Rob, Thanks for looking.
> Following the link to part 3 gives a "Requested page not found error". Yes, as I said yesterday only the first two pages were uploaded. Now the first four pages are uploaded. http://www.merlinia.com/mdt/WiXTutorial.msl And page five is minimal, so I'd appreciate it if people would take a look and come with corrections, criticism, comments, suggestions, etc. Rennie > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Rob Hamflett > Sent: 25. april 2007 10:01 > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Tutorial, Books, Versions... > > Just had a quick skim over it, and at the bottom of part 2 > your link to part 3 actually points to part 2 again. > Following the link to part 3 gives a "Requested page not found error". > > Rob > > Rennie Petersen wrote: > > Julie, > > > > Thanks for the Wiki. > > > > To all interested: > > > > I've published the first two pages (out of five) of my "beginners > > tutorial". > > > > http://www.merlinia.com/mdt/WiXTutorial.msl > > > > It's a lot more work than I expected. :-( > > > > Corrections, suggestions, criticism, etc. very welcome. > > > > Probably not of much interest to anybody here because it's so > > introductory... > > > > Yours, > > Rennie > > > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Julie > >> Campbell > >> Sent: 23. april 2007 19:52 > >> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > >> Subject: [WiX-users] Beginner's Tutorial, Books, Versions... > >> > >> I'm a little late on the topic, but I didn't have access > to my e-mail > >> over the weekend. Like some others mentioned, I am a software > >> engineer first and an installer person third or fourth ... some > >> perspective, comments, ideas ... sorry, this is long. > >> > >> I started learning WiX in late 2006 after management > finally came to > >> the realization that our current installers (written by a third > >> party) had no chance at all of working under Vista. After > looking at > >> InstallShield 12, Wise and WiX, I chose WiX for my emergency > >> development, specifically v3 as I got the impression it was stable > >> enough (and hasn't given me reason to > >> doubt) for general application installers. > >> > >> The tutorial Gabor created and maintains was good to start > out with > >> and gave me that initial "WiX is easy and I like it" > >> feeling. However, as it is for v2, it didn't cover some things I > >> needed to know and other things didn't apply. > >> > >> There are several great WiX bloggers out there and some really > >> awesome explanations of more advanced topics. However, I find > >> searching for and reading blog entries a really painful > way to come > >> up a learning curve. > >> > >> So, I started reading the mailing list religiously and saved notes > >> whenever I saw something I thought might be useful. I created and > >> admin a very successful intranet MediaWiki site at work, > so I started > >> saving these notes on an intranet wiki of my own, because > despite the > >> creation and early promise of wixwiki.com, it is locked down very > >> tightly, not really organized, I can't even find an e-mail > address to > >> request an account from (though I could probably search for > >> rmacfadyen in wix-users), and there have been a whopping 5 > changes in > >> the last 60 days. > >> > >> Before I know it, I'm up to over 50 pages of rough notes and link > >> collections (see http://www.mindcapers.com/wiki/WiX). > >> I'm also seeing the same questions on this list over and > over. I'm > >> having to dig through WiX source code to answer some of my > questions. > >> I look for a book on WiX, there isn't one. With the WiX > v3 roadmap > >> looking like completion at the end of 2007, I'm thinking > by then I'll > >> move from "competent user" to "expert" with the demands > ahead of me > >> anyway. My 16 years of professional development gives me enough > >> insight to how long this learning curve will take. I start > >> considering writing a book for software developers to come up the > >> intermediate learning curve to save some of the pain I > went through > >> (thank you Google for easing that effort!). > >> > >> As I started digging around more, and putting notes in a Word > >> document, there are dozens (at least) of developers blogging about > >> WiX. There is a Wiki. There is a mailing list. There > are at least > >> a couple people contemplating writing a book. > >> > >> So ... what I would really like to see is group effort on > getting one > >> superb set of documentation together rather than the > hodge-podge of > >> incomplete sources of information that exist today. > >> > >> I am willing to help, leading or following, doesn't matter. > >> Any of the following would be great: > >> > >> * I am an excellent MediaWiki admin and could clean up, > categorize and > >> improve wixwiki.com given the opportunity. > >> * I would be happy to migrate my non-duplicated WiX materials to > >> wixwiki.com. > >> * My wiki has open registration if the tightly locked down > >> wixwiki.com site isn't loosened up a bit. > >> * I would love collaborators on a book. I haven't written > an entire > >> book before, but I've got a good outline started and a knack for > >> translating technical mumbo-jumbo into understandable > explanations. > >> I also have excellent organizational skills. However, > there are some > >> topics I have only glossed over (IIS, SQLServer, > xmlconfig) as these > >> aren't of immediate interest to me. Besides, it is a bit > silly for a > >> relative outsider to try to go it alone and re-create wheels that > >> have already been rounded. A book probably isn't all that far off > >> with "go ahead and steal my blog entries as long as you > consider me a > >> contributor" permission grants. It would also be silly > not to have > >> at least small pieces of book created by Rob, Bob and the other > >> Wixperts. > >> > >> A wiki can be as good as a book if organized correctly. > >> There are also MediaWiki extensions available to convert > wiki sites > >> into .chm files, which would be immensely useful for those > of us that > >> go "off network" for a few days at a time. > >> > >> I sent an e-mail to wixadmin quite a while ago asking for > a release > >> to sign and offering to assist with the help files, but never > >> received a response. > >> I have no idea whether that was due to my lack of "karma" or a > >> bit-bucket e-mail address. > >> > >> Anyway, enough babbling from me. What would you like to see? > >> I seem to be set of creating or improving *something*, for my own > >> use if nothing else, might as well make it easier on > myself and share > >> with the world at the same time. > >> > >> Julie Campbell > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> ______________________________________________________________ > >> _______________ > >> Scanned by IBM Email Security Management Services powered by > >> MessageLabs. For more information please visit > http://www.ers.ibm.com > >> ______________________________________________________________ > >> _______________ > >> > >> -------------------------------------------------------------- > >> ----------- > >> This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 > Express C > >> - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No > >> limits. Just data. 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