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Smoke - Windows Installer Validation Tool (Download)

The Windows Installer validation tool I’ve been babbling about for a few days now is available for download on DeployNow!  Stop by and check it out:

http://www.deploynow.com/Articles/Details.aspx?ID=2

I’ve even enhanced it a bit more to allow for either delimited text output, or xml.

Included in the zip file is a sample batch file that shows how conditional logic can be applied based on smoke’s return value to take alternative courses of action if problems creep into your msi files.

Enjoy – and make sure you link to it, blog about it, and give me some feedback on it!

Posted: Dec 19 2004, 06:06 AM by Michael | with 8 comment(s)
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TrackBack said:

# January 10, 2005 5:19 PM

Michael said:

FYI, tried to post a complimentary comment on DeployNow but never got a password emailed... Nice to be able to validate MSIs on WinServer2K3, where msival2 does not work!
# March 29, 2005 6:03 PM

TrackBack said:

^_^,Pretty Good!
# April 15, 2005 5:30 PM

Michael said:

Hi,

I tried to download smoke but looks like the DeployNow site is down. :-(

Vagmi
# April 28, 2005 7:22 AM

Michael said:

Hello,
Yup, DeployNow still down. Very anxious to try this out.. I'm looking for something that works on 2K3 :)
# May 12, 2005 6:19 PM

TrackBack said:

^_~,pretty good!csharpsseeoo
# May 18, 2005 10:45 PM

TrackBack said:

Smoke - Windows Installer Validation Tool (Download)ooeess
# July 22, 2005 1:51 AM

TrackBack said:

Smoke - Windows Installer Validation Tool (Download)ooeess
# August 2, 2005 8:03 PM
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