[wix-users] Some questions

[William Fisher]

More on this installer:

I have an MSI that's installed as part of my bootstrapper.  Installation
seems to go fine, but when I try to uninstall, it says:

[23BC:2900][2017-07-18T11:14:36]w327: Will not uninstall package:
Application.Name.Database.Installer, found dependents: 1
[23BC:2900][2017-07-18T11:14:36]w328: Found dependent:
{5c31825e-d40e-44ce-8fcb-1d9656eee9fb}, name: Application Name

In this question:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12828514/wix-burn-issue-uninstall-fails-saying-found-dependent
Brian Johnson says that it's because I have stale data left over in the
registry.  This very well may be the case, but when I do a search in the
registry for that GUID, regedit churns along for a while and (so far)
returns no results - it's still running minutes later, it may have crashed
and just not informed me of that.

Has anyone solved this problem?  I can't install now, because the database
installer is the thing that loads the SQL into SQL Server, and since I
don't have any tables, the app opens but doesn't save or load any data in
the DB and crashes when I try.

Thanks for any info.


On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 10:30 AM William Fisher <wfisher at summa.com> wrote:

> Nir Bar and Habib,
>
> Thanks very much for the input.  I guess I didn't see the link to the
> supportedRuntime values somehow (definitely not that I'm frustrated, not
> that at all).  I'm going to look at the mbapreq.thm and mbapreq.wxl to see
> if I can't just completely co-opt it.  I feel like I'm doing something
> wrong, because this is a fairly simple set of tasks.  Install a certificate
> if it's Win7SP1, run .NET installation, run SQL Server installation,
> reboot, run app installation, run db schema installation.
>
> I'll run some tests, but I feel like I had <supportedRuntime
> version="v2.0.50727"/><supportedRuntime version="v4.0"/> there, but it
> didn't work right.  I'm willing to accept any version of 4, as long as the
> installer runs (because I can use the redistributable to install the ACTUAL
> version I need in my wxs).
>
> On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 8:13 AM Nir Bar <nir.bar at panel-sw.com> wrote:
>
>> To change the default .NET bootstrapping UI, customize mbapreq.thm,
>> mbapreq.wxl.You can find the default files in WiX source code in
>> src\ext\BalExtension\wixstdba\Resources folder
>>
>>
>> You can see valid values for supportedRuntime elements in
>> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/configure-apps/file-schema/startup/supportedruntime-element
>>
>>
>> P.S
>> Habib- thank you for the warm words.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --Independent WiX Expert. Creator of-
>> https://JetBA.net - Native and WPF WiX BootstrapperApplication Frameworks
>>
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