Inspect & Analyze Microsoft Installer Package With MSI Explore

[6Foot2]

Link: MSI Explorer - sateesh-arveti - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

 

• It allows us to look into the contents of the MSI.
  
• It allows us to export the contents of the MSI.
  
• It allows us to update commonly changing properties without rebuilding it.
  
• Easy to use UI.
  
• Now, Updating an MSI is quite simple

 

http://blogs.technet.com/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/CommunityServer-Components-ImageFileViewer/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles-00-00-00-86-08/7633.1.jpg_2D00_550x0.jpg

[AngryTechnician]

Am, I missing something, or does this do exactly the same thing as Orca?

[6Foot2]

I wasn't aware of Orca and so I can't compare.

[srochford]

Looks like a cut-down version of Orca (How to use the Orca database editor to edit Windows Installer files) - eg I can't see how to create a transform file in this program.

 

The KB article suggests Orca is "retired" and no longer supported but it does still work.

[AngryTechnician]

I think Orca has always been unsupported officially, so that's probably boilerplate. It's still being distributed with the latest version of the SDK.