This book was instrumental in me managing to package Dashman. It had pretty much everything I needed and most if not everything I learned from the book worked with the latest WiX 3.X.
One issue that I have with most WiX information out there is that it assumes you are working in a .Net language and using Visual Studio. I understand this is true for most WiX users but it’s not for me, as I was building a Java application. If you are in the same situation as me, I recommend reading chapter 1 and then immediately jumping to chapter 9 that explains how to use all the different parts of WiX from the command line. After that go back to chapter 2 and work yourself over to chapter 8.
I haven’t read a lot past chapter 9 because it gets into a lot of very advanced stuff that I didn’t need. I feel that a lot of computer books these days are just introductions. It’s nice to see one that goes so deep into a subject that I find myself not needing to read it, instead of wondering where’s the next more advanced book.
I wish more computer books were like this (but I do understand why they are not).
★★★★★
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