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    Internet Explorer developer toolbar (beta)

    Going through my daily blog feeds, I found a link to an old post on the IE blog. I don't know how I missed it before, but now I went ahead, downloaded, and installed the toolbar add-on. I can tell the toolbar is inspired by the Mozilla WebDeveloper extension by Chris Pederick: it has almost the same features. I use Chris' Mozilla extension all the time, and I am really happy I found an Internet Explorer counterpart. The features that I loved: The DOM viewer: this one is built in Mozilla. I have seen several bookmarklets that try to do it for IE, but this implementation is the most...
    October 14, 2005
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    r.a.d.controls = 13 + 5: the math behind (Part I)

    One of the most common questions we are getting in the last couple of months is - "What will you be releasing in Q4"? For a number of reasons our typical answer has been - “It's going to be one of the best releases ever! Don’t waste time, buy a r.a.d.controls subscription license, and get the updates for free”. Unfortunately nowadays the words “exciting” and “best ever” are so widely abused that no one really believes them. Instead, customers want to know all the details in order to determine why the new product is so much better than the old...
    October 10, 2005
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    You know you've had too much...

    ...of InstallShield when you dream about it.  Last night, after yesterday's problems, I dreamt about events, conditions, and property grids.  Ugh!  Good thing, I am taking a break from installers soon. Do you dream about your work a lot?...
    October 07, 2005
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    InstallShield discriminates me!

    InstallShield caused a lot of grief today by treating my code as inferior.  A single action worked differently if it was invoked by my code than if being called by an InstallShield "native" command.  I was trying to implement some advanced logic in an installer's custom feature selection.  My goal was to have two features that you can install together or separately.  I wanted to force the user to install at least one of the features.  InstallShield does not support that, so I ventured into writing a custom action in JScript.  I had a simple plan:Verify if both features are deselected and set a flag property. Enable or...
    October 06, 2005
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    Packaging resources for web parts

    Hi. My name is Atanas Korchev and I am a Product Manager here at telerik. I am involved in the development of r.a.d.controls MCMS Edition and r.a.d.editor SharePoint Edition. On this blog I will be sharing my experience with Microsoft SPS and WSS and Microsoft Content Management Server 2002, as well as anything else I find interesting. So here it goes… My first entry is about packaging resources for web parts. Web parts are deployed in most cases as CAB (Microsoft cabinet) files. A developer needs to package all web part files (manifest.xml, dwp files, assemblies or anything else) in a single cab file and distribute it. That file is then...
    October 04, 2005