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Monday, August 25, 2008 8:50 PM

New Advanced Installer 6.5 brings Windows Installer 4.5 support and WiX import

On August 19th, 2008 Caphyon Ltd. announced the latest edition of its Windows Installer authoring tool. The new Advanced Installer enables developers and system administrators to easily build and repackage complex applications into reliable, ready to...
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Friday, June 20, 2008 5:46 PM

ScriptLogic released MSI Studio for SCCM, supporting WiX format

One more TechEd announcement (actually it's already 10 days old but I haven't had the chance to post it yet): On June 10, 2008 ScriptLogic® Corporation, a leading provider of systems lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft® Windows®-based...
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007 12:20 AM

Microsoft to "productize" WiX

Rob Mensching reports that Microsoft will include a sub-set of the Windows Installer XML toolkit ( WiX ) in the next version of Visual Studio, code named Rosario. WiX is an open source project for authoring of Windows Installer (MSI) setups. While Microsoft...
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Thursday, August 09, 2007 4:18 PM

How To Write an Automatic Update System

Here's a link to an eight part series which describes different approaches to inform your customers about available updates to your application and to automatically download and install those updates. How To Write an Automatic Update System (this...
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Wednesday, August 08, 2007 2:56 PM

German: dotnetpro 9/07 - WiX 3 und Benutzerkontensteuerung (UAC)

(This article is only available in German) Auch das neue Heft 09/2007 der Zeitschrift dornetpro behandelt wieder Themen, die für Setup-Entwickler interessant sind. Unter dem Titel " Installationsroutinen mit Windows Installer XML 3 " stellt...
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Friday, May 18, 2007 9:31 AM

Another new MSI authoring tool based on WiX

"War Setup" is a new Windows Installer authoring tool which uses the Windows Installer XML ( WiX ) toolkit as compiler to generate .msi files. War Setup supports WiX fragmants and is licensed under the Common Public License 1.0, so it's...
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Thursday, May 17, 2007 10:31 PM

Indigo Rose creates MSI Authoring Tool based on WiX

Indigo Rose Corp. is the maker of various setup, update and autorun tools. Like all of the setup tools from the pre-MSI era their Setup Factory product is using a proprietary technology. But now Indigo Rose is working on a new product called "Setup...
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Thursday, March 22, 2007 2:20 PM

Automate Releases With MSBuild And WiX

This article by Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi from the March 2007 issue of MSDN Magazine is available online in multiple languages. WiX Tricks: Automate Releases With MSBuild And Windows Installer XML This article discusses: - An overview of Windows Installer...
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Monday, December 11, 2006 9:48 PM

Oops, they did it again: InstallAware "inspired" by competitor's web site

Usually I write about setup technology, not ethics. So I was unsure whether I should write this article or not. Also because InstallAware Software Corp. may have a policy of: "All publicity is good publicity because after a few months people forget...
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Tuesday, September 26, 2006 9:08 PM

ShardDevelop supports WiX, with Dialog Editor

SharpDevelop is a open-source IDE for C# and VB.NET, basically an alternative to Visual Studio. It integrates WiX, the open-source "Windows Installer XML Toolset" to build MSI setups, and even has a visual dialog editor for Windows Installer...
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Wednesday, September 20, 2006 2:04 PM

Should Visual Studio use WiX for Setup Projects? A poll.

Many users are not quite happy with Setup & Deployment projects in Visual Studio today. And indeed they are very limited and only expose a small subset of the powerful Windows Installer functionality. WiX is an open source tool for authoring Windows...
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