Today is my one-year anniversary here at Microsoft and I have had the opportunity to work with a lot of great people and on great projects. I've seen two betas of the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 and a myriad of Community Technology Previews (CTPs) go out the door, improved some of the patching technology for older releases a...
A frequently asked question is how to detect whether a product installed using Windows Installer is being repaired, or a patch is being installed or — starting with Windows Installer 3.0 — uninstalled. The answer is detecting which properties are set.When a product — or even a single feature or multiple features — is being r...
Back in March I wrote about the dangers of using the and registry keys. This is another post to help you avoid some other pitfalls.The property in Windows Installer does not actually do anything directly to your installation — Windows Installer doesn't even check for it. What does happen, however, is that the Add/Remove Programs (ARP) cont...
