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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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Wix bootstrapper doesn't call the msi file during uninstall if DisplayInternalUI="yes"

I have an existing wix msi project with full fledged UI. I created a wix bundle and referenced the msi project in this bootstrapper project.It installs the msi perfectly but during uninstall it doesn't call the msi when DisplayInternalUI="yes" for…
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Wix installer -Title on the welcome screen truncated on Win2012R2

I am seeing a strange behavior where the title of a particular msi package is truncated on Win 2012 R2 but the same is displayed completely on a Win 7 and Win 2008 R2 system. The msi package in question uses the inbuilt Wix UI Minimal dialog set.…
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How to enable uninstall for a Wix bundle and still hide it from Programs and features?

I do not want to display my bundle in Programs and features. But when uninstalling it should be removed along with the MSIs. In order to hide the the bundle I can set disableModify property to yes. This will hide the bundle. But this will disable…
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Using WiX to install a Node server as a Windows Service

Does anyone know how to use WiX (Windows Installer XML) to install a node server and start it as a windows service? At the moment the application doesn't have a .exe file, just a bat file which runs 'node app.js' which starts the server. I was…
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Rollback in burn bootstrappers when user clicks cancel button

I've created this installer using burn bootstrapper. Now when a user clicks cancel button, how can I rollback all the changes made during the installation? My EXE currently includes 3 MSIs. So if a user clicks cancel halfway down, how can I remove…
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Unable to uninstall a driver

Using Wix 3.10.2 to generate my product installer. I am having a lot of trouble uninstalling a driver. I have been following the examples on the 'net as best as I can understand them and I can get the driver installed. The problem is with…
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vs studio 2015 with XP and wix 3.10.2

We are using visual studio 2015 with wix 3.10.2015. when installing on a win7 32 bit we have no issues when installing on XP we get the following error when calling the custom action in the dll. Action start 16:03:50: MyCustomAction. Action ended…
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Wix installer when stopped while upgrading, partly installs the new version

I created an EXE using burn bootstrapper which consists of 3 MSIs. I expect my installer to revert to previous version when process is terminated while upgrading. Therefore I specified the Schedule to be "afterInstallExecute" according to what I…
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WiX: Dynamic product name

How can I dynamically set my product name in my product.wxs file? My idea was to create a custom dialog where the user can choose between either 2015, 2016 or 2017 via radio buttons. The year is supposed to be the suffix for my product name: …
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Localized multilingual wix installer Does not display the values of string in .wxl files in the correct language

I created .msi installer using wix toolset 3.10 . I had localized the installer to be multi-language (just one .msi file that display the language depending on the region settings of windows). I had created da-DK.mst file and I used wisubstg.vbs to…
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How to handle error message when a package fails with a managed bootstrapper application

I created a setup that consists of a package, a managed bootstrapper application, and a bundle. I notet that when the package fails, under certain circumstances the Error event is not called. I already looked at InstallationViewModel.cs from the…
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Override MSI package logging level in WiX bootstrapper

I have a WiX boostrapper that install a bunch of MSI packages. Well, some of them have lots of files, and the log created by boostrapper is huge. From what I can tell the default logging level used by burn is set to "verbose"; so, I want to override…
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After installation with WIX-Toolset MSI, text files unreadable

we are working with the WIX-Toolset now for quiet sometime. It always was a sail in smooth waters, once we configured our XML like we wanted to have it installed no changes were needed for almost a year. Until a week ago, we needed to build a new…
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How to change the check state of a check box from custom action (WIX)

I have a dialog which has a check box. I want to change its check state depending on the value set to a property in the custom action. How to do this ? I am new for WIX.
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Wix Optimization

I was reviewing some statements which came from the dark.exe decompiled output of an installshield msi file. One section, for an example: ...
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