What is the best practise to create MSI with some other child MSI as prerequisite?

Question

Currently we are using Innosetup as a bootstrapper to install the MSI prerequisites. It makes bit complex to maintain the setup. I found that burn tool which may help us to resolve this issue by having a single setup to install whatever we need. I could not find either documentation or sample for this tool. Is anyone have idea about this? or you can give me the alternate solution if you have.

Looking for the alternate soltuion for the actions that we do with ISS bootstrapper now:

1. Extract the files (Main setup, Prerequisite setup)
2. Need to ensure prerequisites status and install on demand.
3. Start main install.

Answer 1

The Burn tool is still a bit raw to be used in production. Many people in WiX community recommend dotNetInstaller. Hope this helps.