Installation and containerization of the Visual Studio family of products
May 19, 2006May 19, 200605/19/06The
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.
May 12, 2006May 12, 200605/12/06I’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 my blog.
May 11, 2006May 11, 200605/11/06One 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.
