VBA Rubberducking

Duga

00:00

RELOAD!

[Cardshifter/Cardshifter] 10 commits. 2 issue comments.

[retailcoder/Rubberduck] 11 commits. 2 opened issues. 1 closed issue. 3 issue comments.

[Zomis/Fighting] 7 commits. 12 opened issues. 1 closed issue.

[Zomis/GithubHookSEChatService] 3 commits. 1 opened issue.

Simon André Forsberg

00:31

@Duga good work, duckers!

2

at least I "won" in opened issues today.... yay!

Phrancis

@RubberDuck Yeah it's going to take another 2 years-ish if everything goes according to plan, which it never does

On the other hand, it's pretty cool to watch heavy machinery crushing steel and tearing down antique brick walls on your smoke break.

Long time back the complex was actually a train yard and warehousing complex for nearby Indiana State Prison (I think), which later was converted into the locally famous Colgate factory with the giant orange neon clock on top

Stack Exchange

01:00

twitter.com/RachelAppel/status/576416991902351360

Phrancis

01:11

@StackExchange Huh?

user1007017

03:44

Hi

Mat's Mug

05:03

3

Duga

05:16

[retailcoder/Rubberduck] retailcoder pushed commit f846a304 to 1.21

> Preparing for 1.21 release; disabled SC menu and updated About window. Closes #308

Phrancis

@Mat'sMug Still at it I see!

Duga

[retailcoder/Rubberduck] retailcoder closed issue #308: Thank Duga ...and review About window

Mat's Mug

@Phrancis damn right!

Duga

[retailcoder/Rubberduck] retailcoder commented on issue #308: Thank Duga ...and review About window

> The 1.21 about window will look something like this:

![about window](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/5751684/6650436/214e4ab2-c9e8-11e4-947c-299d2e552dce.png)

Mat's Mug

TTGTB though

Phrancis

05:21

I'm debating whether I should keep writing this code (probably wrong) or just go do something else for a while

But... Bonne nuit :)

Mat's Mug

lol

like the new about window?

Phrancis

> All our stargazers, likers and followers, for the warm fuzzies

Mat's Mug

:)

Phrancis

That is awesome and personal, something one wouldn't usually expect from a program!

Mat's Mug

thanks!

I hope Chris likes it :)

ok gone now

Duga

05:44

[retailcoder/Rubberduck] retailcoder assigned retailcoder to issue #308: Thank Duga ...and review About window

Simon André Forsberg

09:24

@Mat'sMug yay :)

but... @Mat'sMug... s/Simon-André/Simon/

in fact... perhaps I should change that name on StackExchange...

RubberDuck

11:15

@Mat'sMug I do like it. Very much.

skiwi

12:30

@Mat'sMug Woot!

I was googling my name after noticing that it is pupping up more publicly (no regrets on that), I'm on 2nd page though

Then I go for Simon... google.nl/…

Google even autocompleted his name, that's creepy @SimonAndréForsberg

Simon André Forsberg

13:03

@skiwi just search for "simon forsberg" instead and see what you will find. How easy is it to find me then?

skiwi

@SimonAndréForsberg That's a lot more difficult yea

is the André like your baptismal(?) name

I have two more names as well, but I never use them unless on official forms

Mat's Mug

13:20

@SimonAndréForsberg Who's Simon Forsberg?

;) will change it prior to release

@RubberDuck we should add JetBrains ReSharper, for the inspiration

RubberDuck

@Mat'sMug I wouldn't recommend that. Thank them for the license if you like, but I wouldn't mention the inspiration part of it.

Simon André Forsberg

@skiwi technically, my full name is Göte Simon André Forsberg. to avoid confusion with the other Simon Forsberg's out there, I chose to also include André in my Facebook name, but IRL, I'm just Simon.

Mat's Mug

hmm right

RubberDuck

COA is all.

Mat's Mug

I think there's 8 me's on Facebook

RubberDuck

13:26

god I've been in corporate America too long. Jaded

Mat's Mug

But I'm not changing to Mat'sMug everywhere ;)

RubberDuck

@Mat'sMug Most of the "me"s out there are artists.

