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WiX 3.6: A Developer's Guide to Windows Installer XML

You're reading from WiX 3.6: A Developer's Guide to Windows Installer XML An all-in-one introduction to Windows Installer XML from the installer and beyond

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2012

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781782160427

Length 488 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

XML

Tools

Wix

Concepts

Application Development

Table of Contents (23) Chapters

WiX 3.6: A Developer's Guide to Windows Installer XML

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

1. Getting Started FREE CHAPTER

2. Creating Files and Directories

3. Putting Properties and AppSearch to Work

4. Improving Control with Launch Conditions and Installed States

5. Understanding the Installation Sequence

6. Adding a User Interface

7. Using UI Controls

8. Tapping into Control Events

9. Working from the Command Line

10. Accessing the Windows Registry

11. Controlling Windows Services

12. Localizing Your Installer

13. Upgrading and Patching

14. Extending WiX

15. Bootstrapping Prerequisites with Burn

16. Customizing the Burn UI

Index

Chapter 5. Understanding the Installation Sequence

In order to coordinate the use of the WiX elements that we've seen and the jobs that they do, there are two tables in the MSI database, InstallUISequence and InstallExecuteSequence, that contain the order in which installation events should occur. For example, AppSearch always happens before launch conditions.

In this chapter, we'll talk about how these tables work. Specifically, we'll cover:

The events that happen during the UI sequence and how to access them
The events that happened during the Execute sequence and how to access them
How to author and schedule your own custom actions
Some tips on writing C# custom actions via the Deployment Tools Foundation (DTF) library

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