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Uunable to view WIX project type in Visual Studio 2008/2010

I have Visual Studio 2008, 2010 and WIX37.msi (WIX 3.7) installed on my machine.

However, I cannot see the WIX project type in Visual Studio 2008/2010.

Do I need to install an additional tool / plugin?

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wix votive
Apr 25 '13 at
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I have Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010 installed on my machine, and I installed RTM v3.7 RTM from Codeplex . Everything is good for me. There is a known issue in VS2008 that requires you to set the MSBuild property named RunWixToolsOutOfProc to true . This happened because parts of WiX v3.7 were not properly built against NETFX4.0, and VS2008 runs on NETFX2.0.

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Apr 25 '13 at
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Install the WiX Toolkit v3.0 so that it works with Visual Studio 2008. You can get it here: http://wix.codeplex.com/releases/view/44406 p>

I don’t know why this is not documented on their website, but apparently you cannot install the latest version (3.10 at the moment) and make it work with VS2008.

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Dec 11 '15 at
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