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July 2006 - Visual Studio Setup

Virtual PC 2004 SP1 Now Free

July 12, 2006 Jul 12, 2006 07/12/06
Heath Stewart
Earlier today, Microsoft announced that Virtual PC 2004 SP1 is now free to download, and that Virtual PC 2007 will be free when released. Earlier this year Virtual Server 2005 R2 was made available for free download as well.Virtualization is great when testing Windows Installer packages and patches for installation and maintenance scenarios. I...
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Why a Custom Action May Not Run

July 11, 2006 Jul 11, 2006 07/11/06
Heath Stewart
When it appears that a custom action in your install package or patch isn't executing, you have to consider a couple of reasons. If the action has a condition in the Condition column of InstallUISequence table, the InstallExecuteSequence table, or any of the other sequence tables, the condition may have evaluated to False. In a verbose log ...