How to deploy/use after building src?

[inxdd-dev]

Question

Complete Newbie: I am not finding information here or in internet searches. I am posting this in case someone can help with where to find related information. I have successfully added nuget packages from Visual Studio and built simple installers as a test, but then deleted since my company does not have a license. I have looked at the FireGiant website, this discussions & questions, etc. I did see the Dojo videos on you tube and briefly viewed that might be related.

I have paid maintenance fee.

I want to build wix installers from within Visual Studio Desktop app projects built for .net Framework 4.5 through 4.8.1.

What I have done:
I forked and cloned the v6 source & successfully built it.

How is wixtoolset "deployed" or where should the resulting "content" be placed in order to use it? Or is there more work to be done?

Open Source Maintenance Fee

• I (or an organization I'm a member of) pay the Open Source Maintenance Fee by sponsoring the wixtoolset project because I support the maintainers.

[robmen]

WiX is distributed as a set of NuGet packages. So you'll want to read up in the Microsoft documentation about all the different ways you can reference local .nupkgs. It's a little different for MSBuild Sdks than PackageReferences and dotnet tools. Once you have an understanding of the NuGet basics, the WiX distribution should make a lot more sense.

[chrpai]

I have the same question. I'm working on a PR and did a dev build. copied all the nuget packages in the artifacts directory and pointed VS to that folder. I've tried setting it to WixToolset.Sdk/7.0.0 and WixToolset.Sdk/7.0.0-build.42 but I just can't get the project to load. It keeps complaining that it can't be found.