I currently have a project with an installer I made with NSIS, but I would like to have an update to new versions that only has the changed files and will show a changelog. The target platform is windows. What methods/suggestions do you have to do this? ...
Hi guys, I need to build an installer that does the following: 1. Installs my jar on the client 2. Auto-detects if JRE is installed (in which case it does not re-install it), otherwise installs it without the user clicking on another button 3. Auto-starts the application when the client is booted 4. Works across Windows, Mac and Linux. A...
Hello, I'm trying to alter our existing installer for a web application, so that the files are located not at C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\OurProduct but rather under C:\Program Files\OurCompany\OurProduct, so far with little success. Any help/suggestions will be appreciated, thanks. ...
What is the best way to check is the WCF service exists in a given ip and port? I want to check is the server exists on client installetion ...
Problem: After uninstalling a replacement GINA I get logged off immediately after logging on if I use the WIX 3.0 installer. I have a replacement login process (GINA) for windows XP. It consists of a single file placed in the system directory C:\windows\system32\NewGina.dll and a registry entry (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsof...
I manage an open source project (Remix, the source is available there) written in python. We ask users to run python setup.py install to install the software. Recently we added a compiled C++ package (a port of SoundTouch -- go to trunk/externals in the source to see it.) We'd like the setup.py file that installs the base Remix libraries...
I Have inherited an installer package, and I'm trying to understand what it's doing. Specifically around the area of choosing an IIS website to deply to at install time and a Virtual Diretory also. I see many custom actions using the Callwiseweb.dll but can find absolutely no documentation on it anywhere ! ...
My employer is considering releasing two versions of the same Windows Server-based product; a cheaper "small business" edition and a more expensive "enterprise" edition. There will be a number of differences between the editions, but ideally we'd like to restrict the "small business" edition to only install on Microsoft Small Business S...
I am having an application package which will be useful in prodution environment. I need to install by running a batch file without disturbing the users. ...
Hello everyone, We have a web application that until now installed under the "Default Web Site" in IIS. A customer now wants us to install it under a different web site, and we want to do that from the installer. My question is in 2 parts: A) How do I programatically add another web site alongside the 'default web site'? B) We are using...
I wrote the WCF Service and hosted in windows service. I need to know how to consume this windows service in my client application. Note: I wrote Net pipe binding service. Edit: How can I write the client application for net pipe binding? ...
Hi All, I'm in the process of deploying a rails application to Windows machines. I do all of my development with OS X and Linux, but the final app will actually run on Windows machines. That said, my client is looking for an all-in-one Apache(I had to talk him out of IIS)+Rails+Application deployment/installer. He wants to hand all o...
In Windows, one can edit a shortcut's properties and choose whether it should start the target program's window normally, minimized, or maximized. I'm creating an installer in NSIS, and there are some batch files to which I would like to create shortcuts and have them start minimized. Does anyone what parameters to include in CreateShor...
For my program for auto installing Delphi 7 packages I need to find about 50 packages (for testing required time to install them to the palette). Maybe someone have many packages in archive and can upload it to the free file hosting or FTP server? ...
Hi everybody I have prepared an exe out of my jar file using Jsmooth. Now I want to have autostarting feature for my exe on OS startup. I have selected Autodownload wrapper and winservice wrapper as I also wanted to detect JRE on user PC thanks in advance ...
I am looking for a recommendation on an installer program. The installer needs to support mulitple OS's - Solaris, Linux and Windows. I have three build machines each running one of the OS's. Currently using the same code base - JAVA and C/C++ for all three. ...
Hi All, I have created a Setup and deployment project using the Visual studio and install the setup. After i install the setup it copies a few files(XML) which on using of the application are configured programmatically . Now , If the user is reinstalling this setup again i need to ask the user whether these configured files need to be...
My application will have a per machine (not per user) Startup shortcut. I can create a shortcut during the installer process no problem. My problem comes when the user later removes it and then tries to re-enable. In otherwords, they turn off RunOnStartup (which deletes the Startup ink) and at a later time they decide they do want it ...
I am installing a .NET (C#) application that is 100% managed code. The installer (InnoSetup) always wants to install the application to the "Program Files (x86)" folder in Vista x64, which I'm assuming is because the installer itself is only 32bit. (please correct me if I am wrong) Here are my questions: Does being in the x86 folder af...
I've created setups for all my Delphi tools with Inno Setup for years. Now some users rather want an MSI installation package, so they can deploy the setups from a central server to all workstations. How do I create one? Do I have to buy Visual Studio or some other product? ...