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Tuesday, January 15, 2008 12:42 AM

Different Packages are Required for Different Processor Architectures

A common question is how to create a Windows Installer package that installs 32-bit binaries on 32-bit platforms, and both 32- and 64-bit binaries on 64-bit platforms. If you're actually trying to install 64-bit binaries to appropriate directories and
Posted by Heath Stewart | 6 Comments
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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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
Thursday, November 17, 2005 10:19 AM

Shell Extensions for .NET Assemblies, Version 1.4.1993

Version 1.4.1993 of the Shell Extensions for .NET Assemblies has been released.
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Thursday, November 10, 2005 4:52 PM

Save Time when Installing Patches

How to install multiple patches at once to save time.
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Monday, October 24, 2005 10:51 AM

Windows Installer on 64-bit Platforms

Resources for authoring 64-bit Windows Installer packages and merge modules.
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Tuesday, June 07, 2005 3:53 PM

How to Fix Administrative Deployment for 64-bit .NET Framework Redistributables

How to fix administrative deployment for ia64 and x64 .NET Framework redistributables using a transform.
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Monday, April 25, 2005 10:42 AM

x64 Windows Platforms have Shipped

Windows XP Professional x64 Edition and Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions have been shipped.
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Friday, April 15, 2005 11:32 AM

Hacking the CAB for Smaller Patches

Working on 32- and 64-bit patch support for Developer Division projects like the .NET Framework 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 , I've been involved with many threads and in many meetings about the various scenarios and solutions for producing patches that
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Thursday, March 31, 2005 6:00 PM

64-bit Windows is Here

Yesterday was a truly remarkable day. Not since Windows NT 3.1 released in 1993 have we seen such a shift in computing on Windows to another architecture. Windows Server 2003 SP1 for x64 and Windows XP Professional for x64 were released to manufacturing
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Thursday, February 17, 2005 6:47 PM

x86 and ia64 and x64, oh my!

With the .NET Framework 2.0 now supporting 64-bit platforms, I have begun work on upgrading our patch build system to handle 64-bit patches. It's been quite an adventure down the yellow-brick road of 64 bitness that I think is worth sharing. Why does
Posted by Heath Stewart | 10 Comments
 
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