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izaltsman
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 Posted - 2002-10-16 : 14:21:25
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| Hi All! I am working on an application that will use MSDE as a back end... I want to create a windows installer package (an .msi file) that installs only the required components of MSDE (i.e. I don't need replication and DMO). I found this article (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/distsql/distsql_8yeq.asp), which tells me what merge modules I need to include in the install package, but it doesn't walk through the details of package creation process . I have tried editing sample.msi package with the tools from Win installer SDK as suggested in the article, but I can't figure out what entries I have to remove from the msi. I would be very grateful if someone could shed some light on how to create an msi package for MSDE installation, or on how to create installer packages in general. |
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izaltsman
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Posted - 2002-10-17 : 17:49:05
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| Well, I ended up going a different route -- instead of editing the sample msi's I built an msi from scratch, using Visual Studio Installer. Appears to be working quite well for me. |
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izaltsman
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Posted - 2002-11-05 : 14:48:23
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| OK, now I am back with a twist on the original problem. I need my custom Windows Installer package to install a named instance of MSDE. Everything I've tried so far installs a default instance. Does anyone know what I could do to the msi package in order to install a named instance? |
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izaltsman
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Posted - 2002-11-05 : 16:08:45
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| OK, got an answer (thanks to digital_pilot of SQL.ru). All I had to do was to add a row into a Property table with the property = 'SqlInstanceName' and value = 'mycoolinstance' |
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Creating an msi package for MSDE