Uunable to see WIX project type in Visual studio 2008/2010

Question

I have Visual Studio 2008, 2010, and WIX37.msi (WIX 3.7) installed on my machine.

However, I am unable to see WIX project type in Visual studio 2008/2010.

Do I need to install additional tool/plugin?

Needy

Did you install WiX after VS 2008 / 2010? have you tried to re-install WiX? – Eggshaped

Yes I installed WiX after 2008/2010. – Needy

Answer 1

I have Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010 installed on my machine and I installed WiX v3.7 RTM from Codeplex. Things work okay for me. There is a known issue in VS2008 that requires you to set an MSBuild property called RunWixToolsOutOfProc to true. This occurred because parts of WiX v3.7 were incorrectly built against the NETFX4.0 and VS2008 runs on NETFX2.0.

Mcgraw

I also installed Wix from Codeplex only. Please help – Needy

At this point, it sounds like you need support. For that, I recommend contacting [email protected] and sending along the install logs and the Visual Studio log. Something is peculiar about your machine. :) – Mcgraw

Thanks Rob!Do I need to install Votive (WIX plugin for visual studio)? – Needy

Also, one more query, I read somewhere that we can create xml using command line and create setup using Wix. Please provide me link for tutorial. Thanks! – Needy

You don't need Votive and the tutorial you're looking for can be found here: wixtoolset.org/documentation/tutorial. Good luck. – Mcgraw

Answer 2

Install v3.0 of WiX Toolset, to make it work with Visual Studio 2008. You can get it here: http://wix.codeplex.com/releases/view/44406

I don't know why it's not documented on their site but apparently you can't install the latest version (3.10 at the moment) and make it work with VS2008.

Kentiga

It would appear that v3.8 was the last version that will install on VS2008. – Roswell