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Asked: 2026-06-01T06:44:15+00:00

I am trying to create a Help button for my installer, bur for some

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I am trying to create a “Help” button for my installer, bur for some reason my Icon does not appear on my push button. Currently I am including the icon image in my main wix product wxs file as follows

<WixVariable Id="WixUIInfoIcon" Value="Icons\info.ico"/>

Then in the wxs file I am using the icon I have the binary definition at the top as follows

<Binary Id="info" SourceFile="$(var.ICONS)\info.ico" />

ICONS is a variable I created with the file path that I QUADRUPLE checked to make sure it was accurate. I am using this same technique with a bitmap elsewhere, and it appears so I have ruled out the variable as a known issue.

Then the button itself looks like this

    <Control Id="info" Type="PushButton" X="101" Y="51" Width="25" Height="23" ToolTip="Info for feature" Icon="yes" FixedSize="yes" IconSize="32"Text="info">
       <Publish Property="FEATURE_DESC_SHOW" Value="true"></Publish>
       <Publish Event="SpawnDialog" Value="PopupDlgFeature">1</Publish>
    </Control>

Any ideas on something that I am doing wrong or something that is missing. I feel a little foolish here that I can’t figure this out, but sometimes the simplest of issue can cause the worst of problems am I right? lol

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  1. Editorial Team

    Turns out that the issue was type conversion…when I converted my .bmp to a .ico something happened and the image was corrupted. I went back and re-converted the image and now it works fine lol sorry for the any confusion I may have caused and please disregard my inadvertence in checking this earlier…

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