Write a WPF Wix Installer

Question

I have written an installer using WIX for a product, which uses:

• custom extensions
• custom actions
• customized ui dialogs

etc.

Answer 1

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MarkusWehrle.Laika42WiXToolsetExtension

this is an extension provided by Laika. download it embed an .msi in its bundle and execute the application , go through the code u will be able to understand everything about WPF Burn Bootstrapper

• in bundle file -
  MsiPackage Id="abc" Compressed="yes" Visible="no" SourceFile="_Dependencies\abc.msi"

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put the msi in application folder where Bin folder resides or create a _Dependencies(name it as u like) folder and put the msi there

Answer 2

Download the WiX latest (weekly) release source code at http://wixtoolset.org/releases and look at the project located in src\Setup\WixBA. The WPF you write will be the bootstrapper UI which references the WiX bootstrapper engine (Burn).

I also created a minimal example that I blogged about here. Please note that it is a bare bones example to get someone started. Using the WiX source as an example is better because it's complete and robust.