WIX installer shows brackets in status line

问题:

I am using a WIX installer that is showing some brackets in the status line (see image below):

I haven't made changes to the WIX file, but only the installed files have changed. I did update WIX to v3.11, because this was required to use WIX in Visual Studio 2017. We use the standard WixUI.

These strings are listed in the C:\Program Files (x86)\WiX Toolset v3.11\SDK\wixui\WixUI_en-us.wxl file. A few lines from this file:

<String Id="ProgressTextRemoveFiles" Overridable="yes"><!-- _locID_text="ProgressTextRemoveFiles" _locComment="ProgressTextRemoveFiles" -->Removing files</String>
<String Id="ProgressTextRemoveFilesTemplate" Overridable="yes"><!-- _locID_text="ProgressTextRemoveFilesTemplate" _locComment="ProgressTextRemoveFilesTemplate" -->File: [1], Directory: [9]</String>

These strings exactly match what I see during installation. It seems only the ProgressDlg has this issue, but maybe other strings don't use expansion. Anyone has a clue?

回答1:

Try to add the following line in your main wxs:

<UIRef Id="WixUI_ErrorProgressText" />

See my answer for the same question.