Mat's Mug

One of them is a self-taught programmer.. that's creepy

2

RubberDuck

Oh! Know what? I've not googled myself since I changed my last name back.

Doing that now.

Doctor, CEO, Graphic Designer...

Molecular Botanist..

Mat's Mug

Rubber duck

RubberDuck

13:30

I'm a little disappointed that my github profile shows up before my blog.

VBA and Git is about half way through the third page though. =)

Mat's Mug

Eh, my first actual me is my... linkedin profile

And then a RPSLS CR post

RubberDuck

Hey guys, any ideas on how I can clarify what I'm trying to say here? codereview.stackexchange.com/a/84047/41243

I'm trying to tell him to throw the obfuscated code away without coming out and telling him to throw it away.

skiwi

@SimonAndréForsberg Interesting ;)

My version that pops up 1st on Google results is a tree house builder

Mat's Mug

Googling retailcoder yields all actual me's

RubberDuck

Yeah. ckuhn203 is actually me. Yeesh. That's been my online handle since the 90's.

Mat's Mug

13:41

I don't know how many online names I had

I think I've used retailcoder since about 5 years into the retail industry, so must be 5-6 years. Before that, there's a big void

RubberDuck

Then I'm afraid it's unclear what you're asking @Erik. I would suggest posting more (most) of your test code for a proper review. — RubberDuck 5 mins ago

Mat's Mug

@RubberDuck I think he's saying your answer is correct & useful

RubberDuck

Language barrier? Idk.

Simon André Forsberg

Yes, this is code which would be called from a [TestInitialize] method. — Erik 51 mins ago

I have no idea what he's trying to say.

Mat's Mug

14:04

@RubberDuck so, for the 1.21 release... I'm going to have a window some time this afternoon... hopefully. Have you pulled the changes?

RubberDuck

Just did. Uploading the 32 bit Setup now.

Umm wait. Where's the 64 bit one?

Oh. There it is.

Mat's Mug

I'm scared

RubberDuck

Of what? It's there. It just wasn't part of my solution.

Mat's Mug

What if x64 doesn't actually work?

RubberDuck

It will. I'm gonna give it a once over just now.

Mat's Mug

14:12

#worksonmymachine is bad

I'd need an actual test environment.. but my desktop is fried since.. a while

RubberDuck

Yeah. It wouldn't have worked. I'll fix it.

Mat's Mug

How so?

RubberDuck

The tlb file wasn't there. I'll make it so it would work on my machine, but you'll need to fix it so it works on yours.

It will be hard coded to the file path on my machine.

Do we really want to include the source code?

Mat's Mug

Maybe not

The tlb is generated upon registration.. no?

RubberDuck

No.

christopherjmcclellan.wordpress.com/2015/02/25/…

You have to add it as an output and set up it's Com registration properties.

The primary output's properties need tweaked too.

Mat's Mug

14:25

Oh da bitch

I totally missed that one

RubberDuck

It's okay. It took me a couple of days to get that right the first time.

Mat's Mug

You just saved 1.21!

Gotta go now

Later!

RubberDuck

See ya later buddy. I'll get the installer ready to go.

Mat's Mug

You got the background images?

RubberDuck

@Mat'sMug Oh. No. Where does that get set at?

I did get the icon

Nevermind. Get going. I'll figure it out.

Mat's Mug

14:31

Well we're too late, wife too sleepy, no swimming today.. I'm booting :)

We need to include the GPL text too

RubberDuck

Yeah. I'm looking at that. Where'd you put the license?

This is the old one github.com/retailcoder/Rubberduck/blob/1.21/License.rtf

ahhh it's in master

Mat's Mug

in case they're not in the repo

RubberDuck

It doesn't seem they are. I'll add them.

Can I use a png? The installer wants a bitmap I think.

Mat's Mug

14:46

yeah. I uploaded .bmp's but uploader converted them

oh and if @rubberduckvba starts tweeting gibberish, it's because my sons are playing with the ducky profile image on my phone

2

#buyingpeace

hopefully they're not going to call my boss

RubberDuck

lol. Awesome.

