How To: Look Inside Your MSI With Orca

When building installers it can often be useful to look inside your installer to see the actual tables and values that were created by the WiX build process. Microsoft provides a tool with the Windows Installer 4.5 SDK, called Orca, that can be used for this purpose. Once Orca is installed you can right click on any MSI file from Windows Explorer and select Edit with Orca to view the contents of the MSI.