Once upon a time I mostly worked with and blogged about this.
Boy, oh boy. Do I feel like a shmuck or something. I sort of “extracted” myself from the WiX community, basically just because I felt so bad about my apparent slovenliness with this whole tallow extensions thing. Well, yesterday I finally posted the license agreement to Microsoft, signed by myself (about October 2004) and by our company's techinical director - at the end of January 2005 (!!!!), many, many months after I fist spoke about my extensions! Hopefully the letter will arrive ......
Okay, I just got back from holiday (much needed), and found that all sorts of happenings were happening with the WiX toolset (here, here and on the mailing list). Sad I missed all the excitement <wink />. Anyway, the discussions about COM Advertising, and the way that both Windows Installer and the WiX toolset toolset handles them, have prompted some renewed queries about when, oh when, am I going to submit the code for my extensions to tallow? I have sent the executable to one or two people ......
I was just notified that the Windows Installer 3.0 redistributable has been posted live. 1. The redistributable package can be obtained from: http://www.microsoft.com/do... 2. There is also a Knowledgebase article about this release available at: http://support.microsoft.co... 3. Finally, the SDK documentation and tools are part of the Windows XP Service Pack 2 platform SDK and are available by clicking the ......
It's been quite a while since I've blogged, and I decided to return to the fray today... I've been quite busy at work, and since I don't have a connection at home I can't blog from there. I found myself spending most of my time at work doing work (as it should be I suppose), and not finding lots of time to post blog entries. And that's a real pity because I have an ever growing list of blog ideas queuing up. Today I want to write about the WiX toolset. Most of my working life currently revolves around ......
I have decided to repost my earlier entry about Resources and Data (from my old setup blog) here as an article. I think it is a good candidate for an article as it is quite long, but the main reason is so that I can check out the difference between an article and a post (in practice). Look for my follow-up article “Resources and Data: What's the Point?” to be posted soon ......