Thanks! 

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Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 7:32 AM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Where are binaries in MSIs from WiX?

Alan Sinclair wrote:
> In the past I've found CAB files in the MSI's Binary table, and used 
> Orca to extract the CAB, then used Windows Explorer to get at the 
> contents. But the MSIs produced by the WiX toolset on a project I've 
> inherited don't have a CAB visible anywhere. The binaries are 
> definitely inside the MSI, though --the Wise Installation Studio 
> manages to extract
> them-- so how do I get at them?
>   

Embedded cabs are stored as a stream in the .msi. You can use the Dark
tool in WiX (or admin installs) to extract the files.

> Also, MSIs I've worked with before can be installed in Admin mode 
> (msiexec /a ...) but with these MSIs, there's only a "Finished" 
> dialog, and it took me a while to find that the files had been 
> installed to Y:\ What do I need to do to make Admin installs
manageable from a WiX MSI?
>   

The built-in UI doesn't have support for admin-image directory
selection, but you can use the command line to specify properties like
TARGETDIR.

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