About HeatWave Build Tools

The HeatWave Build Tools extend the WiX Toolset by providing extensions and APIs that improve the development experience of installation packages and bundles.

• Advanced Harvesting - the most flexible tooling to gather and organize files from project references and folders.
• BundleApplication Framework - managed and native libraries to simplify the development of custom Burn-based bootstrapper applications.
• MSIX Extension - create MSIX packages from .wxs code.
• Driver Extension - enhances MSI to install non-PnP, system-level drivers.

A license file is required to use the HeatWave Build Tools. The next page describes how to acquire your license and where to place it.