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WiX 3.6: A Developer's Guide to Windows Installer XML

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WiX 3.6: A Developer's Guide to Windows Installer XML

Overview of this book

The cryptic science of Windows Installer can seem far off from the practical task of simply getting something installed. Luckily, we have WiX to simplify the matter. WiX is an XML markup, distributed with an open-source compiler and linker, used to produce a Windows Installer package. It is used by Microsoft and by countless other companies around the world to simplify deployments. "WiX 3.6: A Developer's Guide to Windows Installer XML" promises a friendly welcome into the world of Windows Installer. Starting off with a simple, practical example and continuing on with increasingly advanced scenarios, the reader will have a well-rounded education by book's end. With the help of this book, you'll understand your installer better, create it in less time, and save money in the process. No one really wants to devote a lifetime to understanding how to create a hassle-free installer. Learn to build a sophisticated deployment solution targeting the Windows platform in no time with this hands-on practical guide. Here we speed you through the basics and zoom right into the advanced. You'll get comfortable with components, features, conditions and actions. By the end, you'll be boasting your latest deployment victories at the local pub. Once you've finished "WiX 3.6: A Developer's Guide to Windows Installer XML", you'll realize just how powerful and awesome an installer can really be.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
WiX 3.6: A Developer's Guide to Windows Installer XML
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Subscribing to control events


Some events can't be published, only listened for. In that case, you'll use a Subscribe element inside a Control element. Like we did when publishing an event, use its Event attribute to specify the event to listen for, but this time use Attribute to set the required argument.

The next example shows a ProgressBar control that subscribes to the SetProgress event. Whenever a standard or custom action notifies the installer that progress has been made, the ProgressBar control will know about it and add more ticks:

<Control Id="MyProgressBar" 
         Type="ProgressBar" 
         X="50" 
         Y="50" 
         Width="200" 
         Height="20" 
         ProgressBlocks="yes">
<Subscribe Event="SetProgress"
             Attribute="Progress" />
</Control>

Unlike the Publish element, the Subscribe element can't have a conditional statement as its inner text. A single control can, however, subscribe to more than one event. One example is to subscribe...