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January 2009 - Posts

Monday, January 19, 2009 11:15 AM

CustomActionGroup: Making your own grouping in SharePoint admin pages

CustomActionGroups are a way to group together CustomActions in your SharePoint admin pages.  Go figure!  I’m going to give you a quick example of how these things work. A CustomActionGroup looks like this: InfoPath Forms Services is the group,
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Monday, January 19, 2009 10:52 AM

Visual Studio’s Tab Ordering

Did you know… You can keep recently-used files from falling off the File Tab Channel? Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Friday, January 16, 2009 11:47 AM

Shift_Job

Just a quick note that my responsibilities in Atalasoft shift again from Build Czar –> DotImage Engineer –> Vizit Engineer –> Installer Czar –> Vizit Engineer.  So I am back on Vizit engineering again, and once again banging my head on
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 9:42 AM

Extending WiX Preprocessing: A few debug examples

This time we’ll talk about debugging that shiny new preprocessor code.  Since Visual Studio will lock your DLL when you use it to build something, the development cycle gets really slowed down by closing Visual Studio, editing/rebuilding your code,
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Monday, January 12, 2009 11:48 AM

Extending WiX Preprocessing: Getting at the WiX source as a preprocessor (with Reflection)

In my last blog post , I showed how easy it is to extend WiX, and make a simple preprocessor extension.  It barely went beyond the existing WiX preprocessor example, but it get’s you off the ground.  This time, I’d like to look at an available
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Monday, January 12, 2009 10:38 AM

Extending WiX Preprocessing: A ‘How-To’ with Reflection

The authors of WiX have made it easy for you to do some of your own preprocessing on your WiX files before they get handed to the compiler (hence PRE of ‘preprocessing’).  Aside from the regular preprocessor functions you can use (variable replacement,
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