InstallShield MSI Projects Training Course and Workshop in Bangalore, Mysore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai, Delhi, Noida, Gurgaon, Kolkata

The InstallShield MSI Projects training course provides a solid understanding of installation terminology, the tasks an installation program needs to perform, and the InstallShield development environment. In this course, you will learn to customize installation with custom actions in order to make changes to end users’ systems. You will also learn how to correctly identify, install, and configure special types of files (e.g., COM servers, Windows services, and .NET assemblies). Finally, you will understand how to perform simple to sophisticated changes to installation’s user interface.

This course teaches to create Basic MSI projects, which use the Windows Installer service (MSI) for the installation’s behavior and appearance. This course does not cover InstallScript MSI projects.

By attending InstallShield MSI Projects workshop, delegates will learn to:

Create and organize an installation project
Install files and create shortcuts
Install and configure special types of files and data, such as registry and INI data, COM servers, Windows services, and .NET assemblies
Work with MSI sequences and custom actions
Customize installer’s user interface
Package installer for Windows Vista, Windows 7, and later
Use the Automation interface to modify project outside the graphical environment

Using Windows Explorer and the command prompt to create and manage files, and run executables
Basic Windows terminology (e.g. DLL, Control Panel, etc.)

Introduction

About the Windows Installer service
About Windows Installer installation packages
About the Windows Installer installation mechanism
About the InstallShield environment
Getting help

About Projects

Installation terminology
Using the Project Assistant
Using the Installation Designer
Working with features and components
Global product and project data

Installing Files

Static and dynamic file linking
Working with destination folders
Best Practice fundamentals
“Key” resource usage
GUID usage
Restarts and the Windows Restart Manager
Creating shortcuts
Using merge modules and prerequisites

Building Releases

Using the Release Wizard
Media types
Web installations
Command-line builds
Using the InstallShield Automation interface
Digitally signing the installation and file
Using the Standalone build system

Deploying an Installation

Running an installation
Understand how to interact with User Account Control (UAC)
Maintenance and uninstallation
Reducing installation time for large packages
Using msiexec.exe
Silent and reduced-UI installations
Passing properties from the command line
MSI Log Analyzer

Non-File System Changes

Registry data
Text files
INI files, XML files, and arbitrary text files
Environment variables
File associations
Setting file, folder, and registry permissions
Scheduled tasks

Installing Special Files

COM servers
Windows services
.NET Assemblies
Running SQL scripts
Forcing data removal

Creating and Consuming Reusable Installation Elements

Creating merge modules
Creating InstallShield prerequisites
Working with repositories
Creating suite projects
Chaining MSI installations

Conditions and Actions

MSI properties
Condition syntax and examples
Installation sequences
Custom actions: action types and guidelines
Getting and setting properties
Launching executables
Calling DLLs
Managed code custom actions
Editing MSI tables directly

User Interface

How MSI determines dialog order and conditions
Working with control events
Working with control conditions
MSI Debugger
Creating new dialog boxes
Subscription to Actions
Localization

Updates and Patches

Types of updates
Creating minor upgrades
Creating major upgrades
QuickPatch projects
General patch projects
Patches and User Account Control
Uninstalling a patch

Additional Topics

How to create and deploy transforms
Direct MSI editing

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