Jonathan Perret made the following interesting comment on a previous blog entry : ...I find it worrisome that even when using such a powerful tool as WiX, one still has to memorize such oddities. I mean, if my app has a prereq it sounds obvious I don...

Nicholas Carr has a great blog entry about conflicts of interest in blogging . It got me thinking about a silent policy I've always had for myself when blogging here. I don't blog about the many vendors in the MSI creation space except the ones that I...

Duane Johnson asked how to use WiX v3 to detect the CLR . Extensions in WiX v3 are far more powerful than they were in WiX v2 . Unfortunately, to enable the new features a few things moved around. So, let's say you wanted to to ensure that the .NET Framework...

I installed Windows Live Writer 1.0 Beta a while ago to test a project I was working on. I didn't actually boot the application or anything, just installed it. I think this proves how much of a setup geek I am. <smile/> Well, as you can see in my...

Before picking up this series of blog entries on the Directory table again, I went back and re-read all the previous entries to make sure I remembered the details told up to this point. It was then that I realized the last entry on this series as posted...

I was cleaning out some old mail messages and came across this tidbit of information that several people sent me. SharpDevelop 2.1 now supports the WiX toolset . At the same time, I noticed that SharpDevelop 2.1 moved to WiX to build its setup packages...

Tonight I traveled to Anthony's Beach Cafe in Edmonds, WA to have dinner with Charlie Poole . Charlie is the active maintainer of the NUnit project . He contacted me (via my blog, IIRC) and we set up tonight's meeting. I expected he wanted to meet because...

Thus far, today I have done absolutely nothing. Sure, I cleaned off the kitchen table, put away some dishes and folded some clothes. But I didn't really do anything. I spent a few hours playing through a few demo disks DJ lent me for the new Xbox 360...

In my last blog entry, I wrapped up saying that we'd talk about how to make your install directory configurable this time. I'm sorry but I lied. There is an important but confusing truth that you must understand before we continue. Directories are Properties...