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    copied!<p>I'm aware of similar questions in WiX MSI, but I'm having issues starting an application within a bootstrapper EXE file created with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiX#Burn" rel="noreferrer">Burn</a> after the installation. My full bundle is below.</p> <p>If it makes any difference to the scenario, the bootstrapper is started in passive mode, so the user shouldn't need to press anything.</p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt; &lt;Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi" xmlns:bal="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/BalExtension" xmlns:util="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/UtilExtension"&gt; &lt;Bundle Name="My Company AutoUpdater" Version="1.0.11" Manufacturer="My Company" UpgradeCode="--GUID--"&gt; &lt;BootstrapperApplicationRef Id="WixStandardBootstrapperApplication.HyperlinkLicense"&gt; &lt;bal:WixStandardBootstrapperApplication SuppressOptionsUI="yes" LicenseUrl="" LogoFile="logo.png" /&gt; &lt;/BootstrapperApplicationRef&gt; &lt;Chain&gt; &lt;MsiPackage SourceFile="..\App1\bin\Release\App1.msi" /&gt; &lt;MsiPackage SourceFile="..\App2\bin\Release\App2.msi" /&gt; &lt;/Chain&gt; &lt;/Bundle&gt; &lt;Fragment&gt; &lt;Property Id="WixShellExecTarget" Value="[#C:\Program Files (x86)\My Company\App1.exe]" /&gt; &lt;Binary Id="MyCA" SourceFile="[#C:\Program Files (x86)\My Company\App1.exe]"/&gt; &lt;CustomAction Id="LaunchApplication" BinaryKey="MyCA" ExeCommand="-switch" Execute="deferred" Return="check" HideTarget="no" Impersonate="no" /&gt; &lt;InstallExecuteSequence&gt; &lt;Custom Action="LaunchApplication" After="InstallFiles" /&gt; &lt;/InstallExecuteSequence&gt; &lt;/Fragment&gt; &lt;/Wix&gt; </code></pre>
 

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