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

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Harvesting a .csproj with heat.exe in Visual Studio 2008 and WiX(v3)

I found that Wix v3 uses a tool (heat.exe) to "harvest" information into WiX fragments. Either I am looking in the wrong location, or this is thinly documented. What is the best way to auto-generate a WiX fragment (likely using heat.exe) for a…
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How do I use Team Build Properties in MSBuild?

I have a simple tfs-2010 build definition using the default process template. In it I defined the Build Number Format using $(BuildID) to define part of the computed field. This works and I can see what BuildID's value is. Now I try to pass the…
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Add a summary information to WiX generated MSI

How to add (or change a default values) a summary page information to a WiX-generated MSI file? Summary page is the tab page which is visible if you right click on the MSI file in the Windows Explorer and includes following text…
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How to execute Custom Action before RemoveExistingProducts with After="InstallValidate" in WiX

I have something like this: Since one of the uninstallation fails i need to execute a Custom Action to solve the problem BEFORE…
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Using WiX how do I disable/enable controls based on property change?

I'm having a bit of a brain melt at the moment where I have a WiX Combobox and when I change the selection I want to disable/enable other UI controls.
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WiX Standard Dialogues

Does anyone know if there are any WiX standard UI dialouges out there that you can use to integrate into your own WiX msi package? For example: Editing Connection Strings to database Editing paths to log files in web.config/app.config Setting up…
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Wix - change the installation folder based on privilege

I have to create an installation package using Wix. If an admin user is installing the package, it should install into %programfiles%/[applicationName], if the user is an non-admin user then it should install into its local profile folder(…
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Wix: Stopping a Windows Service on uninstall

When I uninstall my service I get the error where it says I have to stop such and such service before uninstalling. This is unsatisfactory - the uninstaller should automatically stop it. I found a blog or newsgroup posting on this months ago and got…
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How to check for installed package in WiX 3.0?

I'd like to check that Crystal Reports Basic for Visual Studio 2008 is installed as a condition for my own installation package. I found this in the bootstrapper description for this product (C:\Program Files\Microsoft…
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Windows service does not stop and not deleted on uninstall (Wix)

I've seen a few related questions on stackoverflow that relate to this one, but none of them seem to address the specific behavior I'm observing. I have a Windows Service defined as follows in a Wix 3.0 .wxs file.
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How show version number in title of installation in WIX?

I need to display the version number in the title along with the application name. Currently, it looks like Here is my wix snippet:
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WiX3 major upgrade not working

I have a major upgrade that I am trying to do, but it just doesn't work. It simply installs the new program along side the old one. They are in different directories (as I changed the directory structure with the new version) so there are no…
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Using Wix to generate an MSI

I am using Wix 3.8 to create an MSI installer for a Visual Studio project I have created. I followed this simple tutorial but even with this simply Wix project I am getting errors. Here is My I have added my VS2012 project as a reference to my Wix…
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Howto use configurable Merge Modules in Wix?

AFAIK it's done like this: Product: Merge…
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Wix - how to handle project references when using heat's output with candle?

I'm trying to use heat on a web .csproj, and then use candle on the output. So far, I've done: heat project "StatusReport Web.csproj" -pog:Binaries pog:Content -ag -out StatusReport.wxs And then: candle StatusReport.wxs However, upon the latter,…
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