[wix-users] Is it possible to include a modifiable file in WiX burn?

Sanket Panchamia psanket at gmail.com
Fri Oct 30 04:07:41 PDT 2015


Can also try to update the ini files as part of a Custom Action at the end
of the installation
Something like

<Publish Dialog="ExitDialog" Control="Finish" Event="DoAction" Value="<
*YourCustomActionForEditingINI*>">1</Publish>

On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Farrukh Waheed <farrukh1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Some suggestion:
> Use post build events of your projects to modify ini files at the end of
> your build, before packing them to msi.
> Or
> After making msi, use Transforms and apply them while installation on
> user's machine.
> Or
> Use small Patches to patch after installation is done user's machine.
>
>
> On 30 October 2015 at 15:12, Johri, Mohit IN BLR STS <
> mohit.johri at siemens.com> wrote:
>
> > I want to change the data in few ini files after the build has happened,
> > but it seems Burn doesn't allow me to do it.
> >
> > Any help?
> >
> > Thanks & Regards,
> > Mohit
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On
> Behalf
> > Of Farrukh Waheed
> > Sent: Friday, October 30, 2015 11:02 AM
> > To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: [wix-users] Is it possible to include a modifiable file in
> > WiX burn?
> >
> > btw, why would you need to modify a file in cache?
> >
> > On 29 October 2015 at 21:09, Johri, Mohit IN BLR STS <
> > mohit.johri at siemens.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Can I please have an update on this?
> > >
> > > Thanks & Regards,
> > > Mohit
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On
> > > Behalf Of Johri, Mohit IN BLR STS
> > > Sent: Monday, October 19, 2015 1:57 PM
> > > To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List
> > > Subject: [wix-users] Is it possible to include a modifiable file in
> > > WiX burn?
> > >
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > In one of the blog Rob has mentioned
> > >
> > > "Burn validates everything before placing it in the cache for security
> > > reasons. What you could do is read the external file in a custom
> > > Bootstrapper Application and store the results as persisted Variables.
> > > This will be more work but Burn just won't trust files that don't
> > > match the security hashes/signatures inserted at build time."
> > >
> > > Is it possible to modify a file, If yes, please let me know in which
> > > of the new WiX build release
> > >
> > > Thanks & Regards
> > > Mohit
> > >
> > >
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