Re: [WiX-users] Passing Variables from C# custom BA to WIX

I purchased the book WIX 3.6: A Developer's Guide to Windows Installer XML. In chapter 16 it explains, step by step, how to pass variables to the WIX XML from a custom BA. In the example they are using bindings for setting the variable but in my custom BA I set them in C# code. -- View this mes

Re: [WiX-users] Create Single installable exe

IExpress was deprecated a long time ago (security issues, etc). You might consider using a Bundle instead. ___ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset | http://www.firegiant.com/ -Original Message- From: krupesh

Re: [WiX-users] Main MSI with sub-msi's

Yeah, rebuildAll.cmd should probably be removed. Dead code I expect. If you want to build, msbuild from the root of the source code. ___ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset | http://www.firegiant.com/ -Original M

[WiX-users] Setting a Burn variable in c# code

I have created an installer with one msi (client) and a bundle (server). I have also created a custom Burn UI that has two buttons, one to install only the client and one to install both the client and the server. In the custom ui I created two variables installClientOnly and installClientServer. W

Re: [WiX-users] Main MSI with sub-msi's

If I want to build the src\Setup, to see what is connected where (there are some files i cannot find etc, which probably are created during build), How do I do that? This tells me to use msbuild: http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/wixdev/building_wix.html but the rebuildAll.cmd in src\

[WiX-users] [SPAM] Re: Wix Burn UI - Pass variable to msi on repair and uninstall

In general, in your bundle you can define a Variable element as a string and as Overridable=yes. Then pass the contents of the string variable to the MSI using MsiProperty. The WixStdBA will pass command line entries that it does not parse through to the BA. Bundle.exe SomeVariable=M

[WiX-users] Wix Burn UI - Pass variable to msi on repair and uninstall

Hi all, I am creating a burn project that will check for .net verison, install if necessary then will run a msi with payload files dependencies. I have it all working however I need to be able to pass a variable to the msi on repair and uninstall as the msi is dependent on doing the repair / unin

Re: [WiX-users] Build order problems Votive vs MSBuild

I know this is an old thread, but I finally got around to testing my BeforeBuild vs PreBuild assumptions. In short, I was wrong.. BeforeBuild actually made it worst and I still don't have a solution. Ex. Assume I have these three projects in my solution a.csproj b.csproj w.wixproj <-- Includes

[WiX-users] Create Single installable exe

Hello Everyone, I am not sure whether this is right forum to ask this question. I have created msi using wix 3.8 for both 32 and 64 bit platform. Now I am creating single exe using IExpress utility of microsoft. I have created sed file(self extraction directive) to take both msi and a script whic