Re: [WiX-users] wix mailing lists open to public => more spam

2008-05-22 Thread Don Caton
Rob: > I've had a number of people suggest that finding the signup page via > SourceForge is very painful. SourceForge is painful, period . I signed up for this list because the SF interface to the list is absolutely horrible. Wix is free and the support graciously provided by you and others is

Re: [WiX-users] wix mailing lists open to public => more spam

2008-05-22 Thread Don Caton
Rob: Signing up for a forum or mailing list is commonplace these days, and a trivial one-time inconvenience. If someone can't figure out how to join a mailing list, they're probably not going to have much success with Wix (or any type of programming for that matter). PLEASE require people to

Re: [WiX-users] Did WiX V3 projects break compatibility with earlier builds?

2008-05-14 Thread Don Caton
Scott: MPF stands for 'Managed Package Framework', an incomplete and buggy framework for building project systems that integrate into Visual Studio. It's part of the Visual Studio SDK. Consider yourself lucky that you don't have to deal with it. Don From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMA

Re: [WiX-users] Integrating documentation with Visual Studio 2008

2008-05-09 Thread Don Caton
You mean there's actually a Html Help team? Wonder what they've been doing for the past 10 or 11 years? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Mensching Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 6:35 PM To: Don Caton; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re:

Re: [WiX-users] Integrating documentation with Visual Studio 2008

2008-05-08 Thread Don Caton
Doug: I wasted days and days on this but was never able to get any of that to work, even in VS2005. The Wix docs for the tags in question are not helpful, and I couldn't find any examples on the web. Just questions, and a reference to a wix bug that may or may not be fixed (the sourceforge pa