WiX Toolset Resources ↩

This document gathers WiX Toolset related resources we have collected so far.

Articles

What is WiX Toolset & how to use it by Heiswayi Nrird, May 2018.
Creating a Localized Windows Installer & Bootstrapper: Part 3 by Mike Carlisle, February 2013.
Creating a Localized Windows Installer & Bootstrapper: Part 2 by Mike Carlisle, February 2013.
A quick introduction: Create an MSI installer with WiX by Moack, December 2010.
Creating a Localized Windows Installer & Bootstrapper: Part 1 by Mike Carlisle, August 2010.
Automate Releases With MSBuild And WiX by Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi, March 2007.

Real-World Example: WiX/MSI Application Installer by Helge Klein, February 2021.
WiX Tips from Yuuichi Onodera :
- Create a Windows Installer "MSI" using WiX part2, October 2021.
- Create a Windows Installer "MSI" using WiX part1, April 2020.
- Set up WiX to create Windows Installer for program distribution, April 2020.
WiX setup saving user input values by Siderite, November 2018.
WiX Software Blog from Alexander Haas :
Variables and Conditional Statements in WiX by Arun Kumar, June 2014.
Joy of Setup - Bob Arnson's blog :
- L10N/M10N: Localization minimization, February 2013.
- Simplifying WiX component authoring, December 2009.
Blog from Rob Mensching :
- The WiX toolset's "Remember Property" pattern, May 2010.
- How to escape the ampersand in WiX and MSI UI, April 2008.
Wix Blog from Mladen Prajdić :
- WiX 3 Tutorial: Custom EULA License and MSI localization, April 2010.
- WiX 3 Tutorial: Generating file/directory fragments with Heat.exe, February 2010.
- WiX 3 Tutorial: Understanding main WXS and WXI file, February 2010.
- WiX 3 Tutorial: Solution/Project structure and Dev resources, February 2010.
Adding and Customizing Dialogs in WiX 3 by Dizzy, 2008.
WiX: A Better TALLOW – PARAFFIN (Part 3 of 3) by John Robbins, October 2007.
WiX: The Pain of WiX (Part 2 of 3) by John Robbins, October 2007.
WiX: Hints for New Users (Part 1 of 3) by John Robbin, October 2007.

WiX Cookbook by Nick Ramirez, January 2015.
(Packt, ISBN 978-1-7843-9321-2, 260 pages)
WiX 3.6: A Developer's Guide to Windows Installer XML by Nick Ramirez, December 2012.
(Packt, ISBN 978-1-7821-6042-7, 488 pages)
The Definitive Guide to Windows Installer by Phil Wilson, April 2004.
(Apress, ISBN 978-1-59059-297-7, 320 pages)

Adoptium WiX installer - the Windows installer for OpenJDK binaries.
cargo-wix - a cargo subcommand to build Windows installers for Rust projects using the WiX Toolset.
go-msi - an easy way to generate MSI package for a Go project.
iswix - an industrial strength Windows installer XML application.
sbt-native-packager - a sbt plugin to build application packages in native formats.
scala-dist - morphs Maven artifact into a Scala distribution (zip, tar.gz, deb, rpm, and msi).
wix-maven-plugin - a Maven plugin to create Windows installers with WiX toolset.
wixsharp - a framework for building a MSI or WiX source code using C# script files.

CPack WIX Generator - WiX generator for CMake.
👍 InstEd - a free MSI editor built for professionals.
msiexec - the official Microsoft command line tool to install, modify, and perform operations on Windows Installer.

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