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Wednesday, September 20, 2006 1:11 AM

How to embed resources using a different namespace in a C# project

Have you ever wanted to embed a resource in your managed assembly but didn't like the default name that Visual Studio decided to give it? For example, if you have a C# project with the RootNamespace="MyCompany.MyNamespace" and have a bitmap called "MyBitmap.bmp"

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Monday, August 14, 2006 3:33 PM

How to use MSBuild for your WiX projects without installing Votive or Visual Studio

I got an interesting question today from a person reading my blog, so I thought I'd answer the question here in case other people have a similar interest. The question was how to enable MSBuild support for a WiX project without having Votive or Visual

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Thursday, September 08, 2005 11:58 PM

Moving the WiX toolset to NAnt builds

As many of you may know, we've had two different builds for the WiX toolset : one for the external world (i.e. SourceForge), and the other for the developers working on WiX inside of Microsoft. These two builds were different enough to mess things up