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I'm been searching and investigating a lot, but since this is not my area of expertise I'm a little bit lost.

I have to create an Installer that deploys a static web to a IIS server. After some investigation I started using Wix to create the installer and I discovered isWix. The problem is that in the instruction video when he creates the installer project, he already has isWix integrated to visual studio. He creates a IsWix solution and use use the isWix tool to do the scafolding.

I don't really follow how to add IsWix to my Visual studio.

Steffen Moritz
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Anon
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    Try re-launching Visual Studio first of all. That also might be an old video, I am not sure. Chris Painter will be sure to answer for sure (he made IsWiX). And lobbing you [some help resources](https://stackoverflow.com/a/25005864/129130). And here is a [direct link](https://github.com/rstropek/Samples/tree/master/WiXSamples/WebInstaller). – Stein Åsmul Jun 19 '19 at 14:18
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    And [Chris's own IIS stuff](https://github.com/iswix-llc/iswix-tutorials) (for others who see this). Check for **`"Launch IsWiX"`** in the Tools menu to launch IsWiX (with a WiX project open in Visual Studio). – Stein Åsmul Jun 19 '19 at 14:24
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    I wrote this tutorial later. Hopefully it'll help. https://github.com/iswix-llc/iswix-tutorials – Christopher Painter Jun 19 '19 at 21:30

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if you download the iswix.msi from here as you run through the installer there is an option to install the VS project templates. These are disabled by default, so you just need to enable them.

This should then give you the project templates as you're expecting to see.

Hope that helps!

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    That must be an old build of IsWiX. The current one doesn't have WiX v3 and v4 as distinct features (they are part of the VS AddIn ) and all of the features default to be installed. (InstallLevel 1) – Christopher Painter Jun 19 '19 at 21:31