Greg In the early days of WiX there were several UI projects (outside of the main project), but I am not familiar with what has happened recently.
Have you had a look at Oleg Shilo’s Wix# project? <http://www.csscript.net/WixSharp.html> WixSharp uses C# scripting to manage’ the arcane WiX framework. However, it is way behind the WiX releases – it uses WiX v3.0.4318.0 binaries. Conceivably the functionality in that old version of WiX would be sufficient for many purposes (but I have not tried); because it doesn’t integrate in Visual Studio it may be usable. Mike Smith (meski) may have some thoughts on this. CS-Script targets .NET versions up to 4.5 and I think I’m correct in saying that Oleg Shilo lives somewhere in eastern Australia. _____ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ian Thomas Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 8:43 AM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: WiX and VS2013 integration Bob Arnson’s latest post <http://www.joyofsetup.com/2013/10/22/wix-v3-8-1021-0-completes-visual-studio-2013-support/> says it is complete as of now, and his short post has links to the issues that have been fixed (none of those will add much to your understanding) . WiX v3.8.1021.0 completes Visual Studio 2013 support 22 October 2013 WiX _____ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 7:10 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: WiX and VS2013 integration I finally found a link at http://www.joyofsetup.com/2013/09/13/getting-from-here-to-there-for-wix-v3-8/ which says that WiX 3.8 with VS2013 integration will be available by Halloween (luckily Australians know what Halloween means thanks to The Simpsons). However I can't find any other evidence that this might actually happen, getting clear announcements on WiX isn't easy. They seem a bit apologetic due to delays caused by end of year holidays and Thanksgiving, but since when did holidays stop a programmer? (I do my best coding on holidays!) As suggested, I had a quick for other IDEs over WiX, but they seem commercial or lagging behind. In any case I don't want yet another IDE. They claim V3.8 will have improved Votive <http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/votive/> , which a search reveals to be the VS2013 integration (I think, even that's vague). In VS2012 the integration of the project template, properties and build were very nice, however the only way to edit the wizard generated WiX source files was as plain xml. I wonder if there will be some kind of designer over the raw source, which is what WiX desperately needs. I know that creating a full designer experience over the complex WiX source files would be a huge job, but it's not beyond their developer community I would think. Greg K
