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 a blank 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, we will be adding the following elements to the <Bundle> element:

As a start, let's 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 you have the skeleton authoring of a Bundle, let's move on to adding information for the <BootstrapperApplicationRef> element. See Author the BootstrapperApplication for a Bundle.