How to read MSI properties in c#

Question

I want to read properties of MSI in C# in desktop application.I am using following code:

    public static string GetMSIProperty( string msiFile, string msiP         


        

Answer 1

Windows Installer XML's Deployment Tools Foundation (WiX DTF) is an Open Source project from Microsoft which includes the Microsoft.Deployment.WindowsInstaller MSI interop library. It's far easier and more reliable to use this to do these sorts of queries. It even has a LINQ to MSI provider that allows you to treat MSI tables as entities and write queries against them.

using System;
using System.Linq;
using Microsoft.Deployment.WindowsInstaller;
using Microsoft.Deployment.WindowsInstaller.Linq;

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            using(var database = new QDatabase(@"C:\tfs\iswix.msi", DatabaseOpenMode.ReadOnly))
            {
                var properties = from p in database.Properties
                                 select p;

                foreach (var property in properties)
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("{0} = {1}", property.Property, property.Value);
                }
            }

            using (var database = new Database(@"C:\tfs\iswix.msi", DatabaseOpenMode.ReadOnly))
            {
                using(var view = database.OpenView(database.Tables["Property"].SqlSelectString))
                {
                    view.Execute();
                    foreach (var rec in view) using (rec)
                    {
                        Console.WriteLine("{0} = {1}", rec.GetString("Property"), rec.GetString("Value"));
                    }
                }
            }

            Console.Read();
        }
    }
}