I got an basic MSI project in Istall Shield 2009 Premier. I have some files(dlls, exes) to be copied, no problem. But what I need is I have to install SQL Server 2000 in addition to this. What I did during development time is install SQL Server 2000 before development(C#.net). I saw re-distributable "Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Eng...
Greetings Friends, Coming straight to point; we have developed the project using InstallScript MSI Project in Installshield 2008 Premier Edition. In the project we have added a condition so that the older version should not be installed on Higher version and i got this info form the below link http://helpnet.acresso.com/robo/proj...Dow...
My installation would 1. copy some files 2. some registry entries that require admin privilege e.g. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\MyRegistry What I want: 1. No entry to the control panel and yes i don't need an uninstallation. Question may arise, why I don't do it manually? Only for the admin privileged registry entr...
Install shield premiere 2009: Basic MSI from command line typing setup.exe /s /v/qn installs silently. But if its installed once before it chooses "Modify" by default and doesn't go for replacing files. But i need to copy again the files. How to perform "Repair" on second silent install by default? ...
Basic MSI project, from release wizard I chose Install Windows Installer 3.1 or 2.0 (best fit for system), extract from setup.exe. When in installation, after installing Windows installer system restarts. Can this restart be stopped anyway? ...
We have an installer application. In that we have one dll related to our application. We created setup with all respective files. We used "Install Shield 6.3" and created a setup file. After created build. The build is working in xp, not working in 2000. It is showing error message as Couldn't load .dll only in win2000. What could be ...
I have a set of Windows programs that is mostly created with VB6 and VC++ 6. Its installer is created using InstallShield. A couple users have recently reported a problem trying to install it on Vista. It is complaining that "MDAC 2.6 Sp2 cannot be installed on this machine. MDAC 2.6 Sp2 requires any one of the following configuratio...
How can I copy the installation sources to the local drive so that the original media is not required for a repair installation? This is a Basic MSI project. ...
I'm having a problem with a patch. The patch supports English by default, as well as a few other languages. When a non-English language is chosen while installing the patch in Windows Vista/7 error 2229 occurs referring to a failed SQL query to the CONTROL table. Any suggestions? ...
Is there any way to exclude a folder that is located under a dynamic link in InstallShield? So I have a dynamic link that starts at PATH_A, and the following is a small example directory structure: PATH A --- PATH B --- PATH C (which contains files) --- PATH D (which contains files) --- PATH E (which contains files...
Is it possible to install across servers using installshield? For example : If I run the install shield from webserver to install a website and will it be possible to connect to appserver to install services in appserver? ...
I have a service [C# exe] and I can deploy it using Visual Studio Command Prompt window typing "InstallUtil MyService.exe". Now how to do the same thing from Install Shield 2009 Premier(and also start the service as we do manually)? ...
Is it possible to obtain the filename of an msi file from inside the msi file (when using either install shield or wix)? I am looking for an easy solution to a problem I am trying to solve and was going to key off of the msi filename not being "x". I have an existing msi file that I need to run silently and only accepts one command lin...
I have an installshield installer that works fine under normal circumstances. But when I run it while a particular software is running, the installer asks for a restart at the end. Now on some research I have come to learn that a restart is asked only when the installer wants to modify files that are currently locked by other processes....
I'm using InstallShield 2010 Express to install a .NET WinForms app. The latest InstallShield project is a major upgrade, so I've used the Upgrade Paths section to allow upgrades from earlier versions of my app. The problem is that config settings made during the initial install (written to Program Files\MyCompany\MyApp\myapp.exe.confi...
I have an InstallShield 2009 MSI project with a couple of shortcuts. I would like to change which icon is used for these shortcuts depending on the release. Each release is for a separate country (and therefore language), and some have a different icon. Is it possible to do this and how? ...
Install Shield 2009 Premier, Basic MSI Project. Custom Action properties are: Type: Call a public method in a managed assembly Location: Stored in the binary table Specified the class and method name, it shows a message box (so that i'm sure its called) and returns 13 integer value. [didn't choose any Return Property, don't know what...
How do you control the order to run SQL scripts in Install Shield 2008? I moved the one I want to run first on the script list, but it seems to not be running. ...
On Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition, a customer installed .NET 3.5 SP 1. Whenever we run our installer built with InstallShield 2009, the installer complains that the target machine does not have the .NET 3.5 SP 1 dependency. The customer has uninstalled and reinstalled .NET 3.5 SP 1 a couple of times, rebooting each time, but our in...
I am using InstallShield to install a SQL Server DB, and the applications that use it. Now I need a way to go back and say, ok, v 27 of the database now needs moved to 28. I have the alter scripts, and I know based on a table which version any given DB is. How can I make InstallShield do this? ...