Mine is watching tv on her kindle

Mat's Mug

> Code Review community, for reviewing our code
Carlos J. Quintero, for precious MZ-Tools articles
@Duga SE chat bot, for keeping us informed and motivated
Simon Forsberg and Frank Van Heeswijk, for creating @Duga
Philip Wales and Michal Krzych (vba4all.com), for the support
JetBrains ReSharper Community Team
@knjname, for documenting our x64 boo-boo
All our contributors on GitHub
All our stargazers, likers and followers, for the warm fuzzies

needs rephrasing

> Code Review community, for reviewing our code
Carlos J. Quintero, for precious MZ-Tools articles
@Duga SE chat bot, for keeping us informed and motivated
Simon Forsberg and Frank Van Heeswijk, for creating @Duga
Philip Wales and Michal Krzych (vba4all.com), for the support
JetBrains ReSharper Community Team
@knjname and @danwagnerco, for helping with x64 issues
All our contributors on GitHub
All our stargazers, likers and followers, for the warm fuzzies

RubberDuck

15:02

@Mat'sMug If we're going to mention Carlos in particular, should we mention the wonderful advice he gave us about the navigation?

Mat's Mug

I'm actually removing the "for" parts.. hold on

RubberDuck

Sounds good.

Mat's Mug

> Code Review Stack Exchange
Carlos J. Quintero (MZ-Tools articles & help with VBE API)
JetBrains ReSharper Community Team
@Duga SE chat bot
Simon Forsberg
Frank Van Heeswijk
Philip Wales
Michal Krzych (vba4all.com)
...and all GitHub users that submitted issues

RubberDuck

s/GitHub users that submitted issues/our wonderful users

& contributors?

Mat's Mug

oh, I lost the stargazers and contributors along the way...

> Code Review Stack Exchange
Carlos J. Quintero (MZ-Tools articles & help with VBE API)
JetBrains ReSharper Community Team
@Duga SE chat bot
Simon Forsberg
Frank Van Heeswijk
Philip Wales
Michal Krzych (vba4all.com)
All contributors to our GitHub repository
All our stargazers, likers & followers, for the warm fuzzies

should we add ClockAhead developer blog?

RubberDuck

15:09

Sure. Might not have known about the 64x install otherwise.

Mat's Mug

> Code Review Stack Exchange
Carlos J. Quintero (MZ-Tools articles & help with VBE API)
JetBrains ReSharper Community Team
@Duga SE chat bot
Simon Forsberg
Frank Van Heeswijk
Philip Wales
Michal Krzych (vba4all.com)
ClockAhead developer blog (clockahead.blogspot.jp)
All contributors to our GitHub repository
All our stargazers, likers & followers, for the warm fuzzies

RubberDuck

Looks good to me. Where's @Phrancis when you need him? lol

Mat's Mug

oh damn

> Code Review Stack Exchange
Carlos J. Quintero (MZ-Tools articles & help with VBE API)
JetBrains ReSharper Community Team
@Duga SE chat bot
Francis Veilleux-Gaboury
Simon Forsberg
Frank Van Heeswijk
Philip Wales
Michal Krzych (vba4all.com)
ClockAhead developer blog (clockahead.blogspot.jp)
All contributors to our GitHub repository
All our stargazers, likers & followers, for the warm fuzzies
...and anyone reading this!

I think that covers it all

@Phrancis if you're going to pull a Simon Forsberg, it's now or never ;)

6 hours ago, by Simon André Forsberg

but... @Mat'sMug... s/Simon-André/Simon/

RubberDuck

> Build started

Mat's Mug

wait

I need to commit that about box!

(I tweaked the background image a bit, I didn't like that I needed a non-transparent label for the rubberduck-vba.com link)

RubberDuck

15:24

Just testing the installer build

Not publishing anything.

@Mat'sMug Can you add the images to the repo?

Mat's Mug

sure

RubberDuck

Thanks.

So, I think it will be easier for the first 64x to not be part of the upgrade path.

