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WiX: A Developer's Guide to Windows Installer XML

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

Product type Book
Published in Oct 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849513722
Pages 348 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

WiX: A Developer's Guide to Windows Installer XML
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
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

Localizing the EULA


All of the dialogs sets from the WixUIExtension display an End User's License Agreement (EULA). It's always in English, defaulting to an RTF file called License.rtf in the WixUIExtension source files. You'll want to replace this with your own agreement and at the same time localize it. Luckily, all you have to do is specify a path to your own RTF file with the link-time variable WixUILicenseRtf. The following line, which you can place in your main .wxs file, replaces the default license agreement with a custom one:

<WixVariable Id="WixUILicenseRtf"
             Value="CustomAgreement.rtf" />

You can also set this value from the command line when calling Light via the -d flag:

Light.exe -dWixUILicenseRtf=CustomAgreement.rtf -loc es_es.wxl  
 -cultures:es-es -ext WixUIExtension.dll 
 -out "es-es\AwesomeSoftware.msi" .\*.wixobj 

Another option is to set it from within Visual Studio. Right-click on the project, select Properties, and add the variable in the text field...

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