Attempting to Create a HeatWave (WiX) MSI Project Causes VS Error


I’m new to HeatWave / WiX and wanted to get started with it, but am running into a strange issue that I haven’t been able to find a resolution to.

In short, when I select Add > New Project from the solution context menu, then choose the MSI Package project and click Create, the project creation wizard fails with the error message The SDK 'WixToolset.Sdk/6.0.0' specified could not be found. I haven’t been able to find anywhere online that I can download this SDK except from NuGet, but I can’t install a NuGet package to the solution itself, so there doesn’t seem to be any way to make it available to this project creation wizard.

What am I missing here? The HeatWave documentation implies all I need to do is install the extension and create a project, and then add extra NuGet packages to the project after it has been created. No other steps for installation are mentioned.

For what it’s worth, I downloaded the VS extension from here and made sure I updated to the latest version of VS 2022 (17.13.6). If there’s any other details relevant to debugging this, let me know.

To be clear, I haven’t had any issues installing the extension itself (as far as I know anyway), it’s just that I can’t create a new project using the extension.

Thanks!

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