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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

Displaying progress


If you'd like to show a progress bar during the installation, you can handle two events: CacheAcquireProgress and ExecuteProgress. The former will give you a percentage completed for caching the packages. The latter will give you a percentage for packages executed. To get a total progress percentage, we add them both together and divide by two—if we didn't divide by two we'd end up with a final result of 200 since both events count up to 100.

First, let's add a Label control to our view that displays the percentage as text and also a ProgressBar control to go with it. Here's the markup to add to our XAML file:

<WrapPanel Margin="10" >
   <Label VerticalAlignment="Center">Progress:</Label>

   <Label Content="{Binding Progress}" />

   <ProgressBar Width="200" 
                Height="30" 
                Value="{Binding Progress}" 
                Minimum="0"  
                Maximum="100" />
</WrapPanel>

Our Label and ProgressBar controls...