I am a Software Design Engineer at Microsoft currently working on the Windows Marketplace team. My focus is on software distribution and setup. I have been at the company since 1999 and have worked on Office XP, Office 2003, System Definition Model, and Windows Vista.
I am also the project lead for the Windows Installer XML (WiX) toolset. WiX released in April 2004 as the first Open Source project from Microsoft. The WiX toolset is used widely throughout Microsoft and now around the world.
Blog
- Rob Mensching Openly Uninstalled
- This is my current blog where I talk about software distribution on the Windows platform. I focus on the Windows Installer (MSI) and the Windows Installer XML (WiX) toolset. I also talk about Open Source at Microsoft.
- when setup isn't just xcopy
- This is my old blog where I used to talk about all of the same topics that I talk about at my new blog now.
Tools
- Windows Installer XML (WiX) toolset
- This toolset provides a compiler, linker, decompiler and other tools to create Windows Installer packages (.MSI, .MSM, .MST, .PCP). There is a very active community out on SourceForge.net.
