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?

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.

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.