Why does WiX not work in Visual Studio 2012 Expres

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Wix project template for Visual Studio Express versions?

Was looking for a free installer creator that integrates with Visual Studio 2012 Express. I have read great things about Windows Installer XML (WiX), but is seems like it won't work out of the box with the Express version of Visual Studio. Are there any work-arounds? I was wondering why a free and open-source capability wouldn't or couldn't support the project templates in the Express edition but can in all the others. Is this a built-in barrier from Microsoft to get people to upgrade?

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Visual Studio Express does not support Extensibility by 3rd parties. This is a limitation Microsoft has placed on all the free editions of Visual Studio. Since Wix is being maintained as an open source project, it cannot integrate into Visual Studio Express as deep as it can into Visual Studio Professional and better.

You can still call Wix from the command-line or through WixEdit.