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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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Configure WiX project to install multiple versions, but remove same minor version

I need to configure my WiX project to be able to install multiple minor versions of the product. IE: I can have 1.0, 1.1 and 1.3 installed. If I try to install 1.2, it will work, but if I try it with 1.1, it will uninstall the previous 1.1…
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Step-by-step ngen with Wix 3.0

We use Wix to build an installer for our .NET application and are just in the process of porting to Wix 3.0. Our application includes several .NET assemblies (as is the way with .NET applications) and the final installer step is to ngen these. This…
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What is the proper way to download setup packages in a WiX custom managed bootstrapper application?

I wrote a WiX custom MBA that I have been using which embeds all of the setup packages (msis, cabs and exes) I need for my installation. However I would now like to make a lightweight web bootstrapper which will download the packages that need to be…
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WiX - How to create an uninstall shortcut for all users?

This is not a question, but rather an answer. One part of the issue is available here: How to install program shortcuts for all users? Quote: "... How do I let the installer create a shortcut under the All Users profile, so that everyone on the…
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Good WiX editor

I'm currently working on a project that uses WiX to create an MSI. I've used WiXEdit on Sourceforge in the past for managing the files that get included in the WiX project as it's slightly easier than manipulating the XML directly but it's still a…
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How can I upgrade Windows Installer from inside an MSI (using WiX)? Is it possible?

I've currently got an .exe that bootstraps a bunch of prerequisites (NET3.5, hotfixes, ...), including upgrades to Windows Installer (I need 3.1), and then finally runs my msi. I'd like switch this to have an .msi that does everything, and calls an…
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Installing Web application IIS

Hi I am trying to install a web application using WIX. I am not sure if what I have is correct but I am getting this error in my log files: My wxs file:
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Alternatives to WiX Burn Bootstrapper? (Can the InstallShield LE bootstrapper be used?)

Background information: We used to have a Visual Studio 2010 based installer project, but our install situation got a lot more complicated, and with the projects going away anyway in 2012, we figured we'd start learning WiX / InstallShield LE. The…
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How to execute a WiX custom action C++ DLL file with dependencies?

I have already achieved a custom command without dependence without any problem. But here it is a custom command that need to be link with four other dll to work.
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wix product id should be autogenerated for patch number changes?

I use wix for building a setup for a product. The product has version of the format major.minor.patchnumber Example: 4.5.1313 in each build the last patchnumber keeps changing like 1314, 1315 and so on. I would like to know whether I should keep…
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Read an Access database from a WIX installer

Is it possible to read an access database while running an installer built with WIX? I see that there is the SqlExtension and the UtilExtension parts, but all of the examples seem to think it's a SQL database. I would like to read records from a…
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WIX Dialog change property text value

Can I change the Text properties of buttons on existing controls? The code below doesn't do the trick 1 I'd like to avoiud creating a custom dialog if at…
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Wix bootstrapper won't detect installed .NET framework

I have a Wix installer and bootstrapper application to install my application and a service. As a prerequisite I need the .NET 2.0 SP2 Framework installed and tried to detect that using the following codesnippet:
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WiX: The "ReadRegistry" task could not be loaded from the assembly [...] This assembly is built by a runtime newer than the currently loaded runtime

I've developed an application using Visual Studio 2008 targeted at .NET Framework version 3.5. Now I wanted to create an installer for the application using WiX. I installed the WiX toolkit and then created a WiX project in the same solution as my…
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Setting disabled overlapped recycle on an application pool within a WiX installer

I currently have a WiX installer which is used for deploying a web application into IIS. The application makes use of Lucene.Net and it's near-real-time search features. Unfortunately a side-effect of this is that the Lucene indexes are held…
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