WiX 3.8 - Debug Custom Burn Bootstrapper

Question

Can Anyone point out the steps involved in debugging a WiX Custom Burn Bootstrapper ?

I have my MSI working clean. But when I use it with Burn bootstrapper, the custom actions defer and create problems. I want to just debug my bootstrapper with VS2012.

Answer 1

Rob Mensching describes the proper way in this answer.

Alternatively, you could use the following:

• The bootstrapper creates logs in your user's temp directory, ex: C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Temp

• Run your boostrapper and attach the debugger to your setup.exe.

• Call Debugger.Launch() (from the System.Diagnostics namespace) in your code to launch your debugger during runtime.