Setup Matters

We are well into winter here in the northern hemisphere—even though it's not technically winter for a few more days. In the Pacific Northwest, winter is wet, especially this year. Here in Michigan, it's meant absurd amounts of snow for pre-solstice times. But today, it's sunny and above freezing, so I celebrated by shoveling slush. Happy holidays indeed.

In this episode, we use everything we've learned over the last couple of months to avoid doing work. It takes a lot of mistakes but that's still one of the best ways to really learn the ins and outs of MSBuild.

In the week leading up to Thanksgiving here in the United States, I'm looking forward to a traditional Thanksgiving meal of pizza, Chinese takeout, and pumpkin pie. Hey, you have your traditions, I have mine.

In this episode, we dig into batching: MSBuild's for loop. We finally apply our new MSBuild knowledge to work and I find a way to delete my project. It's a good time.

Episode 5 steps into intermediate MSBuild territory with item metadata. We explore the attributes that slice and dice our collections of objects and unlock MSBuild's more advanced behaviors.

I missed September's WiX Online Meeting because some of my internal organs decided to assert their dominance and we needed extended negotiations about who's in charge. But now I'm back, just in time to triage our latest batch of issues and talk about some ideas for WiX v7.