WiX simply deals with creating an MSI. What you're after is generally
termed a "bootstrapper". This is coming in WiX 3.5 (I think?) under
the tool named "burn".

In the meantime, you've got a number of choices.. there's a
bootstrapper included with Visual Studio (check the docs). If you're
after a "single compressed exe" rather than two files (setup.exe +
setup.msi) on disk you can create a self-extracting-exe using WinRar
or similar. Or you can write your own. Your call.

Personally we use the commercial bootstrapper included with MSI
Factory, none of the free options were as flexible as what was
included with InstallShield (we've only recently migrated) and after a
bit of research we decided shelling out for a license worked out
cheaper than putting something together in-house :)

Search the archives though, someone else might have mentioned
something else that I missed when trying to find a solution. There are
a number of threads on the topic.

Sascha

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 2:08 PM,
karthik.shenoy<karthik.she...@robosoftin.com> wrote:
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>
>
> Hi All,
>
>
>
> I have been using InstallShield all these days. Recently we started using
> WiX3 installers.
>
> I haven't found an option to create Setup.exe in WiX as in Installshield.
> Could you please help me.
>
>
>
> Karthik
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