Hi, new Day, new Problem;-) Still got to struggle with managed custom action. I already managed it to call an custom action and passing some test data to it. Now i want to replace the testdata with the real data i need. And here the problems starts: I want to call a batch file wich was installed in a subdirectory of my installation. Th...
I have a service installation that in order to get it to work on Win2k, I had to include instsrv.exe in the installer, since Win2k doesn't include sc.exe (which I use for XP and up) and instsrv.exe is not always installed...so I cannot count on it being there. (instsrv and sc are both used to create/install the service on the system). ...
When I make a setup project in VS 2008, and select <Setup Project>, Properties, PreRequisites then i can select SqlExpress2005 to be automatically included. What I am looking for is a walkthrough of how to get SqlExpress2008 included in the same manner. Second choice would be how to get (or make) a MergeModule (MSM) file to do the sa...
Hi Everyone, I am trying to create an installation disk with InstallAware Express for my Delphi 2010 application. I have selected (checked) CodeGear Database Express12 CodeGear Visual Component Library 12 for Application Runtime. When I try to build it, I will get an error message Error during build: No files matching pattern "C:\...
I made an installer using the ISTool wizard and everything is fine. Under my program name in the start menu, I have MyApp MyApp Help Now, I want to add 2 more entries that are identical to the first (MyApp) but that passes a command line argument to the executable MyApp MyApp (Console Mode) MyApp (Remote Admin Mode) MyApp Help Shou...
I work on a project consisting of a server and a client application deployed via ClickOnce. The client is installed the first time an user clicks a http://...file.application link, and the interaction with the user during installation are minimal (just the standard ClickOnce install/don't install dialog box). One of our client wants to...
Hi, I have an application for which we use IzPack to create the installer. The installer is working fine in its current state, however, I need to add functionality that enables it to check whether an existing version of the software has been installed. I understand IzPack supports this out of the box using its CheckedHelloPanel, unfort...
I want to send my users a package of 3 applications (each of them are an exe file that can be installed) for them to download and install. These packages are depended to each other so for example to install the second package the first installation file should get installed properly. Is there a way to find out if the windows installer fa...
I have a window application in visual c++. I am not using MFC I have to create installer in different languages (French, Italin, German, Dutch, Spanish) can any one help me out in the above task. Thanks in advance. ...
What causes this warning and what can I do to keep it from popping up when my app installs? Possible causes: Virus scanning software (I'm looking into that) Not putting the uninstall in the Add/Remove programs (this will definitely cause the problem, per documentation from Microsoft (see answer below) Putting .ocx or .dll files in th...
I'm trying to use Custom Action to create my progressbar, the bar moveing works is correctly. However, it is not displaying Custom Action Name or any additional text that I try to add. Does anybody know why? Thanks. UINT __stdcall CAProgress(MSIHANDLE hInstall) { char* customActionName = TEXT("Update Database Now"); char* mes...
I want the installer to skip showing setup type screen (where you can choose Typical, Custom, Complete features), How can I do this? I provided only one feature set named product. And I also want the user be able to change the installation directory. Thanks. ...
I am writing an installer using NSIS. I wanna know how to change or write a description(text on white header)on custom pages? For eg: I am inserting a customized page after the directory page and the description remains the same i.e Choose Install Location... But I wanna change it according to my page requirement. How should I change thi...
We used to prepopulate the user name in our Windows service installers, but under Win7/Windows 2008 MS has changed the behavior. Our simple line of code in the installer this.serviceProcessInstaller1.Username = Functions.GetRegistryPath("", "ServiceUserName"); no longer works and the dialog comes up without the user name prepopulate...
How do I launch my application after install with no UI (or in quiet mode)? Thanks! I had a installer with UI which has an option to run after install. Now I want my application to updates itself by downloading and running the new version of installer in quiet mode, but after updating done, it won't launch again. ...
I am creating a custom page in my uninstaller as follows: UninstPage custom mypageCreate ..... ..... ..... Function mypageCreate ;call nsDialogs or InstallOptions functions here FunctionEnd UninstPage custom mypageCreate But I am getting an error- Error- resolving create-page funtion "mypageCreate" in uninstall pages. Help.. ...
We're building an application designed to run on Windows-based servers. One of the considerations we're looking into at the moment is how to control access to the application's GUI, which allows configuration and controls the "back end" services. In order to secure the application properly, there are several objects which will need ACLs...
I'm using PackageMaker (ver 3.0.3 on Leopard 10.5.8) to install an application and want to check the Model Identifier & CPU prior to installation. The application does not work with certain models of MacBookPros. I've tried to use a pre-install shell script where I grab the system_profiler output and grep it for specific Model Identifier...
I have the website written in PHP (Kohana) and MySQL. I want to create the installer which would run all the environment tests and, what is the most important (and the most misterious) for me, will deploy the database. What is more, I would like to choose the prefix of the tables in the database and specify the username and password for ...
I have a project that suffers from a Visual Studio bug shown here http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=356321 It means that I can't build the installer project on my windows 7 machine (the workaround presented doesn't work for me, regcap.exe crahses when I try to run it) Now I plan to build t...