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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

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