Create the Skeleton Bundle Authoring

The root element of a bundle is Bundle. The Bundle element is a child directly under the Wix element. Here's an example of an empty bundle:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi">
  <Bundle>
    <!-- Contents of the bundle goes here -->
  </Bundle>
</Wix>

In this example, you will be adding the following elements to the Bundle element:

• BootstrapperApplicationRef
• Chain
• Variable

As a start, add the two most common elements inside a Bundle :

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi">
  <Bundle>
    <BootstrapperApplicationRef />
    <Chain>
    </Chain>
  </Bundle>
</Wix>

The BootstrapperApplicationRef element will eventually point to the standard BootstrapperApplication provided by the WiX toolset and the Chain element will eventually contain the ordered list of packages that make up the bundle.

Now that you have the skeleton authoring of a Bundle, you can move on to adding information for the BootstrapperApplicationRef element. See Author the BootstrapperApplication for a Bundle.