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Changes to Package Caching in Windows Installer 5.0

February 2, 2009 Feb 2, 2009 02/2/09
Heath Stewart
Windows Installer 5.0 is shipping in Windows 7 as part of the operating system. To address the issue where the User Account Control consent dialog is displayed with an “Unidentified Publisher”, the .msi package is cached in its entirety.Prior to Windows Installer 5.0, installation packages, or .msi files, were stripped of their ...

Unadvertise Features

January 27, 2009 Jan 27, 2009 01/27/09
Heath Stewart
The attached Windows Script file allows you to unadvertise features in a Windows Installer product by specifying either a ProductCode or the path to an MSP. If any features are advertised - whether incidental or intentional - the product will be reinstalled and those features added locally to your computer. Usage Only one of /Patch or /...

Dictionary of Windows Installer Tokens

January 16, 2009 Jan 16, 2009 01/16/09
Heath Stewart
If you are writing emails and specifications about Windows Installer all day, chances are your document or mail editor has plenty of squiggly red lines highlighting your presumed spelling errors like MsiPatchSequence. To not miss any actual spelling errors, I find myself double-checking and adding lots of Windows Installer terms to my custom ...

Windows Installer Dictionary

January 15, 2009 Jan 15, 2009 01/15/09
Heath Stewart
Attached is a Unicode-encoded, English locale-sorted text file with many table, column, API, and flag tokens you can use as a spelling dictionary in many applications including Microsoft Word and Outlook email. To support Microsoft Word, Outlook email, and other Microsoft Office products, msi.zip...

Another Possible Workaround for Error 1330

December 11, 2008 Dec 11, 2008 12/11/08
Heath Stewart
When installing Visual Studio 2008, you might run into an error dialog that reads, Error 1330.A file that is required cannot be installed because the cabinet file D:\cab1.cab has an invalid digital signature. This may indicate that the cabinet file is corrupt. The path and name of the cabinet may be different, but might often be D:\cab1....

Adding features to Visual Studio 2008 may fail to load setup components

October 6, 2008 Oct 6, 2008 10/6/08
Heath Stewart
When attempting to add features to Visual Studio 2008 after it has already been installed, you may see an error that reports, A problem has been encountered while loading the setup components. Canceling setup.FixUpdated: a hotfix has been uploaded to Code Gallery to address this issue. As stated on the page, Please be aware this Hotfix has not...