Setup Matters

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.

Episode 4 wraps up the MSBuild fundamentals with conditions. We dig into how conditions shape your builds, where they can be applied, and a few surprising quirks that slightly unhinge STEF.

I flew solo today as Bob was unavailable for today's meeting. Which means I also get to write these meeting notes. So, 'Hi!' and did you know that today was the 12th anniversary of WiX Online Meetings on YouTube? Anyway, short meeting today, just triage.

In early celebration of Labor Day, we're releasing WiX v6.0.2—a very minor bug-fix release. Rob suggested we could release on Labor Day, as releasing on holidays is a well-established WiX tradition. I provided documentation that the intent of Labor Day was not, in fact, to do extra labor, so we're releasing today instead.

Today's meeting was the shortest we've had a long time because we had Technical Difficulties™ getting both Rob and me being able to talk on the stream. The distance between Washington and Michigan makes two cans connected by string mildly impractical. Nevertheless, we persisted and managed to triage a luckily-short list of new issues.