Bootstrapper with WiX 3.11 displays untranslated ActionData messages on windows 11

[dvasileff]

Question

I have a custom bootstrapper installer with WiX 3.11. In the theme file I have a Progress page with an ExecuteProgressActionDataText tag to display ActionData messages.
On win 10 machines the messages are translated correctly, but on win 11 I am getting a combination of translated + non-translated messages. For example, “Removing backup files File[1]” instead of just “Removing backup files”.

Some of the things I have tried:

• Updating to WiX 3.14 (I am trying to stay in the 3. range for now), which did not resolve the issue
• Supplying the UIRef Id="WixUI_ErrorProgressText" to the bootstrapper. This is mentioned in the docs, as well as in multiple Stack overflow threads, but it appears to only work for "stock" WixUI templates. Is there a similar remedy for Bootstrapper applications?

Thank you.

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[robmen]

Yeah, this is a Windows Installer bug that Microsoft fixed then broke later. I think you can work around it by populating the Error table and maybe the Action text for all of the messages. It's a real pain that they broke this because you also become responsible for localizing all the messages where they'd do it... if they would replace the placeholders correctly. 😢