Re: How do you install your driver packages?

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DIFxAPI for all our device drivers. We have a very small application using
the DIFxAPI, mainly to create our custom log of the installation. The small
console application is then invoked by our installers, which use different
technologies (we use NSIS for some projects and WiX for other ones).

I use the SetupAPI and the INetCfg interface only for network drivers (IM
drivers), as you cannot use anything else (at least for IM drivers).

GV



"Nick Rivers" <nrivers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi all,

I would like to know how you install/update/uninstall your driver
packages.
What is your preferred method any why?

-custom code (SetupAPI)
-custom code (DIFxAPI)
-DPInst
-Windows Installer (DIFxAPP)
-Wix (DIFxAPP)
-InstallScript (IScript functions to call DIFxAPI)
-other


Thanks
Nick



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