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This page contains release notes about each release of the product.

v1.1.3 - Aug 1, 2013

  • Issue 43: You can now drag & drop .msi files onto the dialog and it will open them.
  • Issue 50: The list of tables in the Table View tab now only lists tables that actually exist in the currently loaded msi.

v1.1.1 - March 25, 2013

Major improvements to the console/command line interface. See CommandLine for documentation.

New Features

  • Issue 6: Add another Explorer verb, command-line support for opening an MSI, not just Extract
  • Issue 23: Add support for individual file extraction on command line
  • Issue 36: Create Chocolatey Package & Ensure Published with Each Release
  • Issue 26: Add another command line option to print table contents to a tab separated file
  • Issue 45: Open file in GUI from command line
  • Issue 47: Add command line - command load file in less msi
  • Issue 40: Command line switch to specify the path for extracted files
  • Issue 39: Command-line switch to extract MSI info (.MSI version)

Fixes

  • Issue 41 Keep original (archived) attributes and time stamps (date, time, etc.) for the extracted files
  • Issue 46 Command prompt/console window briefly visible when strating lessmsi.
  • Issue 44 Unhandled Exception when you cancel the Open File window

v1.0.10 - February 14, 2013

  • Fix for error that occured when selecting only some files to extract rather than all files (Issue 37).
  • Data grid views are sortable (thanks to @zippy1981).
  • File text input is reverted after loading a non-existant file (thanks to @zippy1981).
  • About box with appropriate credits.
  • Preferences dialog centers over main window now.

v1.0.9 - January 27, 2013

v1.0.9 fixes Issue 28 where some msi files didn't get all files extracted. Also adds some UI improvements thanks to Justin Dearing (@zippy1981). Thanks Justin!

Note: A new cab extraction library based on libmspack is used to decompress cab files. This is a major change, so please report any problems. Note: For developers the libmspack library was slightly modified and a wrapper library libmspackn to make it callable from .NET/Mono/CLI/C# applications was made. The code for this is in the repo at http://code.google.com/p/lessmsi/source/list?repo=libmspack4n .

v1.0.8 - December 5, 2010

Version 1.0.8 adds the following fixes and new features:

  • Issue 10: (and Issue 14): Supports "type ahead" (autocomplete, intellisense) for the file textbox.
  • Issue 11: Fixes context menu option when path of msi has spaces in it.
  • Issue 15: The data grid columns are sized more intelligently and default size of window is larger.
  • Issue 16: An unhandled exception could occur while extracting if you typed the wrong file name in.
  • Issue 17: An list of most recently used msi files is now in the file menu.