wix3 Questions

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new Day, new Problem;-) Still got to struggle with managed custom action. I already managed it to call an custom action and passing some test data to it. Now I want to replace the testdata with the...
Continence asked 1/12, 2009 at 9:1

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I'm trying to use the binding "bind.fileVersion" from Wix3. (ie: 3.11.1) For some me reason, I get the following error message: Unresolved bind-time variable !(bind.fileVersion.TestWix3.exe). My...
Hold asked 30/5, 2018 at 19:45

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This is the error that is thrown by our automated build suite on Windows 2008, while running ICEs (after migrating from WiX 2.0 to WiX 3.0): LGHT0217: Error executing ICE action 'ICE01'. The most ...
Resurrectionism asked 30/6, 2009 at 16:6

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I am learning Wix and I want to generate a setup.exe file instead of a setup.msi. Is that possible?
Spruce asked 12/1, 2010 at 2:33

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I am using Wix 3.8 to create an MSI installer for a Visual Studio project I have created. I followed this simple tutorial but even with this simply Wix project I am getting errors. Here is My I ha...
Berthoud asked 22/9, 2014 at 15:3

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I have written a C# custom action for my WIX V3 Installer which is supposed to modify my appsettings.json in the INSTALLFOLDER. The action´s Execute-attribute is set to immediate and Impersonate=&q...
Misanthrope asked 18/12, 2020 at 13:55

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I have written a custom action for my WIX installer. The action´s Execute-attribute is set to deferred and Impersonate and running before InstallFinalize but it encounters a problem within this act...
Foss asked 14/11, 2019 at 17:11

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I wrote a simple wix installer with gui, which installs well. But when I run the same .msi file a second time, it takes me through the normal installation process in the gui, but uninstalls my app ...
Virtual asked 12/11, 2019 at 13:31

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What I would like to do is show the installer user a list of the websites on their server and allow them to choose one (using the method described here: http://www.cmcrossroads.com/content/view/131...
Kamchatka asked 28/8, 2009 at 13:2

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I'm using Wix3. I need to open a web page when the user uninstalls the product. Any ideas how it can be done? Thanks.
Tomcat asked 30/11, 2009 at 12:58

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I need to display the version number in the title along with the application name. Currently, it looks like Here is my wix snippet: <Product Id="$(var.ProductId)" Name="Test Application" La...
Littleton asked 18/3, 2019 at 12:36

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I'm new to using Wix, and tried to make a simple installation for my App. I did the following: Downloaded and installed the Extension for Visual Studio 2017 from here. Download and installed WiX ...
Hulburt asked 27/2, 2019 at 19:33

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I have a config file, myapp.exe.config, that I want to install only if it does not already exist. That is, I don't want to overwrite any existing config file. How can this be done in WiX? (Ultimat...
Tasia asked 16/12, 2009 at 3:16

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I have a MSI build using WiX version 3. All previous installers for the product we are deploying worked fine with the configuration specified (that is: if previous version exists, remove, then ins...
Barthold asked 18/3, 2009 at 23:45

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I am new to wix so please bear with me. I have a working installer for our WPF Windows application. I am now trying to make a prerequisite application install before my application installs. I am ...
Anticyclone asked 19/7, 2018 at 16:38

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WiX files always seem to include this line: <Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir"> What is "SourceDir"? What is it used for? It's not a real directory name. Is it some kind of magical...
Slighting asked 29/10, 2009 at 1:9

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On the Wix's document How To: Run the Installed Application After Setup, the condition for the Publish element contains and NOT Installed aside from the property that contains whether the applicati...
Freighter asked 12/4, 2018 at 15:44

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I am trying to check for .net Version with Wix 3.11 via Condition. This works fine until 4.5 like this: <PropertyRef Id="NETFRAMEWORK45" /> <Condition Message="This application requires ...
Jordaens asked 11/4, 2018 at 15:5

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We have an installer which requires a reboot on install, but it is also rebooting on uninstall. Is there a way we can prevent the reboot when uninstalling? This is what we have at the moment: &lt...
Intangible asked 17/2, 2018 at 10:20

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We are using Wix V3.11 to build an msi setup for our C#-Application. We have a 32 Bit and an 64 Bit build for each version: The preallocated installation path for the 32 Bit build is: 'C:\Program ...
Physiognomy asked 27/11, 2017 at 8:38

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I am using 2 500K bitmaps in to display images on my WiX dialogs. They dramatically increase the size of the installation package, and what is worse - it looks there's no way to package them as a ...
Laveta asked 25/12, 2008 at 9:2

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How can I define Wix properties and values that change depending on which Visual Studio configuration is active? e.g. For our release build, var x = 1 and for the export build, var x = 2.
Shiri asked 9/3, 2009 at 16:40

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I am doing a compatibility check of MSI in the OPS environment before deploying to Production environment. A part of this i am deploying first the latest MSI say "MSIv2 to OPS environment on top o...
Elfreda asked 18/2, 2016 at 7:37

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I have a WiX include file with the following code <Fragment Id="PropertyFragment"> <Property Id="DynamicLanguageCode" Value="[SystemLanguageID]" /> <?define productLanguage = [Dy...
Dominik asked 29/1, 2010 at 14:44

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Edit: I've updated the code below so that it now works, thanks to Rob's answer. I've found a couple of pages that show how to do this (http://www.cmcrossroads.com/content/view/13160/120/, http://w...
Gymnasiarch asked 3/9, 2009 at 14:6

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