My First Post

This is my first post. I created this post to share some of the information I have learned over the years as an install developer. I've used Windows Installer for years -- hand editing .msi files, using InstallShield to create standalone .msi files, writing a large install engine that uses the Windows Installer API to install a whole set of .msi files, and even writing a pretty comprehensive tool that checks for errors in our software lab's .msi files.

Since I've been playing with WI4.5 recently and haven't seen any good information on the internet, I thought it might be useful to have some more information out there.

Hopefully someone finds this useful. I'll probably find it useful to simply write these things down.