Resources for Setup Authors

In the last years I created Windows Installer packages (MSI files) using various tools. Now I’m working on the installer for NUnit 3 and we’re using Windows Installer XML (WiX) version 3.

I’m writing this post to collect links to interesting resources for creating setups using WiX.

• Windows Installer SDK in the MSDN library
• Windows Installer 4.5 SDK: contains tools like Orca or the Windows Installer documentation as CHM file.
• Windows Installer XML (WiX): a toolset that builds Windows Installer packages from XML source code.
• Understanding Microsoft Installer Logs
• Automated Install Testing – MSI Validation
• Conditional Statement Syntax

For getting started with WiX:

• Authoring your first .wxs file
• Creating a simple setup (using Votive)
• WiX Tutorial (by Gábor DEÁK JAHN)
• From MSI to WiX (by Alex Shevchuk)
• MSI Validation in WiX (by Derek Cicerone)
• Adding and Customizing Dialogs in WiX 3

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