Hi, I'm trying to install a set of files within the programdata folder using basic MSI installer. As the content of the files are dynamic and generated during the installation process, I'm creating the files in C# code during installation. The files are created in the appropriate folders, and everything is good, except the files permi...
Applications I install with a VS 2k8 Installer Project MSI file check to make sure that no installed files have been deleted before the app launches and run the installer to fix this if they do. How can I turn this off so? eg so that I can include sample files with my app. EDIT: to clarify the behavior happens when starting the app v...
Is there a way to enable the ASP.NET Web Service Extension in IIS6 via C#? I'm trying to simplify a website setup program for people who haven't used IIS before. ...
Hello, our applicaton is installing with windows installer. The things working fine but the application itself is full trusted and not allowing to run on the employee's computer with less level (not full trusted). My question is that, is there any way to make the user full trusted for this application during the installation? Can we make...
Is there any easy way to force the option for installed only for this user or installed for everyone? I want the end-user to be able to double click on the MSI file and not have to pass it command-line. Is there an easy way to do this or will I have to inherit an installer class to customize? ...
Hi, I'm building a deployment for a work environment, and doing it with Inno Setup. I wrap the other installers in one Inno-exe-File. It's working fine with other exe installers, but fails when it comes to MSI installers. I don't know if there is any general problem, but it completely ignores my file association with the MSI exe (it w...
When I run an MSI (without parameters) I usually have to click my way through dialog boxes and choose if I want to install to current user/all users, the target directory, etc etc. What happens when I run the MSI with /qn (silent mode). How do I find what answers where automatically chosen for all those dialog boxes? ...
For those of you who are testing VS 2010 (or stay up-to-date with the blogs).. are there new features for building MSI's in VS 2010? ...
I ready in the book "The Definitive Guide to Windows Installer" (Phil Wilson - Chapter 14 - "Bootstrappers and Temp Folders") that a bootstrapper should not run an MSI from the temp directory, because the "Temp folder can be removed all too easily.. and then the file could be gone when you do repair or modification of the product. Is th...
One of our MSI's has started failing with Error 2902. It'll get most of the way through the installation, pop an error box, and then back out the install. We haven't made any major changes to the installer since the last working version. Running msiexec with logging turned on gives a more informative message: Action 17:21:22: Registe...
Here's the requirement: 1. One single installation file. (aka. setup.exe) All the other files include the required dlls and msi itself must embedded in this setup.exe. 2. Frameless UI, which the pure msi doesn't support. Firstly, we are using pure msi to provide the installation GUI, but then we found it's not support the frameless GUI....
In WIX am in-need of a dot net managed custom code to dynamically populate a combo box with the values of sql server instances in that network. I tried to google but got nothing worked Any help is greatly appreciated. ...
For some reason, we are delivering a product with our own install GUI, that means, we will run the msi installation silently background. By using the MSI API "MsiInstallProduct", I can install the product silently, but I have no idea how can I get the progress data of this installation and how can I cancel it. Anyone has some ideas? ...
Using Visual Studio 2008 to create an msi to deploy my program with a setup project. I need to know how to make the msi run the exe it just installed. A custom action? If so please explain where/how. Thanks. ...
Hi, I am new to setup project creation. Now I am using Visual studio 2008 to create setup file (msi) for my project. I am quit uncomfortable in creating my own custom forms in the installation wizard as well as upgrading an existing version of my project to a new version. Is there any other alternatives to create MSI/MSP package for Dot...
Hi We have creaded a MSI installer using the tools on Visual Studio 2008. This has some custome action implementet in a Installer class. It works fine on all the test servers but for some reason it fail in one of the production servers. The error message is: Error. 1001. Usage: InstallUtil[/u|/uninstall][option[..]] assembly[[option[....
I've built a setup.exe in c# that runs several chained MSI's (with the /QUIET /NORESTART ). At the end I'd like to check if a reboot is needed in the machine (that is, if one of the MSI's requested a reboot). How can I detect so? ...
I want to include some dynamic part in the filename of the msi file my wix projects produce. This dynamic part should be controlled by variables which are part of my wix project and are declared like this: <?define ProductVersion="7.1.0.1" ?> Does anybody know about a way of sending that value of that wix variable to the linker to use...
Hi everyone, I am having a WPF project and created a deployment project. I was able to get the installer running and it works fine. Now during the commit stage of the application, I want to trigger another installation. I tried creating a custom action and added below command in the customactiondata field. msiexec.exe /i "[SOURCEDIR]\A...
I have a system that has many components interacting with each other. It occured to me to run tests as part of the installation process to make sure it works correctly in the client machine. Does this sound like a reasonable idea? Have you seen it done? What framework would you use to run the tests? ...