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Friday, April 13, 2007 2:30 AM

(Re-)Start Me Up ...

As I mentioned in a recent post , I'm currently working on a Windows Vista workshop. As part of that, I've created a simple application that demonstrates the basic interaction of the Windows Installer with Vista's new Restart Manager (RM). I thought I'd

Posted by richmac | 2 Comments

Filed under: Do Try This at Home, Programming, Windows Installer, Windows Vista

Monday, April 02, 2007 8:43 PM

How to Interpret Windows Installer Logs

[Updated: 4 April 2007] If you have a problem with the Windows Installer or an MSI package you're installing, it's a sure bet that you will be told by some smart person to "enable logging". That's great advice, except ... what do you do with the log once

Posted by richmac | 11 Comments

Filed under: Troubleshooting, Windows Installer

Tuesday, March 06, 2007 9:31 AM

Windows Installer Best Practices

As a first post on my shiny new blog, I thought I'd post something old! Here is a set of Installer best practice guidelines I posted last year on the Windows Installer Team blog : Tao of the Windows Installer Fundamentals Packaging Deployment Patching

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Filed under: Best Practices, Windows Installer