I wrote an Installer with Wix. Everything works but I can't delete Registry Keys on Uninstall; the log says
Disallowing uninstallation of component: {...} since another client
exists
. The code is
<ComponentGroup Id="RegistryGroup">
<Component Id="_FB6B829B_467B_4EB8_B90C_9FF64097AD38" Guid="3FBC3951-B566-4EB9-842C-9FB70A8ECDE6" Transitive="no" Directory="TARGETDIR">
<RegistryKey Root="HKCU" Key="Software" ForceCreateOnInstall="no" ForceDeleteOnUninstall="no" />
</Component>
<Component Id="_F47C127C_2EAC_4F0C_B742_03FFBCABE8AE" Guid="A5D5FF6A-1EEA-4941-9DC5-573FDCB595A5" Transitive="no" Directory="TARGETDIR">
<RegistryKey Root="HKCU" Key="Software\[Manufacturer]" ForceCreateOnInstall="no" ForceDeleteOnUninstall="yes" />
</Component>
<Component Id="_684BCAC8_3162_4C7C_93A3_908CA1485F5C" Guid="92BF7699-68B1-44EE-BDE8-AF7E7CEB0EB0" Transitive="no" Directory="TARGETDIR">
<RegistryKey Root="HKCU" Key="Software\[Manufacturer]\[ProductName]" ForceCreateOnInstall="no" ForceDeleteOnUninstall="yes" />
</Component>
<Component Id="_FC3941D7_6617_4313_8257_5C3DE03A9838" Guid="7DCD2392-AC9A-4690-BC99-FEACAA774B08" Transitive="no" Directory="TARGETDIR">
<RegistryValue Root="HKCU" Key="Software\[Manufacturer]\[ProductName]" Type="string" Name="ProductName" Value="[ProductName]" />
</Component>
<Component Id="_B86DABB3_7467_428B_9ECF_A6F59DB594E4" Guid="7A61E342-9764-4AA4-86A9-87C7A9C1DB09" Transitive="no" Directory="TARGETDIR">
<RegistryValue Root="HKCU" Key="Software\[Manufacturer]\[ProductName]" Type="string" Name="ProductCode" Value="[ProductCode]" />
</Component>
<Component Id="_201EDD75_B6C7_4873_8AF9_06230F421B4F" Guid="52AE095B-FDEE-4923-B78A-F314BC26C6B6" Transitive="no" Directory="TARGETDIR">
<RegistryValue Root="HKCU" Key="Software\[Manufacturer]\[ProductName]" Type="string" Name="Company" Value="[Manufacturer]" />
</Component>
<Component Id="_B76910AF_8752_45C2_98BF_80724406E3F9" Guid="81B183E7-67CA-4EF6-848E-55F8299B0A5C" Transitive="no" Directory="TARGETDIR">
<RegistryValue Root="HKCU" Key="Software\[Manufacturer]\[ProductName]" Type="string" Name="ProductVersion" Value="[ProductVersion]" />
</Component>
<Component Id="_9BF1C162_A7A6_4B43_9D7C_6BD85C6C4F27" Guid="A571BA72-2216-49F0-AC28-E72C0866E9A3" Transitive="no" Directory="TARGETDIR">
<RegistryValue Root="HKCU" Key="Software\[Manufacturer]\[ProductName]" Type="string" Name="Location" Value="[TARGETDIR]" />
</Component>
<Component Id="_B140E686_B49A_4BE4_93B3_DEEB07E5218E" Guid="F8996C3A-48EA-40DD-818B-5DC095B5F46F" Transitive="no" Directory="TARGETDIR">
<RegistryValue Root="HKCU" Key="Software\[Manufacturer]\[ProductName]" Type="string" Name="Author" Value="[ARPCONTACT]" />
</Component>
<Component Id="_801F11AF_23B6_4C63_AEE7_05EB877E6543" Guid="0EC7189F-95BE-411E-BE48-A469032923F4" Transitive="no" Directory="TARGETDIR">
<RegistryValue Root="HKCU" Key="Software\[Manufacturer]\[ProductName]" Type="string" Name="Website" Value="[ARPHELPLINK]" />
</Component>
</ComponentGroup>
What's wrong?
