Creating a Project

Open Visual Studio 2008 and create a new project – Select Wix – and WiXProject

Go to the Properties Page of the Project and verify the following Settings: (put in values that are good for you)

Installer

• Output Name !!! Hint: Be aware that this name should stay the same over all versions of your product!!!

Build

• Cultures to Build
• Output Path

Adding References

You need to add the following references to the project

• WixNetExtentions
• WixUIExtentions
• WixUtilExtentions
• WixVSExtentions

Organizing the project

You can split the wxs files in so called fragments. Note, that there ist nothing like a using or include statement to join the files. The Wix Linker light is just getting all files together witch contains items references directly or inderectly from the Product.wxs.

We decided to put the major logic in the Product.wxs and have the UICustomizations an the definition of the Files in separate wxs files.

A simple Fragment is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi">
    <Fragment>
    <!--****************************************************************************************-->
    <!-- Define the Files and Services to be installed here –>
    <!--****************************************************************************************-->

    <DirectoryRef Id="APPLICATIONROOTDIRECTORY">
      <Component Id="PTTester.exe" Guid="{90EFC2EE-4AD3-F051-86A0-29C35B823F7B}">
        <File Id="PTTester.exe" Source="..\Bin\Debug\PTTester.exe" KeyPath="yes" Checksum="yes" />
      </Component>
    </DirectoryRef>

  </Fragment>
</Wix>

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