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InstallAware Runtime Authoring

It is nice to see InstallAware 7 bundled lots of runtimes. As a result, you can easily add .NET runtimes and other into your installer. The magic is that the runtimes can be included in one executa...

Who Should Support Mono?

In fact, Microsoft should support Mono. And it does something now! Mono project now has something called Moonlight runtime which enables Silverlight on Mac OS and Linux. Also there is a Lunar Eclip...

Product Review: Visual Intercept and SourceGear Vault

You can check the result of poll on this blog right now: I am asking if you’d like to use a .NET application. The result shows more people prefer not. Yes, binding to .NET Framework means you cann...

Product Review: Eclipse vs. Visual Studio

I subsribed to Slashdot.org last month. Since then I have been enjoying those discussions. What is that latest hot discussion? Check the title and you know it. However, it is hard to compare the t...

GrapeVine Voice: Missing Feature

I am a guy who always tries something new. As a result, I want to be notified of every important updates. RSS and Google Reader helps me a lot these days. However, there are still some products fai...

Ribbon Everywhere?

Microsoft spends four years on Office 2007. Yes, four years is such a long time. However, what makes you WoW? Just Ribbon UI and XML file format are two important things I notice. Even though the n...

Inno Setup and ISPP

Inno Setup provides 90% features you need to create a standard and powerful installer while 10% features you may want are missing. For me, I hate to hard code version strings in the script and upda...

GrapeVine Voice: Installer Again

When I published this post, I did not expect ISPP changed most of things easily. What is ISPP? ISPP is Inno Setup Pre-Processor. From its name you can guess what it does. Yep, it preprocesses you...