There's been a fair amount of virtual ink spilled about the political implications of Microsoft releasing the Windows Installer XML Toolkit (otherwise known as WiX) as an open-source project. As far ...

With a little bit of XML you can automate creating Windows installers for your code, right from your CI/CD pipeline. All Windows applications need to be installed. Sure, you can just wrap your ...

We have an in-house Windows application that people all over the organization are supposed to install. Currently we have a Visual Studio Deployment project that creates a .msi file that we can email ...

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Anyone who thought Microsoft Corp.’s settlement on Friday with long-time nemesis Sun Microsystems Inc. seemed surreal were in for another shocker Monday, when the Redmond, Washington, software giant ...

Starting with Visual Studio 2012, Microsoft stopped offering its internal Setup project template, instead going with a third-party version from Flexera Software called InstallShield Limited Edition.