Visual Studio 2010 ditched Wix??

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+3 Q:

hi there,

Not sure I heard this right, but VS2010 no longer has support for Wix?

Can someone confirm this??

Cheers

+6 A:

Ants 2010-04-19 00:24:27

Rob's artical is posted on April 01, 2009... smell fishy??

Luc 2010-04-19 00:27:28

[No; it's real](http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2009/12/14/building-setup-and-deployment-packages-in-vs-2010.aspx).

SLaks 2010-04-19 00:29:30

Sadly, it's real.

Rob Mensching 2010-05-01 23:01:49

+6 A:

Microsoft was considering adding built-in WiX support to VS2010, but they changed their minds.

Nothing has changed since earlier versions of Visual Studio.

SLaks 2010-04-19 00:26:07

+1 - It works just fine, it's just not built in

Hightechrider 2010-04-19 00:29:02

ok let's assuming that Rob means what he said....

just to clarify, is that mean if you using VS2010 + TFS 2010 then there's no way you be able to use WIX?

Luc 2010-04-19 00:29:31

You can use WiX, but it's not built-in to VS.

SLaks 2010-04-19 00:33:03

can you explain "not built-in to VS"? isn't it always been an external toolkit? are you saying we can't 'Create New WIX Project' in VS anymore?

Luc 2010-04-19 01:03:19

It was always an external toolkit, and it is still an external toolkit; nothing has changed in VS2010. Read my answer more carefully.

SLaks 2010-04-19 01:07:40

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