Setup Matters

Today was a big day, full of announcements and technical problems with Skype.

We had a slight-larger-than-average number of issues accumulate during the two weeks since meeting #102. Given that it's evenly divided into the two weeks between meetings, we're concluding that having a slightly-longer-than-average meeting every two weeks is still a good trade.

Today's meeting is number 102 and coincidentally the twelfth anniversary of the first open-source release of WiX. Rob's blog post on that momentous occasion is worth a re-read. And remember, the cake is not always a lie.

At Build 2016 today, Microsoft announced that Windows 10 will gain support for desktop applications in the Windows Store using AppX. These modern desktop applications can even take advantage of Windows 10's Universal Windows Platform features. The FireGiant AppX Extension for the WiX Toolset has been enhanced to support modern desktop applications, in addition to its existing support for Nano Server.

Our new schedule of meeting every other week seems to be working well. Today we had a decent but not overwhelming number of bugs and managed to wrap up in well under an hour.

Welcome to the Highlights post for the Centennial WiX Online Meeting! Well, not exactly 100 years but 100 meetings since we started (virtually) meeting—thanks to FireGiant for sponsoring the Skype meetings!—to triage bugs, review pull requests, discuss issues, and ask and answer questions.