Setup Matters

In early celebration of Labor Day, we're releasing WiX v6.0.2—a very minor bug-fix release. Rob suggested we could release on Labor Day, as releasing on holidays is a well-established WiX tradition. I provided documentation that the intent of Labor Day was not, in fact, to do extra labor, so we're releasing today instead.

Today's meeting was the shortest we've had a long time because we had Technical Difficulties™ getting both Rob and me being able to talk on the stream. The distance between Washington and Michigan makes two cans connected by string mildly impractical. Nevertheless, we persisted and managed to triage a luckily-short list of new issues.

I'm obviously a bit biased, but I think this episode a great introduction to Imports in MSBuild. We not only dig into the mechanics of Import but also explore some MSBuild conventions and why the conventions exist.

In our ongoing series of summer-related introductions, today is a very warm day for me here on the coast of Lake Michigan but Rob is under a heat advisory in the normally temperate Washington state, about 10 degrees warmer. My air conditioning is keeping my office almost too cold and Rob's is...not working at all. So to minimize the heat, we didn't dawdle and got through our triage quickly. Just a couple more months until Halloween season...

The FireGiant Cinematic Universe added another character to the Deployment Dojo in Episode 2, the one and only Bob Arnson. David was away on business so Bob stepped in for our lesson on MSBuild Targets. We cover a lot about this fundamental MSBuild concept.

It's summer here in the Northern Hemisphere and the angry day star is making things hot and sweaty. A great alternative is staying in an air-conditioned office fixing bugs and adding features to your favorite open-source project. You can also try fixing bugs and adding features to your favorite open-source project from the beach, but the sand gets everywhere.