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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...

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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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...

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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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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