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26 Jun 2011 |

I was stuck in an application where I had to use the 32 bit source for both 32 and 64 bit machines. The application seemed to work fine, except the context menu option in x64 machines.

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24 Jun 2011 |

The primary key of the ICON table should have the extension as .exe or .ico, else the icon will not display properly.
For example if the extension is abc.js then the same javascript icon will be shown in this case. If it is .txt then notepad icon will be displayed. Whatever be there in the [Binary], that does not matter if there is any other extension apart from .exe or .ico

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05 Dec 2008 |

Merge Modules are nothing but pre compiled libraries of components. When you add Merge module to your package and compile it, the package does not see it as a Merge module, but as a component which was added in it.

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18 Nov 2008 |

There are five properties which are required by every Microsoft installer to identify itself from other MSI.

These properties are required to be present in every MSI.

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30 Oct 2008 |

Self Heal and Repair are two different concepts in Windows Installer which people many times consider to be the same thing, however there is difference in these two.

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23 Oct 2008 |

You can install files to multiple drives using single MSI. You do not require custom actions or scripts to do that. You just need to put some tricks in the directory table. So here it goes...

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22 Oct 2008 |

In any of these installation transactions, viz. initial installation, repair, reinstallation, on-demand installation or patching an MSI, The REINSTALLMODE has an affect on it.

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13 Oct 2008 |

SOURCEDIR property in MSI package refers to the location from where the MSI is installed in the machine. How do we use this property in our package.

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13 Oct 2008 |

This tip is not actually on explaining how to do Application isolation, but to describe a way to do Application isolation of one file by both .local and .manifest in the same MSI.

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10 Oct 2008 |

Packages which need to include or which capture files with a total size exceeding 2 GB, it's necessary to use some tricks. Usually the MSI with cabs compressed outside the MSI allows the maximum size of cab files to be 2 GB.

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