Well, this title looks complicated...actually the story is pretty simple by using an example. For example, you write an application APP_A and the installer of this application needs to leave fingerprint on system's registry keys, so that the other...

Recently I need to write some codes to disable one feature on Windows 7 for an application. For Windows 7, its major number is 6 and minor number is 1 (see this link http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724832(VS.85).aspx ) and thus we can compare...

Recently I am working with Windows Installer and think ProductCode, UpgradeCode and PackageCode are very basic but very important concepts, so I make a conclusion here for references. Both ProductCode and UpgradeCode can be viewed from Property table...

Common scenario is that a developer wrote an application on his/her dev machine A (which has source code, etc), and wants to debug this application's source code when the application is running on the remote machine B. Visual Studio 2008 provides two...