On Tuesday 16 November 2010 21:55:40 christopher.m.er...@hotmail.com wrote: > After installing the WIX tools set and Votive for the Visual Studio > plugins what at is the best way to visually update/maintain the WIX > projects? Editing the WIX projects inside Visual Studio seems to just > provide strictly a text editor for the XML file. This makes it difficult > to make changes compared to a VS Setup and Deployment Project. For > example, making a simple UI change in WIX would require a lot more time > and information than doing so in a *.vdproj project in Visual Studio. > > Is there a tool that is used to visually edit .wxs files? > SharpSetup[1] allows you to create UI for WiX based installer much like any other WinForms application. However this is not done through editing .wxs files but by providing external ui handler. SharpSetup also has a few tools that edit WiX files: for adding file components and for synchronizing translations (between wxs/wxi and wxl files). But for basic stuff like managing folders and features there is no UI.
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