People commonly ask me what to start reading to learn about Windows Installer. Internally I point people to a wiki I maintain with lots of links to various sources, and some of those links are to my own blog posts. Externally I typically link to all these same sources, and typing all those links and maintaining the list becomes tedious. So I’ve created an Essentials tag and have retroactively tagged what I consider to be essential learning material and will tag new posts as I deem essential.

While I’m at it, I’ll post a few more links to which I typically refer people:

• http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner
• http://blogs.msdn.com/pmarcu
• http://blogs.msdn.com/windows_installer_team
• http://installsite.org
• http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/aa372866
• http://robmensching.com
• http://joyofsetup.com