About This Book

• Build WiX tasks inside visible Studio, as a part of a continuous-integration construct strategy and from the command-line
• Install, configure and populate relational databases up entrance to counterpoint your application
• Automate your day by day management projects akin to constructing functionality counters and exceptions to the home windows firewall

Who This ebook Is For

If you're a developer with a great figuring out of WiX initiatives and want to extra discover complicated WiX issues, this publication is for you. To get the main out of this publication, wisdom of right XML syntax is recommended.

What you are going to Learn

• Install web pages, software swimming pools, and digital directories in IIS
• Add a wizard for your installer and customise it together with your personal dialogs
• Set up new consumer bills, upload defense teams, and safe records and folders on installation
• Prevent deployment to unsupported platforms by utilizing release conditions
• Update XML records in the course of installation
• Configure shortcuts in your application
• Include must haves with a bootstrapper
• Create customized activities utilizing C#
• Add surroundings variables to the system

In Detail

WiX is a dialect of XML used to make installers for home windows. Its declarative variety avoids the complexity and obstacles of procedural code, giving you every little thing you must package deal up a whole software right into a unmarried MSI file.

This publication provides a great assessment of WiX's services to improve your individual installer applications with functionalities past these on hand in home windows Installer. within the recipes of this e-book, you will find ways that WiX can scale down in your set up time and assist you streamline your deployment approaches. you can see tips to make personalized installer UIs, write customized activities, create shortcuts, and in addition set your program because the default for a dossier type.