检测MSI安装包的版本信息

原文 http://www.alteridem.net/2008/05/20/read-properties-from-an-msi-file/

It took a fair amount of searching and code tweaking, but I finally worked it all out.

1. Add a reference to the COM Microsoft Windows Installer Object Library.
2. Add a using WindowsInstaller;
3. Add the following static method to your code (error checking removed for brevity.)

    public static string GetMsiProperty(string msiFile, string property)
           {
               string retVal = string.Empty;
   
               // Create an Installer instance   
               Type classType = Type.GetTypeFromProgID("WindowsInstaller.Installer");
               Object installerObj = Activator.CreateInstance(classType);
               Installer installer = installerObj as Installer;
   
               // Open the msi file for reading   
               // 0 - Read, 1 - Read/Write   
               Database database = installer.OpenDatabase(msiFile, 0);
   
               // Fetch the requested property   
               string sql = String.Format("SELECT Value FROM Property WHERE Property='{0}'", property);
               WindowsInstaller.View view = database.OpenView(sql);
               view.Execute(null);
   
               // Read in the fetched record   
               Record record = view.Fetch();
               if (record != null)
                   retVal = record.get_StringData(1);
   　　　　　　  view.Close();　　
               return retVal;
           } 

    

4.使用

GetMsiProperty(openFileDialog1.FileName, "ProductVersion");

 

另外还有差不多的一篇：

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/install/Read_MSI.aspx