After that, it can have it's own upgrade path.

Mat's Mug

what does that mean?

RubberDuck

It means the first 64x will require an un-install of previously installed software.

It gets it's own product and update code.

Mat's Mug

ah

doesn't the product code need to match the GUID it's registered with?

RubberDuck

15:28

No.

It's its own GUID.

Mat's Mug

oh

I hate deploying

the config window is still sizeable. making it a dialog window (but not changing anything else)

Code Explorer still not refreshing on open

RubberDuck

Bookmark this

14

Q: Update an existing installation using InstallShield LE

We've got a a quite simple WinForms application. I've created an installation using InstallShield LE which works fine on the first install. I'd like that users will be able to run the installation also for updating an existing copy. The problem is that I can't figure out what is the right way to...

Let's go with what we've got. There's some pretty important bug fixes in there atm.

Mat's Mug

@RubberDuck done

yeah

#neverenough

RubberDuck

@Mat'sMug agreed

Duga

[retailcoder/Rubberduck] retailcoder pushed commit eae8b130 to 1.21

> cosmetics

Mat's Mug

15:34

made SettingsDialog a dialog / removed minimize/maximize buttons / added ducky icon and changed caption to "Rubberduck Settings"; commit also includes AboutBox changes

oh and the images are under \Resources\Rubberduck

RubberDuck

Okay. I'll pull and make that change.

Should be pushing the Setups soon.

Mat's Mug

building

configuration manager > active configuration seems to have way too many exotic configs available

1 error

Error	673	The command "if Release64 == Debug64 (
    c:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\RegAsm.exe /codebase C:\Users\Mathieu\Source\Repos\Rubberduck\RetailCoder.VBE\bin\x64\Release64\Rubberduck.dll /tlb
)

if Release64 == Release (
    Copy C:\Users\Mathieu\Source\Repos\Rubberduck\RetailCoder.VBE\bin\x64\Release64\\NativeBinaries\x86\git2-e0902fb.dll C:\Users\Mathieu\Source\Repos\Rubberduck\RetailCoder.VBE\bin\x64\Release64\
)

if Release64 == Release64 (
    Copy \NativeBinaries\amd64\git2-e0909fb.dll C:\Users\Mathieu\Source\Repos\Rubberduck\RetailCoder.VBE\bin\x64\Release64\

RubberDuck

Weird. Works fine on my machine. wtf

Mat's Mug

where's the \NativeBinaries folder?

RubberDuck

> \x64\

Mat's Mug

15:48

under bin?

RubberDuck

I wasn't expecting a bin\x64\ directory.

I was expecting bin\Release64\

Mat's Mug

it's bin\x64\release64\

RubberDuck

It should be bin\Release64\NativeBinaries

Mat's Mug

yeah

RubberDuck

Okay. The post build needs tweaked then.

Mat's Mug

15:49

so that's in the post-build events right?

RubberDuck

Yes.

Mat's Mug

lol

RubberDuck

hahaha

Mat's Mug

if $(ConfigurationName) == Release64 (
    Copy $(TargerDir)\NativeBinaries\amd64\git2-e0909fb.dll $(TargetDir)
)

shouldn't that just work?

RubberDuck

I would think so.

Did I bork the regasm?

Mat's Mug

15:52

nope

RubberDuck

> Copy \NativeBinaries\amd64\git2-e0909fb.dll

Wha?^

Mat's Mug

looks like I have everything in the bin\x64\Release64 folder

except that dll

actually...

that should be git2-e0902fb.dll, right?

RubberDuck

Yes. It should

Mat's Mug

#typo

building

Duga

[retailcoder/Rubberduck] ckuhn203 pushed 7 commits to 1.21

Mat's Mug

15:54

failed again

Duga

[retailcoder/Rubberduck] ckuhn203 pushed commit b7669511 to 1.21

> synced up setup projects and tweaked build configs so installers don't build in debug mode

RubberDuck

Damn. Let me try.

