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WiX is great in that there is no GUI, you just write the installer you want it to be. No fiddling with GUI-wizards!

However, drawing GUI is actually one thing I prefer to use a GUI for.

So, is there any Dialog-drawing program which exports WiX-data?
(I suppose else-wise perhaps I could transform what Visual Studio's forms editor does to WiX-XML.)

/L

+3  A: 

You can try WixEdit.

VitalyVal
Nice!Thank you.
leiflundgren
+1  A: 

SharpDevelop also has built-in capabilities for laying out a WiX dialog. I prefer it over WixEdit.

Bryan Batchelder
+2  A: 

I created a full list of editors for WiX here: http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2007/11/20/WiX-editors (which is amazingly still up to date)

Rob Mensching
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If you use Visual Studio 2008/2010 and want to install an application that requires .NET framework you might be interested in having a look at SharpSetup. It allows you to graphically edit installer UI as WinForms controls (and use VS designer for that).

Tomasz Grobelny
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Sharpsetup blew up in my VS 2010 with the message: "HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component". It didn't finish the "Assembler"-project, and the setup could not be used.

Lars
If you notice any problems with SharpSetup please contact the author directly (me) at [email protected] or through the forum at http://sharpsetup.eu/forum/. As for this particular problem it has been described in SharpSetup documentation at http://sharpsetup.eu/documentation/html/7fae5c52-b788-4e9c-980f-e74af2aa74b0.htm along with a solution.
Tomasz Grobelny