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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 ran into the infamous “this installation is forbidden by system policy” error message this morning while trying to fix the MsiExt build on a new Windows 2003 64-bit build mach...

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...

In writing new MSI installers, you must think about upgrade. I always recommend major upgrade – uninstall and reinstall is much cleaner. In that case the Installed vs. NOT Insta...

I announced in a previous post that AppSecInc. has open-sourced its Wix extensions. We’ve continued developing the project for our own needs and have seen some adoption, especia...

I was very happy upgrading to Windows 7. Virtually everything worked. All kinds of source code that I am writing compiles and runs without issues. It’s only a week later that I ...

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 thought MSI extensions needs a logo. It should say something about MSI and something about Wix. So here it goes.

I am pleased to announce the open-sourcing of AppSecInc. MSI Extensions.

A couple of years ago we used to have a really big problem with Windows installers. We had one guy writing InstallShield installers and a bunch of components thrown at him with ...

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

In writing new MSI installers, we always have to deal with legacy InstallShield installers, upgrading, maintenance mode, etc. The properties get confusing very quickly, so we ca...

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...

Something that has always frustrated me: Why doesn’t logging from an immediate custom action work?. Christopher Painter pointed out a documented (!) answer.

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...

It’s not hard, but rather frustrating to find.

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