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Mon, Feb 7 2011 17:06

32- and 64-Bit Installations, WiX 3.5 - Topics of the Week 5

32- and 64-Bit Installations A frequently asked question is: how can I create a combined 32- and 64-bit MSI package. The short answer is: you can't, because the MSI format requires you to specify the processor architecture in the Summary Information...
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Mon, Jan 24 2011 15:53

Patching without admin rights, and what to do when your certificate expires

You can enable non-admin users to install patches to your application. To enable this, you must ship a digital certificate with your original setup and later sign the updates with the same certificate. This functionality was first introduced with MSI...
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Tue, Dec 14 2010 11:14

Topics of the Week 49

Here's a collection of my (re-) tweets from the past week: Developing Software Installations Based on Agile Best Practices Blog post and webinar from Flexera Software with Visual Studio Magazine Microsoft App-V - What Software Developers Should Know...
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Wed, Nov 10 2010 22:56

Topics of the week 44

Here are some of links I posted on Twitter last week. Choosing Your Project Type: Basic MSI, InstallScript, or InstallScript MSI InstallShield Media Table Gotcha - a bug in the way InstallShield names .cab files Windows Installer Transforms will Override...
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Tue, Oct 26 2010 11:19

Topics of the week 42

Some interesting stuff I came across during the past week. A book about WiX Nick Ramirez has written a book about WiX (and it looks like the book also introduces the underlying concepts of Windows Installer along the way). I think this deserves a separate...
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Tue, Oct 19 2010 8:49

Links of the week 41

Here are the links that I tweeted during the past week: Building Setups with Windows Installer and WiX Jeffrey Sharp held a great introductory talk. Here's the recording and here are the slides for download . Learning WiX from ground up Parts 2 of...
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Mon, Oct 11 2010 13:01

Links of the week 40

Here are some of the links that I tweeted during the past week: VSTO 4 ( 2010 ) Lessons Learned Christopher Painter discusses and MSDN article about installing Microsoft Office add-ins, and adds his own tips and advice. What about that WiX? Alek Davis...
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Tue, Oct 5 2010 18:06

Links of the week 39

In the past week, some topics evolved into a conversation - thanks to Christopher Painter who added more information where I simply tweeted links to articles that I came across: Problems with installations to IIS on Vista Rod Maupin blogged that Installations...
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Mon, Sep 13 2010 11:18

Links of the week 36

During the first week after my vacation I came across these articles that might interest you: Alternative method to extract COM Data Shieldmaster Blog posted a workaround if the COM data extracted by InstallShield are incomplete Service Pack 3 for AdminStudio...
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Sun, Aug 8 2010 17:55

Links of the Week 31

Here are links to some articles that I came across during the past week, calendar week 31: New knowledge base article with detection information for all versions of the .NET Framework Aaron Stebner blogged about released versions and service packs of...
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Thu, Mar 25 2010 19:52

Getting additional Standard Folders in Windows Installer

Windows installer includes a number of pre-defined properties for standard folders such as ProgramFilesFolder. Other standard folders are available as environment variables, such as %ALLUSERSPROFILE%, which can be used similar to properties in the form...
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