WiX (Windows Installer XML)

Once you have developed a robust, repeatable deployment process for your BizTalk solution, you need a way to package up all of your artifacts – DLL’s, configuration files, binding files and so on – and deliver them to your BizTalk servers.  For this task, the Deployment Framework uses standard Windows Installer MSI files.

WiX (Windows Installer XML) is an open-source toolset sponsored by Microsoft that allows MSI files to be built up from XML definition files.  In the Deployment Framework, all of the details of your BizTalk solution are automatically detailed out in an XML file, and WiX does the magic to pull all of the pieces together and create an MSI that is ready to move to your servers.  The WiX processing is driven by MSBuild.

It is not necessary for you to know how to use WiX – just be aware that it is the engine behind the MSI creation process that is built into the Deployment Framework.

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