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Bob Arnson on setup and servicing with WiX and MSI. Getting shelf space in the Store. Reading the Windows Store for developers blog. Still, it’s better than nothing — the Windows Store is likely to have a lot of window shoppers looking to buy apps. However, a hurdle to get an app listing page is that the app must pass “certification.” In the past, this was known as the Windows Logo program and had many pages of technical requirements. In Windows 8, the list is much smaller. If Windows 8 certification is ...
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Feature conditions and UI – Joy of Setup
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Bob Arnson on setup and servicing with WiX and MSI. Feature conditions and UI. A question that’s come up on the. Several times lately has been about how to use feature conditions with properties set in the UI. It doesn’t work as most people expect so I thought I’d dig a little deeper than I would in a bunch of replies on the mailing list. The easiest way to get this working is to use MSI’s built-in SelectionTree control. The thrust of this question, though, is generally about using some other UI, like ch...
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Peter Marcu's Blog. Neil Sleightholm's Blog. Words about setup, build, development and localization. July 20, 2012. Comments No Comments on Writing A Parallel Update. Writing A Parallel Update. This document describes how to write a patch that lives outside the usual servicing strategy. It is assumed the reader already understand the use and creation of service packs and cumulative updates. In the MSBuild project file, change the generated patch file name as usual. The format is. For example, Studio-Cert...
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Robohelp 8 command line build failing | Wix Lyrical
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Peter Marcu's Blog. Neil Sleightholm's Blog. Words about setup, build, development and localization. April 2, 2013. Comments No Comments on Robohelp 8 command line build failing. Robohelp 8 command line build failing. Today I was faced with the dreaded :-. EXEC : error : Failed to scan all the project files. Please use RoboHelp to recover the project. [E: Builds 40 100 BuildType TFSBuild.proj]. This entry was posted in MSBuild. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Notify me of new comment...
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Parsing formulas in c# | Wix Lyrical
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Peter Marcu's Blog. Neil Sleightholm's Blog. Words about setup, build, development and localization. January 22, 2013. Comments No Comments on Parsing formulas in c#. Parsing formulas in c#. For the first part of my first windows phone application (a set of RPG utilities) I decided to create a way of managing dice rolls. While this seems to be something that there are several of in the windows store nothing gave me the basic functionality that I wanted. Access to basic RPG dice d20, d6 etc. Then I found ...
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Shortcuts as tiles on windows 8 | Wix Lyrical
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Peter Marcu's Blog. Neil Sleightholm's Blog. Words about setup, build, development and localization. February 5, 2013. Comments 1 Comment on Shortcuts as tiles on windows 8. Shortcuts as tiles on windows 8. If you install shortcuts to the start menu they will appear as a tile on windows 8 using the shortcut’s icon and title. Some of the shortcuts may be on the main windows 8 start menu and some may be hidden under All Apps (right click anywhere that isn’t a tile to see the all apps option). Wix xmlns=htt...
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Virtualization – Joy of Setup
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Bob Arnson on setup and servicing with WiX and MSI. Windows Virtual PC: Good, bad, ugly. On the same day Microsoft released the Windows 7 RC to MSDN and TechNet subscribers. It also released a beta of. Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode. The former is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike the Virtual PC you already know. You might already be using Hyper-V. Microsoft’s hypervisor-based, take-no-prisoners/competitors server virtualization technology. Personally, I prefer using a client OS, e...That me...
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Bob Arnson on setup and servicing with WiX and MSI. Experimental results part II. It’s been four-plus months since Experimental results part I. All reports point to The Experiment. The Windows Installer XML variable ‘WixUICostingPopupOptOut’ is declared in more than one location. Please remove one of the declarations. You can opt back in to the disk-costing dialog box by providing a value of 0:. WixVariable Id=”WixUICostingPopupOptOut” Value=”0″ /. Look for this change in next Friday’s builds. Coming in ...
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Flight Simulator – Joy of Setup
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Bob Arnson on setup and servicing with WiX and MSI. Flight Simulator X Service Pack 2 available–and how to work around common problems. We shipped Service Pack 2 for Flight Simulator X on Friday. ( Get the downloads from fsinsider.com. See Phil Taylor’s blog entries for more details. Service Pack 2 contains the same set of fixes as in. 8216;s new aircraft or missions. Service Pack 2 requires the registry data that the original RTM and SP1 installers write. (It uses the data in the registry to find th...
