PDC2008: Windows Installer and ClickOnce in Windows 7

MSI 5.0 Beta SDK and Documentation available

InstallSite Blog — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:20:32 GMT

Beta documentation for the latest version of Windows Installer is now available for online reading. The

UAC in Windows 7

InstallSite Blog — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:49:30 GMT

At PDC2008 there was a session abstract that essentially said: "there's nothing new here"

re: PDC2008: Windows Installer and ClickOnce in Windows 7

Christopher Painter — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:49:17 GMT

I've just finished creating 25 installers at work and now it's time to put a really slick bootstrapper together.

I downloaded the Client Profile Designer, installed it and try to run it.

Kaboom

System.IO.FileLoadException: Could not load assembly 'cpdesign, version 3.5.0, culture=neutral publickeytoken=31bf3856...... Strong name validation failed

You know, people can call me a snarky troll but if your going to ship a setup authoring tool beta, at least make sure the darn setup actually works.