A complete WiX 3.6 bundle example bootstrapping a .NET 4 Client Profile

Question

I tried to construct a working example of a WiX 3.6 installation script. We currently use WiX 3.5 and now we would like to begin installing the .NET 4 Client Profile framewo

Answer 1

You need to create a separate WiX bootstrapper project. See Building Installation Package Bundles in the WiX 3.6 documentation.

Answer 2

Heath Stewart's Introducing Managed Bootstrapper Applications provides a basic example in his blog.

Answer 3

Once you have your bootstrapper, all you need to do is:

1. Add a reference to the file WixNetFxExtension.dll into your bootstrapper / managed bootstrapper application project.

2. Add the following as the first item in your chain.

   <PackageGroupRef Id="NetFx40Web"/>
   

That's it. Further information and options are in the WixNetfxExtension documentation.