Community MSI Extensions

We take our custom actions seriously.

AppSecInc. Community MSI Extensions is a collection of MSI custom actions and WIX extensions that extend Windows installer, originally developped by Application Security Inc. for a large Enterprise product, and open-sourced in 2009. The project grew and continues growing incrementally implementing everything that wix didn't have out of the box. All custom actions and extensions are fully unit-tested.

Essentials

• Download v. 1.2
• v. 1.2 Documentation
• Need Help? Google Group
• MsiExt on Github
• Old CodePlex Site

Features

Wix Extensions

• System Tools: deals with copying, moving, deleting files out of sequence, compare versions, execute commands, process template files, copy registry keys, etc.
• Java Tools: deals with jar and unjar.
• Data Sources: deals with generic ODBC and specific MSAccess and MSSQL databases, SQL files, etc. See this post for a primer.
• User Privileges: deals with local users and groups.
• Common UI Wix Extension: dialogs for installing Windows services and databases with credentials.

Immediate Custom Actions

• Manipulating files, folders, registry, services.
• String template and regex processing.
• Active Directory functions.
• ODBC and DMO functions.
• Local users, groups, security and privileges.
• Encryption, decryption, signing.
• Xml file manipulation.
• TcpIp functions.

Additional Features

• Supports impersonation in all custom actions.

License and Copyright

Copyright (c) Application Security Inc. and Contributors. This project is licensed under the Eclipse Public License.