Based on my experience, I have several projects each use different installer. I can tell you after worked(still working) with InstallShield 2009, Wise for Windows Installer - Professional Edition and InnoSetup I found Wix better(InnoSetup comes close) in terms of installation (even though it has its limit) and more of scripting.
I am even thinking of converting existing Wise installer project to Wix. My advice: if your company wants spend money buying better installer of 'ease of use' and if you are going to install on other Operating System other than Windows then go for it. But, if its just Windows then you can achieve the same with Wix for free and with free support. Wise was bought over by Symantec and I hear they are not doing anything much on it the way it used to be before. Before we had Wise, their support wasn't that good, we switched to InstallShield and that was bought over by Macrovision and by Acresso (InstallShield support is very expensive), I had to justify my company to move towards Wix (which by the way saved money from these Installshield/Wise support)and so far I moved one project to Wix its fast and easier to maintain and hope to move rest of the projects. My suggestion to Wix - Votive to add support for Visual Designer in VS 2010 would be great. Arun Perregattur -----Original Message----- From: MacDiarmid, James D [mailto:james.macdiar...@eds.com] Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 3:59 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Wix with Wise Package Studio 7 I've been experimenting with Wix for the last week or so and really like what it can do. Now I am hearing that our team could be getting the Wise Package Studio 7 - Standard Edition. If this is the case, can WiX be used with another authoring package like that? If so, would there be any benefit in doing that? Thanks, Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
