The WiX Toolset v3.11 (or newer) build tools must be installed to build this project

Question

Just installed Visual Studio 2017 and wix extension and when trying to build a solution which uses Wix I get the following error:

Error       The WiX Toolse         


        

Answer 1

Open your csprog project file with notepad and edit this line (in my case I use WiX version 4)

From:

$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\WiX Toolset\v4\Wix.CA.targets

To:

C:\Program Files (x86)\WiX Toolset v4.0\SDK\Wix.CA.targets