Passing commandline arguments to MsiPackage

Question

The Visual Studio Installer technology creates a bootstrapper which can take arguments (eg: /q) and pass it to the Msi.

I have a custom bootstrapper in WiX which has some ExePackages and one MsiPackages.

When I pass the argument in WiX to the custom bootstrapper the custom UI is shown.

How can I pass the argument directly to the MsiPackage assuming the ExePackages are already installed?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 03 '13 at 21:49

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I dont know if I understand your question properly, but anyways in the default bootstrapper this is how we pass the arguments from command line:

<Wix>
  <Bundle> 
    <Variable Name="CommandLineArgument" bal:Overridable="yes"/>
    <Chain>
      <MsiPackage>
        <MsiProperty Name="CommandLineArgument" Value="[CommandLineArgument]"/>
      </MsiPackage>
    </Chain>
  </Bundle>
</Wix>

Make a note of the BAL:Overridable. That's how I was able to make sure that we can pass the property value from command line.

edited Sep 03 '13 at 21:49

Dave Andersen

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answered Sep 03 '13 at 21:30

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Don't forget to add the namespace declaration to the Wix element `xmlns:bal="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/BalExtension"`, and link to the WixBalExtension.dll. – Dave Andersen Sep 03 '13 at 21:50

Passing commandline arguments to MsiPackage

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