Customizable Tools Menu

The Tools menu can be customized to allow favorite programs to be easily accessible. This saves times and improves the ability of the setup developer to complete common tasks.

In this example, the Orca tool from the Windows Installer SDK has been added to the tools menu. The Arguments field contains the variable <OutputMsiFile> which, in this case, is expanded to the pathname of the current output file. Therefore, Orca.exe can be run with the current build output file opened automatically, a time saver for installation developers who like to immediately examine the output of a build.