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jero2rome
jero2rome

Reputation: 1568

WiX 3.8 - Debug Custom Burn Bootstrapper

Can Anyone point out the steps involved in debugging a WiX Custom Burn Bootstrapper ?

I have my MSI working clean. But when I use it with Burn bootstrapper, the custom actions defer and create problems. I want to just debug my bootstrapper with VS2012.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 4624

Answers (1)

BryanJ
BryanJ

Reputation: 8563

Rob Mensching describes the proper way in this answer.

Alternatively, you could use the following:

  • The bootstrapper creates logs in your user's temp directory, ex: C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Temp

  • Run your boostrapper and attach the debugger to your setup.exe.

  • Call Debugger.Launch() (from the System.Diagnostics namespace) in your code to launch your debugger during runtime.

Upvotes: 8

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