[WiX-users] Very confused by the structure of ProgId/Verbs/etc - for non-trivial case of specifying file associations

Folks: I understand how to use the ProgID for some simple cases, such as this example: Component Id=ee Guid=$(var.Component_GUID) ProgId Id=xxxFile Advertise=yes Description=desc Icon=MyFileIcon.ico Extension Id=HPHR

[WiX-users] WIX and private assemblies for Windows 2000

Folks: I have an activeX control I deploy with my Win32 application which requires registry settings. I've created a manifest for this OCX, so that it can be installed on WinXP and later without any registry settings (so works more nearly side-by-side with other programs that might

[WiX-users] Subclassing WIX dialogs

Folks: It appears the standard methodology for making changes in dialogs is to copy the dialog into your own .wxs file, and anything that referred to it (like a UI sequence) also has to be copied and modified. Are there any plans (maybe in Wix v3?) to include an

[WiX-users] OPTIONALLY start service after its been installed (Wix v3)

I'm using the latest daily build of Wix v3. I have a windows service I'm installing, and I've found I can do: ServiceControl Id=MyServiceCtrl Name=MyService Stop=both / To

[WiX-users] setup.exe has no icon?

Folks: The setup.exe built using setupbld.exe in the latest (3.0.3106.0) version of WIX doesn't include an application icon. Most other installers appear to have some kind of installer icon. Is this choice intentional? I realize I can make a manual copy

[WiX-users] Permission Element, and next v3 pre-release build?

Folks: I've just tried WIX, after a decade of suffering with Installshield, and I'm truly impressed! This is a major improvement! I'm using the latest WIX v3 pre-release build 3.0.2420.0. One of the few (blocking) bugs I've run into appears to be a