It's easy as pie in C#/DTF:
String creatingApp;
using( var database = new Database( PATH_TO_MSI, DatabaseOpenMode.ReadOnly))
{
creatingApp = database.SummaryInfo.CreatingApp;
}
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--- On Wed, 1/28/09, Neil Sleightholm <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Neil Sleightholm <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] extracting WiX compiled version from msi file
> To: "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset."
> <[email protected]>
> Date: Wednesday, January 28, 2009, 12:13 PM
> It is in the summary information but the only tool I know
> that displays
> it is InstEd (http://www.instedit.com/). A rough way of
> find it is to
> open the MSI in a text editor and search for "Windows
> Installer XML" you
> should find a string like "Windows Installer XML
> (3.0.4923.0)". I am
> sure there is an easier way of finding though.
>
> Neil
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cohen, Roy [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 28 January 2009 18:01
> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
> Subject: [WiX-users] extracting WiX compiled version from
> msi file
>
> Hi all.
> I have a set of MSI installation files that ware compiled
> from different
> version of WiX (v3)
> My question is, is there a way for extracting the complier
> (WiX) version
> from the MSI ?
> And I mean any possible way ... ORCA / VBScript / windows
> installer DLL
> etc' ?
>
>
> Best wishes
>
>
> --Roy
>
> It's all in the <head />
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