Windows Installer Version ?
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a/ Can I suggest a forum for issues to do with writing installer files ? b/ Does anyone know how to check what version of Windows Installer is installed, without calling the MSI.dll ? I assume the answer is in the registry, but I can't see where, and google isn't helping. Christian I have several lifelong friends that are New Yorkers but I have always gravitated toward the weirdo's. - Richard Stringer
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a/ Can I suggest a forum for issues to do with writing installer files ? b/ Does anyone know how to check what version of Windows Installer is installed, without calling the MSI.dll ? I assume the answer is in the registry, but I can't see where, and google isn't helping. Christian I have several lifelong friends that are New Yorkers but I have always gravitated toward the weirdo's. - Richard Stringer
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Thanks, but as I inferred, I'm writing an installer. For people bound to be scared of the command prompt. I ended up doing it in C++, loading the dll and checking it's version. Christian I have several lifelong friends that are New Yorkers but I have always gravitated toward the weirdo's. - Richard Stringer
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Thanks, but as I inferred, I'm writing an installer. For people bound to be scared of the command prompt. I ended up doing it in C++, loading the dll and checking it's version. Christian I have several lifelong friends that are New Yorkers but I have always gravitated toward the weirdo's. - Richard Stringer
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Just out of interest - what are you using to create your installer? We've been using this. Quite a learning curve, especially if you don't know much about windows installer to begin with, but its powerful and easy enough to use once you get the hang of it.
Advanced Installer[^] - I've used the free version for a while, but I finally coughed up $150 for the pro version, despite their lack of meaningfull help when I was trying to work out how to write a password validation dll ( never done dll's before, I had to learn how to export the function ). Christian I have several lifelong friends that are New Yorkers but I have always gravitated toward the weirdo's. - Richard Stringer
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Advanced Installer[^] - I've used the free version for a while, but I finally coughed up $150 for the pro version, despite their lack of meaningfull help when I was trying to work out how to write a password validation dll ( never done dll's before, I had to learn how to export the function ). Christian I have several lifelong friends that are New Yorkers but I have always gravitated toward the weirdo's. - Richard Stringer
have you had a look at innosetup (http://jrsoftware.org[^])? it's my personal favourite :) and it's quite flexible and powerful. oh, and it's free. failing that, there's also the nullsoft installer system (http://nsis.sourceforge.net/[^]). -- Raoul Snyman Saturn Laboratories e-mail: raoul.snyman@saturnlaboratories.co.za web: http://www.saturnlaboratories.co.za/ blog: http://blog.saturnlaboratories.co.za/ linux user: #333298