WiX Videos and Posts
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Channel 9 publishes WiX videos and information for you to improve your knowledge and skills. This page provides a listing of content tagged with WiX to see the most up-to-date information provided by the experts building Microsoft products & services
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9 minutes, 30 secondsCreating AppX Packages for Nano Server with the WiX ToolsetIn this video, Xumin Sun, Program Manager on the Nano Server team, meets with Rob Mensching, CEO and Co-Founder of FireGiant, and author of the WiX Toolset, to walk through how, with the FireGiant AppX Extension for the WiX Toolset, you can create AppX packages from the same source code you use to… -
The HP Printer Display Hack (with financial goodness)The HP Printer Display Hack is a simple background application that periodically checks the current price of a selected stock and sends it to the display of HP (and compatible) laser printers. IntroductionThis app is based on an old hack from back to at least 1997 that uses the HP Job control… -
57 minutes, 40 secondsgeekSpeak recording: All About Team Build 2008 with Steven BorgIn this episode of geekSpeak, Steven Borg shares the merits of using Team Build 2008 to radically improve the quality of the code you write. Steven gives a great overview of how to set up automated builds and a build server, and the benefits of investing the time to do it right. Steven also… -
20 minutes, 3 secondsForth to .NET CompilerAs a compact, stack-based programming language, Forth was popular in the 1980s as a lower-level alternative to BASIC for microcomputers and is still used in many commercial environments. When Valer Bocan discovered .NET in 2001, he decided to try writing his first compiler, and Forth.NET was the… -
50 minutes, 11 secondsLouis Lafreniere - VC++ backend compilerLouis Lafreniere has been a developer on the VC++ compiler team for a long time; 15 years, to be exact. Specifically, Louis works on the backend compiler. What's a backend compiler? How's it evolved over the years? Where's it going? Watch and listen. Good stuff. -
45 minutes, 49 secondsJim Hogg: Phoenix FrameworkWe recently caught up with Jim Hogg, program manager for the Phoenix Framework, a very robust backend compiler platform co-created by the VC++ team and MSR. Ever wanted to extend the functionality of a backend compiler? Well, now you can, and it's much easier than you'd think given the…
