Cant find File System, Registry icon in WIX setup project in Visual Studio

Question

I installed WIX in my machine. I followed the video of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoFPyIbcqN8enter link description here

I can not find any way to add File Systems, no icon for it, no context menu entry on project.

I am using Visual Studio 2012.

Answer 1

That's the Add-In Express designer for WiX in the video. It's a paid for component.

Installing WiX on your system only adds project templates to Visual Studio. It's a free installer/packaging engine that uses XML (scripting) to build MSI's and etc and doesn't come with a designer.

WiX is quite a steep learning curve, if you want the editor then I suggest you check out the Package & Deployment add-in Microsoft re-introduced for VS2013, it's on VisualStudio Gallery. Brian Harry blogs about it here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2014/04/18/creating-installers-with-visual-studio.aspx

Answer 2

Visual Studio 2013 has a free Community Edition that you can use. You add the Installer add-on:

https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/9abe329c-9bba-44a1-be59-0fbf6151054d

Then what you have is the same Visual Studio installer setup projects as you had in VS 2010.