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Working with User Experience designers to improve Pack Installer 1.0

As part of making the transition from Beta to full Release status, we wanted to make sure that the Pack Installer was fitting in well with Visual Studio 2005 and other tools published by Microsoft. We really wanted to make sure that even if we weren't Read More...
Posted Monday, March 12, 2007 3:33 PM by JeremyKelley | 0 Comments

Pack Installer 1.0 Released!

I'm happy to announce that Pack Installer 1.0 is now ready to go! The changes from Beta 2 to 1.0 have not been huge, but there are some improvements I'd like to call out. Tool descriptions are no longer truncated to 256 characters. In addition to getting Read More...
Posted Monday, March 12, 2007 1:38 PM by JeremyKelley | 1 Comments

Pack Installer Beta 2 Released and Feed Update for 1/18/2007

Over on CodePlex I've just released Beta 2 of our Pack Installer project. This release has seen a lot of hard work go into it, especially by our primary developer Bertan Aygun . New features that we've added include tags on each of the tools in the list Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 18, 2007 5:17 PM by JeremyKelley | 3 Comments

Pack Installer Feed Update for January 10, 2007

This week's update brings a brand new tool to the Pack Installer! The Visual Basic team has released a new Power Pack called the Microsoft Printer Compatibility Library. In their own words: "The Microsoft Visual Basic Printer Compatibility Library allows Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 10, 2007 8:39 PM by JeremyKelley | 0 Comments

Pack Installer Feed Update

The list of tools included by the Pack Installer has been updated this week to include some cool new updates to some popular tools. Now included are: ILMerge 2.0.7.0102, this is an update from the 2.0.6 release XML Notepad 2007, this is an updated version Read More...
Posted Friday, January 05, 2007 4:09 PM by JeremyKelley | 1 Comments

Source code released for Pack Installer on CodePlex

Despite taking me a lot longer than I anticipated, the source code for the Beta version of Pack Installer is now available on the CodePlex site. This lets us finally start to do what we've wanted to with this tool, which is collaborative development. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 4:12 PM by JeremyKelley | 0 Comments

Problems reported with Pack Installer, I may have the answer

I've been getting reports from multiple sources indicating that there's a problem with the Pack Installer. The symptom seems to be an exception thrown at startup. If you see this message: see the end of this message for details on invoking just-in-time Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 10:52 AM by JeremyKelley | 4 Comments

One last thing!

I forgot to mention that there are new tools included in the listings as well! New in the feed are: ILMerge - This tool rocks! I actually use it when I put the release of Pack Installer together. It lets you merge assemblies together so you can have a Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 9:54 AM by JeremyKelley | 0 Comments

Pack Installer Beta released!!!

On Friday I was able to get the Beta version of the Pack Installer released to CodePlex. Follow the link to get your hands on its goodness. New features in the Beta include: Basic sorting of the list of tools Ability to run the uninstall of a tool from Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 9:46 AM by JeremyKelley | 5 Comments

A fork in the road, or “Help me create the roadmap for future Power Toys”

Now that I've gotten the Pack Installer project is well underway, my next major task is to create a roadmap for some of our future Power Toys developments in the Developer Solutions team. I've gone through some of our internal databases of suggestions Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 27, 2006 11:46 AM by JeremyKelley | 16 Comments
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Pack Installer Alpha released to the wild!

I have some great news! Well great from my point of view anyway. The Alpha version of the Pack Installer I've been working on is now available for download on CodePlex! I'm pretty excited about this for a couple reasons. First, I'm excited to find out Read More...
Posted Friday, September 15, 2006 4:26 PM by JeremyKelley | 16 Comments
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Pack Installer Screenshot Update!

Thanks to everyone who provided me feedback for the Pack Installer GUI. I took all the feedback into consideration and made some major changes to what will be released as Alpha very soon. I wanted to get a picture up ahead of the release just so people Read More...
Posted Friday, September 08, 2006 4:47 PM by JeremyKelley | 5 Comments
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Help me design the Pack Installer GUI

Okay, its time to ellicit some more feedback from you, the loyal customers. I think I've got a decent handle on the UI for the Power Toys Pack Installer that I'm working on. Unfortunately I'm really not an artist, or even a spectacular GUI designer. I've Read More...
Posted Friday, August 25, 2006 1:49 PM by JeremyKelley | 11 Comments
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Command Line... No seriously, its not dead yet

Something that I'd never really thought about till recently was command line interfaces for tools. I think I'd begun to take them for granted. They seem to be there when I need them, and when I don't, then I don't even think about them. Some of the questions Read More...
Posted Monday, August 07, 2006 5:33 PM by JeremyKelley | 4 Comments
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If you were an installer what kind of installer would you be...

We here at Developer Solutions are intent on making your lives easier. When I say “your” I mean all the developers out there of course. One way we’re looking at doing this is to start packaging up our Power Toys in a Power Pack. Hopefully this will make Read More...
Posted Monday, July 17, 2006 4:48 PM by JeremyKelley | 6 Comments
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