You have two or more installs with components that share the same GUIDs. You probably have authored upgrades of your install incorrectly in some way so every time you tested your installation you were adding more references to the GUIDs tied to these registry keys. You may also have more than one installation on your machine of your product.
You should have a bunch of registry entries under HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\S-1-5-18\Components{GUID} Note that the GUID is going to be a different format due to endianness (I think) May help
I would suggest testing your installer in a clean environment preferably on a VM with a clean snapshot you can revert to in case you author a broken installer and are unable to install/uninstall/upgrade the installer and get your machine into a bad state.
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I was looking for solution for some time but without success. I must admitt that I am begginer with wix. I have got one project (WPF + caliburn, using Visual Studio 2015) beeing compiled separately for x86 and x64. I use x64 machine to create both MSIs. Unfortunately during installation the setup always writes to 64bit registers which causes problems for the application.
I have created following components, trying to fix it using Win64="no" entry, unfortunately with no success. Can somone please advice correct component configuration?
<DirectoryRef Id="TARGETDIR">
<?if $(var.Platform)="x64"?>
<Component Id="Registry_DefaultStoragePath" Guid="123-456-789" Win64="yes">
<RegistryKey Root="HKLM"
Key="Software\KeyName" Action="createAndRemoveOnUninstall">
<RegistryValue Type="string" Name="DefaultStorageLocation" Value="[DEFAULTSTORAGE]" KeyPath="yes"/>
</RegistryKey>
</Component>
<Component Id="Registry_InstallType" Guid="123-456-789" Win64="yes">
<RegistryKey Root="HKLM"
Key="Software\KeyName" Action="createAndRemoveOnUninstall" >
<RegistryValue Type="string" Name="InstallType" Value="[INSTALLTYPE]" KeyPath="yes"/>
</RegistryKey>
</Component>
<?endif?>
<?if $(var.Platform)="x86"?>
<Component Id="Registry_DefaultStoragePath" Guid="132-456-789" Win64="no">
<RegistryKey Root="HKLM"
Key="Software\KeyName" Action="createAndRemoveOnUninstall">
<RegistryValue Type="string" Name="DefaultStorageLocation" Value="[DEFAULTSTORAGE]" KeyPath="yes"/>
</RegistryKey>
</Component>
<Component Id="Registry_InstallType" Guid="123-456-789" Win64="no">
<RegistryKey Root="HKLM"
Key="Software\KeyName" Action="createAndRemoveOnUninstall" >
<RegistryValue Type="string" Name="InstallType" Value="[INSTALLTYPE]" KeyPath="yes"/>
</RegistryKey>
</Component>
<?endif?>
The main problem is that <?if $(var.Platform)="x64"?> is handled by the preprocessor, so it is evaluated at compile-time, not runtime.
In order to handle x86/x64 runtime you can do this:
<component ....>
<condition>NOT VersionNT64</condition>
<!-- 32 bit component -->
<!-- Add component content here -->
</component>
<component ....>
<condition>VersionNT64</condition>
<!-- 64 bit component -->
<!-- Add component content here -->
</component>
This works fine:
<DirectoryRef Id="INSTALLDIR">
<Component Id="RegistryValues" Guid="...">
<RegistryKey Root="HKLM" Key="Software\company\Server" >
<RegistryValue Type="string" Name="InstallPath" Value="[INSTALLDIR]" KeyPath="yes"/>
</RegistryKey>
<RemoveRegistryValue Root="HKCU" Key="SOFTWARE\company\Server" Name="version"/>
</Component>
</DirectoryRef>
But this:
<DirectoryRef Id="INSTALLDIR">
<Component Id="RegistryValues" Guid="...">
<RegistryKey Root="HKLM" Key="Software\company\Server" >
<RegistryValue Type="string" Name="InstallPath" Value="[INSTALLDIR]" KeyPath="yes"/>
</RegistryKey>
<RemoveRegistryKey Action="removeOnUninstall"
Root="HKCU" Key="SOFTWARE\company\Server\version"/>
</Component>
</DirectoryRef>
leads to error:
error LGHT0204: ICE57: Component 'RegistryValues' has both per-user and per-machine data with a per-machine KeyPath.
