Recommendations for getting started with WiX? [closed]
When you install the WIX 3.0 toolset, it comes with a manual. It is installed to C:\Program Files\Windows Installer XML v3\doc\wix.chm and is linked in the start menu.
This is not just a dry reference manual. It contains a lot of introductory material such as the "Authoring your first .wxs file" and "How To: Add a File To Your Installer".
The manual also links to the tutorial you mention and some audio-visual material in the "Getting Started Learning Wix" topic.
The wix3 manual is also available online here.
I used that same tutorial a couple years ago when I needed to learn WiX. MSI (and therefore WiX) are incredibly complex, you'll need to invest some time to get it right.
If you have Visual Studio, I highly recommend getting Votive (which, I think, comes bundled in WiX v3 now). It'll set up VS to recognize the WiX XML schema and make hand-editing XML files much easier.
That tutorial is actually probably the best that's out there right now - WiX and Windows Installer technology is a bit "baroque" and involved....
If you want to whip up just a quick'n'easy installer, maybe this will be good enough for you?
Wix# (WixSharp) - managed interface for WiX
It's like writing C# - and it gets compiled to WiX - quite nifty.
It can't do everything - but maybe for your simple install, it's good enough - or at least it could give you a skeleton to build upon.
Marc