Rob Mensching Does Installations with the WiX Toolset
Carl and Richard talk to Rob Mensching about the WiX Toolset, a popular Open Source project for all your software installation needs. How good is WiX Toolset? Visual Studio uses it for installation of itself! Rob talks about different installation solutions and how he eventually came to develop the WiX Toolset as an XML-centric 'set of sets' hierarchy for managing installations. As Rob says, setup development is development!
Guests:
Rob Mensching
Rob Mensching is the CEO and co-founder of FireGiant, a company that provides commercial support and tools for the WiX Toolset. He's also the creator and maintainer of WiX, the most powerful set of tools for building Windows installation packages. WiX holds the unique distinction of being the first Open Source project released by Microsoft, and Rob has been deeply involved in open source for over 25 years. He's passionate about making Open Source sustainable, and his latest proposal, the Open Source Maintenance Fee, is all about creating a better path forward for projects and their maintainers.
Links:
- Walkthrough of creating a Windows Service Application http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/zt39148a(v=vs.80).aspx
- WiX Toolset http://wixtoolset.org/