Installing MSI for a Particular Language
Updated: 11 Jul 2008
Is English not your first language? Maybe your users would prefer to use some other language. You can make that change and simply use the SystemLanguageID property to change the default in your system. Follow the below steps in your WSI package:
Go to the Setup Editor view:
- Go to the Product tab
- Click on Launch Conditions
- On the right side, right click mouse and click on New -> Launch Conditions
- Click on Build button
- Enter SystemLanguageID = 1033 (1033 is English_United_States)
- Click on OK.
- In message text, you can mention the reason why the package cannot be installed in this machine and click Ok.
Now you can compile your WSI.
Note: One problem which you might face is that it takes the ID from the local user. Though there may be other users with 1033 language, if the current language is set to something different, then it will not work.
To get a list of language IDs you can check the below site: http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/win2k...
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