As a general rule, Microsoft expect you to uninstall MSI applications from the Add/Remove Programs tool in the Control Panel.
Sometimes however, its nice to add a Start->Programs Menu – ‘Uninstall Shortcut’ to facilitate this action, for user convenience.
The following post details adding such a shortcut to a simple MSI build in Visual Studio 2008.
Browse to the MSI project folder (using Windows Explorer), right click and select New->Shortcut from the context menu. In the Create Shortcut Wizard dialog that pops up type ‘%windir%\system32\msiexec.exe -x {prodCode} ‘ as the location of the shortcut, where prodCode is the Product Code of the MSI package.
This Product Code can be identified from the Project Properties of the MSI Project in Visual Studio. Also, provide a proper name for the shortcut Read..
The truth is I am neither a PC or a Mac, I am a person and in reference believe the ability to chose would be nice, but very unrealistic in the (crossplatform) developer world.
Whats this all about? The adverts piss me off, you know the one’s…
All in all I believe both systems have their benefits and their losses, the only real option is to be a PMACC (Personal Macintosh Computer) and merge the two.
I got VS2008 to work on my Macbook Pro today, long live PMACC..
I have had a great fondness of the Jing application ever since I discovered it back in July. Today techsmith.com have introduced Jing Pro with some great new features. The official spiel goes as follows:
Source: Tony Dunckel on January 6, 2009 7:05 AM
Today marks an exciting and long awaited milestone for Jing. After endless feedback and requests from passionate users like you, we are pleased to announce Jing Pro!
Jing Pro brings you simply the best-in-class experience for quick visual online conversation. Imagine everything you already know and love about Jing, then add:
- HD quality video for the web
- Direct output to YouTube
- No more branding on the end of your videos.
Pretty sweet, huh? Best yet, it’s only $14.95/yr. (Yep, that’s a mere 28.8 cents a week)
Now, for you video gurus out there, Jing Pro now encodes in real-time directly to H.264/MPEG-4 AVC as well as the SWF format Jing has been using. This provides ample flexibility to share your Jing Pro videos just about anywhere. And for those who have been itching to tweak their Jing videos, these new Jing Pro videos will import into Camtasia Studio 6 and iMovie to edit, merge or anything you want.
Of course you’re probably thinking, “Oh – here’s the catch now they are going to make us all upgrade to Jing Pro, right?” Nope, that’s not our style 
You can continue to use Jing for free just as you always have (in fact, even the free version received a couple enhancements today). Our commitment is still focused on bringing simple visual communication to the world. We just realized that a lot of you needed just a little bit more and Jing Pro is here to answer that call.
So, enough talk – let’s Jing! You can check out Jing and Jing Pro at www.jingproject.com.
Full review on the way.
With my ongoing conversion to OSX I am now in need of a new 3D solution that will enable me to develop for both Unity3D and XNA (still cannot leave the MS grip), thus my initial thoughts are of Blender.
However whilst browsing some XNA resources I discovered that the guys over at Caligari have Released trueSpace 7.6 for Free download. All you have to do is register for an account, then download the software.
trueSpace7.6 is a fully-featured 3D authoring package that will let you model, texture, light, animate and render 3D content. As well as traditional images and movies, you can also make 3D content for online shared spaces, and for Virtual Earth.
An entirely re-written X format exporter lets you save your trueSpace creations to load into game engines such as XNA to develop games for Windows or the Xbox 360.
A real-time scene with several lighting set-ups (by Marcel Barthel).
trueSpace also supports import from a wide variety of formats, letting you take existing objects and use them in Virtual Earth. Read..
With my delve into the world of youtube I have finally started on the path to becoming a web 2.0 ninja. The first of my many trials is to start recording a few video tutorials.
However as I develop on both a mac and pc I need a solution that would enable recording on both and ideally for FREE, Jing does just that.
SO WHATS A JING
The concept of Jing is the always-ready program that instantly captures and shares images and video…from your mac or pc computer to anywhere.
Think of Jing as a supplement to all your chat discussions, email threads, forum posts and blog entries. It sits nicely on your desktop, ready to capture and share your stuff at a moment’s notice. Simply select an area of your screen, capture it as an image or record it as a video, and then click Share. Jing conveniently places a URL to your content which you can paste into any of your conversations.
A full review coming soon, until then take a look at the jingproject.com
Unity has evolved to be the perfect MMO and virtual world client, both in the browser and stand-alone. Stream in limitless landscapes as your users travel your universe, customize characters, and load infinite locations and virtual items on demand.
Fig 1: unity tropical paradise demo
When Funcom, makers of Anarchy Online and Age of Conan, decide to use Unity for their upcoming browser based MMO project, you know it has to be good.
SOURCE: unity3d.com
Coupled with the capabilities for wii development unity3D is a must have for indi and pro game developers alike.
Just a quick note to say that Flock ( my browser of choice) Version 1.0 is now avaliable from flock.com. For those not in the know, flock is a web browser geared towards the new fangled social aspects of WEB2.
Or in English:
Flock is an amazing new web browser that makes it easier to share media and connect to other people online. Share photos, automatically stay up-to-date with new content from your favorite sites, and search the Web with the most advanced Search Toolbar available today.
Major changes from the 0.9s include a shinny new loader graphic and a revamp of the My World page. I also am finding my dyadica.net pages seem to be loading faster.
To find out more on this release have a look here.
To download Flock go here.
Source: apple.com
The fastest web browser on any platform, Safari loads pages up to 2 times faster than Internet Explorer 7 and up to 1.6 times faster than Firefox 2.
And it executes JavaScript up to 2.8 times faster than Internet Explorer 7 and up to 1.6 times faster than Firefox 2.
What does all that mean for you? Less time loading pages and more time enjoying them.
Shame it messes up my mootools menu’s, well at least I have another browser to test on now and hone my css that little bit more. So why all these folks dont just build fully compatible browsers eh!
