wix3.5

I am trying to create an installer using WiX which doesn't show the license agreement at the start. But I get the error as below. This is the full Product.wxs file I have at the moment. It compiles and builds OK. Why am I getting an error like this? Is my Fragment section in the right place? I have removed the Publish elements pertaining to license and modified the welcome dialog's next button to show the install directory dialog instead of license agreement. This is as mentioned in the help chm file. What am I missing then? <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Wix xmlns="http://schemas

My requirement is to create a directory in programdata/test/example . How can I do that in wix? Define the folder like this: <Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir"> <Directory Id="CommonAppDataFolder"> <Directory Id="TestFolder" Name="test"> <Directory Id="ExampleFolder" Name="example" /> </Directory> </Directory> </Directory> The important part here is the CommonAppDataFolder Id, which is known by Windows installer. You can find the full list of known system folders in the Windows Installer Property Reference . If you install any files to that folder, it will be created implicitly. If not

I am trying to use my first custom action in WiX and I get: error 2896: Executing action CustomActionTest failed. I am using Visual Studio 2010, WiX 3.5, 64-bit Windows 7 Ultimate, .NET Framework 4. Here are what I think are the relevant sections: <Binary Id="JudgeEditionCA" SourceFile="..\JudgeEditionCA\bin\Debug\JudgeEdition.CA.dll" /> <CustomAction Id="CustomActionTest" BinaryKey="JudgeEditionCA" DllEntry="CustomActionOne" Execute="immediate"/> <Control Id="Next" Type="PushButton" X="248" Y="243" Width="56" Height="17" Default="yes" Text="!(loc.WixUINext)" > <Publish Event="DoAction" Value=

I have a pretty lengthy CustomAction in a wix installer, and I want to be able to change the 'Status: ...' text while the operation runs, to see that there is progress and update on its internal status. I know how to set the progresstext of a custom action - but what I want is to dynamically change the progress text during the run of the custom action. Deferred Custom Actions can call the MsiProcessMessage function. You can then use INSTALLMESSAGE_ACTIONSTART, INSTALLMESSAGE_ACTIONDATA and INSTALLMESSAGE_PROGRESS to publish messages up to the UI. Another possibility would be to break your

This is an intentional semi-duplicate of How do you create an event log source using WiX and WIX: Create EventSource using .NET message file . My first question is, does it really have to be so complicated? Isn't there some way to simply specify to WiX, "my program is a .Net program, and it needs to write to the event log - please do the necessary setup"? OK, assuming that isn't possible, I'd like to receive any recommendations for the necessary WiX statements to make it work, irrespective of which version of .Net Framework is installed, and irrespective of whether it is a 32 or 64-bit system.

I am using WiX 3.5.1930 in Visual Studio 2010, targeting the .NET Framework 3.5. (Later weekly builds of WiX seem to be very broken with respect to their custom action template, at least for now. 1930 is the most recent build that seems to make a buildable C# CA with working references.) I have two custom action assemblies written in C#. One of them works fine. The other fails with the following error: CustomActionnNameHere returned actual error code 1154 (note this may not be 100% accurate if translation happened inside sandbox) I have compared the .csproj files and .wixproj files, and as