23 February 2012

Articles and Tutorials

The Articles and Tutorials section is an online resource for setup engineers who wish to learn more about how to use MSIStudio to create Windows Installer packages. Both basic and advanced concepts are discussed.

Tutorials

Create Basic Install
This demonstrates a typical installation project containing some files and Registry entries.

Custom User Interface
Customize the user interface dialog wizard to select a user account at install time and apply this account to a service being installed.

Create a single setup to target both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows
Create sample 32-bit and 64-bit install packages and use a single bootstrapper setup.exe containing both which can be used to install the appropriate package based on the operating system type.

Articles

Creating 64-bit Installs
Discusses the differences between 32-bit and 64-bit Windows from the point of view of creating installation packages.