Category Archives: microsoft

Web Application installations with Wix…. Awesome

This week I set off with the goal of making one of our web applications alot easier to deploy. The tools I chose were -

Web Application Installer (WAI)

Wix (Windows Installer XML)
WixEdit

I’d played with all three before but never really got past prototype stage. I’ve spent the last day learning wix and all the elements relevant [...]

Software I’ve paid for

Sparked by a conversation on LugRadio about what software you’ve ever purchased. It got me thinking about what I’ve paid for. It’s been recently that I’ve purchased the most

Windows XP – 2 copies of
Acronis Workstation
Visual Studio 2005
Resharper
Suse 7.2 and some other later that version I can’t remember
SkEdit (I think)
Peepcode RoR Screencasts
Various donations to OS projects
I’m [...]

Visual Studio 2008 upgrade

Well this will be a short one………………. it’s very disappointing.

You can’t CTRL+F or CTRL+SHIFT+F will crash the IDE.
Editing any CSS file will crash your IDE….ANY CSS file.
Teeam explorer’s ‘Queue New Build’ doesn’t queue them at all. It’s the exact same as it used to be (see screenshot below).
It’s slow even on a dual core XEON [...]