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Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Deployment with Microsoft Installer Class and Custom Actions

The last week or so I've been working a lot on rolling out our data warehouse in a packaged deployment scenario. I've decided to use the built-in Microsoft Visual Studio .Net install project for our release packages. Unfortunately, the documentation on these projects is sparse, even in MSDN. I think it's because the project is a major upgrade from their previous install projects and fairly new. It is a nice product once you get the hang of it, but I'm sure there are many more bugs to iron out. Since the documentation is sparse, I'm collecting links of good info and plan to put them here. I'll be adding to the list as time goes on:

Default properties that can be passed to custom actions from Windows Installer