Tuesday, 18. November 2003
back to c++ win32; msi files and Guid's
krol, 00:08h
Had to do a Screensaver – so back to good old c++ and win32 API for some days, and back to some old code – always a funny think to do.
It worked surprisingly good but on the end I had to do the Installer. Visual Studio can’t do a Component Dialog and don’t want to use Wise or so - so I started editing the msi file by hand (yes with orca) worked but the Visual Studio guys used GUID’s for almost everything, easy for them but I hate them for this – just try to compare 40 of them. So finally I end up exporting some Tables to Excel wrote some Makros …
It worked surprisingly good but on the end I had to do the Installer. Visual Studio can’t do a Component Dialog and don’t want to use Wise or so - so I started editing the msi file by hand (yes with orca) worked but the Visual Studio guys used GUID’s for almost everything, easy for them but I hate them for this – just try to compare 40 of them. So finally I end up exporting some Tables to Excel wrote some Makros …
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