Packinging Exe into MSI with switches using Wix#

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Hi,

I would like to package any EXE or scripts into an MSI package. And this MSI will only act as a wrapper where upon installation on a machine, it will not have its own guid in Add/Remove program, rather it will use the EXE as an installer instead.

Does anyone knows how can this be done? Thank you in advance.

Posted 23-Jun-11 21:02pm

gjianhon

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barneyman · Answer 1 · 2011-06-23T21:33:00

You can't do this - a properly constructed MSI will always represent a product in the Add/Remove programs list, an incorrectly constructed MSI won't be run by the installer

MSI files are not simply ZIP files (though the contents are compressed) - they also contain a Database of actions to accomplish the install