The installer can be used to read, edit, and replace source lists for network, URL, and media sources. Administrators can enumerate across user and install contexts, and manage source lists from an external process. Windows Installer 4. If all the packages in the transaction cannot be installed successfully, or if the user cancels the installation, the Windows Installer can roll back changes and restore the computer to its original state.
The installer ensures that all the packages belonging to a multiple-package transaction are installed or none of the packages are installed.
Beginning with Windows Installer 5. The package can specify a security descriptor that denies permissions, specifies inheritance of permissions from a parent resource, or specifies the permissions of a new account.
For information, see Securing Resources. The Windows Installer 5. For more information, see Enumerating Components. Setup developers can use Windows Installer 5. Windows Installer enables the efficient installation and configuration of your products and applications running on Windows. The installer provides new capabilities to advertise features without installing them, to install products on demand, and to add user customizations.
Windows Installer 5. A Windows Installer package, patch, or transform that has not been signed by Microsoft cannot be installed on Windows RT. The Template Summary property indicates the platform that is compatible with an installation database and in this case should include the value for Windows RT.
This documentation is intended for software developers who want to make applications that use Windows Installer. It provides general background information about installation packages and the installer service. That's a whole different can of worms dealing with Build Automation and Continous Integration which is responsible for building your application and your applications installer. You will want that process to version your application files and pass a product version property into the installer build.
There are many depending on what your build environment looks like. It's assumed that what's authored into the File table is correct. Show 1 more comment. The MSI terms might be easier to understand when compared with those: Version Windows installer: a string data type , used in the MSI file table for the files it contains Resource files: data type consisting of 2xbit integers. NET assembly: AssemblyName. Version File version Windows installer: is neither a property nor a data type.
NET assembly: AssemblyFileVersionAttribute Version number restrictions The version data type in Windows installer - despite being a string - has the same limitations as the version data type in resource files The version consists of two bit integers, defined by four bit integers. Version unsigned 16bit. Roi Danton Roi Danton 6, 4 4 gold badges 51 51 silver badges 70 70 bronze badges. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google.
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Linked Related 2. Hot Network Questions. Question feed. Stack Overflow works best with JavaScript enabled. To update the bit and bit versions of Windows Server SP1, or to update the bit versions of Windows XP, download the hotfix that is described in Microsoft Knowledge Base article instead of the v2 package. For more information about Windows Installer 3.
Microsoft Windows Installer 3. New minor UpdateTargetRTMProperty property: Patch files can now target both the original release baseline and the latest service-pack-level baseline that is on the system. New x64 and Msix64 properties: Packages can now use the x64 and Msix64 properties to indicate x64 processor-based operating system support. Flyweight patching is now an opt-in behavior: Windows Installer 3. By default, this functionality was enabled for all patches. The MsiGetFileHash function now works correctly for very large unversioned files.
These files may be about 2 GB. The MediaSrcProp property of a patch is now set to the original launched-from location when the patch is installed. The MediaSrcProp property is set to the cached patch location for subsequent transactions.
Target information for a custom action is no longer logged when the custom action fails if the custom action is marked to hide the target. Applying a full-file Windows Installer 2. Sequence column of File table includes values larger than In Windows Installer 3. This issue is now fixed. The patch sequencer no longer incorrectly rejects a valid patch during administrative image patching.
Windows Installer no longer fails silently when the installer tries to update a file that is protected by the Windows File Protection feature. For help in troubleshooting Windows installer issues, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:.
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