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WiX installer: Burn shows a GUID as progress text


I have a WiX Burn bundle that includes five MSI packages. During an installation - when upgrading a bundle - I see this:

Burn UI

This happens after progressing the MSI packages. I am not sure what happens. Can this be shown as a text string?


Solution

  • After installing new version of the package Burn runs cached previous version of bundle with command uninstall and Display property set to embedded. Bundle has an unique ID which cannot be set in .wxs file but assigned in compile time. To fix this in my bootstrapper I filter progress messages and replace GUIDs with user friendly text.