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vikasmailsu

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Posted 27 May 2008 - 09:22

Hello experts...
I am wroking on MSI file format. If anybody can help me about internal struture of .MSI file ,I really thankful.As far as I can understand about MSI is,it is just a relational database stroring information in tabular form. I would like to know about ite format. Please help me.

Thanks in advance

Zweitze

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Posted 27 May 2008 - 11:00

Its low level format is Structured Storage, see http://msdn.microsof...369(VS.85).aspx

You could use the Stg_ functions to access the files, but its much easier to use the Msi_ functions - after all they are intended for manipulating msi files, while the Stg_ functions can be used for any kind of structured storage, like office formats etc.