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WiX 3.6: A Developer's Guide to Windows Installer XML

You're reading from  WiX 3.6: A Developer's Guide to Windows Installer XML

Product type Book
Published in Dec 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782160427
Pages 488 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (23) Chapters

WiX 3.6: A Developer's Guide to Windows Installer XML
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting Started 2. Creating Files and Directories 3. Putting Properties and AppSearch to Work 4. Improving Control with Launch Conditions and Installed States 5. Understanding the Installation Sequence 6. Adding a User Interface 7. Using UI Controls 8. Tapping into Control Events 9. Working from the Command Line 10. Accessing the Windows Registry 11. Controlling Windows Services 12. Localizing Your Installer 13. Upgrading and Patching 14. Extending WiX 15. Bootstrapping Prerequisites with Burn 16. Customizing the Burn UI Index

Rollback boundaries


Let's say you've included three MSIs in your install chain. The user launches the bootstrapper, the first two MSIs install successfully but the third fails. You may decide to keep the first two but roll back only the third. By default, all three will roll back. Use RollbackBoundary elements to create checkpoints past which the install won't roll back. The following is an example:

<Chain>
   <MsiPackage... />
   <MsiPackage ... />
   <RollbackBoundary />
   <MsiPackage... />
</Chain>

If the third MSI package fails, only it will be rolled back. The first two packages will remain installed. Another scenario is to roll back a failed install and then skip past it to the next rollback boundary. In the next example, if the second MSI fails, it will skip forward to the next RollbackBoundary and continue. The key is to add the Vital attribute on a RollbackBoundary element, set to no, that precedes the MsiPackage element:

<Chain>
   <MsiPackage...
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