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WiX Cookbook

You're reading from  WiX Cookbook

Product type Book
Published in Jan 2015
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781784393212
Pages 260 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Nicholas Matthew Ramirez Nicholas Matthew Ramirez
Profile icon Nicholas Matthew Ramirez

Table of Contents (20) Chapters

WiX Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Organizing and Building WiX Projects 2. Installing Files and Directories 3. File and Folder Permissions 4. Shortcuts 5. Editing XML Files during Installation 6. Custom Actions 7. Installing Wizards 8. Users and Groups 9. Handling Prerequisites 10. Installing Websites 11. Linking to the Web 12. Installing SQL Server Databases 13. Admin Tasks Index

Launching a web page when a user uninstalls our software


When a user uninstalls our software, often we want to know why. In this recipe, we'll see how to open a web page in surveymonkey.com after an uninstallation. We can use this site to build a survey that asks the user why they're removing the software.

Getting ready

To prepare for this recipe, perform the following steps:

  1. Create a new setup project and call it OpenWebPageAfterUninstallInstaller.

  2. We have to add at least one file to our installer for the installation to complete successfully. Add a file called Sample.txt to the project and add the Component and File elements to include it in the installation:

    <ComponentGroup Id="ProductComponents" 
                    Directory="INSTALLFOLDER">
      <Component Id="cmpSampleTXT" 
                 Guid="{71C66E47-B398-4F06-98C9-4143495772A4}">
        <File Source="Sample.txt" />
      </Component>
    </ComponentGroup>

How to do it...

Schedule the WixShellExec custom action to run after...

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