Saturday, October 6, 2007

Introduction

The Windows Installer XML (WIX) is a toolset that builds Windows installation packages from XML source code. WIX toolset supports a command line environment that developers may integrate into their build processes to build MSI (Microsoft Installer Package) and MSM setup packages.

WIX is an open source project started by Microsoft. WIX is an entire toolset that takes XML files as input and compiles and links them into actual MSI databases.

This blog aims at answering your frequently asked questions on WIX installer, to help you create professional MSI setup packages.