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For issues relating to deployment using Windows Installer XML, version 3.

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In WiX how do I test for the existence of a registry key (not value) for Oracle ODP.Net

More specifically I want to test whether Oracle ODP.Net is installed on a machine. I want to do this by testing for the HKLM\SOFTWARE\ORACLE\ODP.NET registry key. The actual values used by ODP.Net are stored in…
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How do you use WiX to deploy VSTO 3.0 addins?

I want to deploy a VSTO 3 Application Level Word 2007 addin that I've written with Visual Studio 2008. I see that WiX has an extension named WixOfficeExtension that looks like it might have this functionality, but I can't find any documentation for…
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Including all dependencies

I'm just starting out with WiX as I need to be able to automate building an MSI on our CI server. Is there anyway to automatically include all the dependencies of a project?
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WiX: Prevent 32-bit installer from running on 64-bit Windows

Due to user confusion, our app requires separate installers for 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows. While the 32-bit installer runs fine on win64, it has the potential to create support headaches and we would like to prevent this from…
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Deleting XML elements in WiX

How do you delete/remove an element from an XML file in WiX?
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MSI does not install all files when RemovePreviousVersion is run

I have a MSI build using WiX version 3. All previous installers for the product we are deploying worked fine with the configuration specified (that is: if previous version exists, remove, then install the new version) - however, the new MSIs we…
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WiX: Installing Service as LocalService

I am trying to get my application an installer via WiX 3.0. The exact code is: