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Burn is the WiX (Windows Installer XML) engine used to chain multiple installation packages into a singular, more seamless setup experience.

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Installing .Net 4.5.2 with Burn error

I am trying to install .net 4.5.2 as a prerequisite in my Burn Bootstrapper. It installs successfully and requests to restart the computer, on continuation though it gets stuck with a blank .Net upgrade page. There are no buttons, and there's no…
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WIX v3.9 Burn custom BA uninstalls related bundles last instead of first

We recently switched over to a custom bootstrapper for our installer. This allows the user to select from a list of possible modules to install (each as separate msi's). We are now making our first upgrade and have run into an issue. Burn properly…
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How to include full .NET prerequisite for Wix Burn installer

I'm writing a managed Bootstrapper using Wix Burn and this Bootstrapper depends on .NET 4. If the .NET 4 is not installed on the machine, burn downloads it, installs it and then runs managed bootstrapper. But, I need to support also fully offline…
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How to set Burn.exe FileVersion and ProductVersion differently?

Our finally generated Burn.exe file got same versions for FileVersion and ProductVersion. However, version scheme followed in our team suggests ProductVersion as 2015.0. As FileVersion is coming from Version attribute of Bundle element, Is there any…
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Wix bundle uninstall package with custom install location

I have a Wix bundle which allows users to customize installation directory and passes the value to the package during installation. This is implemented using the approach described in this answer: How do I pass a default 'install location' to the…
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BURN: Customize Log File Location

All I am trying, is to set Log file location and expect BURN to create Log File to my given location. I have tried this by following Wix Bootstrapper MSI-Package logging, how? post, but got no success and BURN still created LOG Files at default…
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WiX CustomAction: How to get bootstrapper location from msi

For a custom action I need the location of the installers bootstrapper path. session["SourceDir"] gives me: C:\ProgramData\Package Cache\{67668D1E-88B7-4D10-B1B5-98D42AA088E5}\... but my setup during my test is located in C:\Temp which is what I…
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How to downgrade application with WIX Bundle?

I created a WIX Burn setup. The Bundle chained multiple .MSI files for global installation (all MSI support downgrading). …
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Wixtool Burn install and uninstall 2 separated MSIs

I have created a Wix custom bootstrapper application and bundle file using Wix 3.8. My Chain tag looks like:
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Accessing installer package information in WiX Custom bootstrapper UI

I was looking at creating a WiX bundle installer that would provide a checkbox for each of the installers that are contained within the defined chains to allow the user to pick which packages they want to install (similar to the Visual Studio…
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Wix bootstrapper: Using Win-Forms or MFC based UI instead of Theme UI (xml based)

While reading source code for WiX Extended Bootstrapper Application, I'm wondering if I want to replace this Theme manipulation (xml based) with Win-Forms or MFC based UI, do I have to modify/rewrite all that or I can simply use references of some…
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Why isn't WiX Burn restarting and resuming execution?

I am building a managed code bootstrapper application with WiX Burn 3.8. One of the PackageGroups includes ExePackage elements to install Windows Installer 4.5 on Windows Server 2003. The x86 version of the package is shown below. (The following…
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Can a WiX bootstrapper rollback major upgrades in a way the end user expects?

I have a bootstrapper application with several msi packages in the chain. For convenience, the msi packages always perform a major upgrade that completely removes a product before the new version is installed. When a rollback is necessary during an…
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Having trouble uninstalling exe in chain

I'm building a WiX installer that bundles an MSI and EXE together. The MSI is a com assembly that I'm registering to work with a printer, the EXE is the silent installer for the printer drivers. The chain is installing properly except during…
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Include Image in Managed Burn BootstrapperApplication

I'm working on an installer with wix using Burn and a custom bootstrapper application. Everything works fine, but i fail to include a simple image into my application UI. I include the Image into my UI like this:
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