Steps of an Installation Program

The following list outlines one way to use setup functions to create a setup application. You can use this example as a starting point, or develop your own installation algorithm.

Each step is described in detail in following topics.

Initialization

• Open the INF and, if appropriate, append other INF files.
• Extract file information from the INF file.
• Gather setup information from the user.
• Create a queue.

Install files

• Commit the queue, specifying a callback routine.
• Update registry information.

Clean up

• Close the file queue and INF.
• Release any other system resources and end the program.