I want to have my exePackage saved on a network path and for the bootrapper to "download" it from this place if needed.
I cannot get the bootstapper to work with the path. My log says failed to connect to ....
I have tried may different things with the / or \ and with "file" at the beginning. But I cannot seem to get it right. Firefox, Internet Explorer and file explorer all have no problem with this format, however wix will change it in the log. The log show "file://servname..."
DownloadUrl="file://///servname/foldername1/foldername2/folder%20withaspace/myEXE.exe"
What should it be?
EDIT: One work around would be to use the Source attribute and have it pointing to the network path. But my development pc with Visual Studio (M$ version) does not have access to this network share so I cannot use the Name or Source of the exePackage to refer to this file.
Burn supports downloading from BITS, FTP, HTTP, and HTTPS. It doesn't support SMB shares.
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Testers may have this issue for sure.
Assume that we have a testcase that should be automated. And it has a step to download a file from the webpage by clicking a link and it will be downloaded to our local machine’s download folder. As the next step it should be verified that the file is downloaded.
So in a local machine this can be handled easily by using the download paths and all. But the matter that I have is this exact same testcase is getting fail in Jenkins (cloud run). It returns a null value because the download directory cannot be found in Jenkins.
Do you guys know what kind of solution that can we take for this? I heard something using API request to download the file. Yes this file is also getting downloaded by a GET request with parameters. But I don’t know how to perform that.
Thanks for your time.
I tried the bellow options.
Changing the directory to Windows and Linux as per the documents
By using jenkins home directory
What I want to do?
to verify that the file is downloaded
Read the file and check with the db (This has existing methods)
I have a program, we'll call it foo.msi that I wrote using WIX.
Users want to be able to install it TO (not from, but TO) a network share.
If you try to change to the network , it will not allow you to select the network drive.
What kind of permissions does a user have to have to install stuff to a network share?
Basically the setup is used to distribute a file spread with some logic behind it.
Are there some WIX parameters we can alter here to allow it with basic read/write capabilities?
Thanks...
Found my answer.
<Property Id="WIXUI_DONTVALIDATEPATH" Value="1" />
WIXUI_DONTVALIDATEFILEPATH="1" will surpress the drive checking but there is a trick . You must TYPE IN the path you wish to install to fully. If you try and change it change the Change Folder dialog you will get the error "installation directory mustbe a local hard drive" .
This is a WiX bug and is scheduled to be fixed in WiX 4.0 - https://github.com/wixtoolset/issues/issues/4737 .
Where can I get the SvcTraceViewer Tool please?
I tried downloading and installing many SDKs.
I've looked in the bins of the Program Files.
I need it to trace whats going wrong with my WCF call.
You can get it by downloading the Windows SDK. The latest one can be found at https://developer.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/downloads/windows-10-sdk/, but if the link doesn't work, searching for "Download Windows SDK" should take you to the correct link.
When you install it, it may be added to the path variable. If not, you can search under the 'Microsoft SDKs' folder under 'Program Files (x86)'. For example, in my machine, it is found at C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v10.0A\bin\NETFX 4.8 Tools.
I'm on Windows 10 and this works for me:
Use a search engine on "Win 7 SDK ISO", to get a Microsoft site result, such as this one:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8442
You may need to click into the site's 'Archives' section.
Then download the ISO, such as:
GRMSDK_EN_DVD.ISO
Right click the ISO file to Mount it to a local drive (such as your I drive), then double click this file to open it:
I:\Setup\WinSDKNetFx40Tools\cab1.cab
Scroll down to find this file in the cab:
FL_SvcTraceViewer_exe_x86_ln.3643236F_FC70_11D3_A536_0090278A1BB8
And right click to Extract it somewhere like your Documents folder.
Rename the file to SvcTraceViewer.exe and launch it.
I have a Wix installer which is designed to install (uninstall) a Windows service and another .exe file. When I uninstall the software using this installer, and enabling extra log, I see some error messages about unable to remove my installation folder, although it is indeed empty. The first message that appears on the log is like this:
DEBUG: Error 2911: Could not remove the folder MY_INSTALLATION_FOLDER.
The following errors are all about the same problem. My first guess is of course that there are some resources that were being used during the uninstallation. However, like I mentioned, all components in this folder were indeed removed and this is an empty folder by now. Also, this error is the first error in the log, meaning there was no error prior to removing this folder. For example, from the log I can see a series of FileRemove actions were taken right prior to the folder removal and they all succeeded. So it's gotta be that this folder itself was being used. But I really can't figure out why and what is holding this folder. By the way the software was indeed uninstalled since the final product removal returns 0 and every thing related to our software was removed (Windows service list, shortcuts, registries...) excepted this empty folder. It is not crucial but we definitely don't want to hear from our customer asking about this kind of error anyway(they are using auto-installation and the log is by default enabled and checked)
Please help. Thanks!
Possible causes:
Other process is locking that folder. Use Unlocker to
verify if that's the case.
Some folders have restricted permissions
by Windows (e.g. C:\Windows\system32). Generally, you should avoid creating files under Windows own folders (unless it's required, I.e.: your'e installing a device driver).
Did you properly set folder permissions?
I have added a config file (myapp.exe.config) that is deployed to the device after installation. But the problem is that this file gets read-only attribute. I have tried adding some stuff in the setup project in "codeINSTALL_EXIT" function. On emulator it works ... it removes the read only attribute, while when installing on the phone the attribute stays.
SetFileAttributes(szPathConfig, FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL)
Any ideas?
It's not completely clear from your question how the file is getting deployed (though I think from a CAb only). Things to check/know:
If you install via CAB, but then deploy from Studio (i.e. Debug) the file will get overwritten and the file studio pushes may well be read-only, especially if your SCC mechanism locks local files that aren't checked out (like VSS does).
When you build a CAB file, the file attributes get inherited from the source, meaning that if the file is read-only on the PC when you create the CAB, it will be read-only coming out of the CAB. One woudl think that the EXIT of the installer would be late enough to alter the attributes, but I've never tested it. Following your current path, you might check that the attributes before setting and also check to see if the Set call is actually succeeding. Personally I'd just make sure all files were read/write enabled before building the CAB to avoid the whole problem in the first place.