Flame

The Internet is filled with all sort of applications and programs that you could use in order to make your job easier. One of them is Flame.

It's a software solution for quickly and easily creating Windows installers (.msi files) using WIX. It sports a clean and intuitive graphical interface with lots of nice tools and features at hand.

The application doesn't take long to install and it doesn't come with a complicated setup that you would need to complete before you can actually use it.

It sports a clean and intuitive graphical interface with lots of nice features and tools at hand. Flame is a software solution for quickly and easily creating Windows installers (.msi files) using WIX.

In order to use Flame, you will need to install WIX on your computer. Creating an installer is simple, you simply need to create a new project, select your project root directory, and then go tab by tab, filling out the information as you go.

After filling everything out, there is a generate button at the bottom of the installer tab. Clicking it will create a new installer file for you, along with a tiny log (which contains the product and upgrade GUIDs for the installer in case you forgot to write them down), and the .wxs file in case you want to make some manual adjustments and compile it by hand.

The installer tab wraps up the information about the installer itself. The UI types are sorted in order of complexity from highest to lowest. Finally, before you can make an installer you have to point Flame to your wix install directory (where it can find candle.exe, light.exe, the xml files, and anything else wix needs behind the scenes).

Flame will save this path in flame.cfg so you should only need to select this once and it will automatically populate for the rest of your projects. Flame is a must-have software solution for quickly and easily creating Windows installers (.msi files) using WIX.