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WiX Cookbook

By : Nicholas Matthew Ramirez
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Book Image

WiX Cookbook

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By: Nicholas Matthew Ramirez

Overview of this book

WiX is a dialect of XML used to make installers for Windows. Its declarative style avoids the complexity and limitations of procedural code, providing you with everything you need to package up an entire application into a single MSI file. This book gives you a good overview of WiX's capabilities to develop your own installer packages with functionalities beyond those available in Windows Installer. In the recipes of this book, you will see ways in which WiX can cut down on your installation time and help you streamline your deployment processes. You will see how to make customized installer UIs, write custom actions, create shortcuts, and also set your application as the default for a file type.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Index

Chapter 1. Organizing and Building WiX Projects

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Installing WiX and creating a new project in Visual Studio 2013
  • Referencing the output of a .NET console application in a WiX project by using a preprocessor variable
  • Separating a portion of WiX markup into its own library
  • Compiling a WiX installer on a build machine using MSBuild
  • Building a WiX installer from the command line