EMCO MSI Package Builder is an installation authoring tool designed to help administrators to create, maintain and distribute Windows Installer packages. It can be used to create MSI packages easily, to modify existing installations and to repackage setups from the EXE to MSI format.
Starter Edition features an intuitive visual MSI editor that can be used to build MSI packages easily.
v4.5 [Feb 5, 2012]
Custom actions, that can be executed automatically during installation and uninstallation of generated MSI packages, were improved. You can not only to define an action, but also pass command-line parameters to the executed action, let MSI installer to wait for completion of the action and cancel MSI installation in case of error in the executed action. You can also define multiple actions that will be executed before or after installation and uninstallation.
When you generate an MSI package, you can select if you like to generate it for x86 or x64 platform. By default the application will generate MSI for the platform where MSI generation is performed. This option can be useful for cases when MSI project is created manually, but it's not recommended to change the platform for projects that were generated automatically using the Live Monitoring technology, because in this case generated project may work incorrectly.
Features below were firstly introduced or significantly improved in this release:
* Added an option in the Project Wizard to pass command-line parameters to an installations that are started automatically for monitoring of their actions.
This release contains a set of resolved issues, including most important ones, listed below:
* Possible errors while opening existing projects
