Use WIX without visual studio
c#, visual-studio-2010, wix
Solution
You don't need Visual Studio to create Wix projects you can use any editor (Notepad) of your choice it's just that you will miss IntelliSense and building from within VS. I believe you can still use VS to edit .wxs/.wxi (xml) files.
To build you just need Wix Toolset and MSbuild (.net).
Working with MSBuild documentation: http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/msbuild/
Problem
I am trying to create installer of my c# application. I found that installer can be created using Visual Studio but not using express edition. So i wanted some free tool. So i tried to use WIX but i found it also needed to integrate with visual studio and visual studio 2010 express do not allow to extend it. I found following link but unable to work because i am having visual studio 2010 express. http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/votive/authoring_first_votive_project.html So is there any way how to use WIX without visual studio? And directions how to use WIX? I am creating installer first time so i am new to this. Thanks for support.