The WiX Toolset v3.11 (or newer) build tools must be installed to build this project

Question

Just installed Visual Studio 2017 and wix extension and when trying to build a solution which uses Wix I get the following error:

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Answer 1

To fix this issue you need download and install: "WiX Toolset build tools" also NOT just "WiX Toolset Visual Studio Extension" from here: https://wixtoolset.org/releases/