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Rob Mensching on Software Installation and Open Source at Microsoft.
I started blogging three years ago when the MSDN blog site was still hosted on gotdotnet. Back then...
Date: 12/05/2006
Jonathan Perret made the following interesting comment on a previous blog entry: ...I find it...
Date: 10/23/2006
Duane Johnson asked how to use WiX v3 to detect the CLR. Extensions in WiX v3 are far more powerful...
Date: 10/17/2006
In my last blog entry, I wrapped up saying that we'd talk about how to make your install directory...
Date: 10/17/2006
Before picking up this series of blog entries on the Directory table again, I went back and re-read...
Date: 10/12/2006
Nicholas Carr has a great blog entry about conflicts of interest in blogging. It got me thinking...
Date: 10/10/2006
Thus far, today I have done absolutely nothing. Sure, I cleaned off the kitchen table, put away some...
Date: 10/08/2006
Tonight I traveled to Anthony's Beach Cafe in Edmonds, WA to have dinner with Charlie Poole. Charlie...
Date: 10/06/2006
I installed Windows Live Writer 1.0 Beta a while ago to test a project I was working on. I didn't...
Date: 10/05/2006
I was cleaning out some old mail messages and came across this tidbit of information that several...
Date: 10/03/2006
Robert sent me a couple quotes from Ichiro in this morning’s Seattle Times. I thought they were...
Date: 09/30/2006
Tonight Jenny and I hosted our second Thursday Night "Deployment Dinner Discussion". Our...
Date: 09/21/2006
In my previous blog entry, I mentioned that Visual Studio was adopting the WiX toolset. Despite the...
Date: 09/18/2006
As I noted in my previous blog entry, there is a lot of change in my life right now. Today Derek...
Date: 09/16/2006
The weather is starting to turn here in Redmond. Fall is right around the corner. With the change in...
Date: 09/13/2006
Over the last couple months, I have been trying to come up with new ways to connect with the...
Date: 08/25/2006
Previously I described how the Office XP PIA install detected what parts of Office XP were...
Date: 08/22/2006
First, I see this. Then I'm skimming my RSS backlog and see this that points at this. This isn't the...
Date: 08/09/2006
Jenny talked me into going shopping for patio furniture today. I was skeptical. There isn't a lot of...
Date: 08/06/2006
There was a lot more interest in the Office XP PIA install that Bob created than I expected. I'm...
Date: 07/28/2006
PressPass just released the news that Microsoft has acquired Winternals. This is amazing. I've seen...
Date: 07/18/2006
Tonight, we'll continue with the story of the development of the Creative Commons Add-in for...
Date: 07/12/2006
If you follow Microsoft culture then you've undoubtedly heard about the distribution of M&Ms on...
Date: 06/28/2006
As promised, the first two issues reported with the Creative Commons Add-in for Microsoft Office...
Date: 06/27/2006
Tonight I had hoped to be continuing the story about the creation of the Creative Commons Add-in for...
Date: 06/23/2006
I have been working on a few unrelated side-projects over the last several months. These are...
Date: 06/21/2006
A few questions about the ScrollableText Control in MSI come up every once in a while, so I thought...
Date: 05/30/2006
Just a short post here to point out some of Fredrik Grohn's latest handiwork. If you look on the...
Date: 05/18/2006
I am back from a lovely long weekend with Jenny in Vancouver. It was great to get away from the day...
Date: 05/16/2006
Via Miguel de Icaza, I came across this summary of Google's Summer of Code Mozilla projects. Miguel...
Date: 04/21/2006
It's that time of year again. The sun shines out at least as much as the rain comes down. The roads...
Date: 04/16/2006
Today is the second anniversary of the Windows Installer XML Toolset's release to SourceForge....
Date: 04/05/2006
About a month ago, I wandered over to MS Studios to have a chat with Mike Ward who hosts Microsoft...
Date: 03/01/2006
Here's a quick tip I've been meaning to post for a while. By now you all know that Windows Vista is...
Date: 02/22/2006
Speaking of Mary Jo Foley, last week I had a conversation with Dare Obasanjo about RSS Bandit's...
Date: 02/14/2006
A few months ago, Bill Hilf asked if I would attend a meeting to discuss the Windows Installer and...
Date: 02/14/2006
I've changed the name of my blog. I've been thinking about doing this for a while. Tonight I noticed...
Date: 02/08/2006
Wow, I started this morning off really excited. I saw the announcement that Google has a toolbar for...
Date: 02/01/2006
I am an individual contributor because I prefer designing and writing code over managing people who...
Date: 02/01/2006
Note: I originally wrote this entry at 6 AM Tuesday morning but Community Server upgrade issues...
Date: 02/01/2006
This is very cool. R0ml just posted a typical storytold blog entry about his new vocation. I say...
Date: 01/17/2006
I've been meaning to follow up on my blog entry about the Restart Manager and reboots on the Windows...
Date: 01/17/2006
Usually, when I find comments about the WiX toolset on other people's blogs I would put comments...
Date: 01/07/2006
This morning someone asked me how the WiX toolset got its name. It isn't a terribly long story so I...
Date: 12/22/2005
In the last week there were three RSS feeds I follow that mentioned the new Restart Manager service...
Date: 12/10/2005