Is there any definitive documentation on writing software installers?

Question

I\'ve read a bunch of documentation on installers and haven\'t come across anything good that explains the underlying concepts. Most of the installer software I\'ve come ac

Answer 1

You could try

Windows Installer resources (Starting page for the links below)

Windows Installer (Look at "Overview of Windows Installer")

Windows installer on MSDN (For SDK information)

Hope that helps ...