WIX: Change the add/remove program icon does not work

2
votes

the way shown here http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/howtos/ui_and_localization/configure_arp_appearance.html does not work

I put this

<Icon Id="icon.ico" SourceFile="..\Resource\logo.ico"/>
<Property Id="ARPPRODUCTICON" Value="icon.ico" />

in the Product> section but I get the error

Error 3 Schema validation failed with the following error at line 1, column 631: The element 'Product' in namespace 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi' has invalid child element 'Icon' in namespace 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi'. List of possible elements expected: 'Package'. C:\Users\user\Documents\svnRepos\prjs\Mold Sentinel\trunk\software\Mold Sentinel Control App\Installer\Product.wxs 13 1 Installer

I wonder how to specify the source path ... supposedly it starts from the path where the exe file is created, right?

Thanks much

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The error is not complaining about the path, it's complaining about the structure of the XML itself. - Damien_The_Unbeliever

1 Answers

4
votes

The document you've linked to is slightly incorrect in stating:

These two elements can be placed anywhere in your WiX project under the Product element.

(My emphasis)

Since if we look at the Product element's schema documentation, we see:

Children

  • Sequence (min: 1, max: 1)
    • Package (min: 1, max: 1)
    • Choice of elements (min: 0, max: unbounded)
      • AppId (min: 0, max: unbounded)

[snipped]

      • Icon (min: 0, max: unbounded)

So, the one place you cannot put these elements within the Product element is before the Package element.