Installling NSIS 2.46

I'm busy setting up builds of DRC 3.0 on a new Windows 7 64bit workstation using VS2010 and NSIS 2.46

Always an intertesting adventure setting up a new Development workstation especially when you didn't take the time to document your setup.

Setting up NSIS 2.46 on Windows 7 64 bit

1.   Run nsis-2.46-setup.exe
2.  Run Venis setup VenisIX225.exe
1.  Run Venix, click register menu
2.  Add name and license.
3.   First time running Venix, Use file menu to open Nsi script directly.  After that, Windows will open Venix when double-clicking on script file.  (Not sure why this does work w/o first running Venix right after install.
3.   Add Plugins
1.        Registry
1.  Copy Include to NSIS\Include
2.  Copy Example to NSIS\Examples
3. Copy Plugin to NSIS\Plugins

Venis IX 2.2.5

NSIS 2.46

Registry plugin

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Things I learned this week

At work, current project is nearing release as the calendar nears the end of the quarter.

(A random thought, think of the money that could be saved in business would adopt trimesters instead of quarters...  public companies would only have 3 releases for numbers + annual statements to be made.  I think the savings in worthless red tape would be significant.  What the percent different between 1/3 vs 1/4?)

Some of these items I already knew but relearned them this week again.

• Scope_Identity() works locally not via a linked server.
• spIDs are also local for processes running and should not be correlated over a linked server.
• Always and I mean always specify country ID when looking up State codes even if you current design only supports US only. 
• When you get a new 64bit development machine, build properties on a C# project specifying CPU type is no longer insignificant.
• Many people are happily using 64bit version of Windows 7 and don't even realize it.
• SysWOW64 is still the dumbest name for a folder to date.
• There is more to life than work.
• I enjoy singing more than I would have ever guessed.
• Lunch is my favorite part of the weekday.