Good resources for learning how to create MSI installers from WiX [closed]

Answer 1

From first glance From MSI to WiX seems fairly comprehensive.

Answer 2

You may use link as a reference https://www.firegiant.com/wix/tutorial/ It won't help a beginner as it didn't provide any practical examples.

For a beginner, if you have a pluralsight subscription, there is a course which will teach you the basics.

'WIX-Cookbook' https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/wix-cookbook by Nick-Ramirez (Covers Wix-3.8). This is the book if anyone looking to get the job done quickly.

If you want to gain in-depth knowledge on how and why everything works, you probably better of going through Wix-3.6 A Developers Guide by the same author. https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/wix-developers-guide-windows-installer-xml

To create an installer for websites, refer following series by Bart De Meyer http://blog.bartdemeyer.be/2013/10/create-an-installer-for-website-with-wix-part-1/ This article will show you how to use Wix tools like Candle and Light.

Answer 3

If you understand German, then read the articles in the Entwickler Magazin, edition: 2008-05, 2008-06 and 2009-01.

A follow-up will be published in 2009-02, with more developing stuff (MSI API).

Answer 4

Here's a shameless plug to the book I've recently published through Packt:

WiX: A Developer's Guide to Windows Installer XML

It covers a lot of what you'd need to know to get going using WiX 3.0.

Answer 5

Apart from the links provided by people above, also have a look at the approach I use to explain this to people :

Answer 6

Even though it's not only related towards WiX, the book from Apress:

The Definitive guide to Windows Installer By Phil Wilson link

It helped me to understand the installation processes. It's a good book to have when writing installers.