My program deploys with a configuration option that I've chosen to expose as a feature. This option can be one of two values. Each configuration changes a set of settings files. They have differen...

We have an Application that depends on an installed .NET Framework 4.5. The Wix setup should automatically detect when an .NET Framework 4.5 (or greater) is not installed. That works fine with the ...

I'm having trouble upgrading a setup project that referenced Visual Studio 2017 and now I want to reference Visual Studio 2019. Product.wxs references the following properties (as documented here)...

So here's the scenario: I have several wix projects that the exact same extra msbuild targets and tasks to automate some very tedious tasks: things like building a help file and authenticode signin...

Help! I've inherited a .NET project with a WIX installer project. They make the implicit assumption that .NET Framework 4.5 is installed on each machine which for the most part is true. Now we are ...

I created a Wix Installer for my Visual Studio 2017 project by using this Wix Toolset Visual Studio 2017 Extension from its original author Rob Mensching. The installer successfully installed the a...

I am using Wix 3.11.1 with VS2017 Extension. I set a property from a control on a custom Dialogue and then try to execute an immediate custom action. When I try to read the session, it is always em...

Thanks to Andrei's answer here: Install .NET Framework 4.7.2 (if needed) with WIX installer I check to see if .NETFramework 4.7.2 is installed and install it. I have one slight problem remaining ...

I have created license.rtf file which has multiple languages and when I try to build my wix project it shows me this error : A string was provided with characters that are not available in the s...

Update Interesting, if I run 32bit powershell to run the script, it gives me the same error. It looks like the 32bit powershell has no access to the 64 bit registry tree? I tried using WixQuietExe...