Tonight was a quiet night of working. Progress was made on our various fronts. I picked this video out of the queue to meet the mood. The general reaction when the clip finished was, "Whoa."
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I’m am so frustrated right now.
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Original post by Rob Mensching
If you’ve dealt wit the Windows Installer at all, you know the fastest way to figure out what went wrong is to look at a verbose log file. The normal log file doesn’t provide enough information to really diagnose things going wrong, so I always generate a verbose log file like so:
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Again, this week’s video is brought to you by Eric. He actually picked a video out of my queue based on an infomercial he saw. That probably sounds a little crazy but you have to check out the magic that DJ Steve Porter creates out of late night TV.
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Original post by Rob Mensching
As I’m sure you are aware, Microsoft provides free drinks. Since we gather weekly at Building 37, it is just a short walk to one of the kitchens on the floor when someone gets thirsty. On their way out the door that person will often call out, "Drinks?" Tonight’s video of the night goes out […]
In .NET 4 we have quite a few deployment options available for redistribution. There are basically 2 pivots. The Client/Full profiles and 32bit/32+64bit packages.
Here are the four redistributable options and their corresponding sizes.
Redistributable
Size
32bit Client Profile
28.8 MB
32bit Full
35.3 MB
32+64bit Client Profile
41 MB
32+64bit Full
48.1 MB
The Client Profile is targeted to contain the parts of the .NET […]
Bob posted a blog entry how to use TortoiseHg to access the WiX source code on CodePlex. I thought the blog post was great but suffered from one fundamental flaw. It required you to do a whole bunch of mouse clicking. Here’s how to get into the WiX toolset source code using the command-line.
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There was a small change made to the WiX toolset recently that added dialogs to the WixUI library that are shown when patching. That part of the change was straight forward, the tricky part was that the dialog needed to support all the existing languages or the patch UI could come up in a different […]