Re: [WiX-users] How to diff two MSMs

2014-11-24 Thread Tobias S
InstEd (http://www.instedit.com/) does a good job here. Diff functionality is not obvious at first glance: Open first MSI (or MSM) directly and then Transform - Compare against... . In File Name dialog then set the filter to All files instead of *.msi and open the second MSI (or MSM).

[WiX-users] How to diff two MSMs

2014-11-21 Thread Joel Budreau
Is there a good way to diff two merge modules to see what's changed between builds? Thanks, Joel -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business

Re: [WiX-users] How to diff two MSMs

2014-11-21 Thread Phil Wilson
The Windows Kit (Platform SDK) has some MSI tools and scripts, one of them is WIDiffDB.vbs that reports the difference between two databases. That might include merge modules. --- Phil Wilson On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 6:58 AM, Joel Budreau joel.budr...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a

Re: [WiX-users] How to diff two MSMs

2014-11-21 Thread Joel Budreau
I’ll give it a try. Thanks Phil! - Joel On Nov 21, 2014, at 8:33 PM, Phil Wilson phildgwil...@gmail.com wrote: The Windows Kit (Platform SDK) has some MSI tools and scripts, one of them is WIDiffDB.vbs that reports the difference between two databases. That might include merge modules.

Re: [WiX-users] How to diff two MSMs

2014-11-21 Thread Joel Budreau
Just tried it out. Yes, WiDiffDb.vbs prints out line-by-line the differences between two MSIs/MSMs. On Nov 21, 2014, at 8:33 PM, Phil Wilson phildgwil...@gmail.com wrote: The Windows Kit (Platform SDK) has some MSI tools and scripts, one of them is WIDiffDB.vbs that reports the difference