Just a heads-up in case others missed what I found and would like some good
news.

*VS2013 setup projects*

I was completely taken by surprise when support for vdproj setup projects
was dropped in VS2012. I was forced to use WiX, but it was so much trouble
that I rarely bothered and started delivering ZIP files instead to avoid
the appalling time drain and suffering of learning and maintaining WiX
project files.

I found by complete accident today that vdproj projects are supported by an
extension listed HERE
<http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2014/04/17/visual-studio-installer-projects-extension.aspx>.
I've installed it in VS2013 and although I haven't pushed it hard, it seems
to be the familiar feature we used to know. It looks like the extension is
only a few months old. Thank heavens, I'm going to email Tony Goodhew to
thank him personally. I know this feature is arguably underpowered, but
once you uncover what all the bits do and optionally write some CAs then I
reckon it's quite productive and useful.

*NUnit Attributes*

I looked at the latest NUnit documentation
<http://www.nunit.org/index.php?p=attributes&r=2.6.3> for the first time in
years and I was pleased to discover they have added lots of really useful
attributes (Random, Range, Values, Combinatorial, etc). And [Theory] looks
interesting but I haven't quite sussed it out.

*Greg K*

Reply via email to