Windows Registry Details

When dealing with Windows Vista and/or UAC, you may need to know about Registry Virtualization. According to MSDN, Registry Virtualization is "an application compatibility technology that enables registry write operations that have global impact to be redirected to per-user locations". See this post for details. Here is another article with details of how the registry works as well and COM server registration.

Building WiX

If you need to be able to build WiX, here's a great post on what is needed to do so. Also, here's a post from Rob Mensching (RobMen) on the same subject.