{"id":1243,"date":"2007-11-30T04:04:35","date_gmt":"2007-11-30T04:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/heaths\/2007\/11\/30\/the-essentials-or-heaths-greatest-hits\/"},"modified":"2019-02-17T15:30:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T22:30:08","slug":"the-essentials-or-heaths-greatest-hits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/the-essentials-or-heaths-greatest-hits\/","title":{"rendered":"The Essentials, or Heath&#039;s Greatest Hits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;ve created an <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/heaths\/archive\/tags\/Essentials\/default.aspx\">Essentials<\/a> tag and have retroactively tagged what I consider to be essential learning material and will tag new posts as I deem essential.<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m at it, I&#8217;ll post a few more links to which I typically refer people:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/astebner\">http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/astebner<\/a>  <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/pmarcu\">http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/pmarcu<\/a>  <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/windows_installer_team\">http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/windows_installer_team<\/a>  <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/installsite.org\">http:\/\/installsite.org<\/a>  <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/msdn2.microsoft.com\/library\/aa372866\">http:\/\/msdn2.microsoft.com\/library\/aa372866<\/a>  <\/li>\n<li><a title=\"http:\/\/robmensching.com\" href=\"http:\/\/robmensching.com\">http:\/\/robmensching.com<\/a>  <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/joyofsetup.com\">http:\/\/joyofsetup.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":3843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-1243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-personal"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}