Friday, November 19, 2010

InstallShield Interview Questions

• How do you troubleshoot an MSI installation?
• What are some different ways to generate an MSI log file? What can the log file tell you?
• How can you generate a log file for uninstallation?
• How can you tell why MSI is starting self-repair?
• When would you use an immediate-mode custom action? Deferred?
• How do you get the effects of a custom action to be removed when the program is removed? How about rollback?
• How can you tell if an installation is running in silent mode? Is uninstalling? Is an administrative installation?
• What are some ways you can build a project?
• What are some ways you can change ProductVersion in a project file?
• Why use COM extraction instead of self-registration?

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