Installation and containerization of the Visual Studio family of products
April 28, 2006Apr 28, 200604/28/06The first update that Palm provided for the Treo 700w wasn’t available for long. Soon after I posted about at least one problem with the installation process the update was pulled.
I have been informed that the updater is back up and,
April 25, 2006Apr 25, 200604/25/06I’m been using the
Windows RSS Platform provided for down-level systems with Internet Explorer
7 for a while, but every so often a few blog posts from our
MSDN aggregated feed contain
markup or links that cause problems, such as absolute-positioned <DIV>s
and image sources on servers requiring authentication.
April 22, 2006Apr 22, 200604/22/06Palm has
released an
update to address many of the problems I
mentioned
previously as well as other issues. While this update is to address problems with the Treo 700w, the
update itself had several problems.
The first problem I encountered and likely many others will is that when you
run setup.exe per instructions you might see a dialog like the one below.
April 20, 2006Apr 20, 200604/20/06Installing a Windows Installer product package requires a certain amount of space on disk, even if all the installation is doing is running a custom action. Besides file costing and other actions typically sandwiched between the CostInitialize and CostFinalize standard actions,
April 14, 2006Apr 14, 200604/14/06Last June before the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 shipped, I discussed how during administrative installations some 64-bit files overwrote some 32-bit files and I provided a transform to fix the issue. I filed a bug and the issue was fixed before .NET 2.0 shipped.
April 7, 2006Apr 7, 200604/7/06Aaron Stebner
posted
some sample code to detect whether the .NET Framework 1.0, 1.1, or 2.0 were
installed and at what service pack level they are. Basically, the .NET Framework
installation writes a common, version-specific registry key in the following
location along with an SP level registry value.
April 7, 2006Apr 7, 200604/7/06Previously I discussed conceptually how to extract files from a patch, mentioning that the transforms contained within patches are stored as sub-storages and the cabinets that contain the files are stored as sub-streams. I’ve had a tool for a while that extracts the transforms and cabinets from a .msp file and wanted to share the slightly modified source for public consumption.
April 5, 2006Apr 5, 200604/5/06Back in January 2005, a former employee and friend of mine, Nick Parker, was awarded as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for his contributions to the same site where I haunted and got my MVP shortly before I joined Microsoft. He and another former employee and friend helped start and currently serve on the board of the Iowa .NET User Group in central Iowa.
April 4, 2006Apr 4, 200604/4/06After both Verizon Wireless first and second tier support, and even Palm support told me that the Palm Treo 700w must not support stereo – which, of course, doesn’t sound conclusive – I heard from both internal distribution lists and external forums that the Treo does,
