Just had a quick skim over it, and at the bottom of part 2 your link to part 3 
actually points to 
part 2 again.  Following the link to part 3 gives a "Requested page not found 
error".

Rob

Rennie Petersen wrote:
> Julie,
> 
> Thanks for the Wiki. 
> 
> To all interested:
> 
> I've published the first two pages (out of five) of my "beginners
> tutorial".
> 
> http://www.merlinia.com/mdt/WiXTutorial.msl
> 
> It's a lot more work than I expected.  :-(
> 
> Corrections, suggestions, criticism, etc. very welcome.
> 
> Probably not of much interest to anybody here because it's so
> introductory...
> 
> Yours,
> Rennie
> 
>  
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of 
>> Julie Campbell
>> Sent: 23. april 2007 19:52
>> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
>> Subject: [WiX-users] Beginner's Tutorial, Books, Versions...
>>
>> I'm a little late on the topic, but I didn't have access to 
>> my e-mail over the weekend.  Like some others mentioned, I am 
>> a software engineer first and an installer person third or 
>> fourth ... some perspective, comments, ideas ... sorry, this is long.
>>
>> I started learning WiX in late 2006 after management finally 
>> came to the realization that our current installers (written 
>> by a third party) had no chance at all of working under 
>> Vista.  After looking at InstallShield 12, Wise and WiX, I 
>> chose WiX for my emergency development, specifically v3 as I 
>> got the impression it was stable enough (and hasn't given me reason to
>> doubt) for general application installers.
>>
>> The tutorial Gabor created and maintains was good to start 
>> out with and gave me that initial "WiX is easy and I like it" 
>> feeling.  However, as it is for v2, it didn't cover some 
>> things I needed to know and other things didn't apply.  
>>
>> There are several great WiX bloggers out there and some 
>> really awesome explanations of more advanced topics. However, 
>> I find searching for and reading blog entries a really 
>> painful way to come up a learning curve.  
>>
>> So, I started reading the mailing list religiously and saved 
>> notes whenever I saw something I thought might be useful.  I 
>> created and admin a very successful intranet MediaWiki site 
>> at work, so I started saving these notes on an intranet wiki 
>> of my own, because despite the creation and early promise of 
>> wixwiki.com, it is locked down very tightly, not really 
>> organized, I can't even find an e-mail address to request an 
>> account from (though I could probably search for rmacfadyen 
>> in wix-users), and there have been a whopping 5 changes in 
>> the last 60 days.  
>>
>> Before I know it, I'm up to over 50 pages of rough notes and 
>> link collections (see http://www.mindcapers.com/wiki/WiX).  
>> I'm also seeing the same questions on this list over and 
>> over.  I'm having to dig through WiX source code to answer 
>> some of my questions.  I look for a book on WiX, there isn't 
>> one.  With the WiX v3 roadmap looking like completion at the 
>> end of 2007, I'm thinking by then I'll move from "competent 
>> user" to "expert" with the demands ahead of me anyway.  My 16 
>> years of professional development gives me enough insight to 
>> how long this learning curve will take.  I start considering 
>> writing a book for software developers to come up the 
>> intermediate learning curve to save some of the pain I went 
>> through (thank you Google for easing that effort!).
>>
>> As I started digging around more, and putting notes in a Word 
>> document, there are dozens (at least) of developers blogging 
>> about WiX.  There is a Wiki.  There is a mailing list.  There 
>> are at least a couple people contemplating writing a book.
>>
>> So ... what I would really like to see is group effort on 
>> getting one superb set of documentation together rather than 
>> the hodge-podge of incomplete sources of information that exist today.
>>
>> I am willing to help, leading or following, doesn't matter.  
>> Any of the following would be great:
>>
>> * I am an excellent MediaWiki admin and could clean up, categorize and
>> improve wixwiki.com given the opportunity.   
>> * I would be happy to migrate my non-duplicated WiX materials 
>> to wixwiki.com.
>> * My wiki has open registration if the tightly locked down 
>> wixwiki.com site isn't loosened up a bit.
>> * I would love collaborators on a book.  I haven't written an 
>> entire book before, but I've got a good outline started and a 
>> knack for translating technical mumbo-jumbo into 
>> understandable explanations.  I also have excellent 
>> organizational skills.  However, there are some topics I have 
>> only glossed over (IIS, SQLServer, xmlconfig) as these aren't 
>> of immediate interest to me.  Besides, it is a bit silly for 
>> a relative outsider to try to go it alone and re-create 
>> wheels that have already been rounded.  A book probably isn't 
>> all that far off with "go ahead and steal my blog entries as 
>> long as you consider me a contributor" permission grants.  It 
>> would also be silly not to have at least small pieces of book 
>> created by Rob, Bob and the other Wixperts.
>>
>> A wiki can be as good as a book if organized correctly.  
>> There are also MediaWiki extensions available to convert wiki 
>> sites into .chm files, which would be immensely useful for 
>> those of us that go "off network" for a few days at a time.
>>
>> I sent an e-mail to wixadmin quite a while ago asking for a 
>> release to sign and offering to assist with the help files, 
>> but never received a response.
>> I have no idea whether that was due to my lack of "karma" or 
>> a bit-bucket e-mail address.
>>
>> Anyway, enough babbling from me.  What would you like to see? 
>>  I seem to be set of creating or improving *something*, for 
>> my own use if nothing else, might as well make it easier on 
>> myself and share with the world at the same time.
>>  
>> Julie Campbell
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>
>>
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