+1 for Phil's book. It significantly helped me start to think about deployment scenarios/problems in terms of windows installer concepts. I blame Phil for my conversion from VS setup projects to wix.
(the other Phil) -----Original Message----- From: Jody Belka [mailto:lists-...@pimb.org] Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 6:11 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Wix# Hmm. Need to start playing about with Wix at the Wix level first anyway I think :) On a slightly different matter, is the Windows Installer book by Phil Wilson the best one to get to help get a good understanding of the underlying technology? On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 01:02:45PM -0800, Rob Mensching wrote: > It's kinda' neat to see other languages built on top of the WiX language (if WiX is a 4GL, does that make them 5GL)? ClickThrough is one example of a higher language in the WiX toolset but it still uses XML... which seems to be a negative for some people. I don't care for the syntax presented in WixSharp and would much take the VS Intellisense for XML any day. But I obviously don't have issues with angle brackets. <wink/> > > The thing to ensure is that the higher level languages are still generating correct code. I was a little concerned by the articles about WixSharp because the example WiX code was not very good. If the higher level language generates that kind of WiX code then your trading off new syntax for subpar output. Not a trade I would make... but I obviously don't have issues with angle brackets. <grin/> > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jody Belka [mailto:lists-...@pimb.org] > Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 08:24 > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] Wix# > > Haven't played about with it myself at all, but was wondering if anyone > else had seen this recent project? Looks intriguing. > > http://www.codeproject.com/KB/install/WixSharpArticle.aspx > > http://www.csscript.net/WixSharp.html > > > > J > -- > Jody Belka > knew (at) pimb (dot) org > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. > The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help > pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. > The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help > pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
