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Tuesday, July 01, 2008 9:25 AM

What to do when there's nothing to do?

I'm in one of this situations where the product is in Beta, stable but not yet actually released. Therefore the codebase is locked down such that only the most pressing code changes are allowed to get checked in. In the ideal situation we'd have...
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 11:04 AM

What are the common install tasks?

Out-of-the-box (meaning the default Basic MSI project) your Basic MSI installer project is already capable of handling most of the standard installation actions. But what are some of the common features that you might want to add to the installer project...
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Friday, May 02, 2008 8:44 AM

Basic Introduction to InstallShield and Windows Installer

The scenario here is that the previous install developer won the lottery and ran off to Bimini with his girlfriend, leaving YOU the job of taking over a dozen different InstallShield 12 install projects. Let's assume you know very little about installer...
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