Creating patches for minor upgrades can be a real pain. The documentation for MsiMps.exe/PatchWiz.dll or WiX patching is missing a lot of detail and the error messages the tools give back are not enough. The responses and fixes are scattered on the internet or on the WiX mailing lists.
More …Long Qian has a great blog post about how to put tags on Github pages. While following the steps suggested by him, I saw, that the tag_generator script was written in python. Since I did not have a python compiler installed on my windows machine, I thought it should be easy to convert to a Powershell script.
More …When creating a ContextMenu programatically, this class only accepts MenuItem items. Adding a Separator ( < Separator /> ) as one would do in XAML does not work. To add a separator line is actually quite easy, but you have to know to create a MenuItem with the parameter ”-“ as string.
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