About The Exclusion Of Files On The Build Options Page - Symantec WINDOWS INSTALLER EDITOR 8.0 Reference

About the Exclusion of Files on the Build Options Page

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dialogs. The maintenance mode dialog boxes appear when the end user clicks the
application's Change/Remove button in Add/Remove Programs.
See About Maintenance of an .MSI Installed into an SVS Layer
Note
Only English is supported for any dialogs that are controlled by this WiseScript file.
Exclusions
When you install an .MSI into an SVS layer, you should also specify on the Build
Options page the end user data files that should be excluded from the SVS layer.
You exclude files so that end users data files are not lost when the application is
reset from Add/Remove Programs.
See About the Exclusion of Files on the Build Options Page
Execution of .EXE wrapper
When an end user runs the default WiseScript .EXE wrapper that is generated when
the .MSI is compiled, the .EXE wrapper does the following on their computer:
Determines whether the Virtual Software Package (VSP) is already installed. If a
VSP with the same GUID is already installed, a message informs the end user
and the installation ends.
Installs any other prerequisites that are specified on the Prerequisites page.
These prerequisites are not installed into an SVS layer.
Determines whether a compatible version of the SVS Driver (Software
Virtualization Agent) is installed.
If a compatible version of the SVS Driver is not found one of the following
happens:
If you selected the option to install the .MSI normally on the Build Options
page, the .EXE wrapper installs the .MSI normally and not into an SVS layer.
If you did not select the option to install the .MSI normally, the installation
ends.
Creates an SVS layer for the .MSI and installs the .MSI into the layer.
The .MSI installation runs normally. This includes the installation dialog boxes
that appear to the end user. The product code of the .MSI is used for the layer
ID.
Activates the virtual software layer.
The virtualized application then looks and behaves like any other application to
the end user.
See also:
About Virtual Software Packages in the Virtual Package Editor Help
On the Build Options page, if you select Install the .MSI into an SVS layer, options to
exclude file extensions or directories become enabled. Use these options to exclude end
user data files from the SVS layer. You exclude files so that end users data files are not
saved in the SVS layer but are saved to the base file system. End user data files that are
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