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[This is preliminary documentation and subject to change.]
The following guidelines relate to making applications easy to install and uninstall. They apply specifically to installing and removing individual components as opposed to entire applications. The Microsoft® Windows® installer has functionality to accomplish all of these guidelines. For more information, see the installer documentation in the Platform SDK at http://premium.microsoft.com/isapi/devonly/prodinfo/msdnprod/msdnlib.idc.
The following three recommendations are placed first because of their importance in preventing DLL versioning problems: