How can a silent installer be created in WiX that does not display any UI dialogs to the user and installs, upgrades and uninstalls with default settings?

When products A and B each install several MSIs and some of the MSIs are the same, will uninstalling either A or B affect the other? Does install location matter? Also, what happens when common MS...

I wrote a custom action to create a scheduled task after install. I do not want the Custom Action to run when the user does not want to create the schedule task. During installation even if I sele...

In WIX, how do you create a non advertised shortcut in the allusers profile? So far I've only been able to accomplish this with advertised shortcuts. I prefer non-advertised shortcuts because you c...

How to add (or change a default values) a summary page information to a WiX-generated MSI file? Summary page is the tab page which is visible if you right click on the MSI file in the Windows Expl...

Am running a Command to register a dll using the below code in WIX installer <CustomAction Id='comReg' Directory='INSTALLLOCATION' Impersonate='no' Execute='deferred' ExeCommand='"[NETFRAMEWO...

If not self registering. then how do we perform the COM dll registering while installation using WIX? As per the tutorial, I used ComPlusApplication example (non .net dll). But its not working. It...

I am installing all new versions of my software as major upgrades, as the installations are very small and most of the time, all files change anyway. I would like to skip one dialog in the install...

Suppose that you have an installer (not a wix installer) that you downloaded from somewhere. How can you know UpgradeCode of that installer so that you can fill it in in the UpgradeCode section in ...

Currently all upgrades work fine whenever updating to a newer version number, however I'm getting an odd behavior when downgrading. It seems that it'll uninstall the existing version and then parti...

I would like to keep my top level .wxs DRY while building 32 and 64 bit installers. I am using the -arch argument to candle.exe to control what default installer architecture is getting built. The...

I'd like to check that Crystal Reports Basic for Visual Studio 2008 is installed as a condition for my own installation package. I found this in the bootstrapper description for this product (C:\P...

Is there a simple way to change the font colour and (preferably) font type for one of the strings in one of the standard UI dialogs in Wix? I'd prefer not to copy and paste the entire dialog sourc...

I have an app that is being installed with WiX 3 - most of the install works fine by now, but trying to get the desktop shortcut to work seems to cost me my mind... I have my app being installed a...

I'm just starting out with WiX as I need to be able to automate building an MSI on our CI server. Is there anyway to automatically include all the dependencies of a project?

I am wondering if it is possible to have the "Cancel" button on my welcome screen completely quit the installer without showing the final "Installation interrupted" dialog. I consider this redundan...

I would like to use the WixUI_Minimal installer, but I don't want the license page. How can I do this?

I used WiX 3.7 to write a bootstrapper which installs .net 4.5 first and then my application's MSI: <Chain> <PackageGroupRef Id="NetFx45Redist"/> <MsiPackage Id="MainAppPackage" ...

How do you delete/remove an element from an XML file in WiX?

I am using WixUIFeatureTree to offer the user an option of what components of my application they want to install... One of my features has two optional features within it, at least one of which mu...

My product has several features including two services. Let's call them ServiceA and ServiceB. Both of these service features are optional. However if both ServiceA and ServiceB is selected during ...

AFAIK it's done like this: Product: <Merge Id ="HelpInstaller" SourceFile="HelpInstaller.msm" Language="1033" DiskId="1"> <ConfigurationData Name="SurpressInstallation_Config" Value="&a...

I am trying to get my application an installer via WiX 3.0. The exact code is: <File Id="ServiceComponentMain" Name="$(var.myProgramService.TargetFileName)" Source="$(var.myProgramService.Tar...

I am facing issues when migrating the managed code from x86 to x64 platform. I have a WiX project to create an MSI which will be executed through Bootstrapper. On an x86 platform, files get copied...

When an install completes successfully, the date and time and some other info needs to be written to the registry. How can a date be generated and how do you know if an install was completed succes...