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Burn is the WiX (Windows Installer XML) engine used to chain multiple installation packages into a singular, more seamless setup experience.

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Custom WiX Burn bootstrapper user interface?

I'm creating an installation package with WiX 3.6 primarily so I can take advantage of the Burn bootstrapping features. So far I have several MSI packages bundled together that will be installed with the built-in bootstrapper application…
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Wix Burn vcredist

I have a c++ application developed using Visual Studio 2015, along with a Wix installer and a Burn bootstrapper. Previous versions of the application were able to use the Visual Studio merge module to install the necessary prerequisites, but it…
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How to set UpgradeCode for burn Bundle

How should I select my UpgradeCode if I switch from a regular msi installer to a WiX burn bundle installer, in order to make the upgrade path from msi to bundle possible? Example: Version 1.0 was released as a normal msi installer with…
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Extract contents of Burn bootstrapper

I have an MSI package bundled in a WiX Burn bootstrapper. Can I extract this MSI from the bundle on the target machine?
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Start application after installation using WiX/Burn

I'm aware of similar questions in WiX MSI, but I'm having issues starting an application within a bootstrapper EXE file created with Burn after the installation. My full bundle is below. If it makes any difference to the scenario, the bootstrapper…
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How to debug custom bootstrap application?

I am using Burn for MSIs package. I am using Votive (Visual Studio) & my own custom BA instead of WiXBA. I tried to debug custom BA using Debugger.Launch(). But when I start debugging, error messages occur. No symbols are loaded for any call stack…
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How to intelligently install .NET 4.x using WiX Burn

When installing an application that can use either .NET 4.0 or 4.5, what is the best practice when installing the prerequisites .NET framework? And how do you implement it using Burn in WiX? These are the options and trade-offs that I am aware…
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How can I allow MSI features to be selected in a WiX burn bootstrapper?

I have just started playing around with Burn to try and chain multiple MSI files. I am using WiX v3.6.2705.0. The chaining is working but I'm now trying to get optional features to work. I was hoping that it would just be a case of setting…
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Upgrade a bootstrapper bundle if the same version is detected

I have a WiX bootstrapper bundle: When I generate a new build and try to install it over a previous installation, the bootstrapper should upgrade itself (since…
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Creating localized WIX 3.6 bootstrappers.

I created a WIX project in Visual Studio 2010 over a year ago. It creates an MSI file and a bootstrapper setup.exe. Actually, it creates that pair of files for two languages - English and French. I am just now integrating this project into our…
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How to use CustomAction in WIX Bundle?

To give you a background - I have a 4 MSI's which comes from our vendor and this has to go to our company servers (we are looking at around 3500 servers). As of now, my counterparts are managing this using vbs, ps1 scripts. But the problem with the…
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WiX Burn 3.6 beta - custom UI examples

Are there any good references/examples for WiX Burn 3.6 custom UI? I googled around, but they are broken pieces of the information.
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WIX Burn Bootstrapper not asking for admin rights for my MSI

I created an MSI with WIX that needs elevated permissions to work correctly. In the MSI Project, I specified this via Now I included this MSI in a custom bootsrapper project, based on WixWPF…
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Customising the WiX Burn theme with additional inputs

I'm looking at using Burn as a bootstrapper for an installer and I need to pass in a couple of arguments into the MSI. I know that the way to do this is to use MsiProperty elements, the issue I am having is with displaying the UI to capture those…
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Comprehensive list of command line flags/options for Burn/bootstrapper in WiX

I can't seem to find a comprehensive list of commands, flags, and things I can do from the command line.
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