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Hacking the CAB for Smaller Patches

April 15, 2005 Apr 15, 2005 04/15/05
Heath Stewart
Working on 32- and 64-bit patch support for Developer Division projects like the .NET Framework 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005, I've been involved with many threads and in many meetings about the various scenarios and solutions for producing patches that target our supported platform architectures. .NET will ship in three different flavors ...

Windows Installer 3.1 Redistributable Available

April 12, 2005 Apr 12, 2005 04/12/05
Heath Stewart
Windows Installer 3.1 is now available as a redistributable from the Microsoft Download Center. Among the changes are support for MSIs targeting x64 platforms, which I described in a previous blog entry; some fixes for source resolution problems; and opt-in behavior for flyweight patching, which would've been a major burden for the Customer ...

We're Hiring

March 29, 2005 Mar 29, 2005 03/29/05
Heath Stewart
The Customer Product-Lifecycle Experience team - part of the Developer Division of Microsoft - is hiring full time software design engineers (SDEs). We're the team responsible for continuing support for products Developer Division has shipped, as well as a few other projects from Microsoft.We are responsible for not only the patch build system...

The Dangers of RunOnce and Run Registry Keys

March 6, 2005 Mar 6, 2005 03/6/05
Heath Stewart
A recent project I worked on was to replace functionality for part of our patching process that runs commands after reboot, a task not too uncommon for installers - most notably because files were in use when the installers ran. Typically when files are in use installers such as Windows Installer and many proprietary installers will schedule a...

x86 and ia64 and x64, oh my!

February 17, 2005 Feb 17, 2005 02/17/05
Heath Stewart
With the .NET Framework 2.0 now supporting 64-bit platforms, I have begun work on upgrading our patch build system to handle 64-bit patches. It's been quite an adventure down the yellow-brick road of 64 bitness that I think is worth sharing.Why does the .NET Framework need to support 64-bit platforms, though? While most IL modules ...

The Smart Client Revolution

October 6, 2004 Oct 6, 2004 10/6/04
Heath Stewart
MSDN TV has posted a video about .NET Smart Client Applications and "the buzz around the .NET Smart Client Application Revolution."Well, call me a revolutionary then since having architected such a large-scale solution during the .NET 1.0 RC2 I was doing ths several years ago. While I no longer work for the company I can attest that ...