Introduction to the Microsoft Windows Installer Service
The Windows Installer is the technology behind handling all setup and deployment in Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows .NET Server. Windows Installer packages can also run on earlier versions of Windows, but the technology is built into the newer Windows version.
Windows Installer packages are predefined databases that contain information about what must be installed on a deployment target. Whereas the Visual Basic 6 Setup and Deployment Wizard used script files to determine the order of each component and files that needed to be installed, a Windows Installer package contains information about what must be installed, not how it should be installed.
The Installer service keeps ...
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