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prerequisite for "windows communication foundation http activation" on Windows 7

How to I detect if a Windows 7 computer has .NET Framework 3.5.1 feature checked, and in particularly, the "windows communication foundation http activation" feature turn-on? ...

winforms visual studio installer License agreement problem

Hi, I've having trouble adding a rtf file to license agreement installation window, does anyone have any tips to get it working. Thanks. ...

Can we mention path in installer

I am using c# windows installer to install a service. Can I mention the path where that installer has to install the service? ...

How to follow different paths depending on user choices in InnoSetup?

I want to display several wizard pages using Inno Setup. But at some point, depending on the users task choice, I want to switch to another page, not necessarily the next page. Is it possible to "jump to another page" in Inno Setup pascal scripting. I couldn't find a related function. As a last resort, I'm planning to use ShouldSkipPag...

Installing a driver using Inno Setup

I'm creating setup for my application in Inno Setup, and I will probably need to install driver sometime in the future. However, I need to know some tips about installing drivers in Inno Setup now, so I can easily add the driver into the setup when it's needed. Should I force the user to install program only into C:\Program Files\<ap...

Where should executable files be installed to in Windows 7?

I'm currently working on my applications installer and I'm wondering where the executable files should be installed to in Windows 7. If I'm installing as admin my executables files get put in C:\Program Files. If I install my product as a normal user where should the executables be put? Thanks in advance. ...

Inno Setup jump to specified wizard page

Is there a way to jump to the specified wizard page? Backward and forward? For example, I would add "Configure again" button in the wpReady, and when the button is clicked, I want to jump to wpInfoBefore. ...

Installing WPF application on machine without .NET Framework 4

I am using Visual Studio 2010 to create a Setup package to install a WPF application. I can see that I can add the .NET framework 4.0 as a pre-requisite, but how do I get his to run automatically without manual intervention? Do I have to create a small program (that targets framework 1.1 as I assume most machines have 1.1) that detects ...

How to prevent the second "gem install XXX" from reinstalling?

gem install XXX seems to run the installation process even if the package is already installed. i.e. if I do $ gem install chef ... $ gem list | grep chef chef (0.9.8) $ gem install chef ... the second gem install chef seems to install chef again! How can I get this to result in a noop and the message "chef is already installed", or...

Reset all setup settings to their default values

Is there any way to "reset" all setup settings in Inno Setup into their default values? I want to add Reset options button into my setup, and clicking that button would set all the options to the same value as if the user never changed anything, but was clicking just Next, Next, Install. But please note that those values ale slightly d...

Are there any tools for testing installer packages?

As part of our nightly build on windows, an installer package is created using NSIS. I would like to automatically test the "correctness" of the installer. This might be things like: Checking the platform of dll files. Checking the install folder. Testing the uninstall function doesn't leave any files behind. Checking registry keys ar...

WIX Custom Action - run at different times for install, upgrade and uninstall

Hi all, I have a custom action that removes various directories as part of the uninstall process. I want to call this action at different points in the install sequence depending on what's being done: During an install, don't run the custom action During an upgrade, run the custom action after RemoveExistingProducts During an uninstall...

How can I use from Setup Project

Hi My project has now finished and I want create a setup file . What shoud I add in Application Folder in File System section ? Where and how can I add my icon of project , database , recource and essential dll file? Thanks ...

Avoiding a Windows Firewall popup

Hi My organisation produces a suite of Windows applications that make use of networking, and so when users run our software for the first time, the Windows Firewall (if it is running) brings up a pop-up, informing the user that our app(s) are trying to use the network, prompting the user to allow or deny access. This occurs with plenty...

.NET 4.0 installer leaves my machine in a half-broken state

I'm run into a really interesting .NET 4.0 installer issue. I have a small program that is targetting .NET 2.0. I'm running Win7 x64, which has .NET 3.5 pre-installed. After I install .NET 4.0, the program stops working. It's trying to use a function that was deprecated in .NET 4.0, but according to various articles I've read, the in...

How to detect dependencies for Office dlls and SAP connector dlls with Installer project in .NET

Hello, I have a setup project whose primary output is from a Winforms based application. My winforms application uses - Microsoft.office.interop.excel.dll and Microsoft.VBe.Interop.dll Que - If the target machine does not have MS Office installed , my installer fails. what should be done for it, I have read on The office Primary Inter...

Is it possible to create self-extracted setup with InstallShield Limited Edition

InstallShield Limited Edition comes as free addition to Visual Studio 2010 users. It has many options on how to configure installation package, but I am having an issue to figure out if is possible to create a self-extracting setup with LE. Alternative to this can be 7-zip SFX add-on, NSIS, etc. ...

Custom Installer

Hi Can anybody point me to how I can build a custom installer so if a user clicks on a link in their account this will download a custom installer which will have with it some account details such as the username and password. Using this information it should be able to install an application and configure it to the users account without...

Set property value from user selection in wix

I have a window with 3 radiobuttons like this(removed all non interesting props): <Control Id="Back" Type="PushButton" Text="!(loc.WixUIBack)"> <Publish Event="NewDialog" Value="InstallDirDlg">1</Publish> </Control> <Control Id="Cancel" Type="PushButton" Text="!(loc.WixUICancel)"> <Publish Event="SpawnDialog" Value="CancelDlg">1</...

AIR installer to install 3rd party app

Say I've got a working AIR app that needs to also bundle a driver (licensing okay) for some hardware that the app uses. Anyone know if its possible to launch the driver installer at the end of the app install? I'm not finding good documentation on this and im wondering if there is a standard pre-install / post-install script I can crea...