December 2006
Intermediate to advanced
1312 pages
35h 17m
English
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23.4 Extracting Files from Windows Installer Packages with Less MSIérables
Microsoft’s Windows Installer is the de facto standard installation system for Windows. A Windows Installer package usually comes in a file with an .msi extension and contains a database of installation information as well as a set of components to be installed. While automatic uninstall, rollback facilities, advertisement banners, and the like are compelling features for a sophisticated installation system, it is not always desirable or feasible to run a Windows Installer package.
You might want to work around Windows Installer simply to avoid having to install and uninstall an application each day to get a couple of files out of the most recent build, or you may encounter an installer that refuses to install because of a falsely reported dependency. Sometimes you may just want to view files or attributes in an installer file, or unzip the contents.
Scott Willeke has written a utility to allow you to do just that. With Less MSIérables, you can view and extract the contents of Windows Installer files.
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Tool | Less MSIérables |
Version covered | 1.0.5.0 |
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Power Tools page | |
Summary | A tool to view and extract the contents of Windows Installer files |
License type | Freeware |
Online resources | Author’s blog |
Supported Frameworks | .NET ... |
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