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What can go wrong if msi installations will be patched with xcopy?

schip...@gmx.at (Gottfried Schipfer) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:33:45 UT

Hi,
I try to use as much as possible MSI based installations for our software
products.
Now colleagues have implemented a patch tool which updates installed
products (1st install by msi) with an batch-file.
They update several files, kill running processes, stop/restart services,
execute sql scripts and register com servers with this tool.

RE: Tooltips won't show when MsiInstallProduct employed

rado...@discussions.microsoft.com (Radovan) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:23:01 UT

A similar problemobserved with the DirectoryCombo control. It won't show the
directory list if the package is launched by MsiInstallProduct yet it works
fine when CreateProcess used.

Tooltips won't show when MsiInstallProduct employed

rado...@discussions.microsoft.com (Radovan) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:25:01 UT

Hello,
I have made a simple MSI package which shows a dialog with single editbox.
The Help column of the editbox in the Control table contains "Nonsensical
tooltip text.|" (export below).
Dialog_ Control Type X Y Width Height Attributes Property Text Control_Next Help
TooltipTestDlg Edit Edit 10 10 80 17 3 EditProperty Text Close Nonsensical

Re: Minor upgrade as MSI on server with previous version of MSI &

vb...@community.nospam (VishnuB) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:25:01 UT

Hi Jie Wang,
Do you have any update on this issue.

RE: Error 2755

ven...@discussions.microsoft.com (Venkat) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:49:02 UT

And to give a bit of a context - this is windows XP SP1, VersionMsi = 3.01.

Error 2755

ven...@discussions.microsoft.com (Venkat) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:26:01 UT

Can someone help with the following error.
MSI (c) (D8:8C) [17:35:38:343]: Note: 1: 2755 2: 1 3:
C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\LOCALS~1\ Temp\00003abe\VMware Tools.msi
DEBUG: Error 2755: Server returned unexpected error 1 attempting to install
package C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\LOCALS~1\ Temp\00003abe\VMware Tools.msi.

Re: CustomAction help

legalize+jee...@mail.xmission.com (Richard [Microsoft Windows Installer MVP]) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:27:19 UT

[Please do not mail me a copy of your followup]
"Micus" <N...@nowhere.com> spake the secret code
<uRTfRNKZKHA.5...@TK2MSFTNGP02 .phx.gbl> thusly:
The main thing you're bashing your head against here is the silly
constraints imposed on CAs by the VS.NET deployment project model.
The architecture I would use for your problem is this:

Re: Where did the "please wait..." message in setup.exe go?

ph...@wonderware.nospam.com (Wilson, Phil) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:45:10 UT

No it's not the same setup.exe, that's the point.

Re: Where did the "please wait..." message in setup.exe go?

mike...@newsgroups.nospam (MikeMio) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:43:02 UT

Ok, I have sent it.
Thanks,
Mike

Re: Where did the "please wait..." message in setup.exe go?

jie...@online.microsoft.com ("Jie Wang [MSFT]") — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:56:57 UT

Hello Mike,
Can you just send me (jiewan at msft) the setup.exe file (just that one
file and you'll probably need to rename and compress it to avoid antivirus
software killing it) so I can take a look and make sure what exactly it is?
Since I still don't know what it's made of (Visual Studio 2005 Setup

Re: CustomAction help

mike...@newsgroups.nospam (MikeMio) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:12:01 UT

If I recall correctly (it's a bit hazy), in order to get the right
privileges for Vista, when using the older Visual Studio deployment projects,
you have to manually adjust the custom action type. This because, as Phil
mentioned, the older setup projects don’t set it correctly.
So, after creating the msi file, you have to manually adjust the custom

Re: Where did the "please wait..." message in setup.exe go?

mike...@newsgroups.nospam (MikeMio) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:46:03 UT

Yes, I would guess that is the same setup.exe that visual studio uses. I
don't think .net comes into - at least I am not use .net for anything.
Still my question is what happened to the "please wait..." message box? I am
thinking that it must be something that I can re-activeate because it seems
hard to believe it would be removed. Without it there is nothing on the

Re: Where did the "please wait..." message in setup.exe go?

j...@mapson.jeffhenkels.com (Jeff Henkels) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:11:08 UT

That makes sense -- source for that version of setup.exe & msistuff.exe were
part of the Platform SDK at one time. I've used them on several occasions
for my setup projects.

Re: HKEY_CURRENT_USER vs HKCU

ph...@wonderware.nospam.com (Wilson, Phil) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:36:09 UT

Writing to HKLM is generally a better choice. For a multi-user app, these
would be the default set of registry items. The app can then copy these to
HKCU and update them as required when the user first runs the app. HKLM is
readable for limited users. There isn't really a practical way to populate

Re: Where did the "please wait..." message in setup.exe go?

ph...@wonderware.nospam.com (Wilson, Phil) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:25:47 UT

That sounds like the one specifically designed to download MSI files from an
internet location:
[link]
using msistuff etc.