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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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New IsWiX Setup Project fails to build - undefined preprocessor variable

I am attempting to use WiX Toolset to create a deployment project. I am using Visual Studio.NET 2010 SP1, WiX 3.7, and IsWix 2.0.13013.4. I am using .NET framework 4.0. I created the directory structure provided…
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wix internall strings cannot be localize

Wix I18n Dev.The version of wixtoolset is V3.7. And the Installer UI is created by UIExtension. In the installation process, there are some UI strings cannot be localized. Such as "Copying new files" and so on. I searched these strings and there are…
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Where do I find Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.dll?

I am trying to write an extension for Wix by subclassing CompilerExtension but I can't locate the dll to reference the Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml namespace. I searched on the web with no luck. Any ideas where this can be found? Mark
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WiX: Changing the path of a directory does not change the path of a sub directory?

I have a WiX installer that includes this declaration of directories:
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Estimate needed disk space for extracting payload and packages using Wix and bundle

Is there a possibility to estimate the needed disk space when starting a bundle-exe using wix and the bootstrapper? As far I see the bootstrapper initially starts to extract it's files to the temp folder. When there's is not enough disk space (which…
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How to skip the features select screen in WIX-generated installer program?

I want the installer to skip showing setup type screen (where you can choose Typical, Custom, Complete features), How can I do this? I provided only one feature set named product. And I also want the user be able to change the installation…
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Questions about add firewall exception in wix installer by firewall extension

I am new to Wix installer. I am trying to add firewall exception for my program. My code is as follow:
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wix installer / Create web-site and assign the new or exisiting web app pool

i try create a new web-site using wix installation. it's ok there is no problem but i cannot assign a new or existing web app pool to new web-site. iis:website tag does not contains WebAppPool attribute. How can i assign web app pool to web-site.…
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Error 1334 .File cannot be found in the Data1.cab

I am working on a Win 7-64 bit machine. I have a software installation package which contains the .msi file, a CAB file and some MST files. I wanted to modify the cabinet file. So I extracted the cab file using CABARC utility. But before making any…
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Code signed MSI name issue, WiX

I coded my MSI installer using WiX. The MSI is also signed with my code signing certificate. When I begin its installation I get the following security warning on Windows 7: But for some reason the Program Name is nothing but the name of my MSI or…
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Install NServiceBus.Host as service using WiX

I'm creating an installer for our NServiceBus-based solution using WiX but I'm having trouble getting the host service to start after installing. If I run the host's installer from the command line using NServiceBus.Host.exe /install, it installs…
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Where the reference count of a component of msi installer stored?

For a shared component of more than 2 products, Windows Installer stores reference count of that shared component so that uninstalling one of those products doesn't break other products. I'd like to know how this can be done, where the reference…
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Cannot add reference to wix project Visual 2012

In every tutorial and HowTo site (like here) about WiX I read I should add reference to my other project, but when I select Add Reference I have nothing on Project list in Project tab. I try this on Visual Studio 2012, earlier with WiX 3.7 and now…
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WIX enable Windows feature

I have to check if some windows features are enabled beore installing my software. I can check it or install it using dism command line tool. I create a custom action to do this, but is there a way to do it in a "WIX native way" ?
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Wix heat command exited with code 319 (-out parameter must specify a file path)

I'm building an installer for my web app (.NET), using Wix v3.7 and Visual Studio 2012. To harvest my web project files I'm using heat, and my .wixproj looks like this:
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