Hotfix creation best practice

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I am looking for an application or best practice of hot-fix creation and delivering it onsite. The meaning is to avoid doing a list of pre-defined steps needed to apply the hot-fix, e.g:

Replace files (libraries, executable, end so far).
- Stop/start services
- Write/Read registry
- etc.

For now I am using Wix Installer for this kind of things, but it takes some time to repeat the same steps all the time for each hot-fix.

I believe that some application already exists and successfully does the job. Can someone suggest something?

What I have tried:

Now I am using Wix Installer Bootstrapper to gather all the msi and pack it together.
Or, it is possible to do it manually onsite.

Posted 29-Jun-17 2:50am

2rik88

Updated 29-Jun-17 6:39am

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RickZeeland · Answer 1 · 2017-06-29T06:39:00

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Maybe Advanced Installer will be of interest to you: Windows Installer Patches[^]
For patching using Microsoft Windows Installer see: Patching (Windows)[^]

Posted 29-Jun-17 6:39am

RickZeeland

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2rik88 30-Jun-17 10:51am

Thanks. The approach of making installers based on the difference between two msis looks good, but will not work for me, cause sometimes I need to modify DB and registry, and this could not be included, I believe.
Anyway, thanks for the hint.