Add MSI installer to my Setup

[Kevin]

Hi
It's possible to add an msi to my setup and run it?

Thanks

[Bob Powell [MVP]]

Do you want to create an installer project for a program you wrote or launch
a second MSI install from one you already have?

Please be more precise.

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"Kevin" <@wrote in message news:OZ*************@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

Hi
It's possible to add an msi to my setup and run it?

Thanks

[Larry Smith]

Do you want to create an installer project for a program you wrote or

launch a second MSI install from one you already have?

MSI doesn't support concurrent installations. Although MSFT says it's a
"deprecated" feature, it's so full of trapdoors that's it's never been fully
supported at all IMO (after extensive work with it).

[Bob Powell [MVP]]

Well, exactly....

I was going to suggest a custom install step at that response.

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"Larry Smith" <no_spam@_nospam.comwrote in message
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>Do you want to create an installer project for a program you wrote or
launch a second MSI install from one you already have?

MSI doesn't support concurrent installations. Although MSFT says it's a
"deprecated" feature, it's so full of trapdoors that's it's never been
fully supported at all IMO (after extensive work with it).

[Larry Smith]

I was going to suggest a custom install step at that response.

That won't work either unfortunately (not until it's too late to be useful -
long story):

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...cute_mutex.asp

In my experience a merge module is really the only way to do it. Most
3rd-party products don't provide one however should you need to install it
with your own product. In any case, MSI is very difficult to work with and I
wouldn't recommend it for anything beyond the simplest applications
(unfortunately, there's little else to rely on that's any better).