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WiX at TechEd 2007? Survey says???

Earlier this year, there were a couple people inside Visual Studio pushing for a breakout session and Birds of a Feather session for the WiX toolset at TechEd 2007.  They approached me to ask if I'd be willing to present.  I very much was.  I asked permission from my manager to be gone during the first week of June (remember, the WiX toolset is still a side project for me).  He whole heartedly agreed.  The Visual Studio dudes submitted very nice proposals for TechEd sessions on WiX.  They were denied.

Apparently there were a lot of sessions proposed for a limited number of slots.  Apparently the WiX toolset doesn't rate when stacked up against all those other sessions.  Now if there was an outcry from the community maybe we could shoot for a session at the next PDC. <wink/>

 

posted @ Sunday, March 11, 2007 11:19 AM

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 re: WiX at TechEd 2007? Survey says???

Left by Mr. WiX at 3/11/2007 11:48 AM

That's crazy. WiX is the best thing since packaged, sliced fresh pineapple. What could be more important than that?

 re: WiX at TechEd 2007? Survey says???

Left by Andrew at 3/11/2007 3:21 PM

Apart from show casing the successful results of an open source project originated from Microsoft, WiX would have to be the main contender for hauling custom installers out of the dark ages... C'mon Tech-Ed dudes - WiX is important stuff to get out in front of the development community

 re: WiX at TechEd 2007? Survey says???

Left by Matthew at 3/11/2007 5:30 PM

A TechEd session is exactly what is needed to get knowledge out to the development community that installers can be built properly and cheaply and to slow the increase of these horrible IS built installers.

 re: WiX at TechEd 2007? Survey says???

Left by Mr. Mike at 3/12/2007 1:00 PM

Which is why there are so many bad installers out there (I should know, I've made quite a few *cough with IS*).
I just started using WiX and I'm pushing to have it used as the standard install tool at my work place (with little luck, I'm sure I'm not the only one). I've been writing installers for years and WiX is the first 'industrial strength' install tool done right.
I would love to see WiX at TechEd as it would also enlighten other developers as to how installers should work and be built.

# re: WiX at TechEd 2007? Survey says???

Left by Christopher Painter at 3/12/2007 1:18 PM

I know everyone loves to bash on IS instead of pointing the finger at bad developers, but if you really want to bash and make it relevant you should be Microsoft for VDPROJ.

BTW, why would anyone really be suprised when setup is once again treated as a second class development activity? It doesn't become important until it falls apart in operation. After all, enterprise engineering shops was the real driving factor for MSI. Dev shops still reluctantly bother to assign their most junior developers to their packaging efforts. They pick up IS and expect it to just work with little or no design, development and testing.

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