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For issues relating to deployment using Windows Installer XML, version 3.10.

The Windows Installer XML (WiX) is a toolset that builds Windows installation packages from XML source code. The toolset supports a command line environment that developers may integrate into their build processes to build MSI and MSM setup packages.

The WiX Toolset v3.10 was released September 7th, 2015.

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How to display the reason for pre-mature install fails in burn bootstrapper projects?

I have created a burn bootstrapper project which installs 3 MSI packages. If there is an error within any of the packages or any other errors occur as a result of which the installation fails then an error message should be displayed through my WPF…
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Is it possible to automatically grab the reference for csproj via heat using wix?

I am currently trying to create a wix installer, and found this article stating that WiX 3.8 cannot grab the references added in each projects files using heap. Is this still true for 3.10? I do know how to add reference dlls manually but was really…
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I need to upgrade Wix 3.7 to 3.10.2

I need to upgrade Wix 3.7 to 3.10.2. I am currently using WiX.3.7\setupbld.exe to create the setup in the project file. Just installed the Wix 3.10.2 toolset in to my PC. Couldn't find any of setup.exe, setupbld.exe or SetupBuilder.dll which I…
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Can I bundle a ClickOnce application into a WiX bootstrapper? How?

Long story short, one of my my employer's clients has an aaS platform that relies on a piece of software that's a ClickOnce app. This particular app is developed by a 3rd party software developer, and licensed to my employer's client company. It…
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Can wixproj file reference an environment variable?

Using wix 3.10.2. I would like to reference an environment variable within a .wixproj file. I have tried (exerpt from my .wixproj): …
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HttpUrlReservation Failing with custom port

When using the new module in WiX 3.10.1 to reserve a port, if I reserve on :8080, it works fine, but when trying to reserve on a different port, say :444, it fails. running a full log of the installation from msiexec.exe, i'm getting the following…
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RestartResource doesn't prompt when run from bundle

I have a bundle which chains an MSI, using the MsiPackage element. In that MSI I have added the following: When I just execute the MSI, with VS running I get a prompt to close VS as expected. However…
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WiX Burn .NET installation and subsequent license decline

I am using WiX 3.10 Burn to install .NET before my application that requires it in the following way:
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How could we use a custom product version format for Wix Product/@Version - Eg 2022.02.01?

How could we use a custom product version format for Wix Product/@Version - Eg 2022.02.01? If i do it using a compile time variable (@), it gives me the error - Product version must have a major version less than 256, a minor version less than 256,…
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Deployment of external payload with wix bundle

We are using Wix to deploy our application. But for deploying our application we need to first deploy an application which is a prerequisite for our application. And the setup for that application is available to us as an external payload which we…
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Where does WiX cache path names?

Following on from my issues with a simple Visual Studio Installer Package, I'm making the switch to WiX. The learning curve is annoying, because once I've set this up I'm going to forget how it works before I need to do it again next project. But…
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how to run WixSilentExecCmdLine to run batfil ein background

I am trying to run a bat file in background while installing an app using WIX. For this I used WixSilentExecCmdLine but after writing this code sniphet Installationitself failed.
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Two WIX bundles with same upgrade code - Uninstall one?

I have two different products both of which uses their own Wix Bundles and MSIs (one MSI each). While the UpgradeCode in each MSI is different, both the bundles ended up sharing the same UpgradeCode in their bootstrappers. Is there a way to…
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Wix MSI installer fail when changing build image in Azure Pipelines

As noted here a bunch of legacy images in Azure Pipelines are being removed in a few days. We have had some code using WIX building in Azure Pipelines for a few years now - using one of the images being deprecated (vs2015-win2012r2). If I change my…
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WiX: Show a UI Dialog-Element after "InstallFinalize"

I would like to show an installation complete message after the installation is finished. But i believe, that the latest point to show a Dialog during the installation is with . The problem with this…
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