I have a WiX installer project that utilises a custom dialog box to ask for parameters to update a web.config file and run a database script on install. Everything works correctly and the application is installed and runs correctly. However, the custom dialog box is also displayed when I uninstall the software and it certainly doesn't ...
Hi, imagine that I developed the next killer application in Python using pySide and other several third party libraries. Which tools do i need to create different installers for every OS out there (windows, osx, nix)? ...
This has to be a common need yet I find hardly ANY references to it on the web... I've got a product that has three sets of components, one installed on the server, one on the web head, and one on the developer's machine. All three sets could be installed on one machine and should peacefully coexist. As I had it yesterday, each compon...
I'd like to get a community view on this, as I was personally very offended at the way some software I have used for a long time recently changed in behavior. In this particular case, it's the .Net Reflector now updated by RedGate. I've used it for years, I'm sure many of you have as well, however in their new versions, 6.0+ (6.1 at th...
I am looking to create a web-project that is able to install with a program. The user should be able to download an archive file or tar file, run it (executable), and the setup script would ask for paths and configurable values and then unpack its 'payload' and sorting out the contents for deployment. This would be a Linux version of t...
After android installs an application from the Marketplace, does it keep the .apk file? Is there a standard location where Android would keep such files? ...
I guess there are two parts to this question, one technical and one best practice for security and doing things "right". I'm working on a little game using C++ / directx but I would like to be able to launch it from a web page by someone clicking on a link on that page. Ideally I would like the first time they clicked for it to launch ...
I'm using NSIS to write an installer. I'd like to copy the 'lib' directory contained in a zip. Is it possible to specify that the contents of sampleZip.zip/lib is copied to, say $INSTDIR\lib? The basic idea of what I want is this, though it obviously doesn't work: File /r sampleZip.zip\lib\* Any ideas on how this can be done? ...