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Vendor neutral MSI topics

General Windows Installer questions that are not related to a specific tool or vendor.

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MSI Best Practices

Post your recommendations for best practices in creating Windows Installer setups, or request advice about designing your setup.

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Windows Installer Query Tool - last post by Server

End User Interface

Creating and modifying dialogs, bitmaps, etc. that will be displayed during runtime of your setup

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Hoe to remove an entry in A... - last post by Stefan Krueger

Custom Actions

DLLs, VB Script, InstallScript, temporary files, scheduling of CAs, rollback and uninstall

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Full Time MSI Installer Job... - last post by Doru C.

Deployment Tools Foundation (DTF)

Using the DTF to create custom actions in .NET languages.

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Patterns Discussion - last post by Server

Merge Modules

Availablility, bugs, how-to, user created and vendor supplied modules

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VC++ 2008 SP1 MFC Security... - last post by VBScab

Features and Components

Install levels, conditions

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Getting Feature Conditions... - last post by Stefan Krueger

Runtime Errors

Error messages that are displayed when your setup is executed on test machines or end user machines

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Error 1310 during MoveFile - last post by danl65

Updates and Patches

Creating and applying updates and patches with Windows Installer technology

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Help With Some Patch Detect... - last post by Superfreak3

General MSI

Windows Installer questions that don't fit in any of the other groups

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Error: -1633 With Installsh... - last post by omgy62

Books about Windows Installer

Reviews and discussions about books like Bob Baker's "Getting Started with InstallShield Developer and Windows Installer Setups" or Mike Gunderloy's "VB/VBA Developer's Guide to the Windows Installer"

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VB/VBA Developer's Guid... - last post by rpletscher