Neil Sleightholm's Blog

EDIT: This code has been updated and is now available here http://wixextba.codeplex.com/ . I have been working with the new WiX bootstrapp...

I have written a couple of WiX burn UI customisations and thought they were worth sharing. They are both based on the standard WiX burn temp...

This post outlines some of the things I have found out since working with the new Burn code, unless otherwise stated this refers to version ...

Very occasionally something will change in one of my VB projects (yes I still use VB) and it will stop compiling and display an error simila...

I have been struggling to get the Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 working on my laptop and I think I have found a solution. Th...

On my build machines I prefer not to install Visual Studio and just rely on the .Net framework which includes all the tools required to run ...

WiX v2 had the tallow tool which was able to harvest a WiX fragment from a file exported from the registry (reg file). WiX v3’s replacemen...

From Windows XP SP2 Microsoft introduced a feature called RegFree COM, which allows you to call COM objects (yes some of us still use COM) w...

On the WiX mailing list recently there have been several requests for information about upgrades, this post presents a very basic script th...