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Comment on Questions on .NET I don’t expect answers to by Fiberglass flowers / Multithreading in WPF: getting started

Fiberglass flowers / Multithreading in WPF: getting started — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:39:11 +0000

[...] Can you think of any reason to do so? I can’t. It’s another “we’ll never know“. [...]

Comment on MSBuild bootstrapper for .NET 3.0 broken? by Victor Sergienko

Victor Sergienko — Mon, 19 May 2008 16:23:31 +0000

That’s easy.

1. Add WixNetFxExtension to references of installer project (that is, link with it).
2. Add to WXS file:

Installed OR NETFRAMEWORK30

Comment on MSBuild bootstrapper for .NET 3.0 broken? by Vidhya

Vidhya — Fri, 16 May 2008 09:47:22 +0000

I need your help on to get the setup of my wpf application using Wix 3.0

Is there a way to check if the system has .net framework 3.5 while installing?
If it is there, just install the appln without any error and if its not there,install .net 3.5 setup exe and then continue installing the application.

Can you tell me the steps for the same.

Can you tell me that what action/condition to do this?

Waiting for your reply.

Comment on Another C++ quiz, simpler by Fiberglass flowers / C++ quiz from the past

Fiberglass flowers / C++ quiz from the past — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:16:34 +0000

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Comment on Another C++ quiz, simpler by Victor Sergienko

Victor Sergienko — Tue, 13 May 2008 22:48:57 +0000

Both MSVC and gcc print:

B::f()
A::g()

which means member function pointer keeps both function address and VMT index.
And probably a flag telling if it’s virtual.

Comment on MSBuild bootstrapper for .NET 3.0 broken? by Victor Sergienko

Victor Sergienko — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:34:05 +0000

Probably more relevant URL to MSDN forums on deploying .NET

Comment on MSBuild bootstrapper for .NET 3.0 broken? by Victor Sergienko

Victor Sergienko — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:43:00 +0000

Thanks Simon.
ClickOnce is not my case, I do things via WiX and bootstrapper.
So here’s how it goes.
Thanks for you forum thread, I’ll try to distribute .NET from my site… though it’s not the way I’d like to spend bandwidth.

You gave me another idea, looks like MSBuild provides HomeSite attribute, but wrong one…

Comment on MSBuild bootstrapper for .NET 3.0 broken? by Simon

Simon — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:04:42 +0000

Yes, there’s some brokenness there, though I didn’t realize it was *that broken*
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3035288&SiteID=1

Comment on Choosing MSBuild/TeamBuild vs NAnt by Baptiston

Baptiston — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:12:34 +0000

favorited this one, man

Comment on WiX linkdump: samples and howto-s I found, mostly .NET deployment by Victor Sergienko

Victor Sergienko — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 06:01:35 +0000

Thanks Neil, sadly I’m not. I’m not much a speaker. Though, some day, probably.

Comment on WiX linkdump: samples and howto-s I found, mostly .NET deployment by Neil

Neil — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:55:01 +0000

Figured you might want to check out my new post on podcasting if your into that…yo

http://offtopic.neilrooney.com/archives/03/23/podcasting-made-easy-a-tutorial

Comment on Auto-update with WiX by Victor Sergienko

Victor Sergienko — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:21:28 +0000

Thank you.

I already came with own solution based on Updater 2 Application Block, will blog what I’m allowed to later.

I knew that thing about Advertise, it’s another example of complexity that wrapper should hide.

Comment on Auto-update with WiX by guest

guest — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:18:46 +0000

Other solution would be to use ClickOnce to deploy a package that consists of your own code to perform all service tasks related to upgrade along with MSP itself. This model is far from perfect, of course, starting from deploying and installing your own certificate, which expires one day, taking care of security and other crap…

P.S. If you can’t create a Program Menu shortcut, make sure you set “Advertise” property correctly for your shortcut.

Comment on NAnt vs MSBuild funnies by Neil Rooney

Neil Rooney — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:16:43 +0000

“”Hmm, I expected to find MVC and ORM there…”"

Thought it was a good article saying as a PDF download comes along with it give you the how to.

Comment on Choosing MSBuild/TeamBuild vs NAnt by Fiberglass flowers / NAnt vs MSBuild funnies

Fiberglass flowers / NAnt vs MSBuild funnies — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:11:58 +0000

[...] of our msbuild vs nant choice criteria is a product versioning [...]

Comment on Auto-update with WiX by Victor Sergienko

Victor Sergienko — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:39:05 +0000

Hi Ewart,
ClickThrough is not only limited in docs (”source is the doc”), but the source is incomplete and hardly functional. For now it is GOING to support only SmartClient and Office addon deployment.

The only nearly-working thing I found is Updater appblock. It’s well-designed and mostly functional, though I had to hack out all EntLib dependencies

I’ll blog about it in more detail when we’re done with the release I’m trying to install.

Comment on Auto-update with WiX by Victor Sergienko

Victor Sergienko — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:20:19 +0000

Thanks Wladimir, I just saw that only thing it has that I need - is a download() function in API - and decided I’d stick to more conventional do-it-yourself kits, like WiX.

Comment on Auto-update with WiX by Ewart

Ewart — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 03:20:23 +0000

Would be interested to hear how your auto-update solution works out, was about to look at wix ClickThrough myself… there seems to be limited doc’s.

cheers
ewart

Comment on Auto-update with WiX by Wladimir Mutel

Wladimir Mutel — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:13:35 +0000

NSIS is a pain as well, from my experience. Like to write in assembler for a weird virtual machine ? Go ahead :>

Comment on Questions on .NET I don’t expect answers to by Victor Sergienko

Victor Sergienko — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:00:06 +0000

My recent change to it…

public override bool ContainsKey(TKey key)
{
// return this.dictionary.ContainsKey(key);
if (!this.dictionary.ContainsKey(key)) return false;
WeakReference weakValue;
return (this.dictionary.TryGetValue(key, out weakValue));
}