Monday, April 12, 2010

Wix 3.0 - Windows 7 x64 - votive - Visual Studio 2008

It seems like there is an issue with the installer for Wix 3.0 with the combination of Visual Studio 2008 and Windows 7 x64.

When installing the project aggregator it's installed to c:\IDE\
It should be in
C:\Program Files(x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\ 

When installing Wix from the MSI the templates should have been installed to
C:\users\USERNAME\documents\Visual Studio 2008\Templates\ItemTemplates

and
C:\users\USERNAME\documents\Visual Studio 2008\Templates\ProjectTemplates

They are just placed as zip files in C:\Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\WiX
Unpack WixLibrary.zip, WixMergeModule.zip and WixProject.zip to
C:\users\USERNAME\documents\Visual Studio 2008\Templates\ProjectTemplates

Unpack BlankFile.zip, CustomActionCPP.zip, IncludeFile.zip, LocalizationFile.zip, TextFile.zip to
C:\users\USERNAME\documents\Visual Studio 2008\Templates\ItemTemplates

You can now create wix projects using Visual Studio... :)