OpenMSI: Deploy on Windows with a modern, simple, and intuitive tool

Package Project Overview

An OpenMSI package project consists basically of a single msi-package.yaml file, multiple *dialog.yaml files, assets, and application files.

At first, do not worry with all standard dialog files and others, in most scenarios the only file you will have to work on is the msi-package.yaml.

Make sure your Yaml language server is working to receive help and detailed description of all properties present in msi-package.yaml and *dialog.yaml files.

A typical msi-package.yaml file looks like this:

# yaml-language-server: $schema=https://openmsi.dev/schemas/openmsi-package-v1.schema.json
package:
  productName: DemoApp
  manufacturer: Contoso
  description: DemoApp package description
  version: 1.0.8
  productCode: 9ca88059-e658-4e98-836e-caaefb978539
  upgradeCode: 8b169664-3af6-41f2-8006-c1c0d2e6ae03
  productIconSource: msi-package\assets\demoappmulti.ico
dialogs:
  - source: msi-package    
assets:
  - name: OpenMSI_BmpTopBanner
    source: msi-package\assets\top-banner-370x44.bmp
  - name: OpenMSI_BmpBackground
    source: msi-package\assets\background-370x270.bmp
  - name: OpenMSI_IcoInfo
    source: msi-package\assets\icon-info.ico
  - name: OpenMSI_IcoWarning
    source: msi-package\assets\icon-warn.ico
  - name: OpenMSI_BmpFolderNew
    source: msi-package\assets\folder-new.bmp
  - name: OpenMSI_BmpFolderUp
    source: msi-package\assets\folder-up.bmp
files:
  - source: \bin\release\net10.0\publish\win-x64
    installFolder: true
shortcuts:
  - name: DemoApp
    description: DemoApp shortcut description
    directory: UserProfile\StartMenuFolder\ProgramMenuFolder
    directorySubFolder: "[Manufacturer]\\[ProductName]"
    targetDirectory: ProgramFiles64Folder
    target: "[Manufacturer]\\[ProductName]\\DemoApp.exe"
    iconSource: msi-package\assets\demoappdoc.ico