Product version displayed in WIX-made MSI file properties?

Question

How to have the Product version displayed in the MSI file properties (as displayed by Windows Explorer) ?

Our installer is created using WIX. All we see is the product GUID displayed as the Revision Number in the Details tab of the MSI file properties.

We'd like to have the product version (e.g.: 5.0.1.12345) so that the support team (and customers) can easily check the version of a given file.

Answer 1

Simply add the Comments attribute to the Package tag as below.

<Package InstallerVersion="200" Compressed="yes" InstallScope="perMachine" Comments="Version: 5.0.1.12345" />

There is no version property to be set. So as an alternative we are adding it to the comments attribute. So it can be seen in the properties of the msi.

Answer 2

I don't think that you can actually set a file version on MSI files in WIX. What we do is that we edit the description property of the Package.

<Package InstallerVersion="200" Description="Version: !(bind.FileVersion.filD6DA798364FCF1273EEE80AEF914C743)" InstallScope="perMachine" ...

And then we also make sure that the same version is used for the Product:

<Product Id="*" Name="Name" Language="1033" Version="!(bind.FileVersion.filD6DA798364FCF1273EEE80AEF914C743)" ...

The description is visible in your MSI file properties and so the version will be visible in the description. I hope that is what you want!