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The Weird and The Wonderful forum is a place to post Coding Horrors, Worst Practices, and the occasional flash of brilliance.

We all come across code that simply boggles the mind. Lazy kludges, embarrassing mistakes, horrid workarounds and developers just not quite getting it. And then somedays we come across - or write - the truly sublime.

Post your Best, your worst, and your most interesting. But please - no programming questions . This forum is purely for amusement and discussions on code snippets. All actual programming questions will be removed.

 
GeneralRe: Why care about descriptive names? Pin
Lutosław16-Oct-13 22:03
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Richard Deeming15-Oct-13 12:11
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I'm not sure if there's a complete list anywhere, but the heuristics are documented on MSDN:

Installer Detection only applies to:
  • 32 bit executables
  • Applications without a requestedExecutionLevel
  • Interactive processes running as a Standard User with LUA enabled

Before a 32 bit process is created, the following attributes are checked to determine whether it is an installer:
  • Filename includes keywords like "install," "setup," "update," etc.
  • Keywords in the following Versioning Resource fields: Vendor, Company Name, Product Name, File Description, Original Filename, Internal Name, and Export Name.
  • Keywords in the side-by-side manifest embedded in the executable.
  • Keywords in specific StringTable entries linked in the executable.
  • Key attributes in the RC data linked in the executable.
  • Targeted sequences of bytes within the executable.

Note The keywords and sequences of bytes were derived from common characteristics observed from various installer technologies.




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Bernhard Hiller15-Oct-13 20:19
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GeneralWhats wrong with this code??? Pin
Ankush Bansal14-Oct-13 20:50
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OriginalGriff14-Oct-13 22:22
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