Comments for Joy of Setup

Comment on Goodbye and hello again by Bob Arnson

Bob Arnson — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 04:35:22 +0000

Jim,

Thanks. I eventually figured out being a VP would be no fun.

Comment on Goodbye and hello again by JaAG

JaAG — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 22:06:50 +0000

I figured after hiring you for Microsoft that I’d be working for you by now. Here’s hoping that life is good and you are happily busy doing great thangs.

Comment on Goodbye and hello again by Igor

Igor — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 10:46:03 +0000

Bob,

Thank you very much for your contribution in Wix so far!!! And I believe that you will contribute even more!!!

Wish you all the best with your new job!

Igor

Comment on Goodbye and hello again by Tim Owers`

Tim Owers` — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:47:51 +0000

BOB not ROB (there’s an awful lot of bobs n’ robs here – sorry!).

Comment on Goodbye and hello again by Tim Owers`

Tim Owers` — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:46:18 +0000

Rob,
Thanks for all the MSI related goodness you have given us over the years, and may we all look forward to your future endeavors.
Whatever you decide to do, have fun doing it.
Cheers,
Tim Owers.

Comment on WiX v3.5 is released by Simon Steele

Simon Steele — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:52:13 +0000

Congratulations on the release!

Comment on WiX v3.5 escrow build released by Joy of Setup - WiX v3.5 escrow build released, redux

Joy of Setup - WiX v3.5 escrow build released, redux — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:27:27 +0000

[...] couple of important but low-risk bugs cropped up since the original WiX v3.5 escrow build was released. So, one last escrow build of WiX v3.5 in 2010: v3.5.2430.0. A quirk of publishing the [...]

Comment on Experimental results part II by Thomas F. Abraham

Thomas F. Abraham — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 03:58:47 +0000

Bob, I have consistently repro’d the infinite costing dialog and a fix for it. Here’s the scenario: MSI built with WiX 3.0 (Deployment Framework for BizTalk) gave me the infinite costing dialog EVERY time on Windows Server 2008 under Windows Virtual PC. There was simply no way around or past it through the GUI mode install. I figured that since the process involves disks, the place to start was to get rid of as many disks as possible. I disabled the Floppy Drive controller in Device Manager — no luck. I still had C: and a DVD drive. I then disabled ATA Channel 1 under the IDE controllers to kill the DVD drive — and the costing dialog issue disappeared. After trying different combinations enabling and disabling devices, this was definitely the source of the problem. If I configured Virtual PC to None for the virtual DVD drive, that also seemed to solve the issue (vs. mapping to a physical drive or ISO file). Hope that lends some insight.

Comment on Experimental results part II by Christohper Painter

Christohper Painter — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 02:53:18 +0000

Was the underlying MSI cause fully understood?

Comment on WiX source code using Mercurial and TortoiseHg, Part 1 by Christopher Painter

Christopher Painter — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:04:00 +0000

I fail to understand why the CodePlex team requires you to be a contributor(+) to connect using Team Explorer. I know they host mulltiple projects on a server but it should be trivial to create a web form that adds the project to your view with read/only permissions.

I really shouldn’t have to load yet another source control client when I’ve already have a full blown TFS system at home.