The tool definitely has a long way to go before it becomes a great GUI for WiX. Some notion of factoring your authoring into fragments is an absolute must, among the other features that aren't implemented yet. However, it does look promising and has nice eye candy.
The thing that I thought was most interesting was that he posted it at GotDotNet with the source code, so that might imply that he's willing to share it with the community and let it grow. On the other hand, the core tool set could probably use more contribution without diluting the pool of available and interested talent any further, but who am I to talk (as a non-contributor so far to either)? For me from an authoring perspective, the most useful single thing has been adding the WiX schema file to VS.NET and then setting up VS to use the XML editor for WiX files. Having type-ahead and auto-completion of the XML goes a LONG way to making the angle brackets bearable. That, combined with a VS macro to generate a new GUID mapped to a key stroke, and I'm pretty good. However, doing UI is another story. I think we could all agree that hand authoring UI without a designer in raw angle brackets, even with some type-ahead support, sucks. This tool looked really promising in that regard. Joe K. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Mensching" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Joe Kaplan'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 10:25 AM Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Have any of you seen WixTrim? > This is a pretty neat looking GUI editor for WiX. Yeah, I looked at it over a year ago (kinda' chagrined that the thing used ClickOnce to deploy, heh). Unfortunately, it doesn't look like it has been developed since then. The editor still doesn't support adding Components or Files. I'm not sure about the GUI editor (which is where it started)... maybe it's useful enough. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
