I have a setup project that I'm working with and have added a EULA to the User Interface. I need to support both unattended (command line) installation as well as GUI install via running setup. The EULA is enforced in the GUI install but not in the unattended one. Currently I'm running the command line installation in the following form...
I have installed some MSI with GUID (0733556C-37E8-4123-A801-D3E6C5151617). The program registered in the registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Uninstall \ () Value UninstallString = MsiExec.exe / I (0733556C-37E8-4123-A801-D3E6C5151617) My question is: how utility MsiExec.exe knows the name ...
I need some suggestions on libraries and such to use for a simple website-to-desktop wrapper project in Visual Studio 2010. The website has been "compiled to HTML", so that the only serverside functionality needed is an AJAX call to send data on user prompt (if there is no valid sever response after X seconds, a javascript timer indica...
I have a game application developed using C#. Is there any way to skin my MSI (installer) package ? ...
Need some assistance with my Visual Studio projects and in particular with release process. To release my web application, I use a web deployment project to deploy my web application. I have split my connection strings and app settings into a seperate config files, with a config file for each environment I might be creating the msi for ...
Im trying to run a ".msi" insall file. The installtion fails and I get an "Installer interrupted" error. I ran the installation with logging and I got the following dump, any ieas? Dump: === Verbose logging started: 16/08/2010 9:52:35 Build type: SHIP UNICODE 5.00.7600.00 Calling process: C:\Windows\system32\msiexec.exe === MSI (c) ...
I have an WPF and SQL-Server Express based app which I want to deploy using VS-2008 setup and deployment project template. I have added Launch condition for Windows Installer 3.1, Sql Express 2005 and .Net FrameWork 3.5 with SP1 but they are not running in order. I mean: Windows Installer checking .Net Framework 3.5 sp1 checking SQL-Se...
Hello to all! Is there a way to determine if there is an active installation running in C#? For example, some times if you launch 2 MSIs (or setup.exes) at once one of them will say that there is already installation going on in progress. Is there a way to do that in C#? Say, a self-resetting registry key (that system resets) or a mutex?...
I've developed a Wix installer for an internal project however entirely by accident I've found that I'm unable to uninstall the installer on my development machine as I get the following error message: The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable with a dialog pointing to the path of the .msi that ...
Hi I have a scenario where users can log into their account on the web and download an msi file which will self install an application after downloading. I however also want to download a text or xml file with the msi which will contain some account information which the install application will need after it installs. But user should ho...
Are there any books on WiX? ...
Hey everyone. I have a Setup project (MSI) in VS2008 which installs my project. Within the project, I create a settings file, for the application, in the SpecialFolder.CommonApplicationData + \\"settings" folder (the two slashes are in the C# code for escaping). However, the uninstaller doesn't get rid of this for me when it removes th...
Hello Is it possible following - 2 different MSI -s have same product code and installed on same machine ? Thanks ...
How can i using c# find out information on the windows installer(msi) program was installed on ? to try to explain this better, i want to be able to look at a program say WINWORD.EXE and find information on the windows installer it was installed with. i know windows keep a log of this in the registery Thank you ...
Hi, I would like to know if you could share some (trusted) sources of information (books, URLs) that you consider the most relevant for learning Windows Installer. They could be for starting on this technology or for an advanced or professional level of knowledge. I'll be really grateful. UPDATE: I would like to know where a future dep...
I have an application built in C# with the .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 (also using wix). The obvious requisite in the running machine is .Net 3.5 SP1, but what if the machine already has .Net 4.0? Right now I'm having a crash in that machine and only installing the .Net 3.5 SP1 fixes the problem. Is there a way to avoid the customers that...
Now my team working in a project using Windows Application(C#). We use MSI Installer for creating installation. I didn't know how to pass command line parameters from MSI file & Setup.exe file. for example setup.msi username=demo password=pass setup.exe username=demo password=pass Please suggest a good example/reference ...
I have created a msi installer using Wise Installation Express 7.0 Recently one client has reported and issue after our new update on Win 7 32 bit: He launch our update msi, which in turn ask him to remove the previous installation and it removes successfully. This should not happen as I have changed the product code of MSI and its a n...
Hi I have an application which was deployed some time ago using an .msi and a .mst When I now try to uninstall the app using msiexec /x name_of_msi TRANSFORMS=name_of_mst /qb! I get a prompt asking if I would like to remove the ini files which were installed. Is there any way to uninstall the application and answer "Yes" to the prompt...
I have a installation that I'm not sure why prompts for Disk 1. Knowing that the customer might not have Disk 1 I have to ship along the previous MSI and trigger it using install script using LaunchAppAndWait("MsiExec.exe", sCmdLine + sValue, WAIT); Where sCmdLine is /x and sValue is the path to my previous MSI. I can trigger the u...