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Title: The Official InstallShield for Windows Installer Developer's Guide (with CD-ROM) by Bob Baker ISBN: 0-7645-4723-2 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 15 February, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.25 (20 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A good book about a complex topic
Comment: If you want to understand Windows Installer in detail this book is a very good choice. Be aware that it's not easy reading because the Microsofts Installer is nothing you understand on the fly. It's also not bad to have some basic programming knowledge to understand the code samples (written in C++ and VBScript) and to have an idea about Windows 2000 and Active Directory. One thing the book doesn't cover is the repackager from Installshield (Spy). Specially for admins, this is a very important tool and because it seems to me that the Spy is quiet buggy I would have been glad if I had got some help in handling it.
Rating: 1
Summary: Does anyone remember CalvinBall?
Comment: If a dyslexic writer wrote a treatise on the U.S. tax code, it would read like this book.
My advice is that if you're an experienced programmer and the boss ever comes to you and asks if you'd take over the Installshield duties from the last person who (inexplicably) is no longer going to handle them, don't spend your money on this book -- put it directly into a new resume or job-hunting service.
PS -- CalvinBall was the favorite game of Calvin, from comic strip Calvin & Hobbes, in which Calvin simply did whatever he wanted, and pronounced that as the rules as he went.
Rating: 4
Summary: Saved my skin
Comment: With zero setup experience, I got conscripted for a rush job repackaging some spaghetti code legacy MSIs - I figured, they usually give this stuff to the junior folks, so how hard can it be? In three days I installed InstallShield and managed to completely trash my dev machine (it will no longer install *anything*). There are two problems with the free online MS/InstallShield documentation: it's structured as a reference, and it's not always correct (for example, on where to sequence nested MSIs, InstallShield 8 Help, MSDN, and support.microsoft.com give three different answers, some of them mutually exclusive - InstallShield was wrong).
Baker's book is not comprehensive but it provided a solid and cohesive foundation for an understanding of Windows Installer, and supplied me with the intuition necessary to guess the correct answer from ambiguous docs. It took three hours for me to skim this in a cafe, and has probably saved me at least three to five days of barking up the wrong tree.
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Title: Bulletproof Installs - A Developer's Guide to Install Programs for Windows by Leslie Easter ISBN: 0137980914 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 21 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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Title: Administrator's Introduction to Application Repackaging and Software Deployment using Windows Installer by Bob Baker, Robert Dickau ISBN: 0971570817 Publisher: InstallShield Press Pub. Date: 21 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Windows Installer Complete by Leslie Easter ISBN: 0130280631 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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Title: Microsoft Windows 2000 Scripting Guide by The Microsoft Windows Resourc, Microsoft Corporation ISBN: 0735618674 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 06 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: VB/VBA Developer's Guide to the Windows Installer by Mike Gunderloy ISBN: 0782127452 Publisher: Sybex Pub. Date: 15 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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