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.

Automatically increment and synchronize version for product and bootstrapper

I'm trying to implement automatic versioning so that when I build my Bootstrapper, both the MyApp and Bootstrapper versions are …

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Generating an executable using wix

I am learning Wix and I want to generate a setup.exe file instead of a setup.msi. Is that …

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Switching from InstallShield to WiX

I am looking for a replacement for InstallShield. Unfortunately we only have 1 license for InstallShield and it was installed on …

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WIX radio button group

I am stuck in doing with WIX radio group button,I want to know Whether i can able to disable …

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How can I exclude files from being harvested with heat (WiX 3.5)?

I would like to harvest a folder with a lot of files by using heat.exe. But instead of harvesting …

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How can I allow MSI features to be selected in a WiX burn bootstrapper?

I have just started playing around with Burn to try and chain multiple MSI files. I am using WiX v3.6.2705.0. …

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WiX CustomAction ExeCommand failing?

I have a command line I want to run during the install of a merge module (created by WiX) with …

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How can I set recovery-options of a service with WiX?

I have following .wxs-file: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <?define ProductVersion="x.x.x.x" ?> <?define …

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How can I compare the content of two (or more) MSI files?

How can I do a "content compare" of two (or more) MSI files and see what is actually different inside …

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How to change the Windows service startup type in a WiX installer

We need to modify the Startup type of our Windows service from "Automatic" to "Automatic Delayed Start". How do I …

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