Atlanta DNUG - March 28, 2005

I attended the local Atlanta .NET users group meeting last night.

The first thing I'd like to mention is that I'm very disappointed that the speaker, Eric Marvets, was a no- show.

However, Doug Ware did an excellent job of extending his talk on "Deploying .Net Applications Using Visual Studio".  Unfortunately for me, this session was a re-run.  It's kind of like never watching Alias, and then you tune in one night, and it's an episode you've already seen?

After re-viewing Doug's presentation, there was one philisophical issue that I disagreed with:

Doug makes heavy use of .vbs scripts as MSI custom actions. However, as I've told anyone who would listen, VBScript sucks.  Rob Mensching, author of WiX, agrees in his rant,  "VBScript (and Jscript) MSI CustomActions suck".

Unless you enjoy support calls that are difficult to resolve, please avoid using VBScript Custom Actions.

Cheers to Doug for presenting (again) a dry but important topic.

On a related note, I'm thinking about dropping by the next Atlanta C# Users Group.  I hear that they cover more advanced topics.