I want to wrap a existing msi installer file into NSIS installer executable. Because there is not any option to change the icon of the msi file. I just want to customize the icon of the output setup.exe. Along with this I would also want to make sure that NSIS does not add any extra user interface into my installer. Have anybody an idea ...
I'm experiencing some weirdness related to an MSI installation upgrade, perhaps someone out there can help me: I have two MSIs, an original and an upgrade: MSI version 1.0 Contains a .NET assembly, foo.dll, to be installed to the GAC foo.dll is of type "Assembly" (not "Output") within the MSI file system gui. MSI version 2.0 Also c...
I get this error after installing a web site on a test server using an msi. This is similar to this SO question. However, that question was related to the development environment, so it does not solve my problem. Anyboby knows what causes this error? ...
We are developing a MSI installer solution (based on VDPROJ, unfortunately) that will install an instance of our server application. The installer has all been designed to support the concept of installing multiple instances. This means we've written a small utility that takes a 'stub' MSI and then outputs a configured MSI with a unique ...
Hello everyone, I am installing VSTS 2008 SP1 on Windows Server 2003 R2 32-bit, which has already installed with VSTS 2008 successfully before. I met with the following error (from install log, at almost the end of install progress from progress bar), any ideas what is wrong? (IronSpigot::MsiExternalUiHandler::InstallMessageErrorHandle...
I have an ASP.NET server that provides its client as an MSI download (similar to CCNet/CCTray). There can be more than a single server (for example, for dev/testing/production, but there may be different production instances). So client has to know server URL. I can not ask users for URL because it does not really make much sense for th...
Folks, What should be the process of patching an MSI file that was created by VS 2005 using the setup projects ? I need to create an MSP file that will replace a few files only; is this doable via VS or any other tools ? ...
if i want to install a MSI, created by Visual Studio 2005, via Active Directory Group Policy: What requirements must be met by the Setup Project? How can I specify the installation path? Is this a part of the Group Policy setting? Or do I have to create a special "silent install" version of the MSI? Thanks! ...
Hey folks, i created a web setup project in vs 2008 and added some custom actions. While installing i get the default forms (apppool, appname, website), some pre-defined custom forms and some selfmade custom forms. Now while installation i add some data in the registry. I have only one problem: TARGETSITE property. This property is fil...
I'm currently learning the vagaries of WiX and Windows installer and I've hit a stumbling block. The project that I'm currently packaging is made up of six discrete chunks. For now let's call them A, B, C, D, E, and F. Chunk A is a set of common libraries and utilities that are used by every other project. It does not present any end...
MyApp version 1.0 contained the file foo.dll. The version of this file was version 10.5.567. Now MyApp is version 2.0 and the version of foo.dll is 2.0.123. The version is LOWER than the old version. The vendor who wrote this dll decided to go backwards with the file version number. This is not a decision I can change. How do I get ...
Hi, I need to pack two msi files in one setup.exe file (via bootstrapper) and run only one of them depending on condition (machine is x64 or x86). Is there a way to do that? ...
Hello: I am using VisualStudio2005 and a vdproj to create a simple MSI file. I need to pass in the REINSTALLMODE property when I launch it. I know this can be done via command line, like so: msiexec.exe /i foo.msi REINSTALLMODE=amus However, if a user chooses to click the msi directly (launching the wizard), the property is not pas...
How can the relative file path be set in setup and deployment project. So that if I take the poject to another machine it will build ...
I cannot find the MSI format specification. It says that its an open standard, but I don't see any documentation - just bits and pieces of information here and there. I want to modify some .msi installer, but I want to understand first what it is doing. ...
For my application, I need to install the main application and allow users to pick and choose one or more additional features to install. I tried to run the main msi and have a custom action to install other feature msi files. However, it doesn't work since MSI doesn't support nested installation. Should I build a window application ...
Using a .msi package, I want to create a few registry keys if they don't exist, leave them alone if they do exist, and not delete them if the program is removed. I have done this (using Orca) by adding entries to the following msi tables: Components, FeatureComponents, Registry, & LockPermissions. My question is what should I do about ...
We have our custom setup.exe program which launches a series of individial MSIs in synchronous manner. Scheme and command use to launch msi is : msiexcehandle = CreateProcess("msiexec.exe /i product.msi /qr") WaitForSingleObject(msiexechandle, INFINITE) Now we want to do the following - When user pressess the Stop button in setup.ex...
Hi, I've been convinced to use windows setup files(msi) for the installation of my new windows forms application after I asked a question here and got some excellent answers (thank you all): http://serverfault.com/questions/97039/net-application-deployment Now i have a different question: My application will need to access a SQL Serve...
Hello, I'm using InstallShield 2010 Premiere. I have a basic MSI project that install an application and a 32 bit driver using the Driver wizard and DifxApp. I'm trying to add a 64 bit driver that will be installed if the system is 64 bit. However, when adding this 64 bit driver, the installation (On a 32 bit system) fails, and the on...