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Mar 31, 2006
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Opening Patch Files when Compiled for Unicode

Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart

If you want to open a .msp file with the Windows Installer APIs, you must pass to the function, or (110) is returned. Below is the definition of both and from msiquery.h in the Windows Installer SDK.#define MSIDBOPEN_READONLY (LPCTSTR)0#define MSIDBOPEN_PATCHFILE 32/sizeof(*MSIDBOPEN_READONLY) is defined as when is defined, which is defined ...

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Mar 29, 2006
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Update on Problems with the Palm Treo 700w

Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart

I previously mentioned some problems I was having with the Palm Treo 700w and that these were not isolated issues. After several calls and more research I have a few updates.A lot of referrals came in from a thread about the SMS text messaging issue for the Palm Treo 700w on the Verizon network. Text messages are sent to tell Pocket Outlook to syn...

Personal
Mar 27, 2006
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Specifying the Code Page for Patch Tables

Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart

Code pages describe a character set. In MSI Databases and Code Pages I described how Windows Installer databases use a code page for the string pool, as well that the summary information stream uses its own code page in (1) to describe strings in the summary information stream. There is a bug, however, when creating a .msp patch database from a .p...

Installation
Mar 26, 2006
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Problems with the Palm Treo 700w

Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart

I bought a Palm Treo 700w a short while ago and for the most part have been loving it. It combines Palm's great hardware with Microsoft Windows Mobile programming and great user interface. All this hasn't been without its problems, though.When I set up ActiveSync on the device to work withour corporate Exchange server I set the off-peak synchroniza...

Personal
Mar 24, 2006
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Identifying Administrative Installation Patches

Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart

Windows Installer has the ability to create administrative installations, which is a copy of the .msi database and files that have been expanded into a source directory structure. These administrative installations can easily be deployed using Active Directory group policy deployment among other things, such as creating patches since PatchWiz.dll...

Installation
Mar 21, 2006
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Formatting Properties

Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart

A frequently asked question is about why property values in the Property table aren't formatted when the values contain properties themselves, such as:[ProductName] is copyright by [Manufacturer].The reason these property values aren't formatted is because the Value column type is simply Text, not Formatted. Other formattable column types exist, in...

Installation
Mar 15, 2006
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Building with Wix.Targets

Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart

I've been away for a while working on a high priority issue that I'll discuss in detail soon, as well as investigating a common issue regarding 32- and 64-bit installations about which I'll write a new series of posts. For much of that work I've been using Windows Installer XML, or WIX, which allows me to build Windows Installer packages, merge mod...

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