If you want to spend less time on reinstallation, then you should use the assessment and deployment kit for Windows 8, or the Windows Automated installation kit for Windows 7 to capture an existing image of your computer the way you want it if you choose to go that route. Saves time later, for when you want to add an application the next time, all you have to do is use Dism to add the package offline.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Friday, December 28, 2012 10:33 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Image Exif updating Katherine, Ben, I've never run an upgrade, I always fresh install. That's why an Xmas "upgrade" takes so many days of sweat and swearing. I'm pretty confident that all of the apps, kits and tools that I use will run fine under Win8 (they seem okay in VMPlayer), except for the damned nuisance of vdproj files not being supported under VS2012. I was going okay with using WiX as a replacement, but I got stuck on two things: (1) IIS setup (2) Custom dialogs. It will take many more hours of study and experiments to overcome these issues. Ian, I found lots of libraries for reading EXIF data but none for updating. I can't remember being involved in a thread on this topic before. The code I found that may do what I want using encoders is just too much bother for my modest needs. I guess it's just another case of something that seems superficially simple, really isn't. Greg
