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MSI SDK

# by Rob Mensching on Friday, November 07, 2008 1:02 AM

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The MSI SDK (also known as the Windows Installer SDK) is here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc185688.aspx. For some reason the major search engines don't rank it highly.

You can also download the MSI SDK (which gets you the documentation in .CHM format plus several useful tools such as Orca).

 

4 Comments

Comment by Neil Sleightholm on Friday, November 07, 2008 10:07 AM

Just a thought, but due to the number of "read the MSI documentation" questions that are asked on the mailing list have you ever thought of trying to get permission to ship the MSI chm help file with WiX. Alternatively you could add a link to the online Windows Installer documentation in the WiX program group.

Comment by Thomas Lee on Saturday, November 15, 2008 7:30 AM

I saw your comment in the MSDN wiki (and here). I agree it's a shame and my attempt to help is on my blog at: http://tfl09.blogspot.com/2008/11/rob-menching-and-msi-sdk.html

Comment by dilly on Sunday, January 04, 2009 7:17 PM

It works! Yes, the link for downloading the MSI SDK is valid up to now. It's nice not to download the HUGE windows SDK just for a small part.
Thank you very much.

Comment by Tedda Hobson on Saturday, April 18, 2009 7:01 PM

I get an Error 1706.....I can not remove it, and I can not install anyting or remove anything that might help.
I get a message that another installion is in process

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