April 2007 | Visual Studio Setup

Hotfix Published for KB925336

Heath StewartApril 24, 2007Apr 24, 200704/24/07

When 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, the latter including a sample batch script to automate VS...

Custom Action Guidelines

Heath StewartApril 20, 2007Apr 20, 200704/20/07

Rob 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): How do you know what's natively supported? Those who know me already know what I'm going to say: read the docs. The Windows Installer SDK has some information if you look for it...

Windows Installer PowerShell Extensions 1.0 Beta Released

Heath StewartApril 10, 2007Apr 10, 200704/10/07

I 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, you had to ...

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April 2007 | Visual Studio Setup

Hotfix Published for KB925336

Custom Action Guidelines

Windows Installer PowerShell Extensions 1.0 Beta Released

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