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Sunday, June 22, 2008 12:49 PM

Feature in Wix v3.0 to make it easier to test rollback custom actions

When authoring deferred custom actions (which are custom actions that change the system state) in an MSI, it is necessary to also provide an equivalent set of rollback custom actions to undo the system state change in case the MSI fails and rolls back.
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008 8:53 AM

Information about the err.exe tool I use to look up error codes when debugging setup issues

When I am attempting to investigate a setup-related failure, I typically end up looking at verbose log files. These log files can contain information about a wide variety of failures, and the failures will typically include some detailed error information
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007 5:48 PM

How I was able to get Virtual Server 2005 to work on Windows Vista

Recently, I needed to configure and use a virtual server image that was provided to me by another team here at Microsoft. In order to do this, I had to install and configure Virtual Server 2005 to host this image on my desktop OS. I am running Windows
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Sunday, October 28, 2007 6:57 PM

Link to public beta of XSSDetect cross-site scripting code analysis plug-in for Visual Studio 2005

I ran across a few interesting posts on the Application Consulting and Engineering (ACE) team's blog that I wanted to link to here so that more folks will hopefully see them. The ACE team announced a public beta this past week for a tool created by their
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007 7:57 PM

Microsoft Tester Center is now live on MSDN

A new portal with information about software testing has been posted this week on MSDN. You can check it out at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/testing/default.aspx . To summarize the launch note on this page: At the Tester Center, our goal is to provide a
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