wix 3.5的静默安装程序，带有c＃\\ .NET中的自定义操作

Question

Is there any way I can put all the properties and values of my WIX 3.5 installer, like the user inputs in my custom dialogs , into one single file and pass it to my MSI installer for silent installation? Something like one would do with a response file with installshield with a properties file? I made sure to have all my custom actions in installexecute sequence. All my custom actions are in c#/.NET

Answer 1

You use the Windows Installer SDK tool ORCA (MSI database editor) to create a transform. In the transform you define all your properties.

Editing MSI files with Microsoft Orca

Once you have created your transform you perform the silent installation like this:

msiexec /I foo.msi TRANSFORMS=foo.mst /qn /l*v install.log

Silent installations completely skip the UI sequence so you aren't recording user input like a response file. You are setting properties and fully skipping the UI.

Answer 2

Not quite.

As you probably know, all the UI actions are skipped during a silent installation => no dialogs => no place for user inputs.

There are methods, though. You'll have to set the properties as they would have been set by the UI.

• First, as an alternative, you could build your installer without any dialogs that take user inputs => same outcome with silent and non-silent installations.
• Second, if the defaults are okay, then no properties need to be changed.
• In any case, you might get by with passing property values on the msiexec command line.
• If not, Christopher Painter's answer concerning transforms gives the most general solution.