WiX Cookbook
| By: | Nicholas Matthew Ramirez |
| Publisher: | Packt Publishing |
| Print ISBN: | 9781784393212 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781784399405 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2015 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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Book Description
WiX is a dialect of XML used to make installers for Windows. Its declarative style avoids the complexity and limitations of procedural code, providing you with everything you need to package up an entire application into a single MSI file. This book gives you a good overview of WiX's capabilities to develop your own installer packages with functionalities beyond those available in Windows Installer. In the recipes of this book, you will see ways in which WiX can cut down on your installation time and help you streamline your deployment processes. You will see how to make customized installer UIs, write custom actions, create shortcuts, and also set your application as the default for a file type.What you will learn
- Install websites, application pools, and virtual directories in IIS
- Add a wizard to your installer and customize it with your own dialogs
- Set up new user accounts, add security groups, and secure files and folders on installation
- Prevent deployment to unsupported systems by using launch conditions
- Update XML files during installation
- Configure shortcuts to your application
- Include prerequisites with a bootstrapper
- Create custom actions using C#
- Add environment variables to the system