Duga

[retailcoder/Rubberduck] ckuhn203 pushed commit 12cc6c55 to 1.21

> Merge branch 'master'

Mat's Mug

pulling

Duga

[retailcoder/Rubberduck] ckuhn203 pushed commit 7096f139 to 1.21

> added license for installer

[retailcoder/Rubberduck] ckuhn203 pushed commit a9cf180d to 1.21

> fixed issue with missing debug symbols

[retailcoder/Rubberduck] ckuhn203 pushed commit 0fc80c9c to 1.21

> Merge branch '1.21' of github.com/retailcoder/Rubberduck.git

Stack Exchange

15:56

Annjiopppiķmmm http://t.co/vj1ROZivIs

Tweeted by rubberduckvba on March 14, 2015 at 3:48 PM

Duga

[retailcoder/Rubberduck] ckuhn203 pushed commit 46c60849 to 1.21

> made installer image paths relative to VSSolution

Mat's Mug

@StackExchange lol!!!

deleted tweet

> what happens when you let a 2 year-old play with the ducky picture on your phone

Stack Exchange

@rubberduckvba what happens when you let your 2 year-old play with the ducky on the phone.. sorry about that

Tweeted by rubberduckvba on March 14, 2015 at 3:59 PM in reply to rubberduckvba

RubberDuck

Oh! @Mat'sMug. Try fixing the path to the tlb file.

It's pointed to where mine would be.

Mat's Mug

which path?

RubberDuck

16:05

Under files there's a tlb entry.

You'd need to add one that points to where yours would be.

Mat's Mug

got that covered already ;)

missing the license page on the installer though

RubberDuck

Okay. Then check the build order.

Mat's Mug

looks good

merge conflicts, hold on...

> Error 2 -6103: Could not find file "C:\Users\Christopher\Source\Repos\Rubberduck\RetailCoder.VBE\bin\Release64\Rubb‌erduck.tlb" ISEXP : error : -6103: Could not find file "C:\Users\Christopher\Source\Repos\Rubberduck\RetailCoder.VBE\bin\Release64\Rubb‌erduck.tlb"

RubberDuck

yup that

Mat's Mug

ok fixed

license.rtf not found

ok got it

RubberDuck

16:14

Really?

Did I include it?

Mat's Mug

no I mean, I couldn't find it, and the merge mentioned it being deleted.. it was 1 folder up from where I was looking at

RubberDuck

ahhhhhh

Mat's Mug

ok I think all I need is to disable building the 32-bit setup

> building

aaaaaaah dammit

> Error 2 -6103: Could not find file "C:\Users\Mathieu\Source\Repos\Rubberduck\RetailCoder.VBE\bin\x64\Release64\Rubb‌erduck.dll" ISEXP : error : -6103: Could not find file "C:\Users\Mathieu\Source\Repos\Rubberduck\RetailCoder.VBE\bin\x64\Release64\Rubb‌erduck.dll"

but it's THERE

RubberDuck

....

Build order. Almost has to be.

The installer is building before Rubberduck has finished.

Mat's Mug

odd.. there's no dependency between Rubberduck.Setup64 and Rubberduck

that might fix it

it does

now only the post-build is messing with me

> Error 1382 The command "if Release64 == Debug64 (
c:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\RegAsm.exe /codebase C:\Users\Mathieu\Source\Repos\Rubberduck\RetailCoder.VBE\bin\x64\Release64\Rubberduck.dll /tlb
)

if Release64 == Release (
Copy C:\Users\Mathieu\Source\Repos\Rubberduck\RetailCoder.VBE\bin\x64\Release64\\NativeBinaries\x86\git2-e0902fb.dll C:\Users\Mathieu\Source\Repos\Rubberduck\RetailCoder.VBE\bin\x64\Release64\
)

if Release64 == Release64 (
Copy \NativeBinaries\amd64\git2-e0902fb.dll C:\Users\Mathieu\Source\Repos\Rubberduck\RetailCoder.VBE\bin\x64\Release64\

RubberDuck

16:24

One of these things is not like the other. One of these things just doesn't belong.

if $(ConfigurationName) == Release (
    Copy $(TargetDir)\NativeBinaries\x86\git2-e0902fb.dll $(TargetDir)
)

if $(ConfigurationName) == Release64 (
    Copy $(TargerDir)\NativeBinaries\amd64\git2-e0902fb.dll $(TargetDir)
)

Mat's Mug

I must be blind

RubberDuck

Makes two of us

I see it.

