Wix installer bugs

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KindDragon added this to the Next version milestone Apr 18, Get message 'userid' is not a valid short file name RussKie added the status: pull request only label Dec 7, RussKie closed this Apr 27, Does the xml file exist in the path that it's being referenced as? Yes, it is. I am not too sure why making this change in my code made it work: I kept reading to use XmlConfig instead of XmlFile.

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. If WiX can't load your Xml, then probably any other Xml edit program should fail also. Find or write a dumb program that just does an Xml Load and see what errors you get. PhilDW Orca is not an xml edit program. It should look at your msi and tell you what's wrong with it - potentially - and tell you what part has errors.

He can create an msi, he just can't run it successfully. I've no idea why gbjbaanb is referring to Orca and my comment because I didn't mention it. Just to state what is apparently not obvious, this is nothing to do with MSI files or Orca.

The ExecXml call is a custom action, code somebody wrote, and in that code it's trying to load an Xml file and failing. Orca has no way of knowing you have code that can't load a broken Xml file hanging off your MSI file. It was just a suggestion to help him. I don't know why you were talking about "any other xml edit program" — gbjbaanb.

Again, to state what is apparently again not obvious. The error is failure to load an Xml file. WiX includes several extensions that offer functionality beyond that of Windows Installer. With Burn, the WiX bootstrapper, you can create setup bundles that install prerequisites like the.

NET Framework and other runtimes along with your own product. Burn lets you download packages or combine them into a single downloadable. WiX v4-preview. Read more about it at Rob's blog.

WiX v3. If your application directly references Microsoft.