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Another Handy Utility

I downloaded the Microsoft .NET Pet Shop 4.0 application from MSDN to review the source code. I would have preferred a .zip archive, instead it was packaged as a Windows Installer file. Dammit.

I do not want to execute the .msi package just to extract the source code and who knows what else is defined in the installation database. In the old .cab days, I would use the .cab extractor utility to extract the files.

Well, I searched for the equivalent for .msi files and found a couple of candidates. The Less MSIerables utility is a must have tool. I opened the Pet Shop 4.0 .msi file, selected the files I wanted to extract, and clicked the extract button. Nice!