[wix-users] Wix Tutorial Help

[Christopher Painter]

FWIW, most of WiX is ways of authoring MSI.  It's a really good thing to learn the underlying MSI in addition to WiX.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/msi/windows-installer-portal

The Windows Installer team (Rest In Peace?)  used to have a blog on best practices but it was killed a few weeks ago by a big MSFT blog rewrite.  If there is a new URL I am not aware of it yet.

I could complimentary  free 1-hr  voice/screenshare session to give you an overview and answer questions if it helps.

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I did not know you could do that. I will try tonight.

On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 9:35 AM Christopher Painter via wix-users <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org<mailto:wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>> wrote:
And looking at the MSI using Orca and checking to see if the dialog is present and listed in the InstallUISequence table with the correct (-4 through -1)  sequence numbers.


https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/msi/installuisequence-table


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Have you tried running your .msi with 'msiexec /i installer.msi /L&V! installer.log' and looking at the log?


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Betreff: [wix-users] Wix Tutorial Help

Hi all,

I am new to wix and was trying to run through the tutorials on https://www.firegiant.com/wix/tutorial/.

In particular, I cannot get the exit dialog to work correctly in the User Face Revisited chapter. See:
https://www.firegiant.com/wix/tutorial/user-interface-revisited/well-done/

I down loaded the files, but both samples 6 and 7 are not working. They will compile/link and a msi is produced. Installing using the msi also installs the 'application'.

But during the installation, the wizard disappears after the progress page.
None of the dialogs after that appear, such as the exitDlg.

Why are these examples not working, what do I need to do to make them work as described?

Any help would be appreciated

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