Friday, February 8, 2019

Wix in Visual Studio: creating MSI files


This article presents the process of generating .msi files in Visual Studio.

Wix is a free VisualStudio extension which allows easy creation of .msi (Windows Installer) files. It can be downloaded from http://wixtoolset.org/releases/ (choose the “Recommended Build”). Download as well the extension for your Visual Studio version; the most recent is 2017.




If you don’t want the .cab file to be generated in the destination folder, add the EmbedCab=”yes” attribute to MediaTemplate: <MediaTemplate EmbedCab="yes" />.

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