HeatWave

HeatWave is FireGiant's Visual Studio extension for WiX v4, v5, and later. HeatWave Community Edition is available free of charge and provides:

• Conversion of WiX v3 projects and authoring
• Building of WiX SDK-style projects
• Project references and WiX extension package references
• Project and item templates
• Property pages to control how the project builds

HeatWave peacefully coexists with the WiX v3 Visual Studio extension, which lets you mix and match WiX v3, WiX v4, and later projects in a solution. You can convert the WiX v3 projects to WiX v5 gradually.

Installing HeatWave

HeatWave is available from the Visual Studio Marketplace.

• Download HeatWave for Visual Studio 2022 here.
• Download HeatWave for Visual Studio 2019 here.

Double-click the downloaded .vsix file to install HeatWave.

Upgrading HeatWave

When new versions of HeatWave are released, you can update from within Visual Studio:

1. Choose Extensions|Manage Extensions.
2. Expand the Updates node.
3. Select Visual Studio Marketplace.
4. Select HeatWave Community Edition.
5. Choose Update (or Update All).
6. Choose Close.
7. Close Visual Studio to trigger the update.