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Can the Heatwave Community Edition extension for Visual Studio be used to generate installers, with no costs at all, in an enterprise environment?


Looking into Wix v4 and v5, coming from v3, their official tutorials in FireGiant's site use HeatWave Community Edition. I need to create an installer of a software from the company I work in.

I don't really understand if the Professional or Enterprise licenses need to be paid, either to work with or create the installers using HeatWave Community Edition.

The closest I got was that the HeatWave Build Tools require a license file to be available on developer and build machines. We can get this license file from our FireGiant Account License page. Source.

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Solution

  • From the HeatWave documentation:

    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

    (emphasis mine)

    If a license is required to use a feature of HeatWave, you'll be prompted for it.