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by RajT88 810 days ago
Agree. Learning windows installer is bananas because it is super unintuitive.

Intentionally so in parts, because they do not want you to interact with it outside the API.

Example: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/msi/msifileh...

You could be forgiven for not catching on that this table is just using slightly obfuscated MD5 hashes.