Appendix B: How To: Wise for Windows Installer


Wise for Windows Installer is a powerful tool for creating Windows Installer-based setup packages. This appendix shows you how to use Wise for Windows Installer to create a setup package for a Visual FoxPro application.

What is Wise for Windows Installer?

Wise for Windows Installer, or WfWI for short, is a Windows Installer-based setup tool from Wise Solutions, Inc. Wise also markets other setup tools including Wise Package Studio, Wise for Visual Studio .NET, and Wise Installation System.

As its name implies, Wise for Windows Installer builds setup packages for Windows Installer. Because the fundamental structure of a Windows Installer setup packages is the same no matter what tool you use to create it, the concepts you encounter when working with WfWI are the same as those you encounter when working with other Windows Installer-based setup tools such as the one that ships with Visual FoxPro.

Wise for Windows Installer comes in three editions: Standard, Professional, and Enterprise. We chose to base this appendix on the Standard edition because in our opinion it is the most comparable to the tool that ships with Visual FoxPro. The Professional and Enterprise editions of WfWI are more powerful and offer features not found in the Standard edition. You can find a comparison of features in Wise for Windows Installer Enterprise, Professional, and Standard editions at http://www.wise.com/wfwi_features_grid.asp .

The figures and examples in this appendix are based on the Standard edition version 5.21, which is the current version as of this writing. You can download an evaluation copy of Wise for Windows Installer from http://www.wise.com/downloads.asp . Evaluation copies of other editions of WfWI and other Wise products are also available at this URL.




Deploying Visual FoxPro Solutions
Deploying Visual FoxPro Solutions
ISBN: 1930919328
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 232

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