I recently had the pleasurable and painful experience of learning WiX to build a windows installer for a Windows Mobile application. The pain came first: there is quite a learning curve to both WiX and the underlying Windows Installer technology; and the documentation is a little thin on WiX 3, the latest version as I [...] Read more »

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The other day I was grabbing screenshots from an app I’m working on. I noticed a huge visual problem with a a list in the product: in a one-column ListView in Details view, each item’s text was truncated, as though the column’s width was just left to the default of 20 pixels (this is in [...] Read more »

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The .NET framework is huge, but not so huge that it does everything for everyone; there are things that they in Redmond miss or don’t do for whatever reason but is still generally applicable to many developers. So, dear reader, I present to you a new series of posts on stuff I find missing in [...] Read more »

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The .NET framework is huge, but not so huge that it does everything for everyone; there are things that they in Redmond miss or don’t do for whatever reason but is still generally applicable to many developers. So, dear reader, I present to you a new series of posts on stuff I find missing in [...] Read more »

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The .NET framework is huge, but not so huge that it does everything for everyone; there are things that they in Redmond miss or don’t do for whatever reason but is still generally applicable to many developers. So, dear reader, I present to you a new series of posts on stuff I find missing in [...] Read more »

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