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April 2006 - Posts
Friday, April 28, 2006 2:30 PM
Update for the Palm Treo 700w Available Again
The update for the Palm Treo 700w is back up on the Palm.com web site and reports to have fixed the installation problems.
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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:18 AM
Deleting Bad Feed Items
How to delete feed items that cause a problem using the Windows RSS Platform API.
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http://hstewart.members.winisp.net/downloads/rss.zip
Friday, April 21, 2006 10:57 PM
Update for the Palm Treo 700w Available, with Problems
An update to the Palm Treo 700w to address various problems has a few problems of its own.
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Thursday, April 20, 2006 4:59 PM
Calculating Required Space for Installation
How to roughly calculate space required for installation of a product including the information that Windows Installer stores.
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Attachment(s):
http://hstewart.members.winisp.net/downloads/wisize.zip
Friday, April 14, 2006 4:27 PM
Avoid Overwriting Files in Administrative Installations
How to avoid overwriting files during administrative installations.
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11 Comments
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Attachment(s):
http://hstewart.members.winisp.net/downloads/dwfix.zip
Friday, April 07, 2006 5:19 PM
Detecting Patches in .NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005
How to detect certain patches applied to .NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005.
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Friday, April 07, 2006 2:40 PM
Patch Files Extractor
Download the source and a release binary for a tool to extract transforms and binary streams like cabinets from Windows Installer files, such as patches.
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10 Comments
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Attachment(s):
http://hstewart.members.winisp.net/downloads/msix.zip
Wednesday, April 05, 2006 9:18 AM
New MVP: Javier Lozano
Welcome Javier Lozano to the MVP program.
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Tuesday, April 04, 2006 8:51 AM
Update #2 on Problems with the Palm Treo 700w
After some research and asking Palm again about it, I found that the Treo does support stereo playback with the right equipment.
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