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Adding UI to your WiX installer
This is part two of my posts on features I recently discovered in WiX. Adding a UI to your installer is extremely simple now. Far easier than the way I used to do it. This technique is mentioned in the excellent WiX tutorial. It is also being used by the Votive install which you can look at in the WiX source on SourceForge.
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Using WiX to fix up XML files when deploying to different environments
I met Rob Mensching out at PDC and he pointed out a new feature in WiX that can be used to solve the problem of deploying XML configuration files into many different environments. It's called <XmlFile> and allows you to poke values into an XML file while deploying them. This is the same problem I try to solve with the XmlPreprocessor tool.