After my recent cribbing about my wish-list for WIX, it is only fair that I talk about the advantages of WIX over other tools like InstallShield. I am primarily comparing it with InstallShield, as it is the only tool that I am aware of to an extent and is also the current market leader (in my opinion) in the installation tools market place. 1) XML Format: WIX source files are in a programmer friendly format. You are allowed to comment the code at any place, that makes the installation project source...

After a long time, I have got some time to get to my blog. After a long day of presentations, I guess it is only fair enough that I relax by concentrating sometime on my long forgotten blog. We in our organization primarily use InstallShield for most of our setup development needs. I and one of my colleagues were discussing the topic of distributed development. InstallShield is good in a lot of things but distributed development is not one of them. As a common sense approach, distributed development...