Most of developers are quite familiar in creating MSI or Setup for our applications. By using a MSI, they can make sure all dependencies for running the application will be placed properly. MSI is the best option available on Windows OS for packaging and distributing our application. For .NET developers, Visual Studio presents lot of features in creating setup and deployment projects for application.
But, there are no built-in tools in Visual Studio to look into the MSI contents. And that too, to make a small change in MSI, it requires rebuilding the entire Setup Project.
That's why our friend "Sateesh Arveti" @ TechNet Blogs has created an application "MSI Explorer" that analyzes the MSI and gives the details of it along with capability of updating it without rebuilding.
Features List:
- It allows to look into the contents of the MSI
- It allows to export the contents of the MSI
- It allows to update commonly changing properties without rebuilding it
- Easy to use UI.
- Now, Updating an MSI is quite simple
Simply use Browse option and click on Analyze for analyzing the selected MSI in the tool. Output will be like this, when we open MSI:
By using this application, we can easily view and update the MSI without extra effort.
This article was posted by VG in following section: Software.
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Mark Anthony
wow..confusing
Jaydon H
So advanced, and that's what makes it good! Thanks Vishal.
betaluva
nice app : )
Joshua
A little simplistic but still a handy app. Thanks.
vishal sawant
Gr8 Tool...
Thanx Man...
randomcore
thx. very useful and detailed tool :)