Building MSI installers for your Windows applications with Wix

If you are developing desktop or server-side applications and you need an installer to be written, you have multiple choices. You could build your MSI installers by hand with low-level tools like Orca, or you could go commercial and get InstallShield or others.

But, another common solution is to use Wix, which is an MSI builder based on XML configuration files. To get started with Wix, you can start for example with this tutorial.

Wix is very versatile and supports complex scenarios, but like almost every installation authoring tool, they tend to be complex. Wix is no exception, but getting started doesn't require weeks of study.