Hi all, I'm new to wix and <strike>am</strike> was getting this message when
I try to build the wsx file of a wix project in Visual Studio 2012.
The full text of the message (generated by Light) is: "Error 9 Failed
to
open the database. During validation, this most commonly happens when
attempting to open a database using an unsupported code page or a file that
is not a valid Windows Installer database. Please use a different code page
in Module/@Codepage, Package/@SummaryCodepage, Product/@Codepage, or
WixLocalization/@Codepage; or make sure you provide the path to a valid
Windows Installer database."
I am not referring to Codepage (or SummaryCodepage) in any of those tags, or
in fact anywhere in the wxs. Putting Codepage="1252" didn't change
anything. Finally, I tried adding
encoding="utf-16"
to the xml tag which previously only had a version='1.0' attribute. This
fixed the problem.
Now that it is solved, I don't need any help, but - working on the theory
that I can't be the only person it's happened to - I thought it might be
useful to have the solution here.
hth
mcalex
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