What is the latest version of the Wix Extension for Visual Studio?

[MattWalker414]

Question

We're seeing a problem across several of our installations authored with InstallShield with regard to some WiX custom actions. From the log...

MSI (c) (88:A4) [15:39:47:914]: Invoking remote custom action. DLL: C:\Users<userName>\AppData\Local\Temp\MSI85FF.tmp, Entrypoint: VisualCPPDetect
SFXCA: RUNDLL32 returned error code: -1073741819

We are thinking its a security issue in the end user environment as the actions work fine on Server OSs, but fail on Workstations. We also disabled the first offending action only to hit the same issue with the next Wix Custom Action scheduled in the install.

We also just wanted to rule out the version of the WiX extension for Visual Studio we are using. When I search for extensions in VS, the only extension that appears is WiX v3 - but I saw that that version of the toolkit has been deprecated. Is there a more recent version of the extension available or are we to move away from MSI Dll Custom Actions as the extension has been deprecated altogether?

Any help, or if by some miracle someone else has experienced the logged error and can steer me in the right direction, would be greatly appreciated.

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[MattWalker414]

I believe I found the answer. In Visual Studio 2022, the extension is HeatWave. I believe that it is at v4, but I guess all of my projects are v3. It seems there is a way to convert the projects... https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=FireGiant.FireGiantHeatWaveDev17 ..., but I don't see the menu options mentioned.

Also, it seems that our installs are successful with a tweak or two in BeyondTrust, so I guess maybe there is no WiX version problem. Unless something is handled differently in v4, maybe. ??