installscript-msi

How can I install a file to a directory pointed to by a registry key/value in an Installshield Installscript-MSI project?

One of the files in my installation needs to get copied into a location pointed to by a registry key/value pair on the user's destination machine. Right now, I have a kind of kludgy solution where I have the files set to copy to [TempFolder] in the Components view, and then some custom InstallScript code in my OnFirstUIBefore() function...

Unit testing InstallScript

I've got a handful of functions in my InstallScript that are good candidates for unit tests. My project is a InstallScript MSI project. I found an article about how to unit test Custom Actions with custom ICEs, but the code I want to unit test isn't in a Custom Action, it is in the UI sequence. Is there a way to unit test this kind of I...

Child dialog is not closing

Hi, i am using Installscript MSI type project. What I am doing is that from a parent dialog, I need to open a child dialog on a button click. Now when I click the Ok button on child dialog., the dialog is not closing, but it hangs. I had used both EndDialog() and ReleaseDialog() funtions, but they are not working in my case. Please find ...

What VSDCA_Launch mean in Custom Action script

I want to launch an application after installation with Visual Studio setup&deployment output. I follow the article 'How do I launch an application after install in a Visual Studio Setup Project'. It has a solution that using Custom Action to add a checkbox and launch the application after installation. But I still have a problem, the ...