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Extensions to the windows packaging software WiX, that's used to create msi installers.

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Why does my WiX installer need an empty CreateFolder to conditionally update an Xml file?

TL;DR: Why do I need an empty element in this conditional component in order to make it work? I'm putting together a simple WiX based installer for an in-house application. This installer needs to deploy a standard configuration file…
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How to add a UI to a WiX 3 installer?

I've tried , but I get "Unresolved reference to symbol WixUI:WixUIMinimal". What am I doing wrong?
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Wix: How to set permissions for folder and all sub folders

I know how to set the permissions for a folder:
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The Fragment element contains an unhandled extension element 'util:RegistrySearch'

Learning how to create Wix Booloader so that I can install .NET framework with my msi install package. Anyway I am stuck with an error for an unhandled extension element. Code is below