WiX(Windows安装程序XML工具集)是MSI创作工具的开源项目。
项目的一部分是ClickThrough,这是一组附加工具,包括自动检测可用更新(通过RSS提要)、通知用户并安装更新的工具。
你可以阅读here:The Windows Installer Xml (WiX) toolset is composed of a compiler, a
linker, a lib tool and a decompiler. It generates MSI and MSM files
from XML input. It doesn't include a GUI frontend to create the
project files, but there are a couple of projects that plan to fill
this gap. Votive, which is part of the WiX project, is a Visual Studio
extension. It allows you to create "WiX projects" that act like any
other project in a VS solution. WiX was created by Rob Mensching, a
Microsoft employee and former member of the MSI team, in his free time
and released as open source. It is used by several teams inside
Microsoft to create their setups.