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Cover
Copyright
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Getting Started
- Introducing Windows Installer XML
- Your first WiX project
- Adding a user interface
- Viewing the MSI database
  - Orca.exe
- Turning logging on during installation
- Other resources
- Summary
Chapter 2: Creating Files and Directories
- The File element
- The DirectoryRef element
- The ComponentGroup element
- The Fragment element
- Harvesting files with heat.exe
- Copying and moving files
- Installing special-case files
  - Adding assembly files to the GAC
  - Installing a TrueType font
- Installing 64-bit files
- Creating an empty folder
- Setting file permissions
- Speeding up file installations
- Summary
Chapter 3: Putting Properties and AppSearch to Work
- Custom properties
- Predefined Windows Installer properties
  - Implied properties
  - Cited properties
- AppSearch
- Summary
Chapter 4: Improving Control with Launch Conditions and Installed States
- The syntax of conditions
- Action state
- Installed state
- Summary
Chapter 5: Understanding the Installation Sequence
- InstallUISequence
  - UI standard actions
- InstallExecuteSequence
  - Execute standard actions
  - Immediate versus deferred
- Custom actions
- Rollback custom actions
- Accessing properties in a deferred action
- Adding conditions to custom actions
- Deployment Tools Foundation
- Summary
Chapter 6: Adding a User Interface
- WiX standard dialog sets
- Creating your own dialogs
- Modal windows
- ICE20 revisited
- Summary
Chapter 7: Using UI Controls
- Attributes common to all controls
- Specific control syntax
- Summary
Chapter 8: Tapping into Control Events
- Publishing control events
- Subscribing to control events
- Publish events
- Subscribe events
- Summary
Chapter 9: Working from the Command Line
- Candle.exe
- Compile-time variables
- Conditional statements and iterations
- Preprocessor extensions
- Light.exe
  - Command-line arguments (linking)
    - -b
    - -bf
    - -binder
    - -cultures
    - -d
    - -dut
    - -ext
    - -loc
    - -nologo
    - -notidy
    - -o[ut]
    - -pedantic
    - -sadmin
    - -sadv
    - -sloc
    - -sma
    - -ss
    - -sts
    - -sui
    - -sv
    - -sw[N]
    - -usf <output.xml>
    - -v
    - -wx[N]
    - -xo
  - Command-line arguments (binding)
- Link-time variables
- Building an installer without Visual Studio
- Summary
Chapter 10: Accessing the Windows Registry
- Reading from the registry
- Writing to the registry
- Removing registry values
  - Remove all keys recursively
  - Removing a single value
- Copying registry values
- Registry permissions
- Summary
Chapter 11: Controlling Windows Services
- Creating a simple Windows service
- Using sc.exe
- Using WiX to install a service
- Starting, stopping, and uninstalling a service
- Setting the service's user account
- Adding service dependencies
- Service recovery with Util:ServiceConfig
- Summary
Chapter 12: Localizing Your Installer
- WiX localization files
- The role of Light.exe
- Setting language and code page attributes
  - The Package element
  - The Product element
- Localizing the UI
- Creating a multi-language MSI
- Summary
Chapter 13: Upgrading and Patching
- Planning for updates
  - Choosing an update type
  - Per-user or per-machine
- Preparing a major upgrade
- The minor upgrade
- The small update
- Summary
Chapter 14: Extending WiX
- Building a custom WiX extension
- Using the extension in a WiX project
- Tying a custom action to the custom element
- Summary
Chapter 15: Bootstrapping Prerequisites with Burn
- Using the Bootstrapper Project template
- Describing the Bundle element
- Restricting the install by the operating system
- UpgradeCode and detecting related bundles
- Chaining packages
- Downloading packages
- Counting package references
- Rollback boundaries
- PackageGroups
- The Standard Bootstrapper UI
  - The RtfLicense user interface
  - The HyperlinkLicense user interface
- Summary
Chapter 16: Customizing the Burn UI
- Burn extension points
- Creating the class library
- Extending the BootstrapperApplication class
- Defining the model
- Implementing the viewmodel
- Marking up the view
- Referencing the UI in a Burn bundle
- Passing user input to a bundled MSI
- Displaying progress
- Downloading packages
- Collecting command-line arguments
- Summary
Index

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