wix

https://dblock.github.io/msiext/

Since the day I mentioned that I was working on an HTML-based bootstrapper, I began getting a regular stream of e-mails asking about my progress. I even get phone calls. It’s a ...

Someone recently asked how to support uninstall in dotNetInstaller, specifically with MSI components. It’s a question that comes up frequently, and it’s a powerful feature of do...

In writing new MSI installers, you must think about upgrade. I always recommend major upgrade – uninstall and reinstall is much cleaner. In that case the Installed vs. NOT Insta...

I announced in a previous post that AppSecInc. has open-sourced its Wix extensions. We’ve continued developing the project for our own needs and have seen some adoption, especia...

Sometimes great is the enemy of good. I recently had to harvest a large number of files to create a wix installer. I tried heat.exe, but after struggling with its generation sty...

I thought MSI extensions needs a logo. It should say something about MSI and something about Wix. So here it goes.

I am pleased to announce the open-sourcing of AppSecInc. MSI Extensions.

A couple of years ago we used to have a really big problem with Windows installers. We had one guy writing InstallShield installers and a bunch of components thrown at him with ...

In writing new MSI installers, we always have to deal with legacy InstallShield installers, upgrading, maintenance mode, etc. The properties get confusing very quickly, so we ca...

Two sprints into working on a large deployment project I had already created two big installers under which the .wxs and .wxi files were multiplying only slower than components ...

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