{"id":2833,"date":"2005-09-27T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-27T13:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/heaths\/2005\/09\/27\/building-quality-windows-installer-packages\/"},"modified":"2005-09-27T13:23:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-27T13:23:00","slug":"building-quality-windows-installer-packages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/building-quality-windows-installer-packages\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Quality Windows Installer Packages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Building quality installation packages not only helps set up your application correctly&nbsp;but also helps maintain your application. A quality installer fosters quality patches. The <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/library\/en-us\/msi\/setup\/windows_installer_start_page.asp\">Windows Installer SDK<\/a> offers a lot of information about how to author installation packages but how do you do it right? Why not ask the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/windows_installer_team\/\">Windows Installer team<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>The Windows Installer team has announced a new series on <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/windows_installer_team\/archive\/2005\/09\/27\/463649.aspx\">building quality installers<\/a>. Windows Installer is a powerful installation technology that also boasts resiliency but to harness all its features you have to author data a certain way. There are some good installer development environments that target Windows Installer that assist you in creating quality installers from the get-go but there&#8217;s still a lot left up to the install developer.<\/p>\n<p>So keep an eye on their blog for more details and make sure your application installs correctly and is maintainable.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building quality installation packages not only helps set up your application correctly&nbsp;but also helps maintain your application. A quality installer fosters quality patches. The Windows Installer SDK offers a lot of information about how to author installation packages but how do you do it right? Why not ask the Windows Installer team? The Windows Installer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":3843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-2833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-installation"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Building quality installation packages not only helps set up your application correctly&nbsp;but also helps maintain your application. A quality installer fosters quality patches. The Windows Installer SDK offers a lot of information about how to author installation packages but how do you do it right? Why not ask the Windows Installer team? The Windows Installer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}