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Thanks. It's a start. The learning curve is a bit steep but I suspect that once everything is working making small changes should be easy.
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Thanks. It's a start. The learning curve is a bit steep but I suspect that once everything is working making small changes should be easy.

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I'm new to WIX and have no idea where to start. All the online tutorials explain how to build an installer for an existing project but my situation doesn't exactly fit that model. I need to create an installer that will just install a bunch of pre-compiled DLLs into a specific folder, register some of them that are ActiveX or Interop components, add an entry to the Programs and Features control panel, and possibly make a couple of changes to the Windows registry. I don't actually have a Visual Studio project to attach it to.<br />
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Right now we have an InstallShield project that does this but we want to get away from using InstallShield since their product support is awful and the product itself is expensive. WIX can do it for free!<br />
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Can anyone help me get started? I'm sure that once I have a little forward motion I'll be able to quickly pick up progress but getting out of the gate on this one is proving difficult.
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I'm new to WIX and have no idea where to start. All the online tutorials explain how to build an installer for an existing project but my situation doesn't exactly fit that model. I need to create an installer that will just install a bunch of pre-compiled DLLs into a specific folder, register some of them that are ActiveX or Interop components, add an entry to the Programs and Features control panel, and possibly make a couple of changes to the Windows registry. I don't actually have a Visual Studio project to attach it to.

Right now we have an InstallShield project that does this but we want to get away from using InstallShield since their product support is awful and the product itself is expensive. WIX can do it for free!

Can anyone help me get started? I'm sure that once I have a little forward motion I'll be able to quickly pick up progress but getting out of the gate on this one is proving difficult.

WIX Setup

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