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My question is not necessarily on wixsharp but may you know to help. Like, maybe i'm using the wrong project type etc.

Im using ManagedProject of wix sharp.

During the my installer I'd like to install .net sdk which actually is an exe file.

I have the file attached to the project, so i just run a process on AfterInstall action that install the file.

Now, the exe file behaves like msi installer, double click opens GUI etc.

The issue is, that It's failed with error code 1618 which means it can't run multiple programs in parallel.

a.k.a my installer and the exe file.

Any idea?

Thanks!

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Windows Installer (.MSI) has a mutex that prevents two MSIs from changing the machine state concurrently. You need to create a bootstrapper/chainer (.EXE) that installs the .NET SDK (which is a bootstrapper/chainer .EXE that internally contains one or more .MSIs) sequentially to get around this design constraint.

Feel free to contact me and I can assist you in doing this while we update an open source repos that I maintain for the .SDK that you need.

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