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

Answers from the MSI Team

InstallSite Blog — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:31:27 GMT

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

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

Christopher Painter — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 14:33:36 GMT

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. :-)

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

Colby Ringeisen — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:32:14 GMT

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