Visual Studio Setup

Installation and containerization of the Visual Studio family of products

May 2006 - Visual Studio Setup

File Sequencing and How Files are Located

May 19, 2006 May 19, 2006 05/19/06
Heath Stewart
The File table in a Windows Installer package has a Sequence column that begins with 1. Besides determining in what order files are to be installed, this column serves another, relatively more important function: determining where the source files are located.In concert with the Media table, a range of sequence numbers identify in which ...

Posting from Word 2007

May 12, 2006 May 12, 2006 05/12/06
Heath Stewart
I’ve been using primarily Microsoft FrontPage 2003 to author blogs because, like many people, even the reduced HTML output of Word 2003 and older wasn’t clean and tidy and was often difficult to stylize in CSS. This also made it a pain to copy and paste code samples from Visual Studio into Word in order to get HTML to then paste in...

Paint.NET 2 Go

May 11, 2006 May 11, 2006 05/11/06
Heath Stewart
One nice thing about managed applications is the push for touch-free application deployment. Paint.NET is a perfect example of a relatively powerful application that can simply be copied to any machine with the required .NET Framework version installed and then executed. With the recent release of Paint.NET v2.62 I wanted to take advantage of ...