WiX - Windows Installer XML toolset

• WiX - Wikipedia
• WiX toolset on CodePlex
• WiX Toolset - wixtoolset.org

• WiX tutorial
• WiX manual

Votive is the Visual Studio package for WiX that lets you create and build WiX setup projects using the Visual Studio IDE.

• WiX Votive

Solutions for WiX problems such as enable \ disable controls, Custom Actions in C#, running EXE within the installation, and setting icon for MSI and Add/Remove programs.

• WiX tricks

• Using the WixUI dialog library
• How To: Install the .NET Framework Using a Bootstrapper

GenerateBootstrapper Task Provides an automated way to detect, download, and install an application and its prerequisites. It serves as a single installer that integrates the separate installers for all the components making up an application.

• .NET GenerateBootstrapper Task

Redistributing Visual C++ Libraries

Installing applications using Microsoft runtime .dll's

• About Merge Modules
• Visual Studio 2010 - Visual C++ 10.0 Libraries are Shared DLLs
• Visual Studio 2008 - Visual C++ 9.0 Libraries are Shared DLLs
• Visual Studio 2008 - Visual C++ 8.0 Libraries are Shared DLLs

Other sites about building installations

• Aaron Stebner's WebLog

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