I have been recently working on a setup project in Visual Studio 2008 to deploy a windows application and wanted the ability for the user to enter in values during the install that would then be saved in the app.config file. After some playing around with and some research I figured out a way to do this...

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The current company I am working for is in the process of refreshing their development environment from Visual Studio 2003 and Source Safe to Visual Studio 2008 and TFS 2008. During this process one of the major hurdles I had to cross was to implement an automated build that could then be used as part...

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Error 1330.A file that is required cannot be installed because the cabinet file c:\new folder\cab1.cab has an invalid digital signature. This may indicate that the cabinet file is corrupt. I have been trying to setup a new windows xp virtual pc environment for the past few days and every time I tried...

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