Creating a windows service installer with Visual Studio and WiX

Those of you who’ve been following my blog lately will know that I’ve been writing a lot on the subject of WiX installers. Basically I just think they’re awesome! The previous set of posts focused on the basics and then some of the specific stuff you can do with website installers. This time I’m going to walk through the creation of a service installer, and introduce you to a simple technique based around xslt and heat, that I’ve found loads of uses for.