Windows installer is one of the ultimate solutions that provide the ability to deploy your solution on the windows based client machines. Here I'm specifying some the solution types that can be possible using windows installer from the wide range of support of this solution, so that you can plan your deployment with windows installer easily.
Using windows MSI we can deploy our product solution in a very easy way. For creating windows installer based deployment, we can use various kinds of the IDE or tools. Visual Studio is one of the most known tool to create windows installation solution.
By using windows installer you can
1. Copy files on any number of different locations depending on requirements
2. Customize registry keys depending on the requirements
3. Create windows services on the machine.
4. Customize any kind of windows behaviour.
In Visual Studio, to create deployment solution you need to add a new project that can be created by using predefined template under New Projects>Other Project Types>Setup and Deployment>Visual Studio Installer [In Visual Studio 2010]. It also have a template with InstallShield too.
So, now you can plan your deployment solution by using windows installer while you need to deploy specific files or to create specific behavior on the client machine for your product deployed.
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