wix3.5

I am trying to build my WiX Project in Visual Studio 2010, but everytime I build, I receive the following error messages: Unresolved reference to symbol 'Media1' in section 'Fragment:' Unresolved reference to symbol 'Media1' in section 'Product{67DC7AE3-030F-4A24-AC3F-7AE7D0C32D07}' The project includes one Product.wxs file and one heat-generated wxs someComponents.wxs (my fragment) file. I am referencing components in the heat-generated wxs file in Product.wxs. The sections where I am getting the errors are as follows: Product.wxs file <Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir"> <Directory Id

I'm migrating some existing products to use WiX 3.5 (I'm using the Votive VS integration). Some of the items I'm installing need to be registered with a third-party framework. The requirement is that I must call a Register() method in a third party .NET assembly to inform it of the presence of the items I'm installing. It expects a COM ProgID. I can't figure out how to get WiX to do this. I thought about creating a binary Custom Action, but I can't find a way of passing a parameter (a string containing the ProgID) into that custom action. I don't want to hard-code it because I need this to be

once again I'm stuck at a problem, that is probably easy to solve. I want to extend a setup, created with WiX, to make changes in the configuration file of the installed program. In order to do this I've created a CustomAction . To be able to change the configuration file, I need to know the (install-)location of it within my CustomAction . Therefore I try passing the INSTALLLOCATION and Filename to my CustomAction . Here lies the problem: The CustomActionData -Attribute is always empty and the setup throws an exception. My CustomAction is a C# DLL file: DemoDatumErzeugen.CA.dll . It contains

I am a beginner, started learning WiX. I want to capture and validate and register user details during the installation process. I have created a dialog to capture user registration and invoking a custom action once user clicks on 'Next'. But here I am getting installer error 2762. Though the error description says that "The action must be scheduled between InstallInitialize and InstallFinalize", I am not able to figure out how to resolve this problem. Here is my XML script: <Binary Id="mycustom" SourceFile="..\CustomAction1\bin\Debug\CustomAction1.CA.dll" /> <CustomAction Id="myCustomValidate

I just using Wix 3.5 with Visual Studio 2010, Windows 7. I unable to make a custom Preprocessor Extension run. I create the extension project in .NET 3.5. and copy the compiled dll into Wix 3.5 program files , plus set the Reference Path in the extension project properties but the Wix project build still failed with " undefined preprocessor function " on my extension. Example: Extension project: WixFileVersionExtension (from wixfileversionext.codeplex.com) Wix program files: "C:\Program Files\Windows Installer XML v3.5\bin" Am I missing something? Google can't answer me. Update: This is a bug

I am struggling with creating a patch purely using WIX and I was hoping if someone could guide me in the right direction. I have a few hundred source files and I run heat against them to create a harvest file followed by creating a package using candle and light. I need to change a few configuration files and I create a 2nd package with the changes. Using Torch and pyro I create the .wixmst file and then when trying to create the msp file, pyro complains with the following error. pyro.exe : error PYRO0252 : No valid transforms were provided to attach to the patch. Check to make sure the