[WiX-users] Specifying Pre-requisites with Burn

So I have created my Burn custom bootstrapper application with WPF UI and it works great! Burn is awesome! So far, I'm using Burn to chain the install of several MSIs. Now I'm working on the prereq/bootstrap portion. My application depends on .NET 3.5 and VC++ 2010 runtime. Right now I have thi

Re: [WiX-users] How to Troubleshoot Bootstrapper Application Startup?

Ah, thank you Tobias! In Bundle.wxs I had but I needed to have . Attention to detail, FTW. After making that change I got these errors: E:\delivery\Dev\wix36_public\src\ext\BalExtension\wixlib\Mba.wxs(46,0): error LGHT0197: The Windows Installer XML variable !(wix.WixMbaPrereqPackageId) is unk

[WiX-users] How to Troubleshoot Bootstrapper Application Startup?

Okay so I'm now trying to put together a very simple Bootstrapper Application, but I'm getting these errors in the log file when I run the bootstrapper: [0D20:0CAC][2011-08-23T11:49:22]: Error 0x8007007f: Failed to get BootstrapperApplicationCreate entry-point [0D20:0CAC][2011-08-23T11:49:22]: Err

[WiX-users] Questions about Burn behavior

I'm looking at WiX and Burn for an upcoming project and in theory it is exactly what I want. In practice I have run into some issues which are probably just me being new to WiX. I couldn't find the answers googling. I want to have Burn install some MSIs, but have it appear to the user that only o