How do I change the language of a Wix 3.5 MSI?

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Question

I have created an installer with Windows Installer XML 3.5 from within the Visual Studio 2010. The installer itself works pretty well but now I would like to change it's default language from english (1033) to german (1031). Therefore I changed the language attribute within the product tag to "1031" which should do the magic as far as I know but nothing happens. The language is still english.

<Product Id="MyProductId" Name="NameOfMyApp" Language="1031" Version="MyVersionNumber" Manufacturer="MyCompany" UpgradeCode="MyUpgradeCode">

What am I missing here?

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Solution

You need to specify the language (culture) on the command line when building as described here (or in the project properties when you are using Votive):

WiX Tutorial - Do you speak English?

candle.exe SampleWixUI.wxs
light.exe -ext WixUIExtension -cultures:de-de SampleWixUI.wixobj

OTHER TIPS

You can also do it in Visual Studio: Project - Properties - Build - Cultures to build.

Select language for WIX installer in Visual Studio

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