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I’ve had a lot of people asking me lately what has become of the DeployNow .com site and more importantly, about Smoke – my Windows Installer validation tool. As enthusiastic as I was about building a community site for installation developers...
If you’ve been following along , I am trying to recover some money that I paid for web design work that I ultimately learned had been stolen from http://www.creative.com by Shayna McCullough under the name of a non-existent company called Iconic...
A few months agao, I contracted a “company” that goes by the name “Iconic Media” through http://www.guru.com to design a new site for an eCommerce project of mine which was to be launched at http://www.xambi.com . A woman named...
So, after all that ruckus with Rob Mensching about COM Advertising from before Christmas, and my sincere gesture to clear the air , it seems that nothing is really resolved after all. Just before I posted my very nice attempt at clearing the air, I put...
The last few days have been pretty interesting around the WiX Toolkit community, and I guess I’ve been the catalyst for most of the commotion. A lot of folks have been following along as I publicly aired by feelings about some of Rob Mensching’s...
Yesterday I mentioned some discussion on the WiX Toolkit mailing list about the use of COM Advertising support and the challenges that go along with it. Rob Mensching argued that the tables which enable this functionality should be avoided due to some...
I’m getting beat up a little bit on the WiX Toolkit mailing lists . L It seems that since I’ve been questioning some issues ( here and here ), and now Rob and Orion think I’m on a war-path. They’ve got me all wrong. I’ve...
A while back, I posted a code sample on my blog that demonstrated how to implement MsiSetExternalUI in VB6. That post certainly got a lot of hits, but there was a catch that quickly came back to haunt me. The sample I provided worked like a champ in the...
The Windows Installer validation tool I’ve been babbling about for a few days now is available for download on DeployNow ! Stop by and check it out: http://www.deploynow.com/Articles/Details.aspx?ID=2 I’ve even enhanced it a bit more to allow...
It seems Joel on Software is really showing his true colors with his shallow and horribly ignorant comments about independent consultants. Thankfully Christopher Hawkins has set him straight . I'll have to take a few minutes to relate my experiences regarding...
I've been working on a long-overdue update to DeployNow . If you don't already know, DeployNow is my deployment resource site. I came up with the idea a long time ago, but have just been waaaay too busy to really do much with it. Now that I am settling...
Rob Mensching noticed that the MSN Toolbar Suite's installer was built with WiX. He goes on to admit he was upset to see some “non-ideal” authoring in their .msi file. Hmmm... If only they had an easy way to incorporate validation of their...
I was working on one my next MSDN articles (hint, hint), which deals with writing a custom validation engine for Windows Installer packages (*.msi files), when I had the brilliant idea of going a step further and implementing it as a command line app...
Microsoft has finally released the redistributable for Windows Installer 3.0! You can get the download here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=5FBC5470-B259-4733-A914-A956122E08E8&displaylang=en And read the KB article here...
Wow! Robert McLaws and Jeff Julian just wrapped up their WebCast: “Provider Model: The Flexible Design Pattern of ASP.NET 2.0”. Not only was it a great presentation, but two really cool new things also were announced: Robert announced that...
A recent topic in the msi newsgroups has focused around implementing a Windows Installer debugger or validation engine in VB6. Conceptually, this isn't all that tough. The concept focus around a successful implementation of the MsiSetExternalUI method...
I’m really happy to formally announce the launch of my new deployment related community site! http://www.deploynow.com Basically, the site is a place for me to post articles on deployment technologies, write about tools and technologies, and to...
So, I just noticed that Rob Howard posted a couple of cool sounding positions at Telligent that they are looking to fill. http://blogs.msdn.com/rhoward/archive/2004/09/21/232682.aspx Too bad that the timeframe is 6-8 weeks…