Hi Folks, we are trying to create an MSI Installer for an app which under Windows Server 2003. The app needs users to be able to log on via Remote Desktop. Using the "TerminalServer" property looked like the correct test to ensure that's the case, but this returns "false" on machines which do have the right OS with Terminal Service runn...
Can anyone give me an example of how to use python's msilib standard library module to create a msi file from a custom python module? For example, let's say I have a custom module called cool.py with the following code class Cool(object): def print_cool(self): print "cool" and I want to create an msi file using msilib tha...
Here is the structure of my Application's Installer in FeatureTree/SelectionTree Application Core |_ _ Feature 1 |_ _ Feature 2 |_ _ Feature 3 I want make sure that when user selects Application Core, he must select atleast one of Feature 1, Feature 2 or Feature 3. I know Condition element under feature can be helpful, ...
I am using Visual Studio2008 for my development and i want to create a silent set up package i.e. i don't want any UI to come up during installation. Is it possible to create a silent installer MSI using Visual Studio and if not then are there any other tools to do the same? ...
I'm using WiX, and would like to know the .wxs necessary to take a file and install it to every available sub-directory of a particular location. This could mean 0 or more final installation locations, determined at install time based on the currently existing directory structure. For example, if I started the install with: \target \su...
Hi, I'm using the standard Visual Studio deployment project and want to remove the text in the banner (the text that says "Welcome to the Your Project Setup Wizard". I want to remove it because I want a custom banner and don't want the text written over the banner. I can't see any properties in VS to allow this. Can it be done witho...
I'm working on a new feature for our product, a component of which has some fairly major security implications: it runs as a WCF service, and performs some highly-privileged actions. As such, I'd like that component to only be installed when the user requires it (and removed when it's no longer required), and for the installation to be ...
I'm creating an installer msi file using the Windows Installer XML toolkit. When installing the created msi file, a shortcut placed under the ProgramMenuFolder folder results in a shortcut for the Administrator user only. How do I let the installer create a shortcut under the All Users profile, so that everyone on the machine has the sho...
As a followup to this question and after reading Rob Mensching's blog post that was referred to from this answer, it seems the way I'm trying to do it with msizap is a bad idea and I'm seeing some problems with it in testing. In his post under what he'd do differently, he said: With the data build a solution. I expect that a new M...
how do i use NAnt to build the msi file thanks ...
What are the steps needed to create a VS 2008 MSI setup and deployment file to install a custom created certificate/key onto a client's machine? ...
I'm installing a large app, and part of it is a custom written tool called "DbUpdateManager" to mass execute SQL scripts against our target database. Right now, the WiX 2.x install works - but it has one flaw: during install, I also install a couple of Windows services, which can be optionally started right away. Those however will fail...
I have created an msi to install my Windows form application and when i try to run the msi I get the following error: "This advertised application will not be installed because it might be unsafe. Contact your administrator to change the installation user interface option of the package to basic" I understand this is a permissions pro...
Hello, I'm maintaining some build scripts that munge MSI databases from Javascript files (.js). The code is basically: { var oTargetDB = g_oInstaller.openDatabase("mymsi.msi", msiOpenDatabaseModeReadOnly); var oView = oTargetDB.openView(...); oView.execute(); oView.close(); } // Later... { var oTargetDB = g_oInstall...
My msi installer cannot be installed on a Vista machine without turning UAC off. As my application is going to be distributed to my clients, around 20 machines, and they do not want to turn UAC off, is there a way that I can set some property which would allow my installer to run silent without any user interaction when UAC, which is ena...
I've created an MSI file with WiX. The source WiX file contains the version information like this: <Product Id="..." Name="..." Language="1033" Version="1.0.0.1" Manufacturer="..." UpgradeCode="..."> The MSI file seem to work OK: it installs, it uninstalls, it upgrades when I increase the version number, etc. How...
Due to a number of constraints that I won't get into, I have to create a self-extracting ZIP archive on a linux box. The resulting archive should be executable on Windows only. Is this at all possible? If so, what tools would do the job? Background: when the user downloads a setup package from my linux box, I need that setup package to...
I have created an standard MSI installer for P&D of my application which is using following components: A WCF Service hosted as Windows service. A GUI application that communicates with that service. A Shell extension Dll. Installer is working very good and without any issue. The issue occurs when user try to install application again ...
This is more of a philosophical question, perhaps. Let's say I have a framework of some sort and I decide to provide a .NET library that makes the use of certain aspects of the framework easier. I don't want each application that uses the framework to carry a copy of the library locally, so I want it in the GAC (even with all the mainte...
We recently moved from a Visual Studio setup msi-based installer to Inno Setup but we're having issues with upgrading existing installs using this new installer. I know that the upgrade code remains static even as the product code changes every update, so I initially tried to set that as the AppId in the Inno Setup project, but that doe...