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I was just contacted by a home user who wanted to know if she could access a Silverlight application from home on her Macintosh computer. I told her to give it a try. A few minutes later she sent me a very nice email just pleased as she could be that she didn't have to make the trip into work to complete a tiny 10 minute chore before leaving for vacation. It was a wonderful warm & fuzzy moment.
Yesterday I had a user all excited about the fact that they can sort a data grid by two or more columns by holding the shift key. Magic that works right out of the box. No other applications that we have are able to work that tiny miracle so easily.
With Silverlight I have the means to quickly deliver an identical experience to people across a wide variety of platforms - my customers like it and I as a developer enjoy the environment.
I guess with all that success there is no better time for Microsoft to abandon the technology and chase after the steaming pile of bullshit that is the HTML stack. Hell, I love the idea of learning a dozen different languages and technologies just so I can deliver a crappy, inconsistent product to my customers. Yeah, that's a winning plan. I so look forward to the standards being finalized in 8 more years.... that's progress.
PRO TIP FOR MICROSOFT: Vision isn't following other's lead. Vision is often recognizing that you've the winning hand right NOW and simply going with it. Retards.
And yes, I know I've posted similar rants before.
It still makes me mad though.
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Wanna guess what album was playing into my headphones when I opened that link? 
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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Ah, a true connoisseur 
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Hi OriginalGriff,
I can't name the album, but I wonder if the song might have been "I hate myself for loving you," by, who was that singer: one of the Jetsons Family; Joan ... Joanie ?
By the way, I just checked on NameCheap.com, and originalgriff.com, and aboriginalgriff.com are both available domains.
yours, Bill
"We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough."
Niels Bohr's comment to Wolfgang Pauli, after Pauli presented Heisenberg's and Pauli's nonlinear field theory of elementary particles, at Columbia University, 1958.
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I think it was Joan Jett[^] who sang "I hate myself for loving you" (and the "American Chopper" theme tune "Bad reputation"), but no, it was Sharon Den Adel using her wonderful voice on "Why not me". And she was singing "Fire and Ice" when I clicked the link.
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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Well... I just found out that Visual Studio 2012 has no Setup Project template integrated...
Your possibilities are: Install a commercial product or search for any other possibility to install something...
Why the f*** did they drop the visual studio installer project?? for any simple project I made it provided everything I needed and was easy to use...
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WiX[^]?
Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
2.0.82.7292 SP6a
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Hm. Do you know how I can create a SetupProject for an Office 2013 addin using WiX?? 
(Somehow the AddIn Project won't show up in the Add Reference Dialog of the WiX Setup Project)
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Add Project Reference?
Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
2.0.82.7292 SP6a
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AddIn Project does not show up in the add reference dialog... 
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There should be a 'Project' tab at the top of that dialog. Both projects have to be in the same solution for the 'Add Project Reference' function to, well, function.
Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
2.0.82.7292 SP6a
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Yeah... it should be there... but... the project doesn't show up there ... I suppose that's because the AddIn Project is declared as Class Library Project and hasn't an executable.
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It should still work. Not sure why it doesn't.
Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
2.0.82.7292 SP6a
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Strangely, it works for me. What versions of VS and WiX are you using? Do you have the latest updates?
Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
2.0.82.7292 SP6a
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They outsourced the installer to WiX. This move has been in the planning since roughly 2006 from what I can tell.
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So that's why they had something going on with InstallShield LE?
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The LE means Look Elsewhere.
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Like Windows NT, the NT really stood for Not There, instead of New Technology?
Psychosis at 10
Film at 11
Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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They dropped it because it was a piece of crap that was better handled by other FREE products.
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Because Windows Installer is an abomination before God, and the real reason the Pope retired today.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I completely agree. I am also upset with that decision. I liked their installation product. It interfaced well with VS and it worked.
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