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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

Changing the logo images and default license agreement text of the wizard


When you launch your installer with one of the user interfaces from the WiX Toolset, you'll notice that it has a generic look and defaults to displaying the Common Public License for the EULA. You'll want to customize this to show our own branded images and company-specific license agreement. In this recipe, we will update WixUI_Minimal so that it displays a new background and uses the GNU General Public License. This applies to all of the default wizards.

Getting ready

To prepare for this recipe, perform the following steps:

  1. Create a new setup project and call it CustomizedWizardInstaller.

  2. For the installer to complete successfully, you should add at least one file to it. Add a file called Sample.txt and then include a Component and File element in it:

    <ComponentGroup Id="ProductComponents" 
                    Directory="INSTALLFOLDER">
      <Component Id="cmpSampleTXT" 
                 Guid="{A6F5F368-0FD3-4E75-AF3B-9FCB12AD1D86...
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