> > I disagree. We use WIX significantly inside Visual Studio, and use it to > build quite possible the largest in world using it (in terms of both > packages and size). Office also used it for years. >
Then for the love of humanity, please get someone to make it easier for coders in the suburbs to use. Unless it's changed in the last few years, I was angered by the lack of clarity on how to nest the various elements, I recall you could group blocks of elements either inline or factor them out, and there was no guidance on when to do what. As the XML grew large and repetitive it became a burden. I needed to create some custom dialogs in the UI sequence (a bit like the old office ones) but there was no designer assistance of any kind and you had to manually define the position and length of every dialog element using unclear units (are they GDI Dialog units?). Even some helpful samples or typical usage cases would have been a helpful starting point. It was so impenetrable that I gave up. The *dis*-integration of the various humorously named tools and lack of guidance created the amateurish impression. *Breaking news* ... I see that WiX has Visual Studio integration since I last tried it. This sounds really encouraging. Has anyone tried it? I'll give it a try now (and I expect to shed more of my hair in frustration). *GK*
