An MSI, or Windows Installer, file contains installation information, such as installation packages, for programs that can be installed on Microsoft Windows operating systems and is very similar to an ...

If your company uses Microsoft programming and the .NET platform to develop applications, you want to know your way around a few basic commands. For example, installing applications using the MSI ...

When I first had to deal with "packaging" a program to install on several PCs, the process was simple: get it working on one machine, zip the directory it was installed in, and then save it to a ...

Most of you may be quite familiar on how to create MSI or Setups for your applications. By using a Microsoft Installer, one can make sure all dependencies for running ...

I need to create an MSI file with a program (downloadable, don't have time for anything else) that will overwrite a system file with a file with an <I>older</I> version on 9x clients. 9x clients do ...

No more DLL hell. That was just one of Microsoft Corp.’s goals when it introduced the Windows Installer service along with Windows 2000 nearly four years ago. The service, which now runs on Windows XP ...