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There's been a fair amount of virtual ink spilled about the political implications of Microsoft releasing the Windows Installer XML Toolkit (otherwise known as WiX) as an open-source project. As far ...

My Windows Service uses the following references:<BR>System.Diagnostics.EventLog<BR>Microsoft.Win32<BR>System.ServiceProcess<BR><BR>The project is targeted to the .NET 2 framework. I also have a setup ...

Microsoft has brought back a much-missed bit of functionality from Visual Studio 2010 and put it back in Visual Studio 2013: Visual Studio Installer projects. The new version is called Visual Studio ...

Microsoft isn’t exactly known for championing open source projects. So it’s rather surprising (in a good way) to see the company release something called the Microsoft Web Platform Installer, which ...