Installation and containerization of the Visual Studio family of products
April 24, 2007Apr 24, 200704/24/07When installing Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1, users may see an error that reads,
Error 1718.File D:WINDOWSInstaller50baad.msp was rejected by digital signature policy.
I’ve published instructions to work around this issue using either the Management Console snap-in or the registry,
April 20, 2007Apr 20, 200704/20/07Rob Mensching, father of Windows Installer XML (WiX), blogs about why managed custom actions are a bad idea. Aaron Stebner follows up by saying (and has said before):
“Avoid custom actions entirely if at all possible.
“Investigate the WiX build-in custom actions if you find a setup action that is not natively supported in Windows Installer.
April 10, 2007Apr 10, 200704/10/07I have released Windows Installer PowerShell Extensions 1.0 beta, complete with an installer package. I have also added a couple of cmdlets, and format and type configurations for a good out-of-the-box experience when using the cmdlets Get-MSIProductInfo, Get-MSIPatchInfo, and Get-MSIRelatedProductInfo.
When I introduced PSMSI,
