The main reason being individuals like me (newer developers) who more or
less started programming in C#; that was primarily the reason why I started
this thread anyway. Folks like Phil Wilson proposed the idea of learning
C++, and that had a meaningful end.
But more or less, more and more people are adopting .NET (and by .NET I mean
C#, or any other language hosted on top of the CLR), and at least all the
younger, newer developers that I know of favor C# over C++.
Again, I am not pointing fingers; I'll try and make an effort to let the
Windows Installer team about how they are ignoring a larger base of
developers by not supporting managed .dlls (hopefully, the team comprises of
people similar to Chris Adams [[IIS team] and Jesse Kaplan [CLR team] who
take note of what fellow developers have to say and try and incorporate
their ideas).
On 3/24/07, DEÁK JAHN, Gábor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 20:38:16 +0000, Fredrik Grohn wrote:
First to all, please, clear out all the participants from the To: and CC:
lines and keep the discussion on the list itself. I guess we all monitor it
regularly so it's really not beneficial to receive every posting twice, both
directly and from the list.
Fredrik,
> What I don't understand is why people are so eager to build managed
> custom actions in the first place.
That's what bothers me, too. If somebody really wanting to write a managed
(or unmanaged) custom action could tell us why he or she needs it in the
first place. I completely agree with Richard Foster, me, too: the only real
custom action I ever wrote was to check the product key entered by the user.
I have a suspicion that the need for custom actions stem from sloppy
programming of the application to be installed rather than any real,
legitimate need for something WI can't solve.
Bye,
Gábor
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