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Recently I made the move to Wix3 for a couple of projects and I have been quite happy. One of the things that has been simplified is adding a a custom step into the installer process. I’ll leave the heavy lifting of how to insert the custom dialog to
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Joshua Flanagan had a question about my Web Applications and Virtual Directories post. He asks: "Do you know of any way to query the default website root on the destination machine, so that you can use that as your target deployment folder? For example,
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So far on our journey into building windows installers we have gone from just getting started to generating Wix content for all the files in your application . There is an important little something something missing from our toy installer. Pleats (fake
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Now that our journey has begun and we have a basic Wix installer under our belt , we need to get the rest of our web application's files into the installer. Creating all the < Directory > and < Component > and < File > elements by hand
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We all use them. Installers. They help get that sexy, shiny, new software safely onto our PCs and into our lives letting us frolic and play. Later, if things go sour or if the thrill is gone the installer is still there to reverse the process to help
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