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- The InfInst sample demonstrates the basic use of the Win32 Setup APIs.
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- Win32 Setup APIs are a series of functions for installing files,
- modifying the registry, and modifying INI files. The primary way
- to use the Win32 Setup APIs is to combine the INF handling functions
- with one or more INF files that describe the actions to perform
- during your install or uninstall. One benefit of the Win32 Setup APIs
- is that it provides dialog boxes that are consistent, familiar to user
- from the NT and Windows 95 setup, and localized if the OS is
- localized. Moreover, the copy operations can handle things like
- version checking and replacing in use files. See the thorough
- documentation in the Win32 SDK help.
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- Below are the primary APIs used in this sample. These are implemented
- in the doinst.c file. The rest of the sample is a basic wizard
- that collects simple information from the user. The wizard is based
- on the win32\wizard sample and is not complete in its error handling
- and in helping the user determine things like disks space.
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- The install process overview is:
- TASK SETUPAPI
- open a specific inf SetupOpenInfFile
- call the wizard for input (CreateWizard implement in the sample)
- set the directory ids SetupSetDirectoryId
- create a file queue SetupOpenFileQueue
- create a queue context SetupInitDefaultQueueCallback
- add files to queue SetupInstallFilesFromInfSection
- do the copy SetupCommitFileQueue
- do the registry stuff SetupInstallFromInfSection
- close the queue SetupTermDefaultQueueCallback
- close the inf SetupCloseFileQueue
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- Many of the Win32 Setup APIs are specific to device driver
- installations which are not addressed in this sample.