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Industrial Strength Windows Installer XML ( IsWiX ) is a Windows Installer XML (WiX) document editor.

Industrial Strength Windows Installer XML ( IsWiX ) is a Windows Installer XML (WiX) document editor.

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Visual Studio 2012 Windows service .vdproj project migration

I'm trying to move a solution I have over to Visual Studio 2012 and one of the project types is .vdproj. According to this link this project type is not supported in Visual Studio 2012: MSDN says they recommend that you use InstallShield Limited…
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New IsWiX Setup Project fails to build - undefined preprocessor variable

I am attempting to use WiX Toolset to create a deployment project. I am using Visual Studio.NET 2010 SP1, WiX 3.7, and IsWix 2.0.13013.4. I am using .NET framework 4.0. I created the directory structure provided…
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Adding IsWix templates to Visual Studio 2015

I'm been searching and investigating a lot, but since this is not my area of expertise I'm a little bit lost. I have to create an Installer that deploys a static web to a IIS server. After some investigation I started using Wix to create the…
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How do I copy all the files from source folder without specifying filenames in WIX installer configurations

Here is the WXS file content for copying the individual files
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Windows Service fails to start on install WiX/IsWix. Verify that you have sufficient privileges. InstallShield to Wix installer

I have a problem trying to make a WiX installer of my Windows service similar to an existing InstallShield Limited Edition 2015 installer. I tried to reproduce the same existing InstallShield configuration in WiX using the IsWiX graphical tool, but…
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Creating a Virtual Directory on IIS using IsWix

I'm creating an IsWix solution that creates an IIS with a static javascript website. The website is working as expected after the instalation when I enter to localhost:8080 The problem starts here, I'm unable to serve this website on a virtual…
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How to auto generating setup file while check-in the code in to TFS

How do I integrate InstallShield/Wix/IsWix with TFS? I wish to auto generate setup files during successful TFS checkin/release? I am comparing InstallShield with Wix and IsWix! to choose the right candidate for upcoming product development. Tools…
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WiX starting service before all files are copied

I have a merge module which defines all the components/resources, plus installs and starts a service. This builds an installer which works during a clean install. When upgrading from a previous version, it attempts to start the service before all…
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How to copy files and folders in ISWIX?

I am developing an installer using Wix. I am using the ISWIX add in. I want to copy some folders in installation directory during installation. And these files and folders must be deleted after successfully uninstalled. And I also need to copy a…
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How to set the folder name of the installation folder set to default even though directory has been changed in ISWIX?

I am using ISWIX plugin based on WIX to create Windows MSI Installer. I want to set the folder name of the installation folder to Manufacturer/MyAPPNAME. It works fine if the user doesn't change the directory. But if the user changes the directory…
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