installer

[rachelason]

HI All,
I am trying to understand the concept of installer i.e i have a project which installs an application, i was trying to debug it and realised that it is not possible and Visualstudio uses a text file to install program. Can someone direct me to some link or tech knowledge base about how an installer works and why i can't debug it in the usual way? Couldn't find anything when i searched for it.
Thanks

[NasterMain]

Maybe you cannot debug it because it is packed?

An Exe-packer (like upx, execryptor or similar) is usually used to reduce exe's size and to prevent it from disassembling

If you wanna continue debugging it you can try to unpack it (upx can be unpacked without problems) and continue your testing

[Igor Vartanov]

Try to ask Google