During my recent forays into the world of WiX I’ve been slowly hacking away at the steep learning curve. This really is a huge framework that is dealing with an intrisically complicated process. For my own projects I’ve always stuck with Inno Setup and to be honest I don’t have any compelling reason [...]
Well after many hours wondering why my WiX custom actions were failing to run I made an interesting discovery. The library that I had created to hold my custom actions was all being referenced correct from the main WiX project code in a separate WiX fragment, like this:
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If you are ever in a situation where you are building an installer for an application and things have gone a bit awry with the uninstall process (tut, tut) there is a nice simple way to get yourself back on track. Simply run the command below and this will force an uninstall of the product [...]
