Is there a straightforward way to smoothly upgrade a running service using a VS2008 installer? All I want to do is stop the service and do the install. It seems this wouldn't be too much to ask. If you invoke the ProjectInstaller's Install, and the service has been installed by a previous version, it throws an exception regardless o...
Hi, This is a question about installing driver. I have the following files : aaa.cat aaa.inf x86\ttt.sys I can install this driver by clicking "update driver" in device manager. But now I need to install this driver on Windows (XP, Vista and Win7) by using C++. How could I do this? On the other hand, I can't use install shield or oth...
Hi, I would like to know what packages are out there that can be used to create installers to distribute applications. The target application is written in Java. The installer must be able to: be compiled via an ant script be compiled Linux (and Windows) run on Windows and Linux detect / handle previously installed versions of the ap...
Our team has recently been considering pushing out a minor registry fix to users to modify one particular problematic key. Pretty straightforward stuff, just needed to update 1 key/value inside the registry. So at the moment, we are using Wix to build .msi installers for the product. While looking into Wix's support for generating .msp ...
How do you invoke a method from a Java class from IzPack? Static methods are OK, and I need to be able to pass it parameters. Thank you! Background info: I am trying to write an IzPack installer which is able to detect a previously installed versions of the application. After finding out that it doesn't really support this feature (...
I have build an installer using NSIS. And now I want to extend it to Solaris and Linux thorugh WINE. But I wanna know few things here- Is WINE flavour dependent? I mean are there different packages for different Linux versions? Whats if my Installer creates some SQL or Oracle database? Will this feature be also supported by WINE? Is th...
When using FinalBuilder to package our website, I would like it to be able to set the filename when it creates the file set with a variable somewhere else. So the filename would be Website 1.4.exe Has anyone got this working? ...
Which is better? Has anyone used both? I would welcome any advice as we are trying to decide which one (or any other installer options) to purchase. ...
Are "Visual Studio Setup" Projects suitable for complex setups in different versions? The application is rather large (> 500.000 lines of code) and is under continuous development. Every 6 to 10 month a new version gets released. We have multiple configuration files (INI and XML), registry keys, database migration scripts, etc. The app...
Hi I am trying to make an installer which deploys my wcf service, at the moment it is creating the virtual directory, but when I try connect my app to it, I get a CommunicationException was unhandled by user code The remote server returned an error: NotFound. I notice that if I create a virtual directory manually that it will ...
I've created an MSI that accepts several parameters in as values through the command line install. Is there a way to include documentation in an MSI so when a user executes the MSI from the command line they can see information that I created on the custom parameters? For example "Myproject.msi /?" would display the allowable parameter...
I built a Visual Studio 2008 setup Project wich depends on .NET 3.5. I added Prerequisites like: .NET 3.5, Microsoft office interoperability, VS tools for office System 3.0 Run time, .etc. After that Selected "Download Prerequisite from Same location as my application" in Specify install location for Prerequisite. I Built the setup and f...
How can I create a linux installer for java desktop application? for an instance if we want to install netbeans on ubuntu there is a download which is named as "netbeans-6.8-ml-java-linux.sh" so how can i create "mydesktopapp-linux.sh" i have the properly working .jar file i want to distribute my java desktop app. Can anyone help me? ...
I want to take system time and date during install of my program. How to set my current time into system registry. I s it possible to do coding in VC++ Give me a sample code to set current time to registry using VC++.. Thanks in advance. ...
Hi, I have a .NET 3.5 Setup Package Project which installs my application successfully. The setup package deploys a number (around 70) custom files for use from within the application. From time to time I have the requirement of deleting some of these files, however upon restarting the executable, it automatically runs a portion of th...
Is there anyway to embed a usercontrol inside a WIX installer? We're trying to replace an InstallShield installer with a WIX installer, however there are a couple of involved UserControls that the InstallShield installer embeds that would be easier to reuse than reimplement. ...
Hi I'm using InnoSetup for creating my application installers and I set the "SetupLogging=yes" flag to always create a setup-log file in the %TEMP% directory. This works fine for the installation procedure. Unfortunately, InnoSetup will not create such a log file when I uninstall the application. Is there a flag / possibility to force ...
Hi I execute a lot of custom actions in my InnoSetup script in the CurStepChanged(ssPostInstall) PascalScripting event handler. As these actions take some time to finish, I'd like to update the InnoSetup Wizard GUI status text and tell the user what is going on behind the scenes. Something similar that is possible in the [Run] section u...
We use InstallAnywhere to install our product. One of the components that it needs to install is mongrel. IA invokes the following command line during installation: mongrel_rails service::install -N service-1 -D "Service 1" -c "C:\app_dir\\rails\rails_apps\service-1" -p 19000 -e production Apprently under the hoods "sc create..." is...
I've been trying to install Umbraco using the Microsoft Web Platform Installer. I'm not sure what credentials to enter for "Database Administrator" and "Database Administrator Password". I've tried the default "sa" as "Database Administrator, and for every password i use i get the error message: "Login failed for sa". Please what really ...