Installation and containerization of the Visual Studio family of products
February 29, 2012Feb 29, 201202/29/12Along with the release of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, we have released Visual Studio 11 Beta and Jason Zander has announced many of the great new and improved features in VS11 Beta.
We have also introduced a new setup experience with VS11.
February 21, 2012Feb 21, 201202/21/12Late last week I checked in a feature for Windows Installer XML’s (WiX) chainer, Burn, that I’m really excited about (ask my colleagues): sticky patching.
This is a feature at the bundle (what we call our composition of packages for Burn) level that supports related bundles of type “Patch”
February 21, 2012Feb 21, 201202/21/12These days it’s more common to install products composed of more than one installer package. Modern applications are often a loose fitting of localized components and being authored into a single package just isn’t practical.
For example, a localized application will undoubtedly have neutral or single-language binaries while using satellite resources for other languages’
