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December 2005 - Posts

• WiX Tips and Tricks: Part 5 - Repair/Reinstall text is misleading in WiX v2.0.3309

  There is a slight, but glaring bug in the UI that is distributed with WiX v2.0.3309. If you have customised your own UI by darking an existing WiX-based MSI you'll need to hunt for the "MaintenanceTypeDlg" and look for these elements: < Control Id Read More... Posted 16 December 2005 13:42 by Stuart.Preston | 0 Comments

• WiX Tips and Tricks: Part 4 - "Squished" bitmap sizing and WiX v2.0.3309

  If you followed my custom WiX UI walkthrough yesterday and used "dark" to create a baseline UI you may notice that you get "squished banner graphics" on your dialogs. The reason for this appears to be that the "Width" and "Height" attributes on the dialog Read More... Posted 16 December 2005 12:10 by Stuart.Preston | 0 Comments

• WiX Tips and Tricks: Part 3 - Extracting the UI dialogs from WiX into their own fragment

  I have my own "recipe" for customising the UI for my WiX installer as we often need to add custom dialogs to the installation process. To create a baseline, I use the simplest MSI I can create and decompile it to get the baseline dialogs, as follows: Read More... Posted 15 December 2005 11:31 by Stuart.Preston | 2 Comments

• WPF/WinFX: "The calling thread may not access this object because the object is owned by a different thread."

  I was trying out the November CTP of the WinFX bits today, and came across a little gotcha with threading and updating UI elements from code behind. I thought I'd create a basic Xaml application and wire up a clock that updates every second and bind it Read More... Posted 11 December 2005 17:49 by Stuart.Preston | 0 Comments

• WiX Tips and Tricks: Part 2 - Tallow, Component GUID's and Uninstallation

  Included with the WiX toolset is a tool called Tallow. This tool is meant for the purpose of walking a directory tree to produce valid Fragments containing Directories, Components and Files. Unfortunately though, when using the tool you don't get a "Guid" Read More... Posted 10 December 2005 18:35 by Stuart.Preston | 0 Comments

• WiX Tips and Tricks: Part 1 - Installing a shortcut for "All Users"

  I've been using the excellent WiX a fair amount recently to create an installer for our Scrum plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio Team System , and will try and jot down a few hints and tips I've discovered along the way. The first one is a hint for when Read More... Posted 06 December 2005 21:28 by Stuart.Preston | 2 Comments