..::\\ www.christiano.ch //::.. » Windows Installer XML (WIX) http://www.christiano.ch/wordpress christiano.ch blog - personal knowledge base, news, memoires et cetera Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:28:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Creating Microsoft Windows Installer Package MSI using Windows Installer XML (WIX) http://www.christiano.ch/wordpress/2009/07/30/creating-microsoft-windows-installer-package-msi-using-windows-installer-xml-wix/ http://www.christiano.ch/wordpress/2009/07/30/creating-microsoft-windows-installer-package-msi-using-windows-installer-xml-wix/#comments Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:24:43 +0000 christian http://www.christiano.ch/wordpress/?p=100 Continue reading →]]> The Windows Installer XML (WiX) is a toolset that builds Windows installation packages from XML source code. It is hosted under sourceforge.net (http://wix.sourceforge.net/).

Since it is a toolset, the solution typically consists of a few console applications.

  • candle.exe – is a compiler
  • light.exe – is a linker
  • dark.exe – is a MSI decompiler

To get started creating a Windows Installer Package (MSI) i recommend to use another freeware tool called WiXEdit. This piece of Software is also hosted on sourceforge.net (http://wixedit.sourceforge.net/).

This is a sample for creating a registry key:

 

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