WiX Developer Direct

All the answers
Get guidance through monthly office hours, code reviews, and answers from our experts in WiX and the Windows Installer (MSI) to produce the best installers the first time.
All the fixes
If it's a bug in HeatWave or WiX, we'll fix it. Never worry about being stymied by a bug—keep your product releases on schedule.
All the tools
Extend the capabilities of HeatWave and WiX with our tools that reduce development time with proven solutions created by experts.
Direct access to the developers of WiX
When you need to know something about WiX, go right to the source—the people who created it. From FireGiant, you get support from the developers who know WiX inside and out.
- Design questions, debugging questions, "why" questions—we answer them all. We'll get to the root cause.
- Enjoy all-you-can eat support for any developer on your team.
- Join our monthly office hours meeting to speak directly to the WiX developers.
- Schedule a two-hour one-on-one consultation with a WiX expert to ask questions, resolve issues, plan features, or discuss pretty much anything you like.
- Receive a yearly code review for a thorough and authoritative evaluation of your installers, including custom actions.
- We support some of the largest companies in the world with fast response email support that can address any problem you encounter when building your installers with WiX.
A Personal Touch
Be in direct contact with the creators of WiX via office hours, consultations, and code reviews. Get to know them like another member of your team.
Guaranteed bug fixes in HeatWave and WiX
Find a problem, get a fix. It's that simple. FireGiant guarantees fixes for bugs and security issues found in HeatWave and WiX, even versions that are out of community support.
- Confidently use WiX for all your installation needs.
- Take advantage of the benefits of open source but consume it like other software with guaranteed support.
- Give your team reliable help and reduce the risk of using open source technology.
- Eliminate the wait and uncertainty that come with relying on unpaid volunteers for help.
WiX Extended Support
As a FireGiant customer, you get security updates for all versions of WiX. Upgrade, or don't upgrade, on a timeline that meets your business requirements.
Advanced tools that improve developer productivity
Extend the capabilities of HeatWave and WiX with a site license to our advanced tools. All developers and build machines get access to tools that make you more productive with WiX.
See the documentation for more information
See the documentation for more information
- Advanced harvesting goes far beyond the harvesting functionality in WiX.
- The FireGiant Bundle Application Framework simplifies creating beautiful bootstrapper applications.
- FireGiant MSIX Extension creates MSIX packages from your .wxs source code.
- Driver extension provides lightweight and robust installation for non-PnP drivers.
- Protected service extension supports install, upgrade, and uninstall of ELAM drivers.
Simple fair pricing
FireGiant sells its products and services on a per-organization basis for one, simple price. We base that price on the relative complexity of the product that an organization is deploying, and we've found that the fairest measure of product complexity is the number of software developers contributing code to the product.
- All developers in your organization receive support for a single, annual price with no hidden fees.
- An unlimited number of copies of our tools can be deployed on any number of machines, including build machines.
- Pricing is based on the number of software developers working on projects that use WiX.