[wix-users] Some questions

[Hoover, Jacob]

You'd have to provide some more info on your bundle authoring, specifically around this MSI that isn't uninstalling and any dependency authoring you've done. The logs indicate the engine deciding to not uninstall this MSI because another package depends upon it.  So what you should be looking at is the other package, and see what it's plan looks like.

If you had a bad bundle before and you need to manually remove the leftovers, you can manually uninstall the MSI's from the command line.

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From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of William Fisher
Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2017 2:04 PM
To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
Subject: Re: [wix-users] Some questions

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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