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Problems with WiX Web Deployment Project and Visual Studio

We want to create a .MSI package from a web deployment project in Visual Studio 2008. Now we want to use continuous integration and we need to build a .MSI in nightly builds.
So far, we have used the standard Visual Studio Web Setup project, but this is not compatible with MSBuild. Therefore, we decided to use WiX.
The problem is that I did not find a good tutorial / documentation about this. Is there a way to make a WiX installation package from a web deployment project? If so, how?
In addition, I tried using heat.exe to create an XML .wxs file for the WiX project, but it seems that heat.exe does not recognize the web deployment project format.

Thank you for your responses.
Regards,
V.

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I wrote a blog post about this recently - http://www.chrissurfleet.co.uk/post/2011/07/01/Using-Packaged-Project-Output-in-WiX-and-Visual-Studio.aspx

In short, its quite easy to use msbuild to pack your web application, and then transfer it to heat to generate your installer.

Hope this helps.

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