Why the first case doesn't throw the same error?
version 3.8.1128.0
I'm new on wix. In need to create a shortcut to a local website.
It works fine and creates the shorcuts, but it doesn't show any icon on start menu and desktop... The website has favicon file and when I open the site I can see it perfectly - I just don't see it in the shortcut. I tried to google it but I didn't find a good answer for util:InternetShortcut..
My code is:
<DirectoryRef Id="ApplicationProgramsFolder">
<Component Id="ApplicationShortcutBBBApp" Guid="---">
<util:InternetShortcut Id="ApplicationStartMenuShortcutBBBApp"
Name="BBB"
Target="http://localhost/BBB"/>
<util:InternetShortcut Id="ApplicationDesktopShortcutBBBApp"
Name="BBB"
Directory="DesktopFolder"
Target="http://localhost/BBB"/>
<RegistryValue Root="HKCU" Key="Software\Microsoft\BBB" Name="installed" Type="integer" Value="1" KeyPath="yes"/>
</Component>
</DirectoryRef>
There is an easier solution for that problem. Instead of using InternetShortcut, you can just use the normal Shortcut and use a trick to set the target being a url.
<SetProperty Id="URL" Value="http://yourpage.com" Sequence="execute" Before="CreateShortcuts" />
<Shortcut Directory="DesktopFolder" Id="WebShortcut" Name="Your Page" Description="Your Page Description" Target="[URL]" Icon="IconDesktop">
<Icon Id="IconDesktop" SourceFile="images\icon.ico" />
</Shortcut>
"SetProperty" can be placed somewhere in your Product tag.
"Shortcut" should be placed instead of "InternetShortcut".
It is important to have the property [URL] as a Target. As a Property it can be an url. Diretctly written it doese not work.
There might be warnings in heat/candle/light, they can be ignored.
InternetShortcut doesn't support specifying an icon like a normal Shortcut. There's an open feature request for that. Technically, IUniformResourceLocator shortcuts in Windows don't support icons, though IShellLink shortcuts do.
A little late answering this, but just needed to do the same thing. The approach I took was to use the iniFile element to write out a url file.
Two points of interest with this approach:
Since the shortcut is on the desktop and the icon file is located elsewhere on the file system, I needed to create separate components to deploy the icon file.
If the MSI is ran as a normal user with UAC turned on, the icon is not set for the shortcut. Once I disabled UAC prior to installing, the icon was set correctly.
