Rob Harrop is Lead Software Architect at Cake Solutions Limited based in Cheshire in the UK. He specialises in high availability server applications built using .NET and Java. He has been involved in a large number of .NET based intranet/internet systems, and has just finished a new intranet system for the UK Investments arm of the Department of Trade and Industry in the UK.
Perhaps the most important, yet most overlooked, area of application
development is that of deployment. A flawed installation, or worse - one that
corrupts other applications - does not instill faith in your software and
makes for very unhappy clients. Having been in this situation myself, I took
the time to investigate the various utilities available for creating Windows
Installer-based setup applications. While at a trade show one day, I managed
to get hold of a couple of evaluation copies of the most popular installation
products. On my flight back across the Atlantic I had the chance to come to
grips with the various products, and by the time I landed back in the UK, my
mind was made up to use Wise for Windows Installer.
Since then my job has become focused predominately on .NET development and I
find myself with a couple of new challenges. I am no longer faced w... (more)
Rob Harrop is Lead Software Architect at Cake Solutions Limited based in Cheshire in the UK. He specialises in high availability server applications built using .NET and Java. He has been involved in a large number of
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