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Setup Sense and Sensibility
Why WiX: Disrupting the Centralized Setup Cycle
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over 8 years ago
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Robert Flaming - MSFT
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Experiance suggests there are windows of opportunity for breaking the cycle of the centralized setup model. External forces are better positioned but it can also work for a individual skeptic to start the ball rolling. So where does one start breaking...
Setup Sense and Sensibility
Why WiX: Centralized Setup Cycle: Lather, Rinse, Reward, Repeat
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over 8 years ago
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Robert Flaming - MSFT
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Yesterday, I introduced the crash and burn problem but there's still more to this problem. Lather, Rinse, Reward, Repeat After a few cycles where Centralized Setup defers problems to transients then crashes and burns-out the core team the cycle...
Setup Sense and Sensibility
Why WiX: Controlled Crash of Centralized Setup
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over 8 years ago
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Robert Flaming - MSFT
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Yesterday, I introduced the model but there's still more to the problem that needs solving. Introduction to the Controlled Crash As described yesterday , most managers choose to defer setup as long as possible and then hire unskilled and temporary...
Setup Sense and Sensibility
Why WiX: Modeling the centralized setup business
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over 8 years ago
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Robert Flaming - MSFT
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I've invested my career in setup for longer than most and I've seen setup for a few product cycles for different businesses. From this collective experience , I've derived a model of the centralized setup business cycle . Business types tell me there...
Setup Sense and Sensibility
MSIs with Internal Consistency Evaluators (ICEs) errors
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over 8 years ago
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Robert Flaming - MSFT
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Wouldn't it be nice if folks didn't ship MSIs with Internal Consistency Evaluators (ICEs) errors?...
Setup Sense and Sensibility
trick to digging deeper into a failure of Assembly install in a verbose MSI log
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over 8 years ago
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Robert Flaming - MSFT
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Wouldn't you like to know a trick to digging deeper into a failure of Assembly install in a verbose MSI log?...
Setup Sense and Sensibility
trick to quickly finding the error in a verbose MSI log
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over 8 years ago
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Robert Flaming - MSFT
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Wouldn't you like to know the trick to quickly finding the error in a verbose MSI log?...
Setup Sense and Sensibility
“last-write-wins” patch sequencing behavior of MSI 2.0 has changed for MSI 3.0
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over 8 years ago
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Robert Flaming - MSFT
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Wouldn't it be great to know the “last-write-wins” patch sequencing behavior of MSI 2.0 has changed for MSI 3.0?...
Setup Sense and Sensibility
I am the Dark developer
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over 8 years ago
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Robert Flaming - MSFT
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Hello, I am the Dark developer. For the uninitiated, dark is the decompiler of the Windows Installer XML toolset. When initially conceived, dark was a combination of programming project in C# and a way of getting WiX users off the schnide . Unexpectedly...
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