Unresolved reference to symbol " " in section 'Fragment'

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Cegone picture Cegone · Jan 8, 2014 · Viewed 7.6k times · Source

I have added InstallDemo.wxs file and copied the code from WixUI_InstallDir src/ext/wixlib/, Then i have added UIRef into product.wxs file after that when i built the solution i got this 50 error "Unresolved reference to symbol 'Dialog:BrowseDlg' in section 'Fragment' so, Help me to resolve this issue.. please tell me how to create a simple dialog screen in 'WIX' please help, Thank you.!

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caveman_dick picture caveman_dick · Jan 9, 2014

Have you referenced the WixUIExtension in your WIX Installation project? You need this to give you the BrowseDialog.

You can find the WixUIExtension.dll file in the bin folder of the WiX Toolset installation folder in Program Files.

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