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Friday, November 06, 2009 2:53 AM

WoW64 is optional in Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Core

Installation bootstrap applications are increasingly common as products chain dependencies like the Microsoft .NET Framework. Because 64-bit Windows supports both 32- and 64-bit execution , but 64-bit executables on 32-bit Windows give what some users
Posted by Heath Stewart | 0 Comments
Friday, July 03, 2009 12:02 AM

Installation sequence restrictions for multi-package transactions

Windows Installer 4.5 introduced a feature to install multiple packages in a single transaction. Multi-package transactions allow setup developers to install multiple packages as an atomic unit that are installed together, or rolled back completely. You
Posted by Heath Stewart | 0 Comments
Monday, February 02, 2009 1:02 PM

Feature Changes in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 may prompt for SQLSysClrTypes.msi

After installing Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 , adding or removing features from Visual Studio may prompt for the file SQLSysClrTypes.msi with the following text: Setup is looking for file SQLSysClrTypes.msi. Please insert Microsoft Visual Studio
Posted by Heath Stewart | 5 Comments
Tuesday, December 09, 2008 3:29 PM

Windows Installer XML (WiX) v3 Beta Released

Since plans were made to ship WiX v3 in the box for Visual Studio 2010, the WiX working group has been working on fixing all outstanding bugs in the WiX v3 code base. Bob Arnson uploaded packages last week as a test on SourceForge and this week the following
Posted by Heath Stewart | 0 Comments
Tuesday, January 15, 2008 12:42 AM

Different Packages are Required for Different Processor Architectures

A common question is how to create a Windows Installer package that installs 32-bit binaries on 32-bit platforms, and both 32- and 64-bit binaries on 64-bit platforms. If you're actually trying to install 64-bit binaries to appropriate directories and
Posted by Heath Stewart | 6 Comments
Friday, April 14, 2006 4:27 PM

Avoid Overwriting Files in Administrative Installations

How to avoid overwriting files during administrative installations.
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Wednesday, February 01, 2006 11:48 AM

64-bit Managed Custom Actions with Visual Studio

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.
Posted by Heath Stewart | 6 Comments
Thursday, November 17, 2005 10:19 AM

Shell Extensions for .NET Assemblies, Version 1.4.1993

Version 1.4.1993 of the Shell Extensions for .NET Assemblies has been released.
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Thursday, November 10, 2005 4:52 PM

Save Time when Installing Patches

How to install multiple patches at once to save time.
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Monday, October 24, 2005 10:51 AM

Windows Installer on 64-bit Platforms

Resources for authoring 64-bit Windows Installer packages and merge modules.
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Tuesday, June 07, 2005 3:53 PM

How to Fix Administrative Deployment for 64-bit .NET Framework Redistributables

How to fix administrative deployment for ia64 and x64 .NET Framework redistributables using a transform.
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Monday, April 25, 2005 10:42 AM

x64 Windows Platforms have Shipped

Windows XP Professional x64 Edition and Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions have been shipped.
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Friday, April 15, 2005 11:32 AM

Hacking the CAB for Smaller Patches

Working on 32- and 64-bit patch support for Developer Division projects like the .NET Framework 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 , I've been involved with many threads and in many meetings about the various scenarios and solutions for producing patches that
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Thursday, March 31, 2005 6:00 PM

64-bit Windows is Here

Yesterday was a truly remarkable day. Not since Windows NT 3.1 released in 1993 have we seen such a shift in computing on Windows to another architecture. Windows Server 2003 SP1 for x64 and Windows XP Professional for x64 were released to manufacturing
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Thursday, February 17, 2005 6:47 PM

x86 and ia64 and x64, oh my!

With the .NET Framework 2.0 now supporting 64-bit platforms, I have begun work on upgrading our patch build system to handle 64-bit patches. It's been quite an adventure down the yellow-brick road of 64 bitness that I think is worth sharing. Why does
Posted by Heath Stewart | 10 Comments
 
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