Directly Editing Packages

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Windows Installer packages are relational databases consisting of dozens of interrelated tables. These tables reflect the application’s features, components, relationship between features and components, registry information, and user interface.

The Direct Editor allows you to edit values in the MSI tables of the base Windows Installer package and store them in your transform. As you change values elsewhere in your transform, those changes are reflected in the Direct Editor, and vice versa. The complete list of MSI tables contained in the installation package is displayed in the left pane. When you select a table, the contents are displayed in the right pane.

Resizing Table Columns in the Direct Editor

When you initially open the Direct Editor, the selected table’s columns are listed in a compact format so that the maximum number of columns are displayed.

To automatically resize a column so that its width matches that of its longest entry, double-click on the column heading. This new column width setting is automatically saved and will be implemented the next time you view this table column in the Direct Editor.

Sorting Table Columns in the Direct Editor

To sort a table column, click the column heading once. The order will toggle between ascending and descending.