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October 2006 - Posts

Thursday, October 26, 2006 9:41 PM

Joining Marketplace.

As noted previously , there are some major changes going on in my life right now. Derek leaving Microsoft and the affect that would have on the WiX toolset was the first one I made public. This is the second. It was two years ago this month that I moved
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Monday, October 23, 2006 8:00 AM

Orca is to hex editor as WiX is to ...?

Jonathan Perret made the following interesting comment on a previous blog entry : ...I find it worrisome that even when using such a powerful tool as WiX, one still has to memorize such oddities. I mean, if my app has a prereq it sounds obvious I don't
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Tuesday, October 17, 2006 10:54 AM

WiX v3 syntax for detecting the CLR.

Duane Johnson asked how to use WiX v3 to detect the CLR . Extensions in WiX v3 are far more powerful than they were in WiX v2 . Unfortunately, to enable the new features a few things moved around. So, let's say you wanted to to ensure that the .NET Framework
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Tuesday, October 17, 2006 10:27 AM

Deciphering the MSI Directory table, part 7 (directories are properties)

In my last blog entry, I wrapped up saying that we'd talk about how to make your install directory configurable this time. I'm sorry but I lied. There is an important but confusing truth that you must understand before we continue. Directories are Properties.
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Thursday, October 12, 2006 8:05 AM

Deciphering the MSI Directory table, part 6 (standard directories)

Before picking up this series of blog entries on the Directory table again, I went back and re-read all the previous entries to make sure I remembered the details told up to this point. It was then that I realized the last entry on this series as posted
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Tuesday, October 10, 2006 8:55 AM

Conflicts of Interest?

Nicholas Carr has a great blog entry about conflicts of interest in blogging . It got me thinking about a silent policy I've always had for myself when blogging here. I don't blog about the many vendors in the MSI creation space except the ones that I
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Saturday, October 07, 2006 9:18 PM

Nothing.

Thus far, today I have done absolutely nothing. Sure, I cleaned off the kitchen table, put away some dishes and folded some clothes. But I didn't really do anything. I spent a few hours playing through a few demo disks DJ lent me for the new Xbox 360
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Thursday, October 05, 2006 11:33 PM

Thursday Night "Deployment Dinner Discussion" with Charlie Poole.

Tonight I traveled to Anthony's Beach Cafe in Edmonds, WA to have dinner with Charlie Poole . Charlie is the active maintainer of the NUnit project . He contacted me (via my blog, IIRC) and we set up tonight's meeting. I expected he wanted to meet because
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Thursday, October 05, 2006 8:00 AM

The Windows Live Writer team rocks.

I installed Windows Live Writer 1.0 Beta a while ago to test a project I was working on. I didn't actually boot the application or anything, just installed it. I think this proves how much of a setup geek I am. <smile/> Well, as you can see in my
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Monday, October 02, 2006 11:32 PM

SharpDevelop 2.1 - the latest WiX UI Editor

I was cleaning out some old mail messages and came across this tidbit of information that several people sent me. SharpDevelop 2.1 now supports the WiX toolset . At the same time, I noticed that SharpDevelop 2.1 moved to WiX to build its setup packages.
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