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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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Tuesday, May 20, 2008 9:26 AM

Customizing the PathEdit and DirectoryCombo controls to validate path entries

My last post Common Tasks: Validating a Path received this comment from HookEm: Two of your 5 conditions can be handled without a custom action using the native MSI controls: "Must be less than 200 characters in length": see the Text property...
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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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