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Creating an .msi on the fly

Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 11:28 am
by kristian
Hi people,

I am currently working on an application that requires the final output to be downloaded as an .msi for the user to install on their machine.

Having had a search on google for possible existing discussions/solutions I have drawn a blank.

Has anyone on here ever created an .msi on the fly; gathering all required files from the server and packaging them into an .msi?

Any pointers or links to discussion/resources would be highly appreciated.

Thanks,
Kris...

Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 11:46 am
by Begby
I think this is something where you might want to use ASP.NET. That would give you direct and easy access to the com and .NET objects required to create a .MSI.

Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 3:35 pm
by timvw
tools like msbuild and wix can be used to generate msi's... something our buildserver does regularly ;)

Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 3:25 am
by kristian
Thanks for your replies.

Unfortunately .NET isn't a way forward for me as we work in a LAMP environment.

Taking a look at WIX to start with as it has the ability to be run from the command line.

I'll let you know how i get on.

Thanxs,
Kris...