OT: Windows Installer

[Adam Majer <adamm@zombino.com>]

Jacob Larsen wrote:

> I think the msi installer system was supposed to do this. But I don't
> think it
> is that easy/cheap to obtain a tool to create .msi packages which
> means that a
> lot of other formats exist. An yes. This is a Bad Thing(TM).


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You can target MSI files from Visual Studio .NET. Well, at least in
2003. IF you don't have it and/or want more customizations, you can use
WiX that MS released on sourceforce as OSS,

http://wix.sf.net

It builds MSI files from XML sources. Pretty good.

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- Adam