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It is mainly used to develop different types of software—from computer programs to web services. </p><p>Visual Studio provides features, like compilers and graphical designers, to enhance application development, probably making it one of the most popular IDEs on the market. </p><p>One of the uses of Visual Studio is to create installer packages. In this article, we will be focusing on MSIs, more specifically, guiding you through how to create an MSI package for a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) application. </p><div id="how-to-add-microsoft"><h3>How to add Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Projects Extension</h3><p>First things first: Before creating the package, we need to add the Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Projects extension to the Visual Studio IDE. </p><p>This extension will help us pack the application as an MSI. We have two options to add it: </p><p>1. Download the extension from the Visual Studio Marketplace and install it. Once installed, remember to restart Visual Studio before proceeding to the next steps. </p><p class="alert alert-important"><span class="icon-placeholder" title="Important"><img width="36" height="36" src="https://cdn.advancedinstaller.com/svg/common/IconMessageInfo.svg" alt="Important"/></span>Pay attention to the version of the extension you download, as it should work for the version of your Visual Studio. For this tutorial, we used Visual Studio 2022, and for our project, we used this extension. </p><p>2. Or go to Extensions -&gt; Manage extensions in Visual Studio. Go to the Online section, look for the extension, and download it. The installation will be scheduled after you close Visual Studio. When you reopen it, the extension will be ready to use.</p><div class="centered"><figure class="margin-y-40px"><img width="1999" height="1264" alt="Download Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Projects Extension" id="img-d129e36265" loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.advancedinstaller.com/img/create-msi-installer-with-visual-studio/download-microsoft-visual-studio-installer-projects-extension.png" class="img-fluid outline" title="Download Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Projects Extension"/></figure><noscript><figure class="margin-y-40px"><img width="1999" height="1264" alt="Download Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Projects Extension" src="https://cdn.advancedinstaller.com/img/create-msi-installer-with-visual-studio/download-microsoft-visual-studio-installer-projects-extension.png" class="img-fluid outline" title="Download Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Projects Extension"/></figure></noscript></div><p class="margin-l-30px"/><p>Once we have the extension, it's time to open the project in Visual Studio.</p><div class="centered"><figure class="margin-y-40px"><img width="1448" height="836" alt="WPF Application" id="img-d129e36270" loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.advancedinstaller.com/img/create-msi-installer-with-visual-studio/wpf-application.png" class="img-fluid outline" title="WPF Application"/></figure><noscript><figure class="margin-y-40px"><img width="1448" height="836" alt="WPF Application" src="https://cdn.advancedinstaller.com/img/create-msi-installer-with-visual-studio/wpf-application.png" class="img-fluid outline" title="WPF Application"/></figure></noscript></div><p>We created a simple WPF application for this tutorial, and now we need to add a setup project to it. Let's see how to do that. </p></div><div id="how-to-add-a"><h3>How to add a Setup project to your application</h3><p>To add a Setup project to an application, follow these steps: </p><p>1. Create a new project inside the solution. This project will be a Setup project and will be used to pack the MSI based on our application. To add it, just right-click on the project solution -&gt; Add -&gt; New Project.</p><div class="centered"><figure class="margin-y-40px"><img width="1694" height="1264" alt="Add New Project" id="img-d129e36278" loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.advancedinstaller.com/img/create-msi-installer-with-visual-studio/add-new-project.png" class="img-fluid outline" title="Add New Project"/></figure><noscript><figure class="margin-y-40px"><img width="1694" height="1264" alt="Add New Project" src="https://cdn.advancedinstaller.com/img/create-msi-installer-with-visual-studio/add-new-project.png" class="img-fluid outline" title="Add New Project"/></figure></noscript></div><p>2. From the Add new project dialog, choose the Setup Project and give it a suitable name (e.g. MyMSIpackage) in the Configuration project section. </p><div class="centered"><figure class="margin-y-40px"><img width="1421" height="929" alt="Add Setup Project" id="img-d129e36282" loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.advancedinstaller.com/img/create-msi-installer-with-visual-studio/add-setup-project.png" class="img-fluid outline" title="Add Setup Project"/></figure><noscript><figure class="margin-y-40px"><img width="1421" height="929" alt="Add Setup Project" src="https://cdn.advancedinstaller.com/img/create-msi-installer-with-visual-studio/add-setup-project.png" class="img-fluid outline" title="Add Setup Project"/></figure></noscript></div><p>3. After creating the Setup project, you should be able to see it in the Solution Explorer of your application.