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Wednesday, June 27, 2007 2:03 PM

Passing property values in Remove action using UAB for MSIs

Problem: An application which you are developing is using UAB ( Updater Application Block ) to pull in updates from a server. There is a requirement to uninstall the application using UAB with the help of an MSI, but the uninstall needs to happen conditionally
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Attachment(s): MsiProcessorAndRemoveManifest.zip
Friday, May 04, 2007 1:41 PM

Creating the Other People (aka AddressBook) Certificate Store through Registry

Problem: A common scenario while installing application which consume certificates from the Other People store (or AddressBook in registry terms) is the failure of CertMgr.exe on a clean machine which doesn't have any other certificates. Now the problem
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007 7:53 AM

Post-Build script to fix MSI issues in Vista for VS 2005 Setup and Deployment Projects

Problem : The setup project (MSI) output generated out of the VS 2005 IDE fails to run properly on Vista. Specifically it has two glaring, known issues: The Deferred Custom Action is NOT marked with the NO_IMPERSONATE bit which results in the custom actions
Posted by nikhiln | 1 Comments
Attachment(s): PostBuildVistaFix.js
 
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