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WiX Cookbook

You're reading from   WiX Cookbook Over 60 hands-on recipes packed with tips and tricks to boost your Windows installations

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784393212
Length 260 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nicholas Matthew Ramirez Nicholas Matthew Ramirez
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Organizing and Building WiX Projects FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing Files and Directories 3. File and Folder Permissions 4. Shortcuts 5. Editing XML Files during Installation 6. Custom Actions 7. Installing Wizards 8. Users and Groups 9. Handling Prerequisites 10. Installing Websites 11. Linking to the Web 12. Installing SQL Server Databases 13. Admin Tasks Index

Inserting inner text into an XML element


In some cases, an XML file might use the inner text of an element to configure a setting. For example, if you view the properties of an ASP.NET project, there's a Settings tab where you can add rows of named application settings:

These settings will be stored in Web.config under the applicationSettings node:

<configuration>
  <!--Other elements omitted for brevity-->

  <applicationSettings>
    <MyWebApp.Properties.Settings>
      <setting name="MySetting" serializeAs="String">
        <value>ValueA</value>
      </setting>
    </MyWebApp.Properties.Settings>
  </applicationSettings>
</configuration>

As you can see, the value of the setting is stored as inner text in an element called value. In this recipe, we'll update this inner text so that instead of saying ValueA, it will say ValueB.

Getting ready

To prepare for this recipe, perform the following steps:

  1. Create a new setup project and...

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