Yet Another WiX Tutorial Part 1 : An Introduction
WiX in a nutshell Quote: The Windows Installer XML (WiX) is a toolset that builds Windows installation packages from XML source code. The toolset supports a command line environment that developers may integrate into their build processes to build MSI and MSM setup packages. I could not have said it better myself. The main components The three mains components I use from the toolkit are the following. (Although i found another useful one called heat.exe that I'll explain in a later tutorial) candle.exe : used to compile a WiX file light.exe : used to create the MSI from the compiled file dark.exe : used to decompile a MSI into a WiX script The usage of WiX Introduction In one of the projects I'm working on we use Windows Installer XML (or WiX) to create a setup package during the automated build process. Although we have the build process under control, and we have a generic way of integrating WiX in our build process i wanted to know ...