Wix Burn: How to stop Bootstrapper from installing itself

Question

I believe this question might have been asked before me, but somehow, I'm not finding some appropriate answer.

I may have to write my own managed bootstrapper. But up-till now, in the examples I got, the bootstrapper is installing itself as well and appearing in Add-Remove programs instead of my product.

Question: Can we make bootstrapper to only install our products and pre-requisite applications and not to install itself?

Regards

Alecalecia

For the minor point of "instead of my product", see this. – Wayzgoose

@TomBlodget, Yes, I'm aware of that, but that won't stop the bootstrapper to install itself. Instead all of my apps and pre-reqs would be visible in Add-Remove along with boostrapper. – Alecalecia

Bob Arnson answered your main question. His linked article explains it quite well. That feature was a surprise to me, too. But, consider shifting focus from how to eliminate it to how to embrace it, particularly if a user might install more than product (yours or anyone's) that uses Burn's package management features. – Wayzgoose

Answer 1

No. Burn is not a "fire and forget" bootstrapper. See http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2012/6/25/b-is-for-bundle-and-thats-good-enough-for-me and http://www.joyofsetup.com/2013/07/05/burn-zero-one-or-n/.

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