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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 trying to consume a merge module that we produce...

Posted to Lifestyle of the MSIdle (Weblog) by SusanGorman on 09-02-2008
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 the function. Now I need to declare my function...

Posted to Lifestyle of the MSIdle (Weblog) by SusanGorman on 04-14-2008
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 has relevance today: Programming Windows 95 by Charles...

Posted to Lifestyle of the MSIdle (Weblog) by SusanGorman on 04-14-2008

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