Links to Microsoft WiX developer blogs

I have been semi-regularly attending the weekly meetings (described by Rob Mensching in this blog post) to work on the WiX toolset.  This past week, as I was eating some excellent chocolate chip cookies provided by Peter Marcu's wife, I realized that most of the regular contributors to the WiX code base here at Microsoft have their own blogs and have been writing in them fairly regularly.  I wanted to provide a list of links to WiX developer blogs because many of them contain valuable information about setup development in general and WiX specifically.

• Rob Mensching (https://robmensching.com/blog/ and https://blogs.msdn.com/robmen/) - Rob is the founder of WiX and the "benevolant dictator"
• Justin Rockwood (https://blogs.msdn.com/jrock/) - Justin is a WiX developer whose primary focus is the Votive Visual Studio add-in
• Bob Arnson (https://joyofsetup.com/) - Bob is a WiX developer who created the WixUI library and has been working in several other areas recently
• Peter Marcu (https://blogs.msdn.com/pmarcu/) - Peter is a WiX developer who has been working extensively on patching features in WiX v3.0; he has recently revived his blog and has been describing the new patching features there 
• Derek Cicerone (https://installing.blogspot.com/) - Derek is a retired WiX developer whose blog contains useful information about WiX, particularly some enhancements in WiX v3.0 such as Heat, Torch and Pyro, built-in ICE validation and the NGEN custom action

I encourage you to keep an eye on the above blogs if you are a setup developer and/or if you are working with WiX.

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  May 18, 2007
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