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To give you a background - I have a 4 MSI's which comes from our vendor and this has to go to our company servers (we are looking at around 3500 servers). As of now, my counterparts are managing this using vbs, ps1 scripts. But the problem with the script is that everytime an update comes we have to worry about uninstalling the existing package before running the new one and a ton of hardcoding. I want to automate the whole process (with very less hardcoding) by setting up a WIX script to package all the 4 MSI's together. I read about the WIX bundle and used that to create a single MSI. But

I am trying to use Burn and WIX 3.6 to make an installer for my app. The installer must be capable of installing .NET 3.5 SP1 from Microsoft's web site. I am working from a working WIX project created with WIX 3.5. It works, if .NET 3.5 SP1 has been previously installed on the target machine. The first step appears to be to create a bundle, so I added a element to my Product.wxs file. When I do that I get an error saying that the is not valid in the schema, I must have a instead. Does that mean that I have to transfer all the product definitions into a fragment? It's unclear how I do that.

When installing an application that can use either .NET 4.0 or 4.5, what is the best practice when installing the prerequisites .NET framework? And how do you implement it using Burn in WiX? These are the options and trade-offs that I am aware of: Option 1: Install .NET 4.0 (just what you need) Advantages: None known (except for Windows XP, where this is the only choice) Option 2: Install .NET 4.5 if .NET 4.5 is not present Advantages: User won't have to install .NET 4.5 later for future apps. App won't experience a .NET version change when user later does upgrade to .NET 4.5. App immediately

I am using Burn for MSIs package. I am using Votive (Visual Studio) & my own custom BA instead of WiXBA. I tried to debug custom BA using Debugger.Launch() . But when I start debugging, error messages occur. No symbols are loaded for any call stack frame. The source code cannot be displayed I realized that package.exe links CustomBA dll which located at C:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Temp\{GUID}\ . {GUID} is always changed. So, whenever I run package.exe, always directory is changed. I think that is the reason to occur errors. In Visual Studio, When I started package.exe with

I want to use the WiX bootstrapper burn to automatically download and install the vcruntime140 package (Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015) if it is required. It's trivially easy to do this for the .NET frameworks: <Chain> <PackageGroupRef Id="NetFx452Web"/> ... </Chain> but I can't find an equivalent for the vcruntime packages. (Is that because there isn't one, or am I just typing the wrong keywords into Google?) Just to be clear: I do not want to include the package with my installer. It must be a web download. Arkady Sitnitsky There is no PackageGroupRef for the redist as for