Top "Wix" questions

The WiX Toolset (formerly known as Windows Installer XML) is a toolset that builds Windows installation packages and WiX bootstrappers from XML source code.

How to intelligently install .NET 4.x using WiX Burn

When installing an application that can use either .NET 4.0 or 4.5, what is the best practice when installing the prerequisites .NET …

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WiX installer not removing files on uninstall

I am telling a wix MSI file to remove files on uninstall, and it's simply not registering it. For the …

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Is there alternative way to access session details in deferred custom action?

I have a custom action and need to get below values for copying some parts from installation folder to VS2010 …

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Start application after installation using WiX/Burn

I'm aware of similar questions in WiX MSI, but I'm having issues starting an application within a bootstrapper EXE file …

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How to run heat.exe and register a dll in wix

I need to register a dll in regAsm and now i was using <CustomAction Id='comReg' Directory='INSTALLLOCATION' ExeCommand=…

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How to use CustomAction in WIX Bundle?

To give you a background - I have a 4 MSI's which comes from our vendor and this has to go …

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Set ASP.Net version using WiX

I am creating an installer for an ASP.Net website using WiX. How do you set the ASP.Net version …

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WiX 'Bundle' 'ExePackage' 'DetectCondition' is always false

I am trying to create a WiX bundle that installs the .NET Framework 4.0 before my MSI installer. I inspected the …

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Where is "msvcR140.dll"? Does it exist?

I have recently graduated to VS 2015. For reasons explained below, I want to avoid running the VC++ Redistributables installer. I …

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WiX script with only Welcome and Completed screens

I need a WiX 3 script to display to display only 2 dialogs: Welcome & Completed. Thats it no need for EULA, …

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