Jerry Dennany's Occasional Clue

My new favorite line of code:

The PDC 'scheduler' is out - visit http://commnet.microsoftpdc.com.

Well, apparently my PDC letter worked.

Dear <Boss>:

 Credit goes to Michael Trantow for the following:

After all of these years, the Win32 API still does not provide a mechanism for updating a System or User Environment Variable.

One more complaint about Windows Installer DLL Custom Actions.  If an entry point is not found, then Windows Installer generates a generic error, 1723.  This is pretty much the same error for any problem running the DLL.  As it's pretty simple for the Windows Installer team to know if the dll entry point wasn't found, why couldn't they generate a more explicit error message, or even log more detailed information in the MSI log?

This is more of a Windows Installer complaint, but since WiX and Windows Installer are so closely linked, I feel justified making these comments.