September 2006 - Posts

DHTML Editing Control for Applications (Windows Vista Version) Installer Update
A while back I posted that there were some minor problems with the DHTML Editor Control for Windows Vista (which we've finally abbreviated as DECA-V internally.) We've corrected these and updated the download in-place. The changes include: Full UI sequence Read More...
Posted 25 September 06 02:09 by vank | 0 Comments   
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Setting scriptmaps: automation
The articles below describe how a Web Setup Project can be modified to set scriptmaps for the website it installs. This article describes the script used to automate this modification. The script is attached to "How to set scriptmaps in a Web Setup Project" Read More...
Posted 13 September 06 09:04 by vank | 0 Comments   
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Setting scriptmaps: step three
We've set two installer properties: REGIISPATH contains the full path name of aspnet_regiis.exe, and SRVRPATH contains the IIS metabase path to the new virtual directory. If any failures occurred, then REGIISPATH is empty. With this data in hand, it's Read More...
Posted 12 September 06 03:15 by vank | 2 Comments   
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Setting scriptmaps: step two and a half
To register the scriptmaps for our new web site in the Web Setup Project's MSI, we need to convert the available strings "/LM/W3SVC/1" and "WebSite1Setup" into the form "W3SVC/1/ROOT/WebSite1Setup". As simple as it sounds, we need to write a custom action Read More...
Posted 12 September 06 12:17 by vank | 0 Comments   
Setting scriptmaps: step two
Now that we know how to call aspnet_iisreg.exe all we need is its parameters. Executing aspnet_regiis /? indicates that we want: -s <path> Install scriptmaps for this version at the specified path, recursively. E.g. aspnet_regiis.exe -s W3SVC/1/ROOT/SampleApp1 Read More...
Posted 12 September 06 08:10 by vank | 0 Comments   
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Setting scriptmaps: step one
The first step in setting the proper scriptmaps is to decide what method we'll use to set them on the target machine at install time. While there might be several ways to do this, the simplest and most direct is to execute the tool aspnet_regiis.exe which Read More...
Posted 11 September 06 02:38 by vank | 3 Comments   
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Inside the MSI
If you're following this article, you must be interested in modifying how an MSI produced by a Visual Studio Installer project works. Although I began by encapsulating the change in a black box, the Windows Installer Team Blog cautions in rule #1 of the Read More...
Posted 11 September 06 08:27 by vank | 1 Comments   
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How setting scriptmaps works
An MSI contains a database which directs the installation, uninstallation, rollback and repair of a set of files and registry entries. The database contains a number of tables, and the AddSetScriptMaps script adds entries to five of them: The AppSearch Read More...
Posted 09 September 06 09:24 by vank | 0 Comments   
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How to set scriptmaps in a Web Setup Project
Setting ASP.Net 2.0 ScriptMaps in a Web Setup Project Read More...
Posted 09 September 06 06:44 by vank | 1 Comments   
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Attachment(s): Scripts.zip
Minor problems with the DHTML Editing Control for Applications installer
A helpful customer contacted us with some concerns about the installer for the Windows Vista version of the DHTML Editing Control for Applications. While I had run the ICE verification for Logo Compliance in Orca (the MSI inspector/editor) I had failed Read More...
Posted 09 September 06 05:48 by vank | 1 Comments   
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