Merge modules provide a standard method by which developers deliver shared Windows Installer components and setup logic to their applications. Merge modules are used to deliver shared code, files, resources, registry entries, and setup logic to applications as a single compound file. Developers authoring new merge modules or using existing merge modules should follow the standard outlined in this section.
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How to upgrade from a .msi installer to a .msm for new version?
Say I have a component which is made up of a bunch of DLLs. And the component was released using a .msi installer for several versions.
Now, we need it to be a .msm so that it can be included in other msi installers. So we need to build a merge…
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What is the proper way to use the same merge module in an MSI multiple times?
I am creating a windows installer script and I have two features to be installed in their own folder.
I want to execute a merge module to BOTH of these folders. However, Windows Installer only allow a single copy of the merge module so I can only…
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Folder created by MSM not being removed on uninstall
I have an .MSI file created using VS2008. This .MSI is composed of a collection of merge modules, each of which basically installs one component of our application to its own folder.
When I try and uninstall the .MSI one of the subfolders created by…
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WiX MSI behaves differently before and after removing CRT MSM
I've got an MSI built with WiX. It performs the following custom action:
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Is it possible to create a shortcut to a file that comes from a merge module in a Visual Studio Setup project?
I have a Setup and Deployment project in Visual Studio 2010 which is using some merge modules to install some dependencies that my program requires to run. One of the MSM files contains an executable that I would like to create a shortcut to in the…
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Integrate advanced installer Merge Module project with Visual studio
I have some merge module projects created using advanced installer. I need to integrate them with visual studio. I have done same for MSI projects and they work fine. but I don't know how to achieve continuous integration for MSM using Visual…
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