WiX Burn .NET installation and subsequent license decline

Question

I am using WiX 3.10 Burn to install .NET before my application that requires it in the following way:

<Chain>
    <PackageGroupRef Id="NetFx45Web"/>
    <MsiPackage Id="MyApplication" SourceFile="$(var.MyApplicationSetup.TargetPath)"/>
</Chain>

When running the installer, after .NET is installed, the MSI package displays a license page. If the license is declined by the user, the installer exits without installing anything except the .NET.

However, there is already an entry for MyApplication in 'Uninstall a program' in Windows, because of the .NET installation. .NET is listed in 'Uninstall a program' separately.

Is there any way to ensure that MyApplication is not listed when none of it was actually installed?

I'm pretty sure this Prerequisite is not installed under the Control Panel entry. Could you execute your setup.exe with logging enabled so we can see what is being done? — Starceaker
What do you mean by 'this Prerequisite' ? What I'm saying is that both MyApplication and .NET are listed separately in 'Uninstall a program' in Control Panel. But since I declined the license, I don't want MyApplication to be there. — ondrisko
Anyway, I found that this is by design and there is a WiX feature request handling this: github.com/wixtoolset/issues/issues/4822. — ondrisko

ondrisko ondrisko · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-04T12:49:46

I found out that this behavior is by design in WiX (see discussion).

There is currently an open feature request to handle such scenarios.

I handled it this way in my application: When a user declines the license (which is displayed by my managed bootstrapper) or exits the installer prematurely in any other way, I apply an uninstall of my application.

WiX Burn .NET installation and subsequent license decline

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