Setup Sense and Sensibility
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Last night I visited a WiX night after a very long absence. After watching the Sounders 2-1 US Open...
Date: 06/29/2011
If you've been dogfooding Windows 7 like I have, you have an orphaned windows.old directory on your...
Date: 10/19/2009
Early last week Microsoft announced the delivery of Windows 7 release candidate coupled with the...
Date: 05/12/2009
Today I came across it in a Wikipedia article on the Altair On final approach, Allen realized that...
Date: 04/25/2009
TechNet just published the RC candidates for Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 and Windows Vista...
Date: 03/14/2009
A common troubleshooting Windows Installer technique before vista was to reregister the Windows...
Date: 01/30/2009
MSDN has updated their web site with documentation for Window Installer 5 in Windows 7 and Windows...
Date: 01/29/2009
The TechNet forum post Windows Installer Crash appears to have find a workaround for the issue by...
Date: 01/29/2009
Per this TechNet article, Windows Installer 4.5 will be in Vista SP2 and Windows 2008 SP1.
Date: 01/29/2009
Top Microsoft Developer Partner Conferences for 2009: MIX, TechEd, and PDC (yes Virginia another PDC ;^)
Wow. Two PDCs in a row. MIX09 - March 18 - 20, at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas: is all about the...
Date: 01/19/2009
While integrating the Windows Installer XML 3.0 toolset, we needed to add references to the WiX...
Date: 01/19/2009
In Channel 9 presentation Mark Russinovich: Inside Windows 7, Mark discusses the new kernel...
Date: 01/16/2009
You can now get the Windows 7 Beta SDK ISO via download center at...
Date: 01/12/2009
With the recent announcement fo the Windows 7 Beta, there are now tools for ISVs to evaluate the...
Date: 01/08/2009
The current issue of MSDN Flash on the Web at...
Date: 01/06/2009
Recent Download Center newsletter noted the Windows Installer 3.1 is still in the Top 5 downloads...
Date: 12/19/2008
The December 2008 ISV partner newsletter offered this opportunity to learn about Windows 7. Windows...
Date: 12/19/2008
In the spectrum of deployment scenarios for Visual Studio and the .Net Framework, some have wondered...
Date: 12/02/2008
This month's ISV Newsletter from Microsoft contained this bumper for Detours. Microsoft Detours: “I...
Date: 11/30/2008
In a recent internal email thread, I'd offered this perspective to a person who could not find a...
Date: 09/20/2008
There is an update from Bill Veghte on the messages from Microsoft around Windows at...
Date: 06/25/2008
Bill's last TechEd keynote as a Full Timer at Microsoft had a new version of an old friend in the...
Date: 06/03/2008
It's a beautiful Pre-Conference morning at Microsoft TechEd Developer 2008 in the Orlando Convention...
Date: 06/03/2008
If you've wondered why not much has been officially said about Windows 7, a blog on CNet posted...
Date: 05/27/2008
Overheard an interesting discussion on SoftGrid. Here's my spin on their talking points. Q: Why is...
Date: 04/07/2008
Looking ahead, there are changes in the winds that will require advancing the capacity of the...
Date: 02/28/2008
For me it's been just about three years on the Windows Installer team. As other Microsoft-ies will...
Date: 01/18/2008
A useful little link is this filtered sort for top ranked links for Windows Installer on...
Date: 10/03/2007
For a view on Agile themes I'm working toward, check-out the Tech Ed keynote at...
Date: 06/07/2007
This is the twenty-seventh in a series of notes about UAC in MSI. Per the earlier caveat, these are...
Date: 10/01/2006
This is the twenty-sixth in a series of notes about UAC in MSI. Per the earlier caveat, these are...
Date: 10/01/2006
This is the twenty-fifth in a series of notes about UAC in MSI. Per the earlier caveat, these are...
Date: 10/01/2006
This is the twenty-forth in a series of notes about UAC in MSI. Per the earlier caveat, these are...
Date: 10/01/2006
This is the twenty-third in a series of notes about UAC in MSI. Per the earlier caveat, these are...
Date: 10/01/2006
This is the twenty-second in a series of notes about UAC in MSI. Per the earlier caveat, these are...
Date: 10/01/2006
This is the twenty-first in a series of notes about UAC in MSI. Per the earlier caveat, these are...
Date: 10/01/2006
This is the twentieth in a series of notes about UAC in MSI. Per the earlier caveat, these are just...
Date: 09/30/2006
This is the nineteenth in a series of notes about UAC in MSI. Per the earlier caveat, these are just...
Date: 09/30/2006
This is the eighteenth in a series of notes about UAC in MSI. Per the earlier caveat, these are just...
Date: 09/30/2006
This is the seventeenth in a series of notes about UAC in MSI. Per the earlier caveat, these are...
Date: 09/30/2006
This is the sixteenth in a series of notes about UAC in MSI. Per the earlier caveat, these are just...
Date: 09/30/2006
This is the fifteenth in a series of notes about UAC in MSI. Per the earlier caveat, these are just...
Date: 09/24/2006
This is the fourteenth in a series of notes about UAC in MSI. Per the earlier caveat, these are just...
Date: 09/24/2006
This is the thirteenth in a series of notes about UAC in MSI. Per the earlier caveat, these are just...
Date: 09/23/2006
This is the twelfth in a series of notes about UAC in MSI. Per the earlier caveat, these are just my...
Date: 09/23/2006
This is the eleventh in a series of notes about UAC in MSI. Per the earlier caveat, these are just...
Date: 09/23/2006
This is the tenth in a series of notes about UAC in MSI. Per the earlier caveat, these are just my...
Date: 09/22/2006
This is the ninth in a series of notes about UAC in MSI. Per the earlier caveat, these are just my...
Date: 09/22/2006
This is the eighth in a series of notes about UAC in MSI. Per the earlier caveat, these are just my...
Date: 09/21/2006