Wix patch add new component

Using patch creation properties using purely wix i have created basic samples for both and got both of them working okay so i am now try a real install upgrade patch. This patchfamily would select the fragment that contains the component mycomponent and add it to the patch. The default value is based on the platform set by the arch switch to candle. Now after creating the application, lets add the wix setup project. To prepare for this recipe, install visual studio 20 and close it before installing wix. You should also go to your projects properties rightclick the project name in the solution explorer and select properties, go to the linker tab, and in the edit control next to cultures. Create new project select windows installer xml setup project.

We also need to add our new dialog to the install sequence. Adding new components to existing features installs the. Even with wix, working with windows installer packages can be quite difficult. Lately i was told at work to create an installer for our new product. When i add a new component with an sqlscript element in the new msi and then build the patch and apply it, the uninstall option disappears. Fragments offer a way to break up large installation projects. You should now have a setup project with a single product. Oct, 2014 creation of desktop and start menu shortcuts. Rightclicking the current solution and clicking add new project from the context menu. Oct 19, 2009 by default the wix project has a product.

And when new references are added you need to know this before you can build the installer. However, that control is only displayed when the install is exe. I am using patchcreation property for creating the patches and i add the new target property when we have new patch to release. Minor upgrades provide product differentiation without actually defining a different product. Mar 26, 20 in my previous post i created a wix installer with the wizwix. Creating windows installer patches using advanced installer. Wixusers assistance with creating a patch i am new to using wix and. In my previous post i created a wix installer with the wizwix. Unfortunately, it complains removing component is not supported. Next, we need to add a reference to the testservice project. Building a patch using the new patch building system part 3. Automatic patch creation the goal of this investigation was to find out how we would approach creation of. So far so good, so lets move on and introduce a new scenario with just components 1 and 2 like thus. The wix toolset can also create patch installation packages.

Just as in your product authoring, referencing anything in a fragment will result in that entire fragment being pulled in. You can see an example of this approach written for wix in the. Apipatchingsymbolnofailuresflag, yesnotype, flag used when creating a binary file patch. Uninstall the patch and repeat step 2 to see that the file was rolled back to its. A patch contains the differences between one or more pairs of windows installer. When applying the patch to an installation where the optional features were not originally i. Implementing a wix installer that calls the gdr version of. Do not change the name of the components key file because this would require. A typical minor upgrade includes all fixes in previous small updates combined into a patch. Automated patch building with wix and visual studio. Patch packages can also contain new files to be deployed.

I am using visual studio to create the msi and wixpdb files for both versions. Oct 18, 2003 component 1 was removed so the count on the componentid it shared with component 3 was reduced by one but did not hit zero so the component is still there. How to do it download and install the wix toolset to get access to new project templates, intellisense, and project properties in visual studio. Promote your business, showcase your art, set up an online shop or just test out new ideas. You can see an example of this approach written for wix in the attached sample in the workaround folder. If you are using the visual studio integration, rightclick on the references folder of your setup project and add the wixuiextension. Dec 10, 2014 even with wix, working with windows installer packages can be quite difficult. Sampleswixsamples at master rstropeksamples github. Go to addremove programs and make sure show updates is checked. It is particularly important to follow windows installers component rules for patching, as this depends on them being correct. This sample demonstrates how to use wpf windows presentation foundation to create a custom bootrapper ui using wix burn.

Installer package results in the installation of the original sources using a new msi file, the new. You point it to you folder and it writes out the wxs file for you. If you ever need to create a patch you will reference the components that needs to be serviced. You can add the new file in a new location in a patch, and it is simpler to. Jul 29, 2015 in my initial msi, there are some optional features. Creating a standard setup project using wix designer. Create new project select windows installer xmlsetup project. Saves you from worrying about relativechanging paths. If you are not using quickpatch streamlining, you cannot patch more than 15 times. A minor upgrade can be used to add new features and components but cannot reorganize the featurecomponent tree. Windows installer xml toolset developer mailing list subject.

What are your experience of renaming a file using a pyro patch. Add a wix project to the databaseinstaller solution. You have to when you need to change any component guid in the package. It integrates several editors with the visual studio ide and provides a set of vdproj designers to configure the file system, registry, user interface, custom actions, launch conditions and more for your setup projects. How to implement a wix installer upgrade addin express. Wix devs multiple instance patches thank you for looking at this john. The post stated that the command lines are the same as in building a patch using the new patch building system part 3 post. Every resource you want to install file, registry key, value, environment value, shortcut, directory, must get its own component which does never change between versions as long as the install location is the same. Deploying new or removing existing files using a patch msp dear community, i want to create a patch msp for an existing msi setup package. Therefore i use the diff between my currently released msi and the new one i havewant to create. This file will contain the setup authoring for the artifacts created.

