... maybe the tutorial link and/or the documentation like could/should go in 
the mailing list footer?

-----Original Message-----
From: David Lowndes [mailto:dav...@mvps.org] 
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 11:47 AM
To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.'
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to get started with WiX in VS IDE?

>The official website: http://wixtoolset.org
<

There are too many WiX web sites - when floundering I didn't know which one to 
look at next. :)

Even the official site is a bit confusing in that the front page recent news 
implies the May 28 RC version is the latest and greatest, but the "See the 
latest releases" link takes you to newer ones with the recommendation "Please 
upgrade often (we recommend at least monthly)."

>Also, what sort of framework are you looking for? 

I'm coming from having managed adequately with the old (now removed) VS 
deployment project to install desktop Windows applications, so the normal 
things that did - install EXEs and documentation files, registry keys, links to 
installed files, with a basic installer UI for license agreement, target 
folder, etc. (which I now know WiX provides for).

>We don't *purposefully* make WiX toolset hard to learn.

Good :)

> I'm a little surprised that you didn't find the Tutorial and Book links.
Is there something that could be improved to help you find more of the 
resources that are online?

After having downloaded and installed the product, I naturally used the 
documentation that was installed in preference to anything online on the 
assumption that the product and its supplied documentation were somewhat in 
step with each other.

Dave 



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