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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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782160427
Length 488 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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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

Installing 64-bit files


Let's say that you have a .NET assembly that's targeting the x64 platform and you want the installer for it to place that file into the 64-bit Program Files folder (available on 64-bit Windows operating systems). For the uninitiated: you can set the platform for the assembly using Visual Studio's Configuration Manager, as shown in the following screenshot:

The first thing to do is to open Properties for the WiX project and, on the Tools Settings tab, add –arch x64 to the Compiler parameters, as shown in the following screenshot:

Next, change the Directory element that is referencing ProgramFilesFolder to instead reference ProgramFiles64Folder, given as follows:

<Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir">
  <Directory Id="ProgramFiles64Folder">
    <Directory Id="INSTALLFOLDER" Name="My Software" />
  </Directory>
</Directory>

Now your 64-bit assembly can be put into this directory. WiX detects the architecture of the .NET assemblies for...

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