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The WiX Toolset (formerly known as Windows Installer XML) is a toolset that builds Windows installation packages and WiX bootstrappers 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 and EXE bootstrappers. For the cloud-based web development platform, use the [velo] tag.

The WiX Toolset (formerly known as Windows Installer XML) is a toolset that builds Windows installation packages and WiX bootstrappers from XML source code. The toolset supports a command line environment that developers may integrate into their build processes to build MSI setup packages, MSM merge modules, MSP patches and EXE bootstrappers. The installer also provides a Visual Studio extension that creates WiX projects, which can be built with Visual Studio or MSBuild.

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Wix Hide cmd line window

I am developing an MSI installer which includes a tool.exe file as a element. At some point during installation, i need to run the tool.exe. So i have a custom action to execute it:
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How do I set the xmlns attribute when using XMLFile in Wix 3

I am adding elements to an XML file during installation using the XmlFile element:
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Linux equivalent of WIX Installer needed

I have been using Windows Installer XMl V3 in ant scripts for developing Installers(exe or msi). As of now our Build Server is Windows Server 2008 and we are in a process of Moving Build server to RHELv6.3. That's where problem arises:- Is their…
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Does the WIX heat utility work with Visual C++ projects?

I am just starting to use Wix and would like to use heat to extract the outputs from my Visual C++ projects to source Wix files. This seems to work great for my C# projects, however, whenever I run heat on a C++ project I get an error: heat project…
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Build one MSI from separate components

We have a product that has three parts: Application files (exe and dll files) Help files SSRS reports All three things get installed together with the same installer built using WIX. In our company, each component is developed by separate teams…
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Wix TextStyle to a portion of text

I'm creating an MSI package and I have the requirement to set the text of a CheckBox control to something like "this is my bold portion". I tried something like: this is my {\WixUI_Font_Bold}bold portion but it doesn't work. Does anybody know if…
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Wix Burn issue: Uninstall fails saying "Found dependent"

I have made a burn bundle which encapsulates 2 msi (msi1 , msi2) . In the UI I use checkboxes to ask the user to select which MSI to install. Now if user selects one of the msi to install, installation goes fine. But during Uninstall action, the…
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Is it possible to paste into an masked edit control in a windows installer?

Starting off with what I need the end result to be: Customer is able to paste a product key, of the correct format, off of the clipboard into an input box during the install. Where I am at the minute: We use WiX to create our MSI. We currently use…
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Folder within Program Menu Folder for WiX 3

Following some example code on the net, I got my first WiX installer to work. However, it placed my program menu shortcut directly on Program Menus. I really want to create a folder, Sample, in Program Menus for my link. Original Code:
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Automatically update version info in wix installer

Hi I have a C/C++ Header file with my products version info init as follows: #define nMajorVersion 4 #define nMinorVersion 4 #define nPointVersion 8 #define nBuildVersion 33 #define s_szFileVersion "4.4.8.33" #define s_szProductVersion…
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Leveraging heat.exe and harvest already localized file names and including them to msi using wix

I have a question whether what i am trying to do is doable, and if the answer is yes how to do it. I am new to the wix and have been doing some reading on how dynamically to include a folder to an installer and eventually i were able to do a task in…
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How can I read custom action's executable output in WiX?

I'm making MSI installer in WiX. During installation I want to run an executable from a custom action and get its standard output (not the return code) for later use during installation (with Property element, supposedly). How can I achieve it in…
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Registering COM server with Wix

I have the following WiX code that registers a COM server component
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Is it possible to add support in a MSI package to change the folder of an application after it was installed?

The only way that I know of to change the TARGETDIR is to uninstall and then install the same application again. Note that I need to have the MSI package at hand for that. I would like to add support in my MSI packages to change the TARGETDIR of the…
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WIX MSBuild automation help - solution best practices

I know there are many questions out there regarding this same information. I have read them all, but my brain is all turned around and I don't know which way to go. Plus the lack of documentation really hurts. Here is my scenerio. We are trying to…
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