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I see what you did there.
Thanks
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What did he do ? Every good boy deserves a favour
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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pkfox wrote: Every Good Boy Deserves a Favour
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My father was a pro musician and was kind enough to share the talent with me - I could read music before I started school - never used it except to learn something I've never heard.
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I have tried at various times to learn but have never made much progress. Sadly the only music lessons I received at school were from people who could not teach.
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Yes I know what you mean - my teachers in general were very good when I was in North Wales but when we relocated to the South of England it all went wrong - I was about three years ahead of what they were teaching in the South so consequently lost interest in education and left school at fifteen with no qualifications except street knowledge ( which has stood me in good stead ) I basically educated myself after school finished in what they used to call Technical College ( 3 days a week at work and two in college for seven years ) and ended up with City and Guilds in Mech Eng and an HNC in the same
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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pkfox wrote: when I was in North Wales
Whereabouts? I lived in Prestatyn in the 50s, and went to the Grammar School in Rhyl.
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Caernarfon, Segontium School ( named after a roman fort nearby ) have relatives in Rhuddlan just outside Rhyl - one of my distant relatives used to have a stall on Rhyl fair
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Artistic licence? Granted by virtue of the smiley!
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Back when I was doing music it was 'Every good boy deserves fruit'. The only other one I can remember is the bass clef, 'All cows eat grass'.
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I used a commercial software to build my installer for my Windows apps. one app is written in C++ and another is written in C#.
I felt my commercial software too powerful for my small apps. now start to research alternatives.
Would any experts like to share your thoughts and experiences?
diligent hands rule....
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Tried to write an installer in C#, but that was not such a good idea, also tried Click-Once install but as our software needs admin rights that was not a good idea either.
So we stick with the trusted Inno Setup installer, it does score quite well on Slant too:
installers-for-windows-programs[^]
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InnoSetup is the best choice! Works great. Easy (relatively) to use. Free.
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Win32 API has (a now not recommended) section of Setup API we used to create our own installer. Today we use the newer Installer API (MSI) to do the same.
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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I used to use Inno Setup. Free and flexible enough for my needs at the time.
My current app doesn't actually require an installer. I use ClickOnce publishing to get all the files and dependent libraries. These days it's basically copy and paste deployment.
I wrote my own updater though which only downloads new and changed files.
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I use Inno Setup to initially install applications.
For updates I created a dll and class Application Auto-update via Online Files in C#[^]
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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this link is great resource
diligent hands rule....
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You're welcome, it's kind of simple but it works and gives you complete control.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I use WiX for my work and personal project. But beware there is a learning curve to its XML syntax. If your application just include an executable, few dlls and images, the WiX template can be easily modified to your needs. As someone mentioned above, WiXSharp is a better alternative to raw WiX.
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Just curious, I see you asking questions about digitally signing program and building installer. Are you writing an application for sale like me? In all my current and previous jobs, I do not have access to their certificate to sign their application, so I know nothing about the signing process, only when I tried to do so for my application that I learnt.
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yes, ready to sell my apps!
diligent hands rule....
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I second Wix. Integrates nicely with Visual Studio.
And for smaller projects, I kinda like Nullsofts NSIS installer[^].
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. Mark Twain
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NullSoft link is great source for me. Thank you
diligent hands rule....
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