[SOLVED] Wix Bootstrapper setup.exe never starts and log reads Failed to load theme controls

Wix Bootstrapper setup.exe never starts and log reads Failed to load theme controls

Environment

Using a Bootstrapper project in Visual Studio 2012/Visual Studio 2013

Windows 7 Enterprise SP1

WixToolset 3.8

Details

Setup.exe never runs

The log file in AppData/Local/Temp/[WixBundleName][DateTime].log reads "Error 0x8007000d: Failed to load theme controls."

Solution

I have found that editing the Theme/Image[@ImageFile] value to anything other than Logo.png with cause the described error.

Changing the value back to Logo.png reverses the error.

Setting the value in Wix/Bundle/bal:WixStandardBootstrapperApplication[@LogoFile] appropriately changes the image and does not cause the setup.exe to produce an error.

Note I downloaded and used the default theme for HyperlinkLicense for my custom template with only change being the ImageFile attribute. It is improbable that this was a result of ill-formed xml.