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We're Hiring

The Customer Product-Lifecycle Experience team - part of the Developer Division of Microsoft - is hiring full time software design engineers (SDEs). We're the team responsible for continuing support for products Developer Division has shipped, as well as a few other projects from Microsoft.

We are responsible for not only the patch build system for Developer Division but also for directing other teams to thinking about sustained engineering and patching. If you have experience authoring Windows Installer packages and custom actions, you should know that patching installations isn't always straight-forward. Promoting best practices for teams building installer packages and creating our patch build system is a challenging job.

If you are interested in joining DDCPX, please view the job listing below and submit your resume.

Published Tuesday, March 29, 2005 2:46 PM by Heath Stewart

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Wednesday, March 30, 2005 9:30 AM by Nick Parker

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Is there only one development position available on your team, or multiples? We could have a Proplanner 'reunion'. ;-)
Wednesday, March 30, 2005 9:30 AM by Heath Stewart

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We're actually hiring several positions for developers to work not only on our patch build system but also other tools to help our customers troubleshoot problems that may occur for any number of reasons.
Wednesday, March 30, 2005 12:24 PM by Tom Larsen

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Unfortunately I am weak at writing those custom actions by hand. *sigh*
Wednesday, March 30, 2005 1:20 PM by Heath Stewart

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It's actually not to difficult once you've done it once or twice. Quite simply, a handle to the installer (or database, depending on what you're doing) is passed to you and you can use that in your custom action to query tables, feature/component/file states, etc., almost like you'd use a FILE handle in various I/O functions.

Maybe an article or blog entry would be helpful in this realm.
Wednesday, March 30, 2005 8:41 PM by Nick Parker

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Give it a go, I would read it.
Thursday, March 31, 2005 8:26 AM by Heath Stewart

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Do you think I should release it here as an article (a feature of .Text) or on Code Project where I always have in the past?
Thursday, March 31, 2005 9:02 AM by Nick Parker

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Since Code Project is rather open on their posting guidelines you could post it in both locations. It doesn't hurt to have the information available in both places.
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