InstallShield Advanced Windows Installer (MSI) Training Course and Workshop in Bangalore, Mysore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai, Delhi, Noida, Gurgaon, Kolkata

The Advanced Windows Installer Using InstallShield training course provides a solid understanding of advanced techniques for customizing the appearance and behavior of the installation program. The techniques used in this course involve Basic MSI projects in InstallShield, which use the Windows Installer service (MSI) for the installation’s behavior and appearance. While the course does occasionally make use of InstallScript custom actions in Basic MSI projects. This course does not cover InstallScript MSI projects.

By attending Advanced Windows Installer Using InstallShield workshop, delegates will learn to:

Improve installer’s appearance using advanced control types
Provide detailed user feedback using billboards, progress information, and logging
Correctly create custom actions for extending Windows Installer functionality (and learn when not to!)
Avoid common pitfalls when coding custom actions
Work with InstallShield prerequisites and chained installations to handle multi-package requirements

Attend a training on InstallShield MSI Projects
Experience implementing at least 1 large installation project using the Basic MSI project type
Experience implementing at least 2 medium installations using the Basic MSI project type
Experience implementing at least 4 small installations using the Basic MSI project type

Introduction and Review

About Windows Installer installation packages
Product organization: features, components, and key paths
Properties and conditions
Using the InstallShield environment
Package validation
Features introduced in recent InstallShield versions

User Interface

Setting up interactions between controls
Using MaskedEdit controls for formatted user input
Features and components:
- Multiple file destinations
- Customizing the feature-selection dialog
- Conditions based on feature and component
VolumeSelectCombo controls
Displaying billboards during data transfer
Techniques for dynamically refreshing dialog boxes

Custom Actions

How to use Windows Installer functionality to avoid custom actions:
- Copying, moving, and deleting files
- Reading and deleting registry information
- Using InstallShield extensions
Types of custom actions, and advantages and disadvantages of each
All about action scheduling:
- Immediate and deferred actions, and deciding which type to use
- Rollback and commit actions
- User and system contexts
- Detecting and handling installation, uninstallation, rollback, and uninstallation-rollback
“Simple” custom actions: launching executables, setting properties and Directory properties, and displaying error messages
Writing code for script, MSI DLL, InstallScript, and managed – vcode custom actions
- Getting and setting property values
- Getting property values during deferred execution
- Returning success to Windows Installer
- Triggering rollback
- Additional interaction with the running installation

Additional Custom Action Techniques

Accessing and modifying the running MSI package for dynamic effects such as:
- Populating list-type controls at run time
- Hiding features after CostFinalize
- Changing shortcut descriptions at run time
Working with custom MSI tables
Writing to the Windows Installer log file
Additional user feedback during action execution:
- Static action text
- Detailed action data
- Interaction with the progress bar control
- Handling the Cancel button
- Correctly displaying message boxes

Additional Topics

Windows Installer’s reboots and files-in-use behavior
Working with InstallShield prerequisites
Working with the Directory table
Chained installations
Multi-instance packages

Putting the Pieces Together

Presenting dynamic data to the user
Writing an action that correctly handles installation, uninstallation, rollback, uninstallation – rollback, and cleanup
Logging the action’s changes
Displaying detailed progress information

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InstallShield Advanced Windows Installer (MSI)