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Windows Installer 4.5 beta now available for download on the Microsoft Connect site

As reported this weekend by the Windows Installer team and Heath Stewart, the beta of Windows Installer 4.5 (including binaries, headers, libraries and help files) has been posted to the Connect site for members of the beta program to download and try out.  Here is some useful information about the Windows Installer 4.5 beta program:

Published Sunday, August 26, 2007 7:48 PM by astebner

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Monday, August 27, 2007 12:12 AM by MSDN Blog Postings » Windows Installer 4.5 beta now available for download on the Microsoft Connect site

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Tuesday, August 28, 2007 7:20 AM by Around and About .NET World

# Windows Installer 4.5 beta

Windows Installer 4.5 beta

Tuesday, June 09, 2009 7:49 AM by Sangeeta

# re: Windows Installer 4.5 beta now available for download on the Microsoft Connect site

How can we detect windows installer 4.5 and install it silently?

Tuesday, June 09, 2009 6:11 PM by astebner

# re: Windows Installer 4.5 beta now available for download on the Microsoft Connect site

Hi Sangeeta - There are instructions for silent installs in the Windows Installer MSDN documentation at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/aa372856.aspx.

There are different ways of detecting the version of Windows Installer that is on the user's system.  Visual Studio setup does the following:

Look up the folder that is listed in the following registry value:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer]

InstallerLocation

Take the folder listed in the InstallerLocation value, append the name msi.dll, then look up the version number of the file msi.dll at that location.  That version is the version of Windows Installer that is on the user's system.

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