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Thursday, September 04, 2008 4:18 PM

Common Task: Optionally Cleanup User Data on Uninstall

This is a common scenario... Your application, when it runs, creates log files, registry entries, and customized data files on the machine. These are files that were not installed by the installer. Therefore when you go to uninstall, these files would...
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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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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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