TargetDir resolves to `..\RetailCoder.VBE\bin\Release64`

Click edit post build and then macros. See where it's resolving to

TargerDir

s/TargerDir/TargetDir

> Build succeeded

Mat's Mug

C:\Users\Mathieu\Source\Repos\Rubberduck\RetailCoder.VBE\bin\x64\Release64\

RubberDuck

I'm sorry man. That's my fault.

Mat's Mug

what do I do?

RubberDuck

16:32

Ducks can't spell

Mat's Mug

OMG

RubberDuck

3 mins ago, by RubberDuck

s/TargerDir/TargetDir

Mat's Mug

LOL

RubberDuck

Hold tight while I push

Duga

[retailcoder/Rubberduck] ckuhn203 pushed commit 338a9710 to 1.21

> fixed stupid duck typo that broke 64x post build

Mat's Mug

16:33

> build succeeded

Stack Exchange

Working on the 1.21 release build - expect a new release some time today! #DeployingIsSoMuchFun

Tweeted by rubberduckvba on March 14, 2015 at 4:26 PM

Duga

[retailcoder/Rubberduck] retailcoder pushed commit dfae4bda to 1.21

> pre-merge

[retailcoder/Rubberduck] retailcoder pushed commit 07d8617b to 1.21

> merged

[retailcoder/Rubberduck] retailcoder pushed commit 78b4c5b3 to 1.21

> typo

[retailcoder/Rubberduck] retailcoder pushed commit f7b02686 to 1.21

> Merge branch '1.21' of github.com/retailcoder/Rubberduck

Mat's Mug

@RubberDuck ok so we're good? I'm still scared lol

now what?

RubberDuck

Test the shit out of it.

I've gotta go for a bit.

Also, verify the tlb settings per my blog post.

Stack Exchange

note to self: "TargerDir" instead of "TargetDir" DOES make a difference.

Tweeted by rubberduckvba on March 14, 2015 at 4:35 PM

Mat's Mug

16:42

@RubberDuck ^^

RubberDuck

lol yeah yeah I saw. gtg for a bit

Mat's Mug

ok

skiwi

You know in JavaScript, you can define a variable accidentally inside a for-loop instead of outside, and it works perfectly fine if you only iterate over one element...

Then you iterate over two elements, and all hell breaks lose

Mat's Mug

lol the timestamp for the setup.exe is 12:34PM

it's a sign

it's also 2.22MB

pulling a @rolfl here ;)

skiwi

@Mat'sMug Why?

Mat's Mug

16:51

seeing numbers everywhere...

skiwi

Ah

Why can't my code just work?

Mat's Mug

hmm

Mat's Mug

17:07

why isn't it letting me merge 1.21 into master?

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Mathieu\Source\Repos\Rubberduck>git status
# On branch 1.21
nothing to commit, working directory clean

C:\Users\Mathieu\Source\Repos\Rubberduck>

> Cannot switch to master because there are uncommitted changes. Commit or undo your changes before you switch branches. See the Output window for details.

WTF??

RubberDuck

Here's my general workflow if it helps.

1. Commit and Push Branch
2. Git Pull Origin Master
3. Checkout master
4. Pull origin master
5. Merge devbranch
6. Push

Tends to be a few extra merge commits, but typically results in a fast forward merge.

Mat's Mug

I'm at 3. our SC feature will definitely need a way to launch the git command prompt to work around these glitches

RubberDuck

Yeah... I'm not sure how to do that yet.

Fact is, the user won't even necessarily have Git installed. LibGit2 stands on its own feet.

Mat's Mug

5.

then there might be something in the API to fire up the command prompt?

RubberDuck

I don't believe so, but maybe. It's not well documented.

