[wix-users] v4: Using the WixUI extension

Sat Jul 2 03:34:31 PDT 2022

Thanks Sean, that was helpful.

I finally got it to work using the ui:WixUI syntax and passing the path to the WixUI extension dll as an wix -ext argument.
I'm using Wix in a CI pipeline on a shared runner, so the acquisition of the tools has to be automated.
That adds the complexity of authenticating to the GitHub NuGet package registry.

In the end, I ended up using something like this:

```powershell
$headers = @{
    Authorization = "Basic " + [System.Convert]::ToBase64String([System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes("$($user):$($token)"))
}

# To fetch the metadata for a package, including the download URL,
# navigate to e.g. https://nuget.pkg.github.com/wixtoolset/WixToolset.Sdk/4.0.0-preview.1-build.415.json
$wixVersion = "4.0.0-preview.1-build.415"
Invoke-WebRequest `
    -Uri https://nuget.pkg.github.com/wixtoolset/download/WixToolset.Sdk/$wixVersion/WixToolset.Sdk.$wixVersion.nupkg `
    -Headers $headers `
    -OutFile WixToolset.Sdk.$wixVersion.zip

Invoke-WebRequest `
    -Uri https://nuget.pkg.github.com/wixtoolset/download/WixToolset.UI.wixext/$wixVersion/WixToolset.UI.wixext.$wixVersion.nupkg `
    -Headers $headers `
    -OutFile WixToolset.UI.wixext.$wixVersion.zip

Expand-Archive -Path .\WixToolset.Sdk.$wixVersion.zip -DestinationPath wix
Expand-Archive -Path .\WixToolset.UI.wixext.$wixVersion.zip -DestinationPath wixui

dotnet .\wix\tools\netcoreapp3.1\wix.dll build [...] -ext .\wixui\tools\WixToolset.UI.wixext.dll
```

Hope it's useful to others.

Frederik.

-----Original Message-----
From: wix-users <wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> On Behalf Of Sean Hall via wix-users
Sent: Friday, 1 July 2022 18:25
To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
Cc: Sean Hall <r.sean.hall at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [wix-users] v4: Using the WixUI extension

The person that created the discussion that led to that issue seemed to have gotten it working.

ui:WixUI is only in preview.1, the v3 method of UIRef was still in place for preview.0. You're not going to be able to mix and match extensions and the core toolset between different builds right now. I don't know what's supposed to happen in that scenario, but it silently ignoring extensions that couldn't be loaded is possible.

On Fri, Jul 1, 2022 at 11:10 AM Frederik Carlier < frederik.carlier at keysight.com> wrote:

> Hi Sean,
>
> I think that's part of the problem, but I had assumed that passing 
> -ext [path to extension .dll] would also work, instead of going 
> through wix extension add.
> At least,
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://github.com/wixtoolset/wix4/blob/22
> 3606fcd02e6d15e065d1e108e17c8848d35f9f/src/ext/Bal/test/WixToolsetTest
> .Bal/BalExtensionFixture.cs*L193__;Iw!!I5pVk4LIGAfnvw!kj46s9B_eNs6m_hy
> nqZGDFnxAcaPj-E8Tw-ZlEvnUvRd3earMyq_qlaV2GvuC3QFQoVbZbI8oxyUbfAR_6cQ_r
> Q0AZ86mT711zo$
> gave me that impression.
> Is that supposed to work?
>
> I also tried with the latest preview.1 builds but that didn't work for 
> me either.
>
> Do you know of people using wix v4 + the WixUI extension?
>
> Frederik.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sean Hall via wix-users
> Sent: Friday, July 1, 2022 5:44 PM
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>
> I assume you're running into
>
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://github.com/wixtoolset/issues/issue
> s/6536__;!!I5pVk4LIGAfnvw!huJNcTxkjSfL-LIpMM5ZJCWMmP8L2J2NNSmxmXGZFamd
> mjxtz3enuGj9QcvjFmUt1TGwm6UgUbcWb6wKEyfoENHmNxiGaOVLYK0$
>
> On Fri, Jul 1, 2022 at 10:30 AM Frederik Carlier via wix-users < 
> wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm continuing my wix v4 preview journey.  I'm able to build a .msi 
> > package, and would now like to add the minimal Wix UI to my installer.
> >
> > My .wxs file looks like this:
> >
> > <Wix
> > xmlns=
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://wixtoolset.org/schemas/v4/wxs__;!!I
> 5pVk4LIGAfnvw!huJNcTxkjSfL-LIpMM5ZJCWMmP8L2J2NNSmxmXGZFamdmjxtz3enuGj9
> QcvjFmUt1TGwm6UgUbcWb6wKEyfoENHmNxiGr9edgUw$
> xmlns:ui=
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://wixtoolset.org/schemas/v4/wxs/ui__;
> !!I5pVk4LIGAfnvw!huJNcTxkjSfL-LIpMM5ZJCWMmP8L2J2NNSmxmXGZFamdmjxtz3enu
> Gj9QcvjFmUt1TGwm6UgUbcWb6wKEyfoENHmNxiGiLINHic$
> >
> >   <Package Name="..." Manufacturer="..." Version="$(var.Version)"
> > UpgradeCode="...">
> >     [...]
> >     <ui:WixUI Id="WixUI_Minimal" />
> >   </Package>
> > </Wix>
> >
> > I always get the following error message when trying to compile with wix:
> > error WIX0200: The Package element contains an unhandled extension 
> > element 'WixUI'.  Please ensure that the extension for elements in the '
> >
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://wixtoolset.org/schemas/v4/wxs/ui__;
> !!I5pVk4LIGAfnvw!huJNcTxkjSfL-LIpMM5ZJCWMmP8L2J2NNSmxmXGZFamdmjxtz3enu
> Gj9QcvjFmUt1TGwm6UgUbcWb6wKEyfoENHmNxiGiLINHic$
> ' namespace has been provided.
> >
> > I have tried the following:
> >
> >   *   Installing the WixUI extension via wix extension add
> >   *   Passing the path to the WixToolset.UI.wixext.dll library via the
> > -ext argument
> >   *   Passing the path to the WixToolset.UI.wixext.nupkg NuGet package
> via
> > the -ext argument
> >
> > Anything else I can try?
> >
> > Frederik.
> >
> >
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