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DeployNow.com and "Smoke"

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, the idea just didn’t take off on it’s...

Posted to Ramblings & Rants by Michael on Thu, May 12 2005
Filed under: Filed under: General, Windows Installer, Personal, Software Development
Guru.com & Dispute Resolution

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 Media. Early on in the process, I went to guru.com...

Posted to Ramblings & Rants by Michael on Sat, Jan 15 2005
Filed under: Filed under: General, Windows Installer, Personal, Software Development
Business Fraud Alert!

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 Shayna McCollough was the one and only person from...

Posted to Ramblings & Rants by Michael on Fri, Jan 14 2005
Filed under: Filed under: General, Windows Installer, Personal, Software Development
Washing my hands...

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 together a little sample that exactly duplicated...

Posted to Ramblings & Rants by Michael on Mon, Jan 10 2005
Filed under: Filed under: General, Windows Installer, Personal, Software Development
Setting things right...

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 comments on COM Advertising, but what you may...

Posted to Ramblings & Rants by Michael on Thu, Dec 23 2004
Filed under: Filed under: General, Windows Installer, Software Development
COM Advertising Support in Windows Installer

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 “strange behavior” that he has seen....

Posted to Ramblings & Rants by Michael on Wed, Dec 22 2004
Filed under: Filed under: General, Windows Installer, Software Development
I'm a pain in the WiX ;-)

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 given tons of time to helping other people solve their...

Posted to Ramblings & Rants by Michael on Tue, Dec 21 2004
Filed under: Filed under: General, Windows Installer, Software Development
Implementing a Windows Installer Validation Engine in VB6 - Part II

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 VB6 IDE, but caused your app to crash when it was...

Posted to Ramblings & Rants by Michael on Sun, Dec 19 2004
Filed under: Filed under: General, Windows Installer, Software Development
Smoke - Windows Installer Validation Tool (Download)

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 for either delimited text output, or xml. Included...

Posted to Ramblings & Rants by Michael on Sun, Dec 19 2004
Filed under: Filed under: General, Windows Installer, Software Development
DeployNow Update Coming Soon

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 into a groove, I am ready to start packing it with...

Posted to Ramblings & Rants by Michael on Tue, Dec 14 2004
Filed under: Filed under: General, Windows Installer, Software Development
MSN Toolbar Suite Needs Validation!

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 msi file into their build process... ;-) UPDATE:...

Posted to Ramblings & Rants by Michael on Tue, Dec 14 2004
Filed under: Filed under: General, Windows Installer, Software Development
My Windows Installer Validation Tool...

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 which could be used with the WiX toolset. It’s...

Posted to Ramblings & Rants by Michael on Mon, Dec 13 2004
Filed under: Filed under: General, Windows Installer, Software Development
Windows Installer 3.0 Redist Now Available

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: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=884016

Posted to Ramblings & Rants by Michael on Tue, Nov 9 2004
Filed under: Filed under: General, Windows Installer, Software Development
Implementing a Windows Installer Validation Engine in VB6

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 and the companion callback. Basically, the steps...

Posted to Ramblings & Rants by Michael on Wed, Oct 20 2004
Filed under: Filed under: General, Windows Installer, Personal, Software Development
Announcing DeployNow.com!!!

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 host a forum in which I can help others in the community...

Posted to Ramblings & Rants by Michael on Fri, Oct 1 2004
Filed under: Filed under: General, Windows Installer, Personal, Software Development
Telligent is Hiring

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…

Posted to Ramblings & Rants by Michael on Wed, Sep 22 2004
Filed under: Filed under: General, Windows Installer, Personal, Software Development

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