Mat's Mug

17:13

> Repository updated to commit f7b02686.

RubberDuck

I've actually been adding to their wiki as I find missing docs.

Duga

[retailcoder/Rubberduck] retailcoder pushed 49 commits to master

2

Mat's Mug

and here we are

so we just upload our installers to github now?

(and prepare release notes)

RubberDuck

Yes. I think I can go ahead and build the 32x. If not right this second. Later today.

Mat's Mug

uploaded

I'm tagging it v1.21b-x64

draft saved

Duga

17:20

[retailcoder/Rubberduck] retailcoder closed issue #261: Add a Rubberduck icon to the installer

Mat's Mug

woah, wait a minute...

ah nevermind, it has to be the new product code for x64

ok what now

> Error 234 File "C:\Users\Mathieu\Source\Repos\Rubberduck\RetailCoder.VBE\bin\x64\Release64\Rubb‌erduck.dll" is not a valid assembly.

oh nevermind

config manager

building

> Build succeeded

> uploading

Duga

17:42

[retailcoder/Rubberduck] retailcoder closed issue #309: Add integral license text to installer

RubberDuck

It going all right?

Mat's Mug

not exactly

are you sure the product code isn't the registered key?

RubberDuck

Yeah. I'm positive. The product code has to change in between versions.

Mat's Mug

panic is near

RubberDuck

Does it work if you target any Cpu instead of specifically 64?

Mat's Mug

17:53

key {8D052AD8-BBD2-4C59-8DEC-F697CA1F8A66} looks correctly registered...

oh hold on

the install folder is C:\Program Files (x86)\Rubberduck\Rubberduck

shouldn't it be C:\Program Files\Rubberduck\Rubberduck?

INSTALLDIR, changing to [PlatformProgramFilesFolder]Rubberduck\Rubberduck

RubberDuck

Idk. Worth a shot.

Mat's Mug

uh, that makes it install to C:\Rubberduck\Rubberduck

it registers it to C:\Program Files (x86) anyway..

FML

uninstall correctly removes the keys

retargeting

RubberDuck

Maybe the installer needs to be forced into a 64x install??

Mat's Mug

18:11

ugh

RubberDuck

18:25

@Mat'sMug mdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/19889/~/…

steps 16-18 seem relevant

> Caution! If you are building a 64-bit installer, you must perform Steps 16-18. If you skip these steps, the application will install as if it is a 32-bit application, and the MetaMorph Software will not be able to run the program.

> If you are building a 32-bit installer, do NOT perform Steps 16-18. If you perform these steps, the installer will use the 64-bit version of the DLL files and will attempt to install the files and register in a 64-bit section of the operating system, which will fail on 32-bit machines.'

[ProgramFiles64Folder]

Phrancis

18:57

@Mat'sMug Hey I'm not sure why you guys put me on there, but it looks fine and I appreciate the mention :)

Mat's Mug

@RubberDuck nope. I'm explicitly putting it in [ProgramFiles64Folder], everything looks fine. and yet it installs AND registers under (x86), everything looks right... except it's not showing up in VBE addins

CLSID 8D052AD8-BBD2-4C59-8DEC-F697CA1F8A66 is against the bin folder, shouldn't it be the install folder?

something's not right

@RubberDuck damn, still not working.. gotta go... doesn't look like 1.21 is out today

Stack Exchange

@Rubberduck203 if only it was just that!

Tweeted by rubberduckvba on March 14, 2015 at 7:03 PM in reply to Rubberduck203

Mat's Mug

19:13

I even managed to bork my debugger - RD is just not working on my machine anymore.

RubberDuck

Nifty project. I'm half tempted to contact them and ask them how their installer works. codevba.com

Mat's Mug

Giving up for now.. I may resume tonight

RubberDuck

19:31

This makes me think it does need to target AnyCPU blog.deploymentengineering.com/2010/09/…

Also this mztools.com/articles/2012/MZ2012013.aspx

Possibly relevant

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Q: Create registry key in 32-bit hive on x64 PC using Installshield 2012 LE - Avoid redirection

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