Installation and containerization of the Visual Studio family of products
August 20, 2014Aug 20, 201408/20/14Four years ago I published a utility to help perform a clean uninstall of Visual Studio 2010. Before we added package reference counting and related bundles to Visual Studio setup, we couldn’t always be sure which products were still required so not everything was removed.
January 28, 2009Jan 28, 200901/28/09Windows Installer supports advertising features to enable users to later install those features on demand. But Windows Installer may advertise features in when a component is removed from a feature through obsolescence or supersedence. This will leave the product in a broken state while reporting that the patch installed successfully.
January 27, 2009Jan 27, 200901/27/09The attached Windows Script file allows you to unadvertise features in a Windows Installer product by specifying either a ProductCode or the path to an MSP. If any features are advertised – whether incidental or intentional – the product will be reinstalled and those features added locally to your computer.
November 1, 2007Nov 1, 200711/1/07In many languages, some variables can take a value of different types but with the same meaning. Variants in script, for example, can take 0 or false; or they can take any non-zero value and true. The following JScript example prints “Same”.
May 31, 2007May 31, 200705/31/07Windows Script custom actions should be avoided. They are difficult to debug, get blocked by virus scanners, and are far more susceptible to machine state than native custom actions. That is indicated by Windows Installer error messages 2738 and 2739, which read:
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March 7, 2007Mar 7, 200703/7/07Attached is the JavaScript I used to customize this http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths.
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November 21, 2005Nov 21, 200511/21/05Not satisfied by the search feature provided by Community Server I’ve again created some helpful JavaScript classes this time using object-oriented JavaScript to define a basic search provider and to subclass that for specialized providers like MSN Search.
I defined several private properties and several privileged methods that can access those private properties,
September 20, 2005Sep 20, 200509/20/05JScript.NET was created to be compatible with JScript while benefiting from and providing access to more robust features of the .NET Framework. If you’re accustomed to more oft-used managed languages like C# and VB.NET, catching different types of exception classes should be no stranger.
September 12, 2005Sep 12, 200509/12/05As mentioned earlier, I wanted to persist your preferences for whether certain collapsible panels were in the collapsed or expanded state. With a simple ECMA-compliant wrapper class around document.cookie and a few minor changes to the CollapsiblePanel class, state for unique panels can be remembered.
September 12, 2005Sep 12, 200509/12/05In my seemingly never-ending quest to provide a simple, compact, yet stylish design for this blog I have recently made a customization based on what Josh Ledgard did sometime back to make collapsible panels, though I wanted something more easily reusable. I whipped together an ECMAScript —
