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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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Showing Msi UI during repair and remove

I have a custom BA where the MsiPackage is as follows: ... When the Msi is installed however I would like to show the default UI of the Msi which supports repair and remove. How do I…
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Application crash when I move a style to Application.Resources

I'm creating a WPF UX for my WiX bootstrapper. My code looks like this:
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How to optimize size of WiX Bootstrapper size?

I have a CustomBA in my WiX Bootstrapper. The CustomBA library is 500KB. The Chain refers to two ExePackages (188 MB + 202 MB) and one MsiPackage (934 MB). The Bootstrapper Exe is 798 MB Why is the Bootstrapper Exe so big? Does it contain the…
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Setting InstallCondition for a ExePackage based on FileSearchRef

I have a Chain with Exe1->Msi1->Exe2->Msi2. I need a FileSearch result to decide if Exe2 is installed in its InstallCondition. I have a FileSearch defined in a Fragment outside the Bundle and I am referring to it in the Bundle above the Chain. How…
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How to set InstallCondition for ExePackage in Chain based on file contents?

I have a Chain with following setup: ExePackage1->MsiPackage1->ExePackage2->MsiPackage2 MsiPackage1 writes some values to file File1. ExePackage2 has an InstallCondition which should be based on the contents of File1. How can I read the contents of…
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Can ExePackage update Bundle variable value at runtime

I have written a managed bootstrapper application using WiX toolset's burn API and it works great. Currently it chains 2 MSI packages. Now I need to chain a exe package before the 2 MSIs. This exe package will obtain a value (when it runs) which it…
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Payload not found in Cache

I have an ExePackage which has two Payloads. The first one is an msi file in the same folder as the Exe and it works. The second one is also an msi file(Adobe Acrobat Reader) but in a sub folder where the Exe resides and does not work. How should…
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Why does the WiX FileSearch and DetectCondition not work here?

I want WiX to install MSChart for .NET 3.5 first, which is the ExePackage. At the moment, it always installs it even if it's already there. I detect if it's already installed by looking in the destination directory in the MSChartInstalled…
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Length of time to install setup.exe on a virtual machine

I create my setup.exe's using Burn, and my whatever.msi's using Candle (WiX). I test them on clean virtual machines (Hyper-V, Server 2012, regular 7200 RPM physical disk, differencing "auto-expanding" virtual disk). What I've noticed is that each…
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Why would SQL Server 2012 SP1 installer fail when ran within a Burn boostraped setup?

I have a WiX Bundle that has an SQL Server 2012 SP1 ExePackage which correctly installs SQL Server in a VM. When booting the machine from a VHD with the same OS that works in the VM, the setup fails, yet when I run the command line specified in the…
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MSI package keeps uninstalling - why?

I've defined the following MSIPackage in a chain (Burn 3.6).
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Method to set shortcuts to network drives using WiX Burn

I am creating an installer for an application that is broken into two parts. The first part is an MSI file that is installed on a server. It includes all of the product executables and data files as well as the installer for the client application.…
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Is ASP.NET MVC 2/ 3 redistributable?

ASP.NET MVC 2 and 3 are prerequisite for our installer. We have planned to install this software’s using WIX Bootstrapper. Anyone let me know ASP.NET MVC 2 or 3 is redistributable. If so where I can download the redistributable package? I have…
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Signed WiX Bootstrap EXE can't use taskkill in custom action

We are using WiX to sign and create MSI files and then bundle them into a signed EXE file. The MSIs are generated fine. Each MSI file contains a command to run at the end to kill the application. In the standard WiX manner, we use CAQuietExec to…
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Wix Burn: Setting Engine LocalSource() to extract Burn contents

I only guess that the following would set sLocalSourcePath where Payloads would be deployed and would be executed further by Burn instead of doing that in some Temp folder. Engine.SetLocalSource(sPackageId, sPayloadId, sLocalSourcePath) If yes,…
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