Re: [WiX-users] How to get started with WiX in VS IDE?

I have been using WIX on-and-off since v2.0 and must add that its getting increasingly difficult to follow the project. Not only is information scattered across several sites but finding information, especially in this mailing list, is difficult. While using Google will certainly help you find

[WiX-users] Passing information from bootstrapper application to msi packages

Hello, I wrote a native bootstrapper (using std win32 dialogs, rather than themes) which requests some data from users before proceeding to install and configure the product. This includes requesting the top level domain for websites and keys used to encrypt registry entries. Without it, insta

[WiX-users] Checking whether Windows roles and features is installed

Hello, I'm working on an installer that requires numerous roles and features to be enabled. If those components are not available, the system, consisting of web applications, MSMQ, and SMTP server will fail to install, never mind run. Does WIX 3.6 support checking whether a Windows feature is

[WiX-users] wixstdba and manifest

Hello, I'm adapting wixstdba to use a standard Win32 wizard rather than themes to deal with additional complex processing required during prerequisite checking, requesting and encrypting credentials of databases and other external systems and performing some post processing after the installati

[WiX-users] Examples of Burn

Hello, Where can one get an end-to-end example of writing your own burn UI? I have been looking around and the examples are rather incomplete or overly complex without much explanation. I have a system that depends on a database as well as requiring that all sensitive data to be encrypted in t