tutorial on generating MSI

Question

Exact duplicate: What is the best choice for building Windows installers
Exact duplicate: Best Windows installation file creator

I have a customer who is new to generating VB.NET programs that run Watcom FORTRAN programs. (Yes FORTRAN is alive in Numerical Control Programming) He is attempting to install the program on another computer that doesn't necessarily have the libraries.
Is there a good tutorial for .NET on generating MSI files?
He needs to install both and the necessary extras through a simple installation. (preferably without a sub-installation)

Answer 1

Im gonna risk suggestion making a installer with NSIS, it does not make MSI files but does generate installers and has a good community and great examples so its a good start position.

This is only a good solution if your after a installer, and not spesficly a msi installer.

Answer 2

Try Wix... Definitelly the most useful in my eyes.

Answer 3

Visual Studio supports several types of deployment projects. The express versions of Visual Studio also have some support, but it was very limited when I looked into it.