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October 2007 - Posts

Thursday, October 25, 2007 5:37 PM

ResolveSource Requires Source

It might be tempting to schedule the ResolveSource action , but ResolveSource actually requires that the original installation source is available whenever it is called. If your installer package is authored correctly, source must only be resolve in cases
Posted by Heath Stewart | 4 Comments
Wednesday, October 24, 2007 3:10 AM

EXE Custom Actions are Bad

Windows Installer custom actions that launch executables (base custom action type msidbCustomActionTypeExe , 0x2) are typically bad and should be avoided. How are they bad? Let the Windows Installer team count the ways . During internal audits we question
Posted by Heath Stewart | 7 Comments
Thursday, October 18, 2007 12:15 PM

Progress for New Patches

You asked. We answered. One source of problems for Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 was that VS 2005 SP1 targeted multiple products, and if you had multiple target products installed - most commonly Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 that uses our
Posted by Heath Stewart | 3 Comments
 
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