</p><div class="centered"><figure class="margin-y-40px"><img width="532" height="752" alt="Solution Explorer" loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.advancedinstaller.com/img/create-msi-installer-with-visual-studio/solution-explorer.png" class="img-fluid outline" title="Solution Explorer"/></figure><noscript><figure class="margin-y-40px"><img width="532" height="752" alt="Solution Explorer" src="https://cdn.advancedinstaller.com/img/create-msi-installer-with-visual-studio/solution-explorer.png" class="img-fluid outline" title="Solution Explorer"/></figure></noscript></div><p>4. Open the file system editor by right-clicking on the Setup project -&gt; View -&gt; File System to see how the Setup project is organized. There, you should find three different folders, like in the picture below:</p><ul><li>Application Folder</li><li>User's Desktop</li><li>User's Programs Menu </li></ul><div class="centered"><figure class="margin-y-40px"><img width="1764" height="521" alt="Setup Project Organization" id="img-d129e36294" loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.advancedinstaller.com/img/create-msi-installer-with-visual-studio/setup-project-organization.png" class="img-fluid outline" title="Setup Project Organization"/></figure><noscript><figure class="margin-y-40px"><img width="1764" height="521" alt="Setup Project Organization" src="https://cdn.advancedinstaller.com/img/create-msi-installer-with-visual-studio/setup-project-organization.png" class="img-fluid outline" title="Setup Project Organization"/></figure></noscript></div></div><div id="how-to-add-the"><h3>How to add the Project output to your Setup Project</h3><p>The next step is to add a project output to your application folder, which specifies the project we are creating an installer for – the WPF application in our case. To do this, follow these steps:</p><p>1. Right-click on the Application Folder -&gt; Add -&gt; Project Output. </p><p>2. Once the dialogue is open, choose the Primary output option, which contains the DLL or EXE built by our project. </p><div class="centered"><figure class="margin-y-40px"><img width="886" height="732" alt="Choose the Primary Output Option" id="img-d129e36302" loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.advancedinstaller.com/img/create-msi-installer-with-visual-studio/choose-primary-output-option.png" class="img-fluid outline" title="Choose the Primary Output Option"/></figure><noscript><figure class="margin-y-40px"><img width="886" height="732" alt="Choose the Primary Output Option" src="https://cdn.advancedinstaller.com/img/create-msi-installer-with-visual-studio/choose-primary-output-option.png" class="img-fluid outline" title="Choose the Primary Output Option"/></figure></noscript></div></div><div id="how-to-create-shortcuts"><h3>How to create Shortcuts for your application</h3><p>Shortcuts allow users to quickly access and open an application, therefore increasing user productivity.</p><p>Here's how you can create a Desktop shortcut:</p><p>1.Right-click on the Primary output, generated in the previous step from the Application Folder, and then select Create Shortcut. </p><div class="centered"><figure class="margin-y-40px"><img width="1999" height="649" alt="Create Shortcut to Primary Output" id="img-d129e36310" loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.advancedinstaller.com/img/create-msi-installer-with-visual-studio/create-shortcut-to-primary-output.png" class="img-fluid outline" title="Create Shortcut to Primary Output"/></figure><noscript><figure class="margin-y-40px"><img width="1999" height="649" alt="Create Shortcut to Primary Output" src="https://cdn.advancedinstaller.com/img/create-msi-installer-with-visual-studio/create-shortcut-to-primary-output.png" class="img-fluid outline" title="Create Shortcut to Primary Output"/></figure></noscript></div><p>2. Once the shortcut is created, you can rename it and place it in the User’s Desktop folder in order for it to be placed on the user’s Desktop after the installation process.</p><p>Here’s how you can create a shortcut in Programs Menu:</p><p>1. Add a new folder to the User’s Program Menu which will be created at the Programs Menu location after the installation. </p><p>2. Create a new shortcut and place it in the new folder located in the User’s Programs Menu.</p><div class="centered"><figure class="margin-y-40px"><img width="1227" height="544" alt="Create New Shortcut" id="img-d129e36317" loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.advancedinstaller.com/img/create-msi-installer-with-visual-studio/create-new-shortcut.png" class="img-fluid outline" title="Create New Shortcut"/></figure><noscript><figure class="margin-y-40px"><img width="1227" height="544" alt="Create New Shortcut" src="https://cdn.advancedinstaller.com/img/create-msi-installer-with-visual-studio/create-new-shortcut.png" class="img-fluid outline" title="Create New Shortcut"/></figure></noscript></div><p>3. To customize your shortcut with an icon, import the icon to the Application Folder from the Setup project by right-clicking on the Application Folder -&gt; Add -&gt; New File. From the opened dialogue, choose the icon to load for your shortcut. </p><p>4. Next, to add the icon to the shortcuts, go to every shortcut created and right-click on it, then select Properties Window. From the icon property, browse to the Application Folder and select the icon we uploaded in the previous step.</p><div class="centered"><figure class="margin-y-40px"><img width="563" height="678" alt="Select Uploaded Icon" loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.advancedinstaller.com/img/create-msi-installer-with-visual-studio/select-uploaded-icon.png" class="img-fluid outline" title="Select Uploaded Icon"/></figure><noscript><figure class="margin-y-40px"><img width="563" height="678" alt="Select Uploaded Icon" src="https://cdn.advancedinstaller.com/img/create-msi-installer-with-visual-studio/select-uploaded-icon.png" class="img-fluid outline" title="Select Uploaded Icon"/></figure></noscript></div></div><div id="how-to-edit-product"><h3>How to edit product details for your Setup project</h3><p>If you need to change some properties for your Setup project, you can go to the Properties page of the Setup project. In our case, we left the Target Platform set to x86 and the Version set to 1.0.0. We changed the Author and Manufacturer.