Rob Mensching's View of Windows Installer

Rob Mensching is a Software Design Engineer at Microsoft. He's been with the company for a bit over four years now and most of that time was spent on the Office setup/deployment team beating the Windows Installer (aka MSI or Darwin) into submission. Before he was hired as a "full timer" he was an intern on the Windows Installer team, where he created things such as msifiler.exe, msival2.exe, orca.exe, and wrote the original Merge Module (aka MSM) specification and merge API (mergemod.dll). Rob is running a Blog where he discusses basic and advanced Windows Installer topics and also talks about the hiostory of MSI.

Here are direct links to his Blog entries:

• robmen now entering blogspace. Rob Menschin introduces himself (2003-09-09)

• Setup is... Definition of a setup program and its building blocks (2003-09-28)

• Rob's Two Axioms of Setup… The importance of rules and exceptions (2003-10-04)

• Windows Installer Components Introduction. How Windows Installer decides whether to install or update a component (2003-10-04)

• The story of Orca (2003-10-10)

• Component Rules 101. A discussion about the Windows Installer Component Rules (2003-10-18)

• Inside the MSI file format. Take a tour of the MSI file format (2003-11-25)

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