Couple questions on creating a mac installer. 1) Should any frameworks from /Developer/SDKs/ be included/packaged into the application file? 2) When we normally launch the executable we pass it an argument to point it at our servers, is there a way to encode this information into the Unix Executable File found in Contents/MacOS/? Than...
Hi all, I have an project csproj, with app.config file, and logging Ent.Library section using configsource attribute. The logging section is in ahother file Config\loggingconfiguration.config. I have a Installer Project for this csproj. But when I generate , the file loggingconfiguration.config is NOT include. Any suggestions ?? Tha...
Can anyone please help me where to find Ruby 64-bit installer to be installed on Windows 7 or can I install 32-bit ruby 1.8.6 or 1.9 installers(only one) on a 64-bit machine without any problem?. Any recommendations or links for documentation would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. ...
Hi! I am trying to find a native installer for windows to install an enterprise java application. The most important feature I want is the ability to upgrade existing installations in an rpm kind of way (distinguish between configuration files and files to be upgraded/replaced). I am currently using IZPack which as far as I can see lack...
I'm porting a windows program from 32 -> 64 bit. It has a 32 bit installer which is written using NSIS. Can I launch one of my new 64 bit exes using the 32 bit NSIS installer? I don't think there is a 64 bit version of NSIS... ...
Hi I want to check JRE version before my application is installed in Mac OS. If JRE version is not greater than 1.5 then I want to show a dialogbox to the user to install JRE afer and installation should exit. Othewise Installation should work fine. How to achieve this functionality. Whether I have to write any script and where to execut...
Hi I am using Visual Studio, I want to set icon to my jar file. But I donot know how to set icon file to my Jar file. So How can I set icon to my Jar file. Thanks Sunil Kumar Sahoo ...
Hi Currently our application installs as a current user, and this is all hunky dory, but our app does require a few dependencies (.NET 3.5, ReportViewer, SQLCE), and all these require admin or elevated rights to install. Now on Vista/Windows 7, this is not a problem. But what does one do besides getting someone else to login and instal...
Hi I have created an aplication myprogram.app file. Now I want to create Drag and drop DMG file for that application. Skype and other software does the same thing. How to create Drag and Drop DMG file foe my application. Thanks Sunil Kumar Sahoo ...
Hi, We have a bit of an odd setup, which comes from the fact we provide hosted installations of our software to our clients, and each client may be on a different version of our software and be running with a seperate database. We also allow clients (under a different licensing scheme) to install our software locally at their premises...
I'm making an OS X Installer package. I download it from a build machine onto a test machine (10.5.8) and then run it. In the console, the following message is immediately logged: kernel[0]: Finder[52646] Unable to clear quarantine '<package name>': 30 From what I've read, Leopard sets a quarantine extended attribute on all downloade...
I create a shortcut on startup folder through installshield. i want to load that exe on startup , but i don't want to show that shortcut in program file--> startup folder, How can i do that, thanks ...
Within an installer build using Visual Studio 2008 I like to show a link to a website at the end of the installation that the user can click to open the URL inside the standard browser. Is this possible and if so how? ...
Good afternoon, In creating my WiX installer I have run into an issue when trying to close an application before installing the upgrade. Below is an example of how I am attempting to do this. <util:CloseApplication Id="CloseServe" CloseMessage="yes" Target="server.exe" ElevatedCloseMessage="yes" RebootPrompt="no"/> <InstallExecuteSeq...
What are the options available to deploy a .NET desktop application built using WPF other than ClickOnce? Top priorities are should work over the wire (internet or intranet) updates management; options to check for software updates and automatic updates. patch management; download and update only those files which has changed. ...
I need to create a Windows 6.1 mobile installer that will install a small C# application. The installer also needs to be able to copy a .properties file into the installation directory. Any ideas on what the best way to do this would be? I suspect that Visual Studio 2008 supports this but is there any other way? Do any open source ...
Does anyone know if/how I can stop a WiX-based MSI installer from proceeding to the next dialog when a certain condition is met? I have the following code: <Dialog Id="SelectIISApplicationPoolUserDialog" Width="370" Height="270" Title="$(var.ApplicationPoolUserDialogTitle)"> <Control Id="Next" Type="PushButton" X="236" Y="243" Width="...
We developed a small MMC snap-in that installs various components of the application. In particular, it registers .NET assemblies with COM+ using System.EnterpriseServices.RegistrationHelper. The logic is simple: first, uninstall existing assembly, then copy new file over, then install the new assembly. The code looks like this: if (Fil...
I am just getting started with Wix. I see there there a several libraries included with the default Wix install. I also see that users can create their own libraries(wixlibs). Are there any 3rd party Wix libraries out there that add additional functionality to Wix that may not come packaged with the default install? ...
Is it possible to know if an installer is installing/updating/removing in a Custom Action? We've made a Custom Action dll in C# and it would be interesting if we could detect what the installer is doing. In the WiX xml documents, you could use 'Not Installed', 'REMOVE', etc (see this nice overview). But is it possible to access these va...