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Windows Services, services.msc and the "This Service is marked for deletion" error.
In my current project, we have a windows service that we are developing and debugging, which involves a lot of installing/uninstalling the service. One common problem when uninstalling a service is that while the uninstallation is successful, you still...

Posted Wednesday, September 05, 2007 12:14 PM by Avner Kashtan | 21 comment(s)

Custom ConfigurationSectionHandlers in InstallerClasses
I'm writing an installer class for an MSI Setup Project, and find myself needing to manipulate my web.config containing a custom ConfigurationSection. This should be trivial seeing as my SectionHandler code is bundled with the rest of the application...

Posted Monday, May 07, 2007 10:02 AM by Avner Kashtan | 2 comment(s)

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InstallerClasses and little-known gems.
I'm writing an Installer class for an MSI installer project, and passing a checkbox's value from the MSI UI. I noticed that when I pass the checkbox's linked variable into my code, it's received as a string, and not only a string - the possible values...

Posted Sunday, May 06, 2007 6:55 PM by Avner Kashtan | with no comments

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