My installer, created wth WiX is localized via .wxl files. It is possible in WiX to specify multiple cultures and light.exe will be called multiple times, creating an installer for each language (t...

I am using Burn for MSIs package. I am using Votive (Visual Studio) & my own custom BA instead of WiXBA. I tried to debug custom BA using Debugger.Launch(). But when I start debugging, error me...

I am using WiX 3.5.1930 in Visual Studio 2010, targeting the .NET Framework 3.5. (Later weekly builds of WiX seem to be very broken with respect to their custom action template, at least for now. 1...

I have Visual Studio 2008, 2010, and WIX37.msi (WIX 3.7) installed on my machine. However, I am unable to see WIX project type in Visual studio 2008/2010. Do I need to install additional tool/plu...

My company recently forced us to use Wix Toolset (v.4.0.12), because we upgraded to Visual Studio 2012 which unfortunately no longer contains installer projects. My problems are the following. I h...

I'm using latest votive (Wix v3.5) and created a simple Wix VS 2010 setup project. I added my website reference and set the Harvest option as true. Now since my INSTALLDIR points to a folder under...

Microsoft is moving away from the Visual Studio built-in MSI setup projects. WiX seems to be one alternative. But the tutorials I've found for WiX are all about five years old. For example, W...

I'm trying to create a simple installer for a .net application in WiX. I installed Votive and am using the basic template wxs file it creates. When I compile it I get warning LGHT1076: ICE71: The M...

I have a solution with a WiX project in it. Everytime I open it I get an error and then the WiX project is displayed as unavailable. The error is: Setup\Setup.wixproj : error : Error HRESULT E_F...

I'm starting to use WiX in order to do automated builds to create msi's of my c# projects and am experiencing the error "Undefined preprocessor variable '$(var.MyProject.TargetDir)'" I am using th...

I have just started using WiX for the first time. I added a WiX Votive project to my existing C project. To automatically select the correct source folder for the binaries add used the following:...