striezel / msi-info

Displays some information from an MSI package.

msi-info

msi-info is a command line application that can display the ProductName, ProductCode and ProductVersion properties of any given MSI package.

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Prerequisites

To run the msi-info program you need the .NET 6 runtime. The current .NET 6 runtime can be downloaded from https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/6.0/runtime.

Usage

Basic invocation via command line is as follows:

msi-info.exe C:\User\ExAmple\Downloads\Path\To\your.msi

Complete list of command line options:

msi-info.exe [options] MSI_PATH

options:
  -? | --help     - Shows this help message.
  -v | --version  - Shows the version of the program.
  MSI_PATH        - Path to the MSI file for which the information is to be
                    displayed.

Getting the source code and building the application

Get the source directly from GitHub by cloning the Git repository (e.g. in Git Bash) and change to the directory after the repository is completely cloned:

git clone https://github.com/striezel/msi-info.git msi-info
cd msi-info

That's it, you should now have the current source code of msi-info on your machine.

After that, open Visual Studio (2019 Community Edition or later recommended) and just build the solution msi-info/msi-info.sln from the checked out sources.

Copyright and Licensing

Copyright 2022, 2024 Dirk Stolle

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.