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Posts that deal with the various issues I've encountered when trying to make the software on my machine work on some other machine

Automating MSI Changes - How not to have to use Orca each time you do a release

As I noted in an earlier post, I am a large non-fan of InstallShield for a number of reasons, which can be boiled down to it being a problem riddled overly expensive exercise in frustration.  I guess in their defense it could be said that I'm not Read More

Custom Serial Number Validation

For various reasons I hate InstallShield, and am willing to invest the extra effort in combining Orca with Visual Studio Deployment project to get the results I want.  Recently, I confronted the fact that the serial number validation that is available Read More