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Identifying Administrative Installation Patches

Posted over 7 years ago

by Heath Stewart
- 1 Comments
How to create a patch-specific property to help identify whether patches were applied to an administrative image being installed....
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Formatting Properties

Posted over 7 years ago

by Heath Stewart
- 5 Comments
Why properties are not automatically formatted....
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Building with Wix.Targets

Posted over 7 years ago

by Heath Stewart
- 0 Comments
How to use the wix.targets file in recent WIX distributions to compile packages using MSBuild....
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Identifying Windows Installer File Types

Posted over 7 years ago

by Heath Stewart
- 0 Comments
How to identify different Windows Installer file types without relying on the file extension....
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Book Review: Customizing the Microsoft .NET Framework Common Language Runtime

Posted over 7 years ago

by Heath Stewart
- 3 Comments
My review of the book "Customizing the Microsoft .NET Framework Common Language Runtime from MS Press by Steven Pratschner....
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Determine Which Files are Being Patched

Posted over 7 years ago

by Heath Stewart
- 1 Comments
How to determine which files are being patched with a custom action....
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Fast Searching in Public Folders

Posted over 7 years ago

by Heath Stewart
- 15 Comments
How to find mail and posts in public folders in Outlook quickly using Windows Desktop Search....
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Extract Files from Patches

Posted over 7 years ago

by Heath Stewart
- 18 Comments
How to extract files from a patch by patching an administrative installation and the hard way using OLE structured storage APIs....
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Blog Customizations, Part 4: OpenSearch Discovery

Posted over 7 years ago

by Heath Stewart
- 5 Comments
How I customized by blog even with limited ability to support auto-discovery of OpenSearch descriptions....
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Common Controls in Windows Installer UI

Posted over 7 years ago

by Heath Stewart
- 8 Comments
How to display new controls with Common Controls 6 in your Windows Installer dialogs with a different bootstrap or external UI handler application....
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Differentiating 64-bit Editions of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003

Posted over 7 years ago

by Heath Stewart
- 0 Comments
How to differentiate between 64-bit editions of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 using Windows Installer operating system properties....
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64-bit Managed Custom Actions with Visual Studio

Posted over 7 years ago

by Heath Stewart
- 17 Comments
How to workaround an issue that prevents 64-bit managed custom actions from executing properly on a 64-bit platform from Windows Installer packages built with Visual Studio 2005....
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Developer Division Servicing Site Launched

Posted over 7 years ago

by Heath Stewart
- 2 Comments
A new site has launched on MSDN for the DDCPX team about servicing Visual Studio and the .NET Framework....
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Setup.exe Bootstrap Sample and APPVER

Posted over 7 years ago

by Heath Stewart
- 2 Comments
The setup.exe bootstrap example in the Windows Installer SDK won't run on versions of Windows below the minimum subsystem version set in the PE header....
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Why is My Feature Advertised?

Posted over 7 years ago

by Heath Stewart
- 0 Comments
Removing a component even through obsolescence or supersedence will cause patched features to appear advertised instead of installed, which causes them to not be patched....
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Suppressing Console Windows for Custom Actions

Posted over 7 years ago

by Heath Stewart
- 20 Comments
How to suppress console windows for EXE custom actions....
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Waiting to Install

Posted over 7 years ago

by Heath Stewart
- 11 Comments
How to wait for a previous install session to finish instead of failing a concurrent install....
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Windows Live Favorites Now More Useful

Posted over 7 years ago

by Heath Stewart
- 2 Comments
About the new Windows Live Favorites add-in for the MSN Search Toolbar....
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Error 2262: Not Necessarily a Fatal Error

Posted over 7 years ago

by Heath Stewart
- 0 Comments
How to determine the source of Windows Installer error 2262....
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Guidelines for COM Interoperability from .NET (Update 1)

Posted over 7 years ago

by Heath Stewart
- 3 Comments
Updated guidelines for COM interoperability with .NET with new types available with .NET 2.0....
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Why is Mscoree.lib So Old?

Posted over 7 years ago

by Heath Stewart
- 0 Comments
Explanation of why the time stamp of mscoree.lib predates the release of .NET 2.0 in the Platform SDK directories in Visual Studio 8....
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Where's Msi.lib?

Posted over 8 years ago

by Heath Stewart
- 4 Comments
How to get msi.lib for use in Visual Studio 2005....
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Diagnosing Installation Errors

Posted over 8 years ago

by Heath Stewart
- 6 Comments
How to diagnose errors when installing, repairing or patching, or uninstalling a product using Windows Installer technology....
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InstallSite.org

Posted over 8 years ago

by Heath Stewart
- 0 Comments
I'm listed on InstallSite.org....
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Resolving Prompts for Source

Posted over 8 years ago

by Heath Stewart
- 13 Comments
How the .NET Framework 2.0 and your products can prevent prompts for source files when repairing or patching....

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