Breaking all rules of software release management

WPF

The project I’m currently working on is getting really close to being done, with Windows Vista having been “RTM”ed recently. We have a few more days to get last minute bugs ironed out and then it’s “off to the factories”… I can’t say much more about the project right now, but it’s a pretty significant and highly

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WPF XBAP apps and UAC

WPF

Here’s an interesting thing I learned the other day, which wasn’t obvious to me. If you have an XBAP WPF application that tries to access files at the location identified by CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA (Environment.SpecialFolders.CommonApplicationData in .Net 2.0/3.0) they need to be marked with Read/Write permissions for “Everyone”. Otherwise File Virtualization kicks in and Vista creates copies of the

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