[wix-users] InstEd Alternative

Blair Murri osito at live.com
Tue Jun 9 19:50:35 PDT 2020


A command line comparer is (or at least used to be) in the Windows SDK: widiffdb.vbs (at least one website claims that it's been open sourced by Microsoft, but I haven't yet verified that claim). Use with cscript.exe (or wscript.exe if you really want a dialogue box with text in it).

Blair Murri

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Sent: Tuesday, June 9, 2020 1:01:54 PM
To: Bob Arnson <bob at firegiant.com>
Cc: Edwin Castro <egcastr at gmail.com>; WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
Subject: Re: [wix-users] InstEd Alternative

Thanks Bob!

Orca can't compare msi packages. Boo!!

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Edwin G. Castro


On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 12:46 PM Bob Arnson <bob at firegiant.com> wrote:

> Orca's still in the Windows SDK: Windows
> Kits\10\bin\10.0.19041.0\x86\Orca-x86_en-us.msi
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Edwin Castro via wix-users
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> Cc: Edwin Castro <egcastr at gmail.com>
> Subject: [wix-users] InstEd Alternative
>
> InstEd <http://www.instedit.com/> does not appear to be maintained
> anymore and licenses for InstEd Plus cannot be purchased. My employer is
> denying approval to use InstEd in our environment. Any recommendations on
> alternatives? I'm not even sure how to get Orca anymore...
>
> --
> Edwin G. Castro
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