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create MSI based installers

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Current Version:	08.320
Release Date:	2008-11-15
License:	Freeware
Downloads (this version):	33
Downloads (all versions):	2,032

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Product Description:

MAKEMSI is a freeware tool which enables you to easily and reliably create low overhead "MSI" or "Windows Installer" based installers. Windows Installer is a Microsoft developed and backed installer format or technology for building reliable installation packages.

Advantages:

Automatic handling of files opened by applications (in use).
If an install fails then prior changes will be undone (no half installs).
Enables deployment (with or without elevated privledges) to all boxes in a network via Group Policy/Active Directory. Corporate customers will definately prefer (or in fact generally require) MSI based installers due to their ease of deployment.
The automatic creation of XP system restore points at package install and uninstall.
Self healing (repair) of files or registry entries.
The advertising of complete applications (or parts) which allows installation on demand (resources not installed until required).
Installation or uninstallation can be automated via command line parameters in a standard way (automatic support for silent or unattended installs).
Allows merging of common "runtime files" (via Microsoft or other 3rd party merge modules).
Configuration of MSI based products is supported by many mechanisms which are standard for all MSI installers. MSI files are databases which can be manipulated (by the end user) to tweak them or alterations can be done via separate transforms or options can be overridden from the command line. This can change install file and shortcut locations and control which features get installed plus much more.
Microsoft Windows product logos require MSI based installers.

What's new in this version:

The "MsiValFilter" "regular expression" tests could cause validation filtering to fail on some workstations (on any particular machine it would either consistently fail or work). MAKEMSI should now also detect and warn about any filter failure. Also added some more debugging features to the validation process.
Many MAKEMSI commands make use of the "GetSeqNumber()" routine which would display an error if the available space was exactly equal to the requested number of sequence numbers.
The "CustomAction" column "ExtendedType" is now created by default allowing the new "PatchUninstall" custom action attribute to be used. If you are operating on existing msi files you may need to set the "TABLES_DEFINE.CustomAction.ExtendedType" macro to "N" if it doesn't already contain the column.
Minor change to "HookInto.MMH" to fix the bug (#ifdef "macro") reported by Christoph Mockenhaupt (thanks). Found similar issue in "MacroCfg.MMH".
Christoph Mockenhaupt improved his "FireWall.MMH" code.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Windows XP
Windows 2003
Windows 2000
Windows NT
Windows 98

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