New Post: Managed UI and Upgrade detection
You can use WixSharp.AppSearch.IsProductInstalled:var productCode = "{1D6432B4-E24D-405E-A4AB-D7E6D088C111}"; if (AppSearch.IsProductInstalled(productCode)) { ... Bu it is in fact a wrapper around...
View ArticleNew Post: Can't get a simple .Net 4 bootstrap to work.
OK. It seems that the windowless managed BA is the way of achieving silent Bootstrapper. Apparently Burn will bootstrap .NET first if custom BA is defined. There is an interesting discussion on the...
View ArticleNew Post: .Net 4.6 breaks external UI installer
In case this helps anyone else, .Net 4.6 will cause the external UI variant of an installer to fail. It is possible to mostly fix this by using a Debug build of the WixSharp.Msi DLL. It looks like this...
View ArticleNew Post: .Net 4.6 breaks external UI installer
Thank you. I have provided the link to your post in the relevant Wiki page: https://wixsharp.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Deployment%20scenarios#_clrcompatibility
View ArticleNew Post: how to add CustomAction.CA.dll file into Wixsharp Project?
how i can add CustomAction.CA.dll directly into wixsharp project? i don't want to package CustomAction.CA>dll every time i create a new setup.
View ArticleNew Post: how to add CustomAction.CA.dll file into Wixsharp Project?
It is atypical use-case for Wix# thus there is no native solution for this but you can achieve it quite easily with either XML-Includes or XML-Injection. While the functionality has been available for...
View ArticleNew Post: how to add CustomAction.CA.dll file into Wixsharp Project?
Thanks for the answer. But i can not find project.AddXmlInclude("myAct.wxi"); function refrence in Wixsharp.dll Version : 1.0.26.0
View ArticleNew Post: how to add CustomAction.CA.dll file into Wixsharp Project?
Sorry, forgot to specify. This method extension is in the latest NuGet package v1.0.26.1. It is a HotFix release so it needs to be downloaded with:Install-Package WixSharp.bin -Pre
View ArticleNew Post: Support for DifxApp/Driver Install
Добрый день Олег. Скажите, пожалуйста, когда будет поддержка драйверов? Или помогите мне решить проблему.Сделал установку драйвера как по коду выше:project.WixExtensions.Add("WixDifxAppExtension.dll");...
View ArticleNew Post: Support for DifxApp/Driver Install
Sorry my Russian typing is rusty... The Driver element is fairly simple and support for it seems to be straight forward. Thus I can add it very quickly. As long as I know what WXS and compilers...
View ArticleNew Post: Can't get a simple .Net 4 bootstrap to work.
Sorry, only just seen this. So to clarify, are we saying that setting the bootstrapper to silent mode won't work if it needs to do something like download and install .net? Presumably because it needs...
View ArticleNew Post: Support for DifxApp/Driver Install
OK, I found the solution. Apparently light.exe has an unusual command-line convention for the WiX extensions dlls. Yes we all know that you need to pass the extension with the command line param -ext....
View ArticleNew Post: Can't get a simple .Net 4 bootstrap to work.
OK there quite a few questions here:> What does "bootstrapper.Application = new SilentBootstrapperApplication();" do? It set Burn custom UI assembly to WixSharp.UI.dll. This assembly contains...
View ArticleNew Post: Вопросы и замечания по WixSharp Managed Setup - Cusom UI
Добрый день Олег.Я использую шаблон "WixSharp Managed Setup - Cusom UI", он очень подходит для моих инсталляторов, но у меня есть несколько вопросов и замечаний. Буду благодарен если вы ответите на...
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New Post: Вопросы и замечания по WixSharp Managed Setup - Cusom UI
Thank you for your feedback. I took the liberty of translating your comments so other readers can benefit/participate. While I am OK with spoken Russian the technical terminology is a challenge for me....
View ArticleNew Post: Specifying fallback culture
Hi Oleg, could you please tell is there a way to specify a fallback culture for a managed project when it is linked by light.exe? Should I link and compile it manually using custom arguments string...
View ArticleNew Post: Specifying fallback culture
Indeed FallbackCulture has no effect as Wix# compiler does not rely on VS project infrastructure (so it's possible to compile MSI without using VS at all). You are also right that project.Language is...
View ArticleNew Post: update version of wix in version.txt
Hi, oleg_s! Pls, update version of WIX to 3.10 in version.txt file.
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