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How to change the installer's icon using Installshield 2011?

I'm using Installshield 2011 to create an installer and it create an output installer whose icon is something that I want to replace one of my own. How can I do it? Please help! ...

why no output when use command line to build VS setup project?

I have installed Visual Studio 2008 on our build machine because we want to build the setup project to create MSI installer for our C# application. From IDE, it works fine. The installer is created as expected. Switch to command line, with the follow command the process finished without any error but there is no output (no installer c...

Old installer.app for World Of Warcraft OSX

Hey guys, I have the 3.2.0 full installer.exe together with it's downloaded archives for windows of World of Warcraft, and I have the 3.x.x to 4.0.0 update installer for both windows and osx. The problem is as follows: the new World of Warcraft installer wants to download a whole new 12GB to install the game under osx. I need the old ...

Creating an installer with Visual Studio - How do I control the file structure?

Quick question here, I'm using Visual Studio to create an Outlook add-in. I've created the code and it boots up nicely in Outlook. Now to actually creating an installer.. This is what I've done so far, created a new installer project and added the files (dll and vsto) from the debug folder of the actual outlook project. But when I build ...

how to set path in MSI installer?

I am using VS2008 setup project to build our msi installer. I have moved some dll files from the default location (root folder of the installation) to a custom bin directory. I think I need to set path in somewhere (registry?) to tell the application the new loation of those dll files. How to do this? thanks, ...

How to show some text on mouse move in NSIS installer

Hi, is there any possibility to show some descriptive text on NSIS installer custom page, but only on mouse hover? I have the prerequisites check at the beginning of the installer and when one (or more) of the tests fail, appropriate warning message is displayed. It is custom page displayed before whole installation. The problem is, ...

Creating a custom folder in a Setup Project for multiple Windows versions.

The users that will be installing and using the application I created may not have to access to the Program Files folder. Therefore, my boss and I thought it best that we put the SQLite database in a public location, but not the desktop. We were thinking of the Application Data folder on the All Users profile, but when I got to my othe...

launching correct installer for 32 and 64-bit apps

We have an application which, for various reasons, needs to be compiled as both a 32-bit and 64-bit app. The thing is, we want to distribute both setup files (msi) on a single CD. Is there a launch condition or autorun.inf entry that we can use to know which setup.exe to launch? Or do we need to write a separate little exe that gets c...

install webapp to home screen thought javascript/html

There are tons of posts about installing webapps on the iOS (iPhone, iPad) though Safari, but none of them answers if it can be done though javascript or a html link with specific "rel". The scenario is that I want to user browsing to the web site, to be able to simply click a huge install button in the middle of the screen, then iOS wo...

How to add a custom icon to Setup Project in Visual Studio?

I am trying to add a custom icon to setup project. So instead of standard installer logo I have my custom logo. To make it clear, here is the icon, which I want to change: ...

WiX: Disable the Next Button Until Edit Control Contains a Valid GUID

Using WiX, what's the simplest way to disable the Next button on a page until the user has entered a well-formed GUID in an Edit (textbox) control? I expect the answer to be Condition elements within the Next button control, but I can't figure out what the conditions would be. Do conditions support regular expression matching? ...

Is there a nice and easy installer for Clojure on Mac OS (Leopard)?

I found the following guide: http://mark.reid.name/sap/setting-up-clojure.html but it seems like a whole lot of manual steps, and I bet it is out of date already. Installing ClojureBox on Windows was a breeze. Does anyone know of a simple installer for it? Where can I download it, and what are the steps? Thanks! EDIT: Tried installin...

How to include files in an msi installer using wix?

Hi, I'm pretty sure that this is a basic question but I really don't know where to start... so any help would be really appreciated. I'm creating an msi installer using WiX but how do you include, say an exe file, into the msi installer itself? I mean, when the msi installer is created, I want the exe file to be part of that installer s...

Differentiating between uninstalling/installing and upgrading an application

Hi, So, I have this application for which we are producing further development versions. If the application gets uninstalled by the user (from Add/Remove Programs let's say), then I want the application to delete a certain folder in the file system which contains app-related information. However, if the application is upgraded (by dow...

How do you include a preinstall script in an installer built via the packagemaker shell command?

I'm creating an installer via the packagemaker command as part of a script. I create the folder hierarchy in stagedRootPath and then use the --root parameter to build the installer. The problem is that I want to install things in the installing user's home directory, which I don't know when I build the installer. I doubt you can have som...

Using InstallUtil to uninstall service which doesn't exist

I'm using pre and post build events of my service to uninstall and install the service. The only problem is that the first time another developer uses the pre build event it fails since the service is not yet installed. My current pre build event which uninstalls is %WinDir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\InstallUtil /u $(TargetPa...

How to change the Bundle Installer Executable and Installation directory.

I have installed RVM and as noted in the install http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/rvm/install/ I was able to get "rvm is a function." A lot of what I've read recommends not to use sudo gem install bundler, but it did not work without sudo (the error said I was not able to write to var/lib/gems/1.8 with gem install bundler) Even after "Su...

Joomla one install file that installs component, modules and plugins

Hi, I'm looking for a way to setup the XML install file for my component and for it to also install the plugins and modules that go along with it all in a single installation. Has anyone done this before, how can this be achieved? Many thanks ...

Build automation using TFS with InstallShield 2011

We have a TFS build which outputs 2 exe's for 2 different solutions. How do I now integrate my build with InstallShield to use these exe's of both the solutions in my installer. Any points to information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks much in advance!! ...

Wrapping an existing EXE into an MSI - drawbacks?

We've got an EXE which works great for installing our application. However, we have multiple customers who are requesting an MSI for ease of deployment in their current domain. If we use our existing EXE install process, can we wrap that into an MSI and expect good results? The EXE creates an "Uninstall" that is added to the control pan...