WiX: Managed Custom Actions

posted by  techgeek (12)  13 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

I've added WiX to my build process to automate the production of windows installer packages for my product. I'm not very proficient with Windows Installer technology, so I thought I might get by with what I've seen is already a "traditional" approach: dark an MSI created by a Visual Studio Setup Project. Well, I knew that this was not the right approach the moment I laid eyes on the script file I got from the decompiler.

However, it was sufficient to familiarize myself with the general structure of a WiX script. Soon after I decided to drop that script and start fresh. After a few d