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Saturday, October 20, 2007 7:35 AM

Integration Hurdles for EXE Custom Actions

A while back, two sets of engineers were arguing whether simply calling an EXE custom action would be good enough for Windows Installer based package. The first team with the EXE didn't want to do the work to move to Windows Installer but they really
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Friday, September 07, 2007 9:48 PM

A starting point for Windows Installer 4.5 embedded UI?

A few questions have come in asking for a starting point for building a Windows Installer 4.5 Embedded UI. Feature Design As we put together the ideas behind the Embedded UI features, we aspired to provide a simple extension off the preexisting features
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Wednesday, March 07, 2007 10:17 AM

Arbitrary labels used as Primary keys must not be changed between versions

Summary Msi Editing tools that write auto generated references inside installer tables may cause unnecessary content to be included inside a patch. ‘Patching’ components with unchanged content may cause them to be uninstalled when the patch is removed
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Monday, December 11, 2006 1:33 PM

Windows Installer and Restart Manager: MSI Files-In-Use V2

Introduction Files-In-Use functionality is among the countless services that Windows Installer exposes for setup authors to leverage for their application install/maintenance. This functionality lets setup authors display the processes that hold on to
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Monday, December 04, 2006 10:30 AM

Restart Manager video available on Channel 9

Hello everyone -- As many of you know, one of the great new features Windows Installer supports on Windows Vista is Restart Manager. I just ran across a video on Channel 9 that provides a lot of good information on how to make your application "Restart
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Friday, December 01, 2006 11:14 AM

Check out the UAC video on Channel 9

Channel 9 did an interview with Steve Hiskey and Jon Schwartz on the UAC team. Check out the video here if you want to learn more about UAC. [Author: Tyler Robinson] This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Use of included
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Friday, November 11, 2005 7:00 AM

Windows Installer Troubleshooting Tips from First Week of November

Question 1 What is the correct way to find whether a certain product (msi based setup) is installed on the machine? Answer 1 Searching for Existing Applications, Files, Registry Entries or .ini File Entries [Windows Installer] lists the built-in detect
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Wednesday, November 09, 2005 7:00 AM

Windows Installer Troubleshooting Tips From Halloween

Question 1 In my lab automation that silently installs Windows Installer packages. This automation is inconsistently getting Error 1618 from its msiexec calls. Please help unblock this scenario as it's inhibiting our push to ship. Troubleshooting 1 First,
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Thursday, November 03, 2005 10:40 PM

Authoring to Windows Installer 4.0 Features mentioned at PDC 2005

As Tyler recently mentioned , you can find the Professional Developers Conference 2005 session and presentation of the Windows Installer 4.0. Here's a preliminary view of how to author to these features. Note: This documentation is preliminary and is
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Monday, October 31, 2005 7:00 AM

How do I get the Escape key to work on a Windows Installer dialog?

Question How do I get the Escape key to work on a Windows Installer dialog? Answer Edit the Dialog table , go to the record that contains the dialog and enter your No/Cancel button's key (Name field in Control table ) into the Control_Cancel field. [Author:
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Wednesday, October 19, 2005 2:30 PM

Advertising and ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT

Scenario On Windows XP, I am advertising an MSI that has ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT set to 1 but it appears in ARP anyway. Is this by design? Is there a workaround Indeed, once I fault in the product, the ARP entry goes away. There’s not much to see in the MSI.
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Wednesday, October 19, 2005 9:58 AM

What are the limits for a large MSI package?

MSI MVP Stefan Krueger posted a excellent response to the question "What are the limits for a large MSI package?" in a FAQ entry at InstallSite.org Thanks for the hard work Stefan ;^)
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Monday, October 03, 2005 7:00 AM

Our patches seem to work fine, yet none of the files on the disk are replaced.

Question I am seeing a very strange issue with patches on msi 2.0, our patches seem to work fine, yet none of the files on the disk are replaced. I tried regenerating the patches with the 2.0 toolset , but that did not help. Answer For MSI20 Patches,
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Tuesday, September 27, 2005 5:16 AM

Best Practice Guidelines for Building Quality Installs: Part 1, the Basics

This is the first in a series of Best Practice Guidelines for Building Quality Installs . Let's start with the basics of quality Windows Installer (MSI) package. Prior postings the series: Introduction . Build Components According to Component Rules To
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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 7:00 AM

Why can't I patch or uninstall a component without a ComponentId?

Question Why can't I patch or uninstall a component without a ComponentId? Answer Check the Windows Installer documentation on Component Table : ComponentId A string GUID unique to this component, version, and language. Note that the letters of these
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