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Maintaining two separate icons

Does anyone have any idea on how to maintain two separate icons for the WiX bootstrapper executable and also the Add/Remove Programs icon?

For example, I have:

<Bundle ... IconSourceFile="blah.ico" ... />

But IconSourceFile sets both to the same icon. Its description reads:

Path to an icon that will replace the default icon in the final Bundle executable. This icon will also be displayed in Programs and Features (also known as Add/Remove Programs).

Edit: I feel like this may be achieved through a custom action at the end of my installer that is part of the bundle to change the bootstrapper's Add/Remove Programs icon.

Solution

  • Someone already filed a feature request for this: http://wixtoolset.org/issues/4383/. The WiX team suspended it, which means they have no intention of doing it but would accept a pull request if someone wants to implement it.