</p><div class="centered"><figure class="margin-y-40px"><img width="929" height="1261" alt="Edit Product Details" id="img-d129e36329" loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.advancedinstaller.com/img/create-msi-installer-with-visual-studio/edit-product-details-for-setup-project.png" class="img-fluid outline" title="Edit Product Details"/></figure><noscript><figure class="margin-y-40px"><img width="929" height="1261" alt="Edit Product Details" src="https://cdn.advancedinstaller.com/img/create-msi-installer-with-visual-studio/edit-product-details-for-setup-project.png" class="img-fluid outline" title="Edit Product Details"/></figure></noscript></div></div><div id="how-to-install-prerequisites"><h3>How to install Prerequisites to your application</h3><p>To have an application that runs successfully, additional components or prerequisites need to be installed on the destination computer. A common example of these components is the .NET Framework, a requirement for many applications created with Visual Studio to run. In this case, the correct version must be presented on the target computer before installing your application.</p><p>If you want to add Prerequisites to your Setup project, right-click on Setup project -&gt; Properties -&gt; Prerequisites. From the opened dialog, you can choose which prerequisites to install (as seen in the image below) or you can specify an install location for your prerequisites.</p><div class="centered"><figure class="margin-y-40px"><img width="1393" height="1216" alt="Install Prerequisites to MSI" id="img-d129e36336" loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.advancedinstaller.com/img/create-msi-installer-with-visual-studio/install-prerequisites.png" class="img-fluid outline" title="Install Prerequisites to MSI"/></figure><noscript><figure class="margin-y-40px"><img width="1393" height="1216" alt="Install Prerequisites to MSI" src="https://cdn.advancedinstaller.com/img/create-msi-installer-with-visual-studio/install-prerequisites.png" class="img-fluid outline" title="Install Prerequisites to MSI"/></figure></noscript></div></div><div id="how-to-add-launch"><h3>How to add launch conditions to your MSI</h3><p>Launching an installation package can require some predefined conditions for an application to be installed. For example, if your application only runs on a specific type of Windows, you should use a launch condition to prevent a user from installing it on an unsupported system.</p><ul><li>To manage launch conditions, right-click on the Setup project - &gt; View -&gt; Launch conditions. </li><li>To add a new Launch condition, right-click on the Launch conditions folder - &gt; Add New Launch Condition. </li></ul><div class="centered"><figure class="margin-y-40px"><img width="555" height="387" alt="Add Launch Condition" loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.advancedinstaller.com/img/create-msi-installer-with-visual-studio/add-launch-condition.png" class="img-fluid outline" title="Add Launch Condition"/></figure><noscript><figure class="margin-y-40px"><img width="555" height="387" alt="Add Launch Condition" src="https://cdn.advancedinstaller.com/img/create-msi-installer-with-visual-studio/add-launch-condition.png" class="img-fluid outline" title="Add Launch Condition"/></figure></noscript></div></div><div id="how-to-install-your"><h3>How to install your application </h3><p>Once we complete all the steps above, we are ready to build the Setup project to create the MSI based on our application. After the build, we have to browse to the Debug folder (as we are using Debug mode) of the Setup project to run the MSI file and start the installation. </p><div class="centered"><figure class="margin-y-40px"><img width="1170" height="944" alt="Install your Application" id="img-d129e36351" loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.advancedinstaller.com/img/create-msi-installer-with-visual-studio/install-your-application.png" class="img-fluid outline" title="Install your Application"/></figure><noscript><figure class="margin-y-40px"><img width="1170" height="944" alt="Install your Application" src="https://cdn.advancedinstaller.com/img/create-msi-installer-with-visual-studio/install-your-application.png" class="img-fluid outline" title="Install your Application"/></figure></noscript></div><p>After the installation process is finished, we can find the shortcut on the desktop and run the application.</p></div><h3>How does Advanced Installer enhance the power of Visual Studio?<br/></h3><p>Advanced Installer has a free extension for Visual Studio (2012+). Individual developers and ISVs can download it from our <a href="visual-studio-extension.html" title="Advanced Installer Extension for Visual Studio">Advanced Installer Extension for Visual Studio</a> page. The extension is also available on the <a href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=caphyon.AdvancedInstallerforVisualStudio2019" title="Visual Studio Marketplace" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Visual Studio Marketplace</a>. </p><p>Advanced Installer’s complete integration with Visual Studio includes features like:</p><ul><li>The ability to highlight the Native MSBuild Support, </li><li>Build and debug MSIX packages, </li><li>Code Signing, </li><li>Built-in Automatic Updater or WiX Toolset project conversion. </li><li>It also provides support for .NET Core deployment and Azure DevOps Integration.<br/></li></ul><div id="conclusion"><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>We hope this article helped you get an overview of how to use Visual Studio to package MSIs. </p><p>Visual Studio is a suitable solution to create an MSI package. It is especially convenient for less complex applications, but not so much for complicated packaging scenarios.</p><p>If you're working with a more complex installer, it may be a better option to try using an application packaging tool. Advanced Installer provides a quick and easy way to distribute add-ins and extensions for Microsoft Visual Studio. 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