You can use Orca to export all your tables and do a diff, maybe. But I'm
not sure diffing .msi's is practical since there are certain things that
are auto-generated (GUID's, etc.) It would take an awful lot of
eyeballing no matter what, so testing post-install functionality of your
app might be a better way to go (you'd likely have/want to do that
anyway.)
InstallShield used to come with an MSI-diff tool that was a sort of
side-by side Orca, but again there was always a certain amount of
'stuff' that you expected to be different, so it wasn't entirely
practical, either.
Lastly (I swear) a quick Googleing came up with this:
http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/msidiff.asp
-Matt
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From: Peterson, Joel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 3:36 PM
To: Cullen Waters; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Comparing two MSIs
Orca is a fair good tool and will allow you to eyeball compare the
tables, not sure it has any automatic comparison feature.
Joel Peterson
Quality Assurance Engineer
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cullen
Waters
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 3:28 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Comparing two MSIs
Is there a tool out there to compare two MSIs? I'm moving our MSIs to
wixv3, and I want to verify that the built MSIs are the same as
previously.
Cullen Waters
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