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Monday, February 27, 2006 8:56 AM

Identifying Windows Installer File Types

How to identify different Windows Installer file types without relying on the file extension.
Posted by Heath Stewart | 0 Comments
Attachment(s): http://hstewart.members.winisp.net/downloads/StgStats.zip
Monday, February 27, 2006 8:52 AM

Book Review: Customizing the Microsoft .NET Framework Common Language Runtime

My review of the book "Customizing the Microsoft .NET Framework Common Language Runtime from MS Press by Steven Pratschner.
Posted by Heath Stewart | 3 Comments
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Tuesday, February 21, 2006 11:02 AM

Determine Which Files are Being Patched

How to determine which files are being patched with a custom action.
Posted by Heath Stewart | 1 Comments
Attachment(s): http://hstewart.members.winisp.net/downloads/DiagCAs.zip
Thursday, February 16, 2006 12:49 PM

Fast Searching in Public Folders

How to find mail and posts in public folders in Outlook quickly using Windows Desktop Search.
Posted by Heath Stewart | 12 Comments
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Tuesday, February 14, 2006 4:46 PM

Extract Files from Patches

How to extract files from a patch by patching an administrative installation and the hard way using OLE structured storage APIs.
Posted by Heath Stewart | 17 Comments
Wednesday, February 08, 2006 4:21 PM

Blog Customizations, Part 4: OpenSearch Discovery

How I customized by blog even with limited ability to support auto-discovery of OpenSearch descriptions.
Posted by Heath Stewart | 5 Comments
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Tuesday, February 07, 2006 5:42 PM

Common Controls in Windows Installer UI

How to display new controls with Common Controls 6 in your Windows Installer dialogs with a different bootstrap or external UI handler application.
Posted by Heath Stewart | 7 Comments
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Wednesday, February 01, 2006 4:06 PM

Differentiating 64-bit Editions of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003

How to differentiate between 64-bit editions of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 using Windows Installer operating system properties.
Posted by Heath Stewart | 0 Comments
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Wednesday, February 01, 2006 11:48 AM

64-bit Managed Custom Actions with Visual Studio

How to workaround an issue that prevents 64-bit managed custom actions from executing properly on a 64-bit platform from Windows Installer packages built with Visual Studio 2005.
Posted by Heath Stewart | 3 Comments
 
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