Preparing for MVP Summit – Your Questions for the MSI Team?

It’s MVP Summit time again! Next week I’ll be travelling to Seattle and Redmond to attend the MVP Global Summit, an event where Microsoft invites MVPs from around the world to hear about the latest technologies, meet the product teams, network, and also have a little fun :)

For me this means that I’ll have the opportunity to sit down with the Windows Installer team (including their documentation writer) and also folks from the WiX team.

Now I have this idea to not only ask my own questions, but also on behalf of my blog readers. So is there anything you always (or recently) wanted to ask the MSI team or some feedback you want to give them? Please let me know. Either post your question as a comment on the blog or send it to me by e-mail skrueger [at] installsite.org

Of course I can’t promise that your questions will be answered (or in some cases I may not be allowed to publish the answer if it’s under NDA). But it’s worth a try.

Published Fri, Feb 20 2009 12:43 by stefan
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# re: Preparing for MVP Summit – Your Questions for the MSI Team?

When will the MSI team add support for managed code custom actions (similar to the WiX DTF extensions)?

Friday, February 20, 2009 2:32 PM by Colby Ringeisen

# re: Preparing for MVP Summit – Your Questions for the MSI Team?

I'm sure the answer to that is never.  In Jason's history of DTF blog he mentions:

"For a while the MSI team was hinting that they might implement their own set of official managed APIs for the Windows Installer platform (and I didn't want to cause confusion with an alternative), but now it doesn't look like that will happen anytime soon if ever."

So basically Jason waited until he got an unclear from someone/somewhere.  Now that he's realed DTF there will be even less reason for the MSI team to incorporate it into MSI proper.

This is a good thing. DTF is a really nice implementation and doesn't require and MSI update to use it. :-)

Saturday, February 21, 2009 8:33 AM by Christopher Painter

# Answers from the MSI Team

Last week at Microsoft’s Global MVP Summit I had the opportunity to sit down with the MSI and WiX teams

Thursday, March 12, 2009 7:31 PM by InstallSite Blog