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Tuesday, September 02, 2008 12:26 PM

I'm a slacker!

I was reminded that I haven't posted in a while and that I've been a slacker. I profusely apologize and hereby seek to remedy that situation. So here's what I've been up to... Why should you avoid using the TypeLib table ? I have a customer...
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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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Monday, May 19, 2008 10:16 AM

Common Task: Validate a Path

The built-in dialog for selecting the Destination Folder will automatically do a certain amount of validation on the selected path. For example, if the user types in a path using a character that isn't allowed by Windows (such as a question mark ...
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Monday, April 14, 2008 8:04 PM

Build and test a simple DLL

Continuing with the walkthrough of making a DLL from my previous blog ... As a reminder, I'm following along with Chapter 19 (Dynamic Link Libraries) from Programming Windows 95 by Charles Petzold. I have a header file with a macro defined for exporting...
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Monday, April 14, 2008 8:01 PM

What the heck is a __declspec?

(Note: I’m using InstallShield 12 for my install development and Visual Studio 2005 for DLL development.) The goal is to learn to make a simple DLL that I can use in an MSI custom action. Today I started with the basics using a classic book that still...
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