A common request on wix-users is how to create shortcuts to a Web site. MSI’s Shortcut table and CreateShortcuts action don’t support targets that point to URLs like http://www.joyofsetup.com/. A shortcut’s target can point only to a feature (for advertised shortcuts) or a file or directory (for unadvertised shortcuts). You can fake a shortcut to [...]
Working with multi-gigabyte setups has taught me that compressing cabinets can be very time-consuming. Of course, it can also be vital — Flight Simulator X barely fit on two DVDs; without high compression, it would have required a third disc. As I work on the WiX tooling and authoring for upcoming products, I knew I [...]
The Windows Home Server folks have an SDK for extending the server with what they call “add-ins.” Their deployment sample is written with WiX. I love to see that, so I’m looking into what setup functionality would make a useful WHS extension for WiX. Right now, it doesn’t look like there’s much required — the [...]