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Wednesday, September 30, 2009 9:30 AM

The .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 2 Installer Improvements

Thanks to everyone that gave feedback both on my blog and through other forums about .NET Framework installs. Beta2 just got released on MSDN so I thought I’d take this opportunity to talk a little but about the stuff we have done to improve the installation.
Posted by Petermarcu | 5 Comments
Tuesday, May 19, 2009 11:17 PM

WiX: Removing Files with Patches

I've had numerous people ask me how to remove a file using a patch. As I say below again, this should be done carefully. Background If a file is present in a Baseline package then removed in the Upgrade package, it is not trivial to get the installer
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Saturday, September 20, 2008 11:16 AM

.NET: Do you Deploy a Managed App?

(Thanks for the replies so far! It is very insightful to hear all the different ways people deploy .NET apps. I am taking all your answers to the questions and using them to help inform decisions about the future of .NET deployment. I appreciate the responses.)
Posted by Petermarcu | 30 Comments
Friday, May 30, 2008 4:05 PM

WiX: Patching something you didnt build with WiX using WiX

Many times people want to take advantage of the Wix v3 patch building features but didnt build their original product using Wix. for example, they may have used Install Shield, WiX v2 or one of the other tools out there. I ran into this when I needed
Posted by Petermarcu | 28 Comments
Sunday, May 25, 2008 11:35 PM

WiX: Introducing the WixPdb

I should have made this post about 6 months ago as I was implementing the WixPdb feature in WiX but better late than never :). The wixpdb was conceived as a solution for a limitation in the original patch building system. Originally, WiX v3 patching only
Posted by Petermarcu | 3 Comments
Thursday, May 22, 2008 9:42 PM

Design your Application to Fit Your Shipping Container

Let me start by saying I'd love to get people's feedback on the content of this post... When Toyota designs a car they would never ignore the fact that no matter how great a car they build, they have to be able to get it to their customers. Additionally,
Posted by Petermarcu | 15 Comments
Tuesday, December 04, 2007 10:30 PM

WiX: More powerful foreach

I've been meaning to post about this for a while but just never got around to it. A few months ago I extended the implementation in WiX to allow foreach loops using any variable over any given set of values. Previously it was limited to only those variables
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Thursday, November 29, 2007 8:14 PM

WiX: "Rosario" WiX toolset vs. the community WiX toolset

This post is a follow-up to Rob Mensching's " Visual Studio ships the WiX toolset " blog entry. One of the key tenets WiX development is operating under is to make all changes available to both community WiX as well as "Rosario" WiX. (They actually get
Posted by Petermarcu | 4 Comments
Saturday, June 16, 2007 9:08 PM

WiX: Building a Patch using the new Patch Building System - Part 2

I dont have much time today to write but I wanted to take a chance to answer a few questions that I've been asked a lot recently. What is Pyro? Pyro is the new tool in the WiX toolset that will pull together your patch authoring and your product transforms
Posted by Petermarcu | 7 Comments
 
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