[wix-users] Simple exe wrapper for msi

Don Caton dcaton1220 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 31 12:04:29 PDT 2017


Thank you but I know all that from reading the (limited) documentation.

I don't want to customize the bootstrapper UI, I want to get rid of it
completely.  The UI has to be the same whether running the .exe or the
.msi.

In the time I've spend Googling for this, I probably could have written a
simple exe in C++ that does what I want (1. extract the msi to a temp
folder, 2. run msiexec, 3. delete temp folder).

Don

On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 2:39 PM <robert_yang at agilent.com> wrote:

> It's not too hard to use burn but set the MsiPackage's DisplayInternalUI
> attribute to 'yes'.  That way you get a basic bootstrapper but you also get
> the MSI's user interface.  We've been doing that for a while.
>
> The standard bootstrapper UI can also be customized to some extent with
> themes :
>
>
> http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/bundle/wixstdba/wixstdba_customize.html
>
> We use this to show the company logo, choose some different fonts, move
> things around, and so on.
>
> -Rob
>
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