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Tuesday, August 28, 2007 12:18 AM

Upload Installation Logs on Vista Today

Bret Grinslade, Group Program Manager for our Deployment Technology Group, describes how you can send feedback directly to our team . You can also check a box during setup to have feedback in the form of installation logs sent directly to our system.
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Monday, August 27, 2007 2:14 PM

What's New in Windows Installer 4.5: Overview

The What's New section of the Windows Installer 4.5 CHM available in the downloads section of the Windows Installer 4.5 Beta Connect site has technical details of new functionality and changes as usual, but now that we can talk about Windows Installer
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Saturday, August 25, 2007 2:14 AM

Windows Installer 4.5 Beta Available

Windows Installer 4.5 Beta is now available to those signed up through Connect . Along with the whitepapers posted earlier, binaries for x86, x64, and IA64; headers; and libraries are all available. Expect to see more technical details on individual Windows
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Tuesday, August 14, 2007 1:09 PM

Performance Issue to be Addressed in .NET 3.5

Current .NET Framework patches may not NGEN some assemblies as was recently discovered for KB928365 . We have worked out a solution and Surupa Biswas, a PM on the CLR team, wanted me to pass along the following information. As indicated in this post ,
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Monday, August 13, 2007 4:38 PM

WiX v3 Patching Improvements

In last week's release some changes to patching with WiX were made with more exciting changes to come. Peter Marcu has implemented some changes he'll talk more about on his blog , but suffice to say has reduced the number of commands and command line
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Friday, August 10, 2007 8:05 AM

No Environment Change Notification when Reboot Required

The documentation for the WriteEnvironmentStrings action states, Note that environment variables do not change for the installation in progress when either the WriteEnvironmentStrings action or RemoveEnvironmentStrings action are run. On Windows 2000,
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