AddIn set up

[akothoor]

Hi Govert,

I am trying to use this installer but I cannot seem to add my Add-In project as a reference to the ExcelAddInDeploy project. Is this setup project supposed to be independent of the actual ExcelDNA project ? And I would just need to specify the physical path to the actual xll file (after compile) in the Product.wxs file ?

Thanks.

[govert]

I didn't make the WiXinstaller, but I'm happy to support it. Yes - I think you make a copy of the WiXInstaller and customize it, using your compiled add-in. I guess they can be part of the same solution, but don't have other links like a reference or anything.

[akothoor]

Okay, yes I got it to work that way. Also I upgraded the version number and re-deployed the ExcelAddInDeploy project and created a new msi file. Then when I open Excel it does not detect that there is an upgrade and it does not try to upgrade to new version on Auto Open. How can that be made possible ?

[govert]

Doing some kind of auto-upgrade would be a whole different story. It's probably something you'd do by structuring your add-in in two parts, a master add-in that just checks for the current version, and downloads it if needed, and then the real add-in itself, with different versions. Maybe there's some way to get the MSI installer to help, but it's not an area I'm familiar with at all.

[akothoor]

Ah okay. Do you know how to get rid of the Licence agreement bit? Maybe just get rid of that "I agree" check box ?

Thanks.

[govert]

From http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13045658/removing-license-dialog it looks like you can change the setup from WixUI_Minimal in this part

    <UI Id="UI">
       <!--See http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/WixUI_index.htm for more information
       The following line adds the minimal WiX Dialog set to the install--> 
      <UIRef Id="WixUI_Minimal"/>
      <!-- This TextStyle is used in the CustonMessages.wxl file -->
      <TextStyle Id="Black10" FaceName="Tahoma" Size="10" Red="0" Green="0" Blue="0" Bold="yes" />
    </UI>

to

<UI>
    <UIRef Id="WixUI_InstallDir" />

    <!-- Skip license dialog -->
    <Publish Dialog="WelcomeDlg"
             Control="Next"
             Event="NewDialog"
             Value="InstallDirDlg"
             Order="2">1</Publish>
    <Publish Dialog="InstallDirDlg"
             Control="Back"
             Event="NewDialog"
             Value="WelcomeDlg"
             Order="2">1</Publish>
</UI>

Google has a lot more too...

[sjahongir]

@akothoor Did you find solution? I have the same problem.