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Hi...

I built the project, but I don't see an .msi file anywhere! Just the executable. Also, I looked in the Help files and didn't see any reference to "msi".

Perhaps I'm missing something?

Thank you,

Dan N

Thanks for the idea,

I would like to open an InstallAware-generated .msi file in Wise to see what it looks like, but that leads to the question:

how do I generate an .msi file using InstallAware? I see only an .mpr file, along with the installation executable.

Thanks,

Dan

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