How get info from msi file?

Andreas Zita

Hi

How do I extract the version of an assembly inside a msi-file?
Is there any "easy" way of getting all kinds of information out of a
msi-file, like build date, manufacturer, contained files, dependencies etc
.... ?

/Andreas Zita

Nov 22 '05 #1

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Ken Halter

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Hi

How do I extract the version of an assembly inside a msi-file?
Is there any "easy" way of getting all kinds of information out of a
msi-file, like build date, manufacturer, contained files, dependencies etc
... ?

/Andreas Zita

You should be able to use Orca... which is part of the Windows Installer SDK

Windows Installer SDK (x86)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en

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Ken Halter - MS-MVP-VB (visiting from VB6 world) - http://www.vbsight.com
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Nov 22 '05 #2

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