May 2008 - Posts

Custom action project templates
23 May 08 09:19 AM | jasongin | 0 Comments   

New in this week's WiX build 3.0.4123 are Visual Studio 2005 & 2008 templates for C++, C#, and VB custom action projects: The C++ project sets you up with the WiX unmanaged CA utility library (wcautil), while the C# and VB projects use the DTF library Read More...

Filed under: DTF, custom actions, Votive

A brief history of the Deployment Tools Foundation project
16 May 08 01:19 PM | jasongin | 1 Comments   

Rob mentioned in this morning's announcement that I've been working on the DTF project for quite a while. Indeed, if you look at the change history topic in DTF.chm, you'll see entries going back to January 2003. (And development of what would become Read More...

Filed under: DTF, custom actions

Introducing myself
16 May 08 12:57 PM | jasongin | 0 Comments   

Today's release of DTF with the WiX toolset has finally given me the motivation to start this blog, which I have long intended to do anway. Before I delve into posts about DTF, I thought I would share a little about myself. I've been a developer at Microsoft Read More...