Defining Installer Projects and the Product Registry

Product Registry

The product registry is essentially a product configuration database that keeps track of features and components of products for the operating system. The product registry accomplishes tasks such as associating filename extensions with applications. InstallAnywhere makes it easy to enter vendor and product information in the product registry to uniquely identify products.

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Correctly setting the product ID and version is critical to using the Find Component in Registry action. By checking the product ID, InstallAnywhere finds the locations of components in the registry.

Product ID and vendor information is entered in the Project | Description subtask.

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