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which windows and service pack is need to upgrade for windows installer 2.0
Posted by Victor Liu on April 24th, 2004


Hi,

I create a deploy type project in VC7 for packing my program, after build, it create some file for me, some of them is InstMsiA.Exe
and InstMsiW.Exe.
what traget windows version and service pack should I to attach those file ? I find installer article in MSDN, it just mention
installer 2.0 is native on windows xp and 2003, and other windows need to upgrade for installer mechanism, where I can find a
arctile to point out whick server pack is need for each widnows version ?

if my program is only for english, should I need to attach InstMsiW.Exe file, can I only attach InstMsiA.Exe ?

If I know whcih windows version is need to upgrade installer then I can announce a two version of my program setup package, one is
for windows whcih supported with installer without upgrad and that have small size on this package, another one is for windows whcih
not supported with installer and need to upgrade then I will provide a larger one whcih contain all file those is result of VC7
build created.

Thanks.

Best Regards.

Victor.



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