According to various web pages, orca.msi/orca.exe is primarily distributed as part of the Windows SDK. I have Visual Studio 2015 Professional Update 3 installed. I have installed all the "Universa...

I have small problem when exporting static chart using plotly. Plotly does not correctly recognize that I have orca installed and I have still error related to missing orca. I try to change the or...

I have written a C# WPF application. I have now created an MSI that will install the application. However, the file size is gigantic. The application contains many video and image files, which have...

I have a MSM file from a third party tool. We customize the MSM with a small script and this tool is integrated into our installer and works fine. All modification is done with VBscript using COM a...

Many of our customers have access to InstallShield, WISE or AdminStudio. These aren't a problem. I'm hoping there is some way I can provide our smaller customers without access to commercial repack...

How can I do a "content compare" of two (or more) MSI files and see what is actually different inside the files - instead of doing a useless binary compare? (which obviously only tells me if I am d...

We have an application to be run on startup that allows many installed files to be changed after installation. We are trying to turn off the self-healing mode by setting the DISABLEADVTSHORTCUTS=1 ...

I'm using the Microsoft.Deployment.WindowsInstaller libraries to read out values from a .msi file. Properties are no problem, and the summary-information can also be read out, example: static vo...

I have an installer that installs few components including windows service, after it installed it'll start the service that installed onto the system using CustomAction. The problem when I uninsta...

I have integrated the Facebook SDK for android v3.5 in my app and included the install publishing code: com.facebook.AppEventsLogger.activateApp(this); But I am receiving a lot of crashes caused...

We currently use WiX for building our MSI files, and as such it is the only MSI builder I have had experience using. I know you can build installers natively in Visual Studio though. What are the d...

All I want is a command-line tool that can extract files from a merge module (.msm) onto disk. Said differently, I want the same "administrative install" functionality that is possible for an MSI: ...

I know you can change it using cscript.exe on Windows. Is there a Linux program providing cscript-like functionality? Or is there some other way I can change the database in Linux?

I'm using Visual Studio 2008 and have created a setup project for my application. The application has a high-resolution icon (for Vista). There's a bug in Visual Studio, and the installer creates a...

In our build process there is currently the potential for non-code based files (such as image files) to be added to our web project, but not included in the MSI installer built by WiX. To help pr...