Re: [WiX-users] extracting wix xml from wixlibs

2009-04-05 Thread Bob Arnson
Adam Langley wrote: > I am writing a tool to make it easier to create custom WiX dialogs, can > someone tell me how I would go about extracting the wix dialog files (i.e. > WelcomeDlg.wxs) from the UI wixlib? > You can't; .wixlibs contain compiled WiX authoring, not the original source code.

Re: [WiX-users] extracting wix xml from wixlibs

2009-04-01 Thread Brian Rogers
Adam, I wouldn't suggest going about it this way. If there is a change to the way WIX generates the Lib files this could impact you. The XML/Binary format is not documented short of looking through the code itself. However, from a built MSI you could use dark.exe to decompile it into WIX Source.

[WiX-users] extracting wix xml from wixlibs

2009-03-31 Thread Adam Langley
Hi, I am writing a tool to make it easier to create custom WiX dialogs, can someone tell me how I would go about extracting the wix dialog files (i.e. WelcomeDlg.wxs) from the UI wixlib? I realise that I could just obtain these files from the source code, but I don't want to have to require our