Hi,

We're writing an installer using a bundle to chain two MSIs together. The
bundle should be signed (we generally sign installers and EXEs and DLLs).
Currently, we're using WiX 3.6 (we currently use Visual Studio 2008, and
3.7 didn't support that version of Visual Studio).

We've discovered the 0x80004005 error described here:
http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Wix-3-7-Burn-error-0x80004005-Failed-to-extract-all-files-from-container-td7587152.html

However, the fix for this seems to be to tweak the project files. This is
not a preferred solution for us, as over the next year we will be creating
a significant number of these as we adopt this technology for some of our
existing installers. Since any tweaks to the projects are hidden (they
require right clicking the project, choosing Edit... and effectively
unloading the project from the solution). We'd have to remember to do that
each time we create a bundle, and I'd rather not have that point of failure.

I'm planning on using insignia.exe to extract engine.exe, sign it and then
import it. However, it's been suggested this is also less than ideal
(though it's better than having to remember to tweak a project file).

I was wondering whether this is improved in later versions of WiX. I
imagine it would be pretty simple for WiX to include this functionality in
the default .wixproj project template, meaning we don't have to remember to
do it ourselves. If this is the case, would this also support timestamping?

Or are there any other inventive solutions for solving this issue?

Thanks

John
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