Latest Release ('Rosario' November CTP msdn) now has Visual Studio Integration. WiX Tutorial (tramontana). WiX documentation (sourceforge). WiX and Visual Studio (msdn forum). WiX integration in Visual Studio using Votive (Votive blog). WiX integration (msdn). WiX Forum. Building setup packages for Visual Studio project templates and starter kits ( Aaron Stebner's WebBlog) WiX Tallow tool WiX is a methodology to write installers. WiX has a compiler/linker (candle/light) which may give the installer writer some validation before deployment. The contents of the end installer (.msi) are edited using an XML file. I haven't found WiX to be advantageous over the ordinary Visual Studio Setup Project. Visual Studios SDK has a project template (from Votive) for creating WiX installers. This project template gives you the skeletol wix file to start and the build commands are built into the project, all you've to do is create new GUIDs ,these guids are only for the installer,...
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