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December 2007 - Posts

Creating Windows Installers: Changing the Installation Path Using Registry Search
Joshua Flanagan had a question about my Web Applications and Virtual Directories post. He asks: "Do you know of any way to query the default website root on the destination machine, so that you can use that as your target deployment folder? For example, Read More...
Creating Windows Installers: Web Applications and Virtual Directories
So far on our journey into building windows installers we have gone from just getting started to generating Wix content for all the files in your application . There is an important little something something missing from our toy installer. Pleats (fake Read More...
Creating Windows Installers : Generating Wix XML using Tallow
Now that our journey has begun and we have a basic Wix installer under our belt , we need to get the rest of our web application's files into the installer. Creating all the < Directory > and < Component > and < File > elements by hand Read More...
Creating Windows Installers Using WIX: The Journey Begins
We all use them. Installers. They help get that sexy, shiny, new software safely onto our PCs and into our lives letting us frolic and play. Later, if things go sour or if the thrill is gone the installer is still there to reverse the process to help Read More...
Trailing wildcards fail to %MATCH% text At the end of the field on Oracle9i
I have some software that generates SQL we support multiple versions of Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle. I ran into a failing test on Oracle today that was totally unexpected. [Test] public void Case_History_containing_a_queue_tag_should_be_destined_for_that_queue() Read More...
Installing ShoZu on a T-Mobile Dash with Windows Mobile 6
If you have a smart phone and like to use Flickr to share your photos look into ShoZu . ShoZu is a great way to move the pictures taken on your phone to the Flickr. You take a picture and it asks, Send To Flickr? If you have a data plan or the next time Read More...