I am trying to create an installer with Wix and Visual Studio 2019. I am a Wix newbie so I just started to get something really simple working, from scratch. Therefore, I read this explanation. I use Windows 10 build 19042.

Creating the winforms project does work fine for me but the next project does not. This is because of this step.

Choose the Windows Installer XML node in the Project types tree, then select Setup Project

I can find Wix projects.

And I installed the Wix toolset.

So creating a very simple installer should be very simple. But in fact, it is not as I fail to do one tutorial step referring to a project type I cannot find.

I have these questions:

1. What to do to make sure the Windows Installer XML node becomes visible?
2. How can I do the same without the Windows Installer XML node?

And logically, I double checked if the Windows Installer XML node is really not there. And it really is not.