How to select features from an MsiPackage contained in a Bundle element? - wix

Question

I have a exe I created using WiX Burn v3.8. Let's call it Bundle.exe. In this bundle, I have an MSI with 3 features, two are nested under the one. I want to call Bundle.exe from the command line and pass the selected features into my MSI. I should note that I have an existing UI that let's the user select which features to install, so I don't want to use the WiX Bootstrapper app.
//Fragment of my MSI.wxs
<Feature Id="One">
//ComponentRefs
<Feature Id='A' >
//ComponentRefs
</Feature>
<Feature Id="B" >
//ComponentRefs
</Feature>
</Feature>
//Fragment of my Bundle.wxs
<Bundle>
<Chain>
//List of MsiPackages
</Chain>
</Bundle>

Answer 1

In the default bootstrapper this is how we pass the arguments from command line:
<Wix>
<Bundle>
<Variable Name="CommandLineArgument" bal:Overridable="yes"/>
<Chain>
<MsiPackage>
<MsiProperty Name="CommandLineArgument" Value="[CommandLineArgument]"/>
</MsiPackage>
</Chain>
</Bundle>
</Wix>
Make a note of the BAL:Overridable. That's how I was able to make sure that we can pass the property value from command line. Don't forget to add the namespace declaration to the Wix element xmlns:bal="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/BalExtension", and link to the WixBalExtension.dll.
In your case, the MSI property that you should be assigning the feature value[s] should be "ADDLOCAL".
<MsiProperty Name="ADDLOCAL" Value="[CommandLineArgument]"/>
To execute the bundle from commandline do the following:
bundle.exe CommandLineArgument=One,A,B