Installer

DYMO RhinoPRO 5000 Installer Kit - Labelmaker - B/W - thermal transfer - Roll (0.75 in) - 180 dpi
$159.99
For the ultimate value from the fastest, most professional worksite portable, get hold of this kit with everything you need to hit the ground running. The cornerstone of this kit is the advanced and powerful RhinoPRO 5000. In its tough rubber bumper, RhinoPRO 5000 offers genuine signs of quality including a large backlit display, battery light indicator, impact-resistant rubber bumper, awesome hot keys that help you zip your way through label-intense installations, an advanced wire gauge function and more. The Kit also includes a 3/4" flexible nylon label cassette for cable wraps, a 1/2" permanent polyester label cassette for patch panels and face plates, and a 1/2" metallized label cassette for asset tagging and general identification.

O'ring Installer/Applicator + Dart Shark + 25 Washers - 2BA
$5.99
The O'ring Installer also doubles as a Carrier. Simply slide 6 - 8 of the O'rings onto the tool and you can carry them around with the rest of your darts and accessories. No need to carry small baggies. The tool is already loaded ready for use. The Shark will help you to keep you darts in top condition. This multi- functional tool will tighten shafts, tighten moveable steel points and soft tips. It will help you to close shafts that have been split apart and open new aluminum shafts, It even functions as a bottle opener. They are also known as Dart Shark and Dart Mechanic.

The Definitive Guide to Windows Installer (Expert's Voice in Net)
$49.99
I purchased this book in a panic after I inherited a pile of WiX installer responsibilities as a result of a layoff. We live in interesting times.

This book covers creation of Windows Installers using Visual Studio. (This book does not cover WiX.) A key point is that an MSI file is a database, comprised of many tables. This books shows hows to exploit this architecture.

The process of creating installers with Visual Studio is a little unusual, but makes sense when you try it. Visual Studio can produce an impressive, somewhat customized installer quite easily. I literally started with nothing, and in 12 minutes, I had built an installer for a large project. However, the resultant installer may not be exactly what you had in mind. To customize the installer, use Orca to edit the resultant MSI installer manually. Write scripted SQL queries to edit the resultant process automatically, possibly as a post-build event. This book takes you through that process.

This book advanced my skills from knowing nothing about installers to being the local expert. (I am now converting WiX installers to Visual Studio installers.) It was a great starting point, but I found that I needed to search MSDN to find some details. The book is VB-centric with regards to scripting, which for me is a negative, but may be positive for you. I would like to see coverage of MSI manipulation in tools more typical of a build environment, namely Perl or PowerShell.

In summary, read this book to get the big picture and lots of details, and then plan to get other details from MSDN.

Grip Knee Kicker Carpet Installer
$59.99
It's easy to use and does the job. I used it to carpet my deck, 12 x 32.