Content Installer News

posted by  kevyn (54)  10 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

Recently I uploaded new builds of the Content Installer Power Toys. This upload fixes a few small bugs, including one bug with the shipping version of Visual Studio. To sign a file with Authenticode, the file being signed needs to be a PE file (such as an exe or dll), but a VSI file is just a zip file but with a different extension. To work around this, a tool named MakeZipExe was included with VS. This tool takes a stub exe and binds a zip file into the unmanaged resources of the stub file. The stub is managed code, and also has the ability to extract the contents of the zip file to disk (