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Instyler Setup 1.0.21191 (Windows)

Instyler Setup creates MSI installation packages based on latest WiX technology. WiX is an open source project, lead by Microsoft, to create MSI files with open standard XML documents. Create MSI setups straight-forward without any MSI knowledge. When we designed Instyler Setup we had in mind that most Windows software...

Tags: Instyler Software, Instyler Setup, WiX, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-03-10

WiXAware for Windows Installer XML 2 (Windows)

InstallAware is first to market with an IDE targeting Microsoft's open source WiX platform. WiX is used internally by Microsoft teams to build world-class installers such as Microsoft Office. Until today, WiX remained hard to use, as it did not provide a GUI but only command line tools. Now with...

Tags: Team, Windows Installer, Microsoft Corp., InstallAware Software, InstallAware, WiX, Microsoft Windows, Team Management, Tools & Techniques, Operating Systems, Software, Management

Software downloads 2008-11-03

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MSI Factory 2.1.1009.0 (Windows)

MSI Factory is the first visual setup builder to fully leverage Microsoft's next generation Windows Installer XML WiX compiler technology for creating 100% pure MSI format installer packages in a faster and more intuitive way. What makes MSI Factory different is our unique file-centered design view. Software developers aren't forced...

Tags: Microsoft Indigo, Compiler, Microsoft Windows, Indigo Rose Software, MSI Factory, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2009-11-20

Handango .NET CF Kit (Mobile)

Everything you need to publish an application .Net CF on Handango. Why reinvent the wheel? Contains a VisualStudio 2008 solution with: A project C# and VB.net with a demo application to test the calculation of the dynamic key RPN. A project to generate the CAB file. A project to generate...

Tags: Handango, Mobile, Installation File, Akisoft.ch, .Net, C#, Application Servers, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Programming Languages, Enterprise Software, Software

Software downloads 2009-10-29

Merrill Lynch Creates Development Framework for Increased Productivity

Merrill Lynch wanted to better support its application life cycle management to increase developer productivity. It created a process framework using tools such as Microsoft Visual Studio Team System and WiX to automate processes and make it possible for developers to use their choice of methodologies. With the new framework,...

Tags: Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., Microsoft Corp., Framework, Microsoft Development Tools, Productivity, Strategy, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management

Case studies 2008-06-01

War Setup 3 (Windows)

War Setup is an application to make software installation packages in .msi format and it uses the free Wix toolset from Microsoft to build the .msi files. The target audience for this application is Software Developers. War Setup is designed to be /very/ easy to use. It's the perfect install...

Tags: Software, Microsoft Windows, Jarle Aase, Tools & Techniques, Management

Software downloads 2007-10-16

Microsoft and open source: Frost sightings in hell

(This is a guest post by Stephen Walli, a software consultant specializing in open-source, and a former Microsoft program manager for the Shared Source implementation of the ECMA Common Language Infrastructure.)Bill Hilf, Microsoft General Manager of Platform Strategy, announced two things last week at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference in...

Tags: Shared Source, Linux, Corporate strategy

Blog posts 2007-08-03

Why Microsoft should open-source SQL Server and SharePoint

Stephen Walli, the former Microsoft exec turned open-source proponent, is at it again. This time, the former Softie is making a case for why Microsoft should consider open-sourcing some of its crown jewels, including SQL Server and SharePoint. And hes got a few reasons that might make even...

Tags: Database, SQL Server, Corporate strategy, Legal, SharePoint Server, Linux, Stephen Walli

Blog posts 2007-01-18

MySQL to leverage Microsoft's open source software

Though the software that Microsoft has released under an open source license is by no means the keys to the kingdom, one of the poster children companies of the open source community -- MySQL AB -- has decided to deploy the technology in the Windows-based version of its namesake database. ...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., MSI, open source

Blog posts 2004-10-11