Something I’ve needed to do a couple of times now is programmatically work out where the the Framework SDK is installed. Each time I have to find an example from an old project, because I can never remember exactly how I did it before, so for posterity (and to save me searching again), I’m posting it up here. Feel free …

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One of the pains of using WiX is that every component you create has to have its own unique GUID.Using the Tools/Create GUID… option from Visual Studio is one way to create a new GUID, but you have to copy and paste it into the right place in your script, which, when you have to create in the region of a trillion …

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I’ve wasted muchos hours trying to configure ADAM to use SSL in an attempt to use securely it as a membership provider in ASP.NET 2.0, and one of the biggest problems was the documentation I found for it. The procedures I have managed to find on the internet are either wholly inadequate or simply incorrect.I’m posting …

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