How to Enable WiX Projects in Visual Studio 2015

Question

When I go the the New Project dialog in Visual Studio 2015, Windows Installer XML isn\'t available. How can I enable WiX projects in Visual Studio 2015?

Answer 1

I have found that the order of installation is important. Using VS2015, when I tried to add an existing WiX project I could not select it because the *.wixproj extension was not available. When I tried to add a new WiX project the "Windows Installer XML" templates were not available.

To fix this I closed VS2015, uninstalled the WiX tools using the Control Panel and reinstalled it by running wix310.exe (version 3.10.2.2516 downloaded from https://wix.codeplex.com/releases/view/619491)