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Installation and containerization of the Visual Studio family of products
December 15, 2005Dec 15, 200512/15/05If you’re developing
custom actions for Windows Installer or a bootstrapper in Visual Studio
2005, or utilizing the
resiliency and
install-on-demand features of Windows Installer in your product developed
in Visual Studio 2005, you might get link errors for Windows Installer
functions.
December 14, 2005Dec 14, 200512/14/05When problems occur when installing, repairing or patching, or uninstalling a product using Windows Installer technology, you need to be able to figure out what happened and why it happened. Dialogs that occur when the user interface is displayed can be helpful sometimes,
December 14, 2005Dec 14, 200512/14/05Looking through my referrals for common queries that lead people to my blogs, I noticed several recently from http://www.installsite.org/ and was pleased to see this blog listed in Stefan’s related blogs. InstallSite.org has been run by Stefan Krueger for many years,
December 2, 2005Dec 2, 200512/2/05When discussing the Windows Installer cache, I mentioned how cabinet streams are stripped from the .msi file when the Windows Installer package is cached, and how this is a contributing factor to prompts for source. A prompt for source will occur when repairing or patching a product if the source for a file to reinstalled is not present.
