I have started doing a series of tutorials for a forum that I tend to frequent (Dream-In-Code.net) about the Windows Installer XML toolkit (WiX). It is a toolset that allows you to make MSI's (Windows Installer Packets) using just XML, a linker, and a compiler. Pretty neat stuff.
I have decided in my spare time to start an open source project that is going to work as a standardization tool that can be used to, you guessed it, standardize a large number of WiX source files. I short the plan is that it will take certain settings (either through the GUI or a settings XML) and apply the changes to all listed WXS files. This is going to be completely useless to people who only have one or two files, but if more WXS files are involved it could really help out.
So far I have started a project with Google Code and checked in the first couple of dummy files to show the basic idea of how the project will be set up. I have also started working on the Schema that will be used for the settings file, and will whip up a quick settings parser as soon as I am happy with the schema. Anyone who wants to help out is more than welcome to do so; you just have to send me a quick mail and I will add you to the project.
Until next time,
Enjoy!
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