SVS 2.1 Software Developer Kit Now Available

Who else already has this, and does anyone have some code examples?

Nothing major. Just adds in the HLP file that we forgot before. Excelsior!

I saw this comment in the SVS support forum: "The Altiris SVS SDK ... usage is subject to a lot of restrictions"

Well, yes, if you just click thru the license on the Developer Portal. But you'll notice that the article above says, "Want to develop an application for commercial purposes, or have some alternate distribution channel in mind? Please contact the SVS product team."

We do not charge for a standard commercial SVS SDK license either. All we want is some awareness of who's doing what. That e-mail address goes to me. As long as the intended use is legal, I will probably send you the regular SDK agreement for signature the same day.

Scott Jones
Product Manager
Altiris, Inc.

I want to know, technically, why .NET 2.0 is required for the SDK. Does fsllib32.lib reference a .NET library or is the .NET requirement for the SDK installer.

Carvel

Awesome and thanks for making the SDK available.

The license agreement is awesome as well.

Thanks again.

I dont know, but I cant install Visual Studio on my PC.

And the SDK work not with SharpDevelop.

So I have install Visual Studio Express on Virtual PC. (This work)

But I can't install the SDK in a target Folder.
After install i must search for the SDK, it is not
in the Altiris SVS Folder, or in Program.

All Folder are in the Root Partition (Why?)

Then I found not anything Help about the new WMI provider.

I don't know, I have all Folder ...

mmhh

The Download Site shows me no way of getting the SDK...

whats wrong ??

greetz
Sundance

okay okay. Better i should read the whole comments. :-)

gonna wait for the new package...

Ok, we now have a good install package posted. Extract the .ZIP file and then run ACME.EXE. If you ran the MSI's in your base from the previous, bad download, you will need to select "Repair" to get it set up correctly with this update.

Scott Jones
Product Manager
Altiris, Inc.
Now Part of Symantec

Hi Scott,

I can also not install the SDK. (Testet on two PC)

When I select install, the Installer tell "Nothing to do"

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Thanxs for Help.

Regards
Frank

I had this issue too, so I manually removed them using msiexec /x {ProductCode} and then launched Acme.exe again to install which worked.

Ok... While we work on getting the SVS SDK in a more consumable format, in the meantime I've added the current dependency info above.

I don't have Visual Studio, and I'm betting most of you don't either. That separate download for the MSDN Library is 2.2 GB. And none of this stuff is actually needed to use the content of the SDK; that's just to get it installed. Sorry... When we have a different format, I'll update this article.

Scott,
Jordan is aware of this and has reported back to the devs.

For those that already has downloaded the SVS SDK but are unable to install it can just extract the CAB file from the SVS_2_1_3.msi. I'll provide a vbscript that will extract the CAB file for you below. The files in the CAB file will not have the "correct" filenames as they have the PrimaryKey of the File table. But just extract the CAB and then look in the File table to get the real name.

VBScript to extract the SVS.CAB file.
You will have to change the MsiPath to the location where you have stored the SVS_2_1_3.msi and the directory where the output (OutputFile) should be extracted to must exist.

Dim MsiPath, BinaryName, OutputFile
MsiPath = "D:\Packaging\Virtualization\SVS\Tools\SVS SDK 2.1\SVSSDK\AltirisSDK\Packages\SVS\2.1\SVS_2_1_3.msi"
BinaryName = "SVS.cab"
OutputFile = "D:\Packaging\Virtualization\SVS\Tools\SVS SDK 2.1\SVSSDK\AltirisSDK\Packages\SVS\2.1\SVS\SVS.cab"

Call ExtractBinary(MsiPath, BinaryName, OutputFile)

Function ExtractBinary(MsiPath, BinaryName, Output)
	Const msiOpenDatabaseModeReadOnly = 0
	Const msiReadStreamAnsi = 2
	
	Dim Installer, Database, View, Record, BinaryData
	Dim FSO, Stream
	
	Set Installer = CreateObject("WindowsInstaller.Installer")
	Set Database = Installer.OpenDatabase(MsiPath, msiOpenDatabaseModeReadOnly)
	
	Set View = Database.OpenView("SELECT * FROM `_Streams` WHERE Name = '" & BinaryName & "'")
	View.Execute
	Set Record = View.Fetch
	If Not (Record Is Nothing) Then
		BinaryData = Record.ReadStream(2, Record.DataSize(2), msiReadStreamAnsi)
		
		Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
		Set Stream = FSO.CreateTextFile(Output, True)
		Stream.Write BinaryData
		Stream.Close
	End If
End Function