Is it possible to use wix commands from the command window? I have the wix 3.6 toolset installed and although the Wix Project is available, it seems that the project template does almost nothing to help you create a project. From my understanding, all the helpful tools are command based and are not accessible from the command window (at least they aren’t for me). Am I missing something? It would seem rather unhelpful to have a visual studio project where you have to type all the xml by hand and then leave the IDE to use any of the useful tools.
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You can call executables from the command window. For example, to call Heat with the /? param:
Note that I have the WiX Toolset bin directory set in my Path.
You can also create code snippets to speed up entering repetitive xml.