minor installer tweak

benyaboy · February 22, 2011, 4:52pm

I’m recommending that all vendors fix minor oversights on their installers. The Thinkbox one’s are pretty good.
You can set these properties to prevent the “utility” executables from showing up as newly install programs or polluting the start menu.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd391568(VS.85).aspx

Thanks,
Ben.

benyaboy · February 22, 2011, 4:54pm

I also noticed that this BB software doesn’t auto-parse urls with dots in the middle of the link.

B.

anon58450692 · February 22, 2011, 5:13pm

Thanks Ben, I had no idea this even existed! That being said, I suspect it will be less than fun to translate this into the appropriate WiX code. Curse you installers and your complexity!

JohnnyRandom · February 22, 2011, 5:38pm

ahh the days gone by of ye ole’ drag-and-drop

paul · February 22, 2011, 5:54pm

Thanks for mentioning this! I think it should be fixed in the next build.

I wonder if we should provide a .zip file without any installer for use at larger sites?