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Internal of Logfile Generation

hi ,

how the log file are generated.


i know /L*v and stuff but i am looking for internal..
(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Installer "Logging"="voicewarmup")
it will start the log file .


Can somebody tell me the internal building procedure of logfile as how it is made.
Like services called n registry changes , i am looking for internals working of it ..

i saw many exe without a msi wrapper generate log file .. so how do they generate the logfile.

Thanks in Advance..

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Posted by: pjgeutjens 14 years ago
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perhaps this pdf is a good place to start, the code in it gives you an idea how log messages are put together and written to the log in an msi.

Rgds,

PJ
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