In this example they are different language variants. For more details, see specifying whether to streamline the quickpatch package. How to create a wix patch that applies to 2 products. In this article by nick ramirez, author of the book wix cookbook, we will see how we tackle the trouble of getting any bit of code from development to production. Currently i can manually change the wix file and proj file to accommodate another successive patch but its just like copy pasting similar statements with different msi locations. Jul 20, 2012 automatic patch creation the goal of this investigation was to find out how we would approach creation of. Automatically add references and content to the wix installer. Though adding new components to an existing feature is allowed when installing. Component 1 was removed so the count on the componentid it shared with component 3 was reduced by one but did not hit zero so the component is still there. Wix devs multiple instance patches i was hoping to use the pure wix patches routine as well as try to be able to change a patch s target on the command line, but ill.

How to implement a wix installer upgrade add in express. Mar 03, 2011 it describes the procedure of creating patch from. Adding new components to existing features installs the feature. Till that moment i used to create exe installers with inno setup which has many advantages. Wix patches and using instead of component guids wixusers. This sample just demonstrates the basics of patch creation with wix. We raid source code for wix to borrow the minimalui. The update can add a new component to a new or an existing feature. In the wixdemo project i have added three new class libraries and an. Assume you have 2 products with different product codes. We include this in our wix compile and add a reference. Dont add resources to or remove resources from a component. I found a solution to this by taking out the name attribute on the file element since the wix documentation said that is optional and if not specified it will use the source name. Wixdevs multiple instance patches i was hoping to use the pure wix patches routine as well as try to be able to change a patchs target on the command line, but ill.

Jun 29, 2007 recently in last couple days in the wixuser maillist general discussion for windows installer xml toolset, some people asks passing transforms into msi patch. How to correctly add new files in wix installation to create. You have to when there are any changes in the feature hierarchy child feature moving out of a parent, or a parent feature getting a new child. In this article i would discuss on creating start menu and desktop shortcuts for an application using wix installer scripts. And the last thing to do is to build the patch itself by using the special tool wix. Geoff that looks like the issue, however some of the dlls that are included are 32bit and some 64bit with same name. But the instructions there simply repeat whats written in the wix documentation. Building a patch using the new patch building system. Forms and then underneath the startlogging argument i add a messagebox. Webapplication and makes it using the new application pool. For example, when adding components to a feature which you must always do, you could use componentref elements directly. How to create a simple msi installer using wix the mech.

Using patch creation properties using purely wix i have created basic samples for both. Write the installer for a sample product which has 2 files. Basically, a fragment is a wrapper put around a wix source unit, be it as simple or as complicated as we like. The rules apply throughout the lifetime of the product. Componentgroup element the componentgroup element can be used to group component elements, which is helpful as it offers a way to reference all of your components with a single element.

What every developer should know about msi components. But this time i heard a big nono for an exe it had to be msi. As part of the wix toolset, we get the compiler and linker needed to create an msi installer. Whether a patch is uninstallable isnt really related to a piece of wix source. Now, in a patch to that msi we have added new components to two of these optional features. If youre an installation developer and are running into this problem when adding components to a feature in a patch package, you can workaround this issue by adding new components to new toplevel features. The downside is that you need to add all the references by hand. Deploying new or removing existing files using a patch. Provide keypath at one of the file of component that is the most. Automatically add references and content to the wix.

A further solution in the future maybe to add the option ondemand attribute to the base. By default, all the changes will go into a patch, but sometimes people want to ship a targeted update to fix a security issue or major customer problem. Patchfamily patch filtering using the patch system in wix 3. If we remove component 3 now then all of our resources would be removed from the machine. Mar 16, 2011 it is particularly important to follow windows installers component rules for patching, as this depends on them being correct. It does seem as though wix isnt passing through the multiple product codes to be included in the patch. I would have the same question except that i intend to pass language transforms into msi patch. Also we need to create our fixes package with the ordinary compiler and wix linker. Wix will handle file and media sequencing as well as the sequence tables for you. If this is a 64bit component replacing a 32bit component, set this attribute to yes and assign a new guid in the guid attribute. Patches basically contain the difference between the old and the new versions and can automagically turn the old file on the users computer into the new one. Similarly to object files or libraries we use in program development, a fragment. When applying the patch to an installation where the optional features were not originally installed, the files associated with the newly added components and all existing components for the optional feature are added.

I think this is also expected according to above quote. Ive created a new component for it in the msi and included it in the patch. With visual studio open and desktop application inhand, we need to add a wix setup project to the solution. Solutiondir a useful variable that is implemented by the wix compilers preprocessor. Jul 20, 2012 the update can add a new component to a new or an existing feature.

I have been testing the 2 patching methods for wix. Lets add two include files so we can keep things organized right click on project installmydatabase in solution explorer, select add\new item\wix include file set the name for the file to databaseartifacts. We make it easy for everyone to create a beautiful, professional web presence. I would also discuss about a warning message 1910 which is related to unable to delete desktop shortcut while uninstalling and how to address the issue. How to correctly add new files in wix installation to create an. In the add new project dialog, click on windows installer xml, and choose setup project. The windows installer provides a feature tree control that makes it easy for users to choose which features to install and uninstall. The designer for wix toolset lets you forget the plain windows installer xml and concentrate on your deployment logic. In my initial msi, there are some optional features. These are created from two normal installation packages.