Specifically, I am using Wise Installation Studio to install several shared .NET 2.0 assemblies into the GAC. These are being used by some legacy COM application files as well as other application assemblies. I have the flag for "Generate COM interop registry keys for .NET assembly" set. Reference counting appears to be working for re...
Greetings all, I have a question. I have created a WPF application. So, I naturally created an installer (Visual Studio Install project) for it. In the Commit section of the installer I want to launch a WPF window which is my configuration wizard. So I created a Installer class, overrode the Commit method and put the following in ...
Hi, I'm want to add a windows installer to my project. I saw two open source solutions: WiX and Nsis. Do you have any expirience with them? Do you use another FOSS installer? ...
EDIT! It's rough how a question on here seems to get seen when first posted, but when a question is asked, and then answered, for me it seems abandoned. I am still having this problem, and not sure what to do. Hello! I have inherited this project with a WiX installer, and am required to make this version usefully upgrade the previous...
I would like to remove the isolated storage folders that are created by a .NET application when using My.Settings etc. The setting files are stored in a location like C:\Users\%Username%\AppData\Roaming\App\App.exe_Url_r0q1rvlnrqsgjkcosowa0vckbjarici4 As per this question StackOverflow: Removing files when uninstalling Wix I can unin...
I'm creating an install package using InnoSetup and installing SQL Server 2005 Express. Here's the code below that appears in my RUN section: Filename: "{app}\SQL Server 2005 Express\SQLEXPR.exe" ; Parameters: "-q /norebootchk /qn reboot=ReallySuppress addlocal=all INSTANCENAME=(LOCAL) SCCCHECKLEVEL=IncompatibleComponents:1;MDAC25Versio...
Can't find a generic topic about this but what do you guys recommend for an application that creates a simple installer? Just need something that places it into an appropriate folder in Program Files, adds shortcuts to the StartMenu. My professor recommend Superpimp but that seems like overkill. :P Thanks SO! ...
I need to setup a custom action within WiX 3.0. I have the following setup in my Windows application exe. I have viewed the question at StackOverflow: Removing files when uninstalling Wix however I can't get this working with WiX 3.0. This seems to deal with InstallUtilLib.dll, however I can't work out how I call the custom action wi...
I i have developed a java web application using spring mvc and used jetty server, its a intranet application where i want to distribute it to the end user in a form of binary format where user can install the application using installers(please suggest the which one will be suitable ) for windows platform, my other requirement is i dont ...
This installer project was created back in 2004 and upgraded ever since. There are two offending dll files, which produce a total of 4 errors. I have searched online for this warning message and did not find a permanent fix (I did manage to make it go away once until I have done something like a clean, or built in Release, and then in ...
My work PC has restrictions that stop me from adding programs to the start menu so when I try to install Python using the Python 2.6.5 Windows installer it can't complete as it tries to add a shortcut to my start menu. Is there a way around this? I.e another way of installing without the need for a shortcut? Edit: I'll also need to in...
I can build a managed custom action just fine using the DTF tools (I.E MakeSfxCA.exe) My post build event command line looks like this: "%WIX%SDK\MakeSfxCA.exe" "$(TargetDir)$(TargetName).CA.dll" "%WIX%SDK\x86\SfxCA.dll" "$(TargetDir)$(TargetName).dll" "$(TargetDir)Microsoft.Deployment.WindowsInstaller.dll" But wheneve...
I know the standard Major.Minor.Build.Revision but there's several considerations for us that are somewhat unique -We do internal releases almost daily, occasionally more than once a day. -Windows Installer doesn't check Revision so that's almost moot for our purposes. -Major and Minor numbers ideally are only updated for public r...
I am building an installer and I want to bootstrap SQL Server Compact Edition 3.5 SP2. The problem is that I am looking for the registry key HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server Compact Edition\v3.5\ENU\DesktopRuntimeVersion. The reason that is a problem is that for 64-bit machines SQL CE requires that both the 32-bit and 64-bit...
We have a product that we need to create an installer for. It has a number of components which can be installed or not as the situation demands. When we ship our installation package, we want to be able to have that include any number of additional components to be installed. For example, Foo Manager Pro contains: Foo Manager Conso...
What are the known Pros/Cons of using windows active setup for deployment? Does Microsoft recommend/support using active set up? If your are interested, here is the context: I'm working on outlook 2003 VSTO addin.The installer for this addin creates few registry entries either in HKCU or HKLM depending on "Single User" Or "All User" ins...
I have a hierarchy of Directory elements in a WiX script. I also have a component that creates a virtual directory (using IIS:WebVirtualDir), which points to the root of my Directory hierarchy. How do I change a property (e.g. AnonymousAccess) of a subfolder of the virtual directory, e.g. MyVirtualDir <<< this is the virtual dir...
Hi Everyone, I am trying to create an executable file (.exe) of iReport with my module included in it. While I run the target the create-iReport-distro-win-installer, I am getting the following error. Note: I am using netbeans 6.5.1 java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "makensis" (in directory "C:\Program Files\NetBeans 6.5.1\iRepor...
I have some .msm merge modules (for Crystal Reports if you must know) that I want to convert to one single .msi installer package. I can do this with a Visual Studio setup project, but then I cannot avoid a requirement for .Net being included in the package. Is there a workaround in Visual Studio (2008/2010)? Are there any free third ...
I have a msi with a public property CUSTOMERID. This is the base MSI. When customer logs in to download the MSI, downloaded MSI should have the CUSROMERID set based on the login. Basically I want to create a custom MSI with public property set from a base MSI so that the customer can redistribute it to his users. Can someone help with th...