February, 2012

These days it’s more common to install products composed of more than one installer package. Modern applications are often a loose fitting of localized components and being authored into a single package just isn’t practical. For example, a localized...

Late last week I checked in a feature for Windows Installer XML’s (WiX) chainer, Burn , that I’m really excited about (ask my colleagues): sticky patching. This is a feature at the bundle (what we call our composition of packages for Burn ) level that...

Along with the release of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview , we have released Visual Studio 11 Beta and Jason Zander has announced many of the great new and improved features in VS11 Beta. We have also introduced a new setup experience with VS11. Setup...