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Visual Studio 2012 - getting to grips with WiX

Installing made easy(ish)
Monday 29 October 2012.
 

Writing an installer for Visual Studio is not simple task - especially if you want to support more than one version of VS...

One of the consequences of the release of Visual Studio 2012 has been the demise of the Visual Studio Setup and Deployment project (vdproj). To be honest vdproj was never that great and I can’t say that I mourn its passing. But something has to replace it and the free InstallShield Express wasn’t capable of building the installations that I require.

I’ve been working on the next versions of Amethyst and Sapphire (Ruby in Steel) - the two Visual Studio IDEs made by my company, SapphireSteel Software. One of the jobs was to make sure that both worked with the new version of Visual Studio 2012. Mostly this has been straightforward with none of the labour required when moving from Visual Studio 2008 to Visual Studio 2010, when Microsoft introduced a new core text editor (that was hard work!). The main problem has been the requirement to find a replacement for vdproj that works with both Visual studio 2010 and Visual Studo 2012.

I’ve just written a fairly in-depth account of how we solved this problem using the WiX installer. Read more on the SapphireSteel Software site...

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  • Visual Studio 2012 - getting to grips with WiX
    29 October 2012, by BradC

    This is a bit off topic, but Im wondering what yours and Huw’s opinion of Typescript is. I know Typescript is only for Javascript but could you see that also being used to benefit to how Ruby interfaces with Visual Studio? Does Sapphire Steel do the same thing as Typescript by providing type information to Visual Studio?


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