If you have worked with MSI then you probably know that it uses an internal database to store all kind of information and you can actually directly modify this information by using a great tool OCRA. It is tiny utility released by MSFT. But unfortunately it is not “that” simple to get OCRA because it
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Creating Application Shortcut in Programs for Windows Installer Project
It has been while since I posted something. Actually I was on very long vacation for almost 2 months and during that time all I did was eating, traveling, sleeping and eating again … and now it is ended and I am back .. I think I have gained few pounds… so (just like every
Advance MSI creation … Part II
In First part of this How To I explained essential component required to manipulate MSI installation process and create funky installation process. In this part I will use that theory of 1st part and create an advance installation process which will do following steps as part of installation process … 1) Install a file at
Advance MSI creation … Part I
Couple of months back I created a post about using Windows Installer Project in VS 2010 and how to create MSI from that. At that time I had very simple requirement to work on, create an installation package that just installs our product … recently that requirement got changed a bit and now I am
Creating custom “Prerequisites” for installation
If you have ever installed any software in your machine, you know what I am talking about. A textbook meaning of Prerequisite is “A thing required as a prior condition for something else to happen” It case of software it usually means that to run some piece of software it need to have something else
Installation Project in Visual Studio … Installer 101
During past couple of weeks I was greatly involved in process of creating MSIs for our new products. The ultimate goal was (still is) to improve overall installation experience of customers. During this time I mainly tinkered with one the project type in VS which I had never ever used before, that was “Visual Studio