Does knowing C make you a better programmer?
Joel and Jeff had a conversation about the merits of knowing how to program in C. Joel’s take was knowing how to program in C makes you a better program. I...
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Ack! The Windows Installer does not permit installation from a Remote Desktop Connection
I’m testing a installer that I had migrated from Wise For Windows to InstallAware. I testing the installer from inside a virtual machine. I used do it with V...
IPv6 and Vista
The other day, I read a post that Carl Franklin had made on his blog about a new Vista laptop that he had to buy on short notice. The gist of his post that ...
Checking for the presence of .Net Framework 2.0 SP1
Installware has a lot of built in support for checking for the presence of the various flavors of the .NET Framework. In it’s current incarnation, 7.5, it d...
InstallAware doesn’t automatically remove assemblies from the GAC at uninstall time
I am updating the installer for one of our products to check for the presence of the SP1 version of the .NET 2.0 Framework, when I noticed something odd. Th...