What is Nested MSI Installation ?
I have heart nested installation, nested MSI many times in packaging process. Could someone please explain this in detail and how to achive this ?
Thanks in Advance.
Answers (1)
'nested installation' is a term used when an (msi) installer actually, as part of its installation steps, contains in some way another msi installer, and launches its installation.
So in details, an MSI contains, either as a file, or in its binary table, or with its sources, another msi, and installs it through a custom action. For technical details on how to do this see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306439
I would like to add on a personal note that I'm not a big fan of nesting MSI installs. The link above also has some drawbacks to this approach, which pretty much explain why that is.
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Thank you very much for your reply, it was very informative.
If nested MSI is not very convincing way I would like to know if is there another way (Other than wrapper script to achieve this ?? :-( - The_D 10 years ago-
Keep them separate and use your deployment tool to 'chain' the installs together. - dunnpy 10 years ago
