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I am a little familiar with Orca and I just discovered InstEdit.

In my company, though, that role and the application packaging engineer is combined (I inherited both).

Using these tools will mean you need to become familiar with the various MSI tables, in particular, the Shortcut table. I wouldn't recommend Wise Package Studio (although I prefer that product to AS) because I have grave doubts about its future.Īnyway, your best bet in the meantime is to use Orca (part of the Platform SDK, which you must surely have, as a developer) or, better, InstEdit. I'm assuming you're a developer: are you working for a software house? If so, you should encourage them to get serious about producing quality installation packages and spring for InstallShield AdminStudio. VS is OK for producing MSIs from VS projects but for anything out of the ordinary, it's pretty hopeless.