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landsharkbark
Level 4

Multiple Instance Transform Names

Can anyone tell me if when I do instance transform with the ISProductConfigurationInstance table is there any way to name the instances instead of having :instanceid1.mst, instanceid2.mst and so on? I would like to give them a little more meaningful names on the command line.
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Christopher_Pai
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I don't like users having to type msiexec commands so I made an improved bootstrapper that handles the instance servicing and I talk about it here:

http://blog.deploymentengineering.com/2006/10/multiple-instance-msis-and.html

Alternatively, you could just build and stream the transforms yourself using some build automation postbuild scripting. I recently did some work for a company that had a Visual Studio Web Deployment Project that needed multiple instance support. I wrote them some scripts that read an XML file ( similar to the IS Instance table ) and dynamically generated the transforms and streamed them into the VDPROJ MSI. I then combined it with the setup.exe that I'd already written and it worked pretty darn good ( espcially for a VDPROJ ).
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