dotnetinstaller

dotNetINstaller 2.3 has been released.

I’ve released DNI 2.0 today. It’s a major release with a new HTML bootstrapper, better elevation support, Windows 8, etc. It has been stable for quite a while now and a few peop...

I just fixed dotnetinstaller#8157. It was a humbling and head-scratching two hours.

Following a much pleasing trend of developers contributing major functionality to my open-source projects, @nsleightholm (Neil Sleightholm who works for a company called X2Syste...

Since the day I mentioned that I was working on an HTML-based bootstrapper, I began getting a regular stream of e-mails asking about my progress. I even get phone calls. It’s a ...

Someone recently asked how to support uninstall in dotNetInstaller, specifically with MSI components. It’s a question that comes up frequently, and it’s a powerful feature of do...

I’ve been tracking a bug in CabLib, used in dotNetInstaller recently. CabLib is a complete C# and C++ wrapper for Cabinet.dll and its goal is to make it easier to CAB files. Any...

Just when I thought things were well under control in dotNetInstaller, someone filed this bug. It basically says that an installed check doesn’t work. This is pretty major funct...

We’ve recently upgraded the Visual Studio 2005 SP1 C++ Redistributable to a newer version with the ATL security update. We quickly found that the installer requires a reboot in ...

I am pleased to announce the open sourcing of the RemoteInstall Test Framework.

I shipped dotNetInstaller 1.7 yesterday. Download it here. You can see the long list of what’s new on the release page, but that’s not the topic of my post.

Someone forwarded me Joel Spolsky’s article, The Duct Tape Programmer. I think Joel must have been a manager for far too long.

I accidentally broke support for Windows 95/98/ME in dotNetInstaller. I was even more surprised that someone cared. A developer reported the bug, and then my friends in Botswana...

dotNetInstaller, aka DNI has moved to CodePlex (Update: now on GitHub). I’m going to help Davide, the original author, with some coordination around the project. If you need a w...

I’ve been heavily contributing to a project called DNI or dotNetInstaller in the past several months. DNI is a setup bootstrapper that basically chains multiple MSIs together an...