Sampy's Blog

Shout it from the rooftops! ClickOnce is in Express!! Grab the new October Tech Preview (VB edition http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/vbasic/ , scroll to the bottom and click the first link under headlines). Of course, considering that we are still Read More...

First, I got an email asking if ClickOnce supports passing of command line parameters in the URL query string. The answer is a definitive maybe. Your manifest will have a flag in it specifying whether or not to trust those URL parameters. If it's set Read More...

Okay, time to catch up a bit. This last week I've been working on a DCR (fixing up the signing property page) so I haven't had time to blog. Now that it's finished, I'm going to make up for lost time and get two quick blog entries out there. ClickOnce Read More...

There was a comment made about my “In the works” post that stated that: “Unless we can embed these other dependand installers inside the MSI and execute them from one package, there will always exist a deployment problem in VS.NET “ Read More...

Hi. My name is Mike Sampson and I'm a developer here at Microsoft on the VB team and I work on deployment. Specifically, I work on Setup and Deployment projects (MSI's, Cab files, and MSMs) as well as the cool new web-ish ClickOnce deployment. In VB, Read More...