<Fragment>
<DirectoryRef Id="DesktopFolder">
<Component Id="ProductInternetShortcut" Guid="{YOUR_GUID_HERE}" >
<IniFile Id="url_name"
Action="addLine"
Directory="DesktopFolder"
Section="InternetShortcut"
Name="ProductInternetShortcut.url"
Key="URL"
Value="https://my.url.com/" />
<IniFile Id="url_target"
Action="addLine"
Directory="DesktopFolder"
Section="InternetShortcut"
Name="ProductInternetShortcut.url"
Key="Target"
Value="https://my.url.com/" />
<IniFile Id="url_idlist"
Action="createLine"
Directory="DesktopFolder"
Section="InternetShortcut"
Name="ProductInternetShortcut.url"
Key="IDList"
Value=" " />
<IniFile Id="url_HotKey"
Action="addLine"
Directory="DesktopFolder"
Section="InternetShortcut"
Name="ProductInternetShortcut.url"
Key="HotKey"
Value="0" />
<IniFile Id="url_icon"
Action="addLine"
Directory="DesktopFolder"
Section="InternetShortcut"
Name="ProductInternetShortcut.url"
Key="IconFile"
Value="PATH_TO_ICON_FILE_ON_WORKSTATION" />
<IniFile Id="url_iconIndex"
Action="addLine"
Directory="DesktopFolder"
Section="InternetShortcut"
Name="ProductInternetShortcut.url"
Key="IconIndex"
Value="0" />
<RegistryValue Root="HKCU" Key="Software\COMPANY\PRODUCT" Name="installed" Type="integer" Value="1" KeyPath="yes" />
</Component>
</DirectoryRef>
<DirectoryRef Id="ProductFolder">
<Component Id="ShortcutIcons" Guid="{YOUR_GUID_HERE}">
<File Id="filProductIcons" KeyPath="yes" Source="PATH_TO_ICON_FILE_ON_DEVELOPER_MACHINE" />
</Component>
</DirectoryRef>
</Fragment>
In Wix you can create an InternetShortcut with an icon via the InternetShortcut Element (Util Extension).
Below is an example from an app I'm working on of adding a link to a website with an icon via the <InternetShorcut> element and placing that link on both the Desktop and the Start Menu.
Note, you may have to put the "util" prefix in front of the element name like so although I didn't have to do that: <util:InternetShortcut>.
<Directory Id="ProgramMenuFolder" Name="ProgramMenuFolder">
<Directory Id="ProgramMenuFolder.MyApplicationName" Name="MyApplicationName">
<Component Id="Component.Uninstall" Guid="215c7bec-7967-43e6-8f01-72c27fbb2a98">
<CreateFolder/>
<RemoveFolder Id="ProgramMenuFolder.MyApplicationName" On="uninstall"/>
<RegistryKey Root="HKCU" Key="Software\MyCompany\MyApplicationName">
<RegistryValue Value="0" Type="string" KeyPath="yes"/>
</RegistryKey>
</Component>
<Component Id="InternetShortcut" Guid="215c7bec-7967-43e6-8f01-72c22e505f09">
<InternetShortcut
IconFile="[INSTALLDIR]\icon.ico"
IconIndex="0"
Name="Admin Page"
Id="InternetShortcut"
Target="http://localhost:4444"
Type="link"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/UtilExtension"/>
<CreateFolder/>
<RegistryKey Root="HKCU" Key="Software\MyCompany\MyApplicationName">
<RegistryValue Value="0" Type="string" KeyPath="yes"/>
</RegistryKey>
</Component>
</Directory>
</Directory>
<Directory Id="DesktopFolder" Name="DesktopFolder">
<Component Id="InternetShortcut.1" Guid="B27DF351-6EDA-4BEF-A3AC-F12313260203">
<InternetShortcut
IconFile="[INSTALLDIR]\icon.ico"
IconIndex="0"
Name="Admin Page"
Id="InternetShortcut.1"
Target="http://localhost:4444"
Type="link"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/UtilExtension"/>
<CreateFolder/>
<RegistryKey Root="HKCU" Key="Software\MyCompany\MyApplicationName">
<RegistryValue Value="0" Type="string" KeyPath="yes"/>
</RegistryKey>
</Component>
</Directory>
<Feature Id="Complete" Title="Complete" Absent="allow" Level="1">
<ComponentRef Id="InternetShortcut"/>
<ComponentRef Id="InternetShortcut.1"/>
</Feature>
Also, see How To: Create a Shortcut to a Webpage
I created shortcut in the Startup folder. Is it possible to add "Run as administrator" property for my shortcut by wix? here my code:
<Component Id="AutostartService" Guid="GUID">
<Condition>AUTOSTART="1"</Condition>
<RegistryKey Action="createAndRemoveOnUninstall" Root="HKCU"
Key="Software\$(var.Manufacturer)\$(var.ProductName)\$(var.ApplicationName)">
<RegistryValue Name="ShortcutAutostart"
Type="integer" Value="1"
KeyPath="yes">
</RegistryValue>
</RegistryKey>
<Shortcut Advertise="no" Directory="StartupFolder"
Name="Service"
Target="[INSTALLLOCATION]Service.exe"
Id="SHORTCUT_auto"
WorkingDirectory="INSTALLLOCATION" >
</Shortcut>
<RemoveFile Id="remove_autostart" Name="Service" On="uninstall"/>
</Component>
No, it's not supported, because it's "the wrong thing to do."
