Save Time when Installing Patches
Beginning with Windows Installer 3.0 you can install multiple patches at once, i.e. in a single install transaction. To do this you pass a semicolon-delimited list of fully-qualified paths to patches...
View ArticleSetup Troubleshooting Guide Applicable for Patches, Too
Aaron Stebner has posted a compilation of links to many great posts about troubleshooting setup issues regarding, primarily, Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0. It’s important to note that...
View ArticleWindows Installer Supportability
Because newer versions of Windows Installer are released with new functionality dependent on operating system features, and older versions of Windows reach the end of their support lifecycle, different...
View ArticleWaiting for msiexec.exe to Finish
Since Windows Installer 1.0 was first released, msiexec.exe has always run in the Windows subsystem. That means that when it is executed from the console or by a batch script control returns to the...
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Shell Extensions for .NET Assemblies, Version 1.4.1993
Some time back I made modifications to the previous version of my shell extensions for .NET assemblies to display differences in the column handler for both native and managed binaries targeting the...
View ArticleBlog Customizations, Part 3: OO JavaScript
Not satisfied by the search feature provided by Community Server I’ve again created some helpful JavaScript classes this time using object-oriented JavaScript to define a basic search provider and to...
View ArticleWindows Installer Cache
Windows Installer packages may contain streams identified in the Media table if the Cabinet column value begins with the number sign #, as documented for the Cabinet data type. This cabinet is embedded...
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