One of the really useful Visual Studio add-ins is Smart Paster. It adds a "Paste As." context menu that allows you to paste in the clipboard text as a comment, a correctly quoted string or a string builder. There are versions for VS 2003, 2005 and 2008. But not 2010. Sometimes you can just copy in the dll and addin file into the VS 2010 Addins folder (.\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Addins) and edit the addin file (it's just xml) to...
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June 17, 2010
Recently, I had a customer want to launch a webpage when the final installation dialog was presented. Obviously the original request was for a traditional web page link shown by the traditional underscored phrase. No version of InstallShield supports this feature – although in the Release Notes for InstallShield 2010, there is a mention of being able to embed a hyperlink within a dialog. For for all of you who are not up-to-date...
June 17, 2010
One of the options that was available to you with installations prior to Windows Installer emergence was the ability to rerun an installation multiple times. By this I mean running the setup again without entering Maintenance Mode – as if it had never been run before. You can still use InstallShield to create an InstallScript using the option and then select the Multi-Instance option which lets your end users rerun an installation...