I am using the following code to install a web application. It creates the virtual directory just fine, but doesn't convert the virtual directory in application. I am running IIS 7
I have searched a lot but couldn't find anything different in order to make an application of virtual directory. Can someone point what's wrong with the following code?
<Component Id="WebAppVDirComponent"
Guid="C7A4B0E8-2389-4A2A-B285-96960BEE1C51"
KeyPath="yes">
<iis:WebVirtualDir Id="VDir"
Alias="[WEB_APP_NAME]"
Directory="INSTALLDIR"
WebSite="TheWebSite" >
<!-- Turn the Virtual Directory into a web application. -->
<iis:WebApplication Id="WebApplication"
Name="[WEB_APP_NAME])"
WebAppPool="TheAppPool"/>
</iis:WebVirtualDir>
<CreateFolder/>
</Component>
Try this out. This is working perfectly fine for me.
<Component Id="VDProductCenter" Guid="493E3487-AA4C-4476-8CC0-4B1C763AF6F7" Permanent="no">
<File Id="Dummy" KeyPath="yes" Name="Dummy.txt" Source="Files/dummy.txt"></File>
<iis:WebVirtualDir Id="PCVDir" Alias="[VDNAME]" Directory="dir_Application_0" WebSite="PCWebSelectedWebSite">
<iis:WebApplication Id="PCWebApp" Name="[VDNAME]" />
</iis:WebVirtualDir>
<RegistryKey Root="HKLM" Action="createAndRemoveOnUninstall" Key="SOFTWARE\CompanyName\[ProductCode]\VirtualDirectory">
<RegistryValue Name="VDName" Type="string" Value="[VDNAME]"/>
</RegistryKey>
</Component>
<Component Id="PersistWebSiteValues" Guid="C3DAE2E2-FB49-48ba-ACB0-B2B5B726AE65" Permanent="no">
<File Id="Dummy1" KeyPath="yes" Name="Dummy1.txt" Source="Files/dummy.txt"></File>
<RegistryKey Root="HKLM" Action="createAndRemoveOnUninstall" Key="SOFTWARE\CompanyName\[ProductCode]\WebSiteValues">
<RegistryValue Name="WebSiteDescription" Type="string" Value="[WEB_WEBSITE_DESCRIPTION]"/>
<RegistryValue Name="WebSitePort" Type="string" Value="[WEB_WEBSITE_PORT]"/>
<RegistryValue Name="WebSiteIP" Type="string" Value="[WEB_WEBSITE_IP]"/>
<RegistryValue Name="WebSiteHeader" Type="string" Value="[WEB_WEBSITE_HEADER]"/>
</RegistryKey>
</Component>
<iis:WebSite Id="PCWebSelectedWebSite" Description="[PCWEB_WEBSITE_DESCRIPTION]">
<iis:WebAddress Id="AllUnassigned1" Port="[WEB_WEBSITE_PORT]" IP="[WEB_WEBSITE_IP]" Header="[WEB_WEBSITE_HEADER]" />
</iis:WebSite>
It is a sort of bug (i think). I found out at WIX newsgroup
http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Problem-creating-web-application-sometimes-td6653518.html