bootstrapper

I'm working on a application, which works on top of WiX bundle, and communicates via embedded pipe (by utilizing ManagedBundleRunner) and receives progress and error updates. Currently I use the standard WiX bootstrapper. However, I will be creating custom managed bootstrapper to implement custom behavior. Part of this new behavior is a bidirectional communication of my application with the bootstrapper. After exploring WiX source (especially Burn engine), I've come up with two approaches: 1) create pipe inside managed bootstrapper and communicate with the application using custom protocol 2)

I am deploying a .NET application with .NET Framework 4.0 and VS 2010 C++ redistributable as prerequisites. When the setup.exe runs in a machine with the prerequisites satisfied the bootstrapper install them again. Is this a known issue? and what's the correct way to solve it? Elan The solution is to edit the bootstrapper product.xml file to contain the correct product code for the Visual Studio C++ Redistributable. See the post below which contains the steps to fix this: Visual C++ 2010 Runtime Libraries prerequisite keeps popping up on a VS 2010 created installer 来源： https://stackoverflow

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi" xmlns:util="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/UtilExtension"> <Bundle Name="My Test Program" Version="1.0.0.0" Manufacturer="Microsoft" UpgradeCode="cc7cfeae-c3a4-4430-841e-f927de3f9f95"> <BootstrapperApplicationRef Id="WixStandardBootstrapperApplication.RtfLicense" /> <util:RegistrySearch Id="FindDotNet35SP1InstallRegValue" Root="HKLM" Key="SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP\v3.5" Value="SP" Variable="DotNetFramework35SP1InstallRegValue" /> <util:RegistrySearch Id=

While playing with TestBA Bootstrapper from Bryan , first I installed 1.0.0.0. Then I incremented version to 1.0.0.1 and logged the process. Here is the part where -uninstall -quite command line was passed during upgrade: [2870:21C0][2014-02-24T17:46:38]i300: Apply begin [1A44:1E54][2014-02-24T17:46:41]i360: Creating a system restore point. [1A44:1E54][2014-02-24T17:47:15]i361: Created a system restore point. [1A44:1E54][2014-02-24T17:47:15]i000: Caching bundle from: 'C:\Users\fwaheed\AppData\Local\Temp\{57a07296-0310-4628-971c-2da38aa09f25}\.be\BootstrapperSetup.exe' to: 'C:\ProgramData

I am writing a Bootstrapper Application and want to create the UI for it using the WixStandardBootstrapperApplication. I want the UI such that on the first page(Install page), I see the standard EULA and a checkbox which says I accept and a button to proceed on the next page (Options page) which should get enabled only after I select the checkbox. On the next page, I list some text and want to have another checkbox, which kind of again says I accept and a button to Install which gets enabled only after I select the checkbox. <Page Name="Install"> <Text X="154" Y="12" Width="-65" Height="21"