

2008-07-23T20:51:15Z

If the issue is a custom action that needs elevation you may need to change
the type to "not impersonate".

Re: Visual Studio setup - during upgrade, calls old version of custom action

2008-07-23T20:46:42Z

You've probably got this:
[link]

Re: WI 4.5 SDK INCLUDE Directory Bugs ( "specstrings.h" missing)

2008-07-22T18:40:02Z

using Microsoft.Deployment.WindowsIn staller;
Much easier.... :-)

How to enable Close button in Progress dialog

2008-07-21T23:28:13Z

I am using WiX but I believe this problem may be independent of it. My
Progress dialog shows disabled Close button and thus prevents me from
cancelling the installation.
Yet, I have done nothing (that I am aware of) to cause that. Progress
Dialog is declared like this:
<Dialog Id="ProgressDialog" Width="300" Height="250" Title="!

How to enable Close button in Progress dialog

2008-07-21T23:27:54Z

Re: How to get elevated privileges from a MSI?

2008-07-21T23:06:15Z

On Jul 18, 8:50 pm, "Emmanuel Stapf [ES]" <ma...@newsgroups.nospam>
wrote:
In any case, even if you do not want to allow always elevated
privileges to installer, I would check Windows Installer group policy
entries (with gpedit.msc) to see if there is something there that is
preventing you to run.

Re: How to get elevated privileges from a MSI?

2008-07-21T23:02:08Z

On Jul 18, 8:50 pm, "Emmanuel Stapf [ES]" <ma...@newsgroups.nospam>
wrote:
InstallPrivileges=elevated is the default value, so something else may
be your problem.
Group policy editor shows in Administrative Templates\Windows
Components\Windows Installer an entry called "Always install with
elevated privileges"

Re: How to get elevated privileges from a MSI?

2008-07-21T17:28:51Z

Actually I've been using WiX to generate this package so it is of direct
interest to me. I'll try that.
Thanks,
Manu