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Can someone help me set the Required Execution Level to Administrator for an MSI file? (I mean, when double-clicking the MSI file, it should also show the UAC dialog to confirm Administrator ...
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I have A Basis MSI project created with InstallShield 2018. The setup include some InstallScript CA that modify the registry ( I should have done it inside a component but due to some limitation it's ...
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I used InstallShield 2018 and created a 'Basic MSI' project. When uninstalling the product, it confirms if I want to proceed with the uninstallation and once confirmed starts uninstalling. But then it ...
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I am writing a Suite installer that installs multiple basic msi's for different feature sets. I am having some issues where one of the msi installs fails because of some dism functions not installing ...
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I created a Basic MSI installer project with InstallShield 2016 professional using the project assistant. I did not created any components/features (just the deafulkt features has been created). The ...
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I used CheckTargetPath = 0 to validate the entered path in the textbox events. It doesn't let past to the next dialog if the path entered is not valid. But I want to display either an error message in ...
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I am using InstallShield 2010 Basic MSI Project for installing a product. Now I've created a Major Upgrade item for performing a major upgrade from previous version. In the project I have a EXE file ...
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I have a simple custom action that I've inserted before the SetupProgress dialog that displays a AskOptions dialog offering some shortcut options. For the most part, I have it behaving as expected,...
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I notice when I use the Class MSI table and other related tables to register COM classes during an MSI install, the LocalServer32 values don't have paths, but rather have some cryptic value. I see ...
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I am creating a basic MSI project. In the SQLLogin dialog, if I remove the database catalog name from the text box and then browse for an existing database, the value does not appear in the text box ...
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I cant seem to figure out how to use my [MyProperty] property inside of the custom method signature. I have tried [MyProperty], "[MyProperty]", "MyProperty". ALl i am left with is the actual string ...
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I've tried everything I can think of but I'm unable to get OpenPrinter API to work in my BasicMsi prototype BOOL SETUPAPI.OpenPrinterW( WSTRING, //_In_ LPTSTR pPrinterName, NUMBER,//_Out_ ...
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I have a solution with several dlls that are 64-bit or 32-bit specific that I want to deploy with an installer. I have two basic msi projects in InstallShield 2012, one for 32 bit systems and the ...
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I have an Installshield Basic MSI Project with prerequisites. Once the user tries to run the setup.exe file, it shows the prerequisites dialog and the user is able to install the prerequisites ...
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I have a Basic MSI project that installs some dlls to a location say "C:\Program Files (x86)\CompanyA\Service". The folder access permissions restricts access to standard account (non administrator). ...
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I just made a Basic MSI installer [using installshield 2012 spring professional ] to install an ActiveX control , i basically added the component and enabled "extract com info on installation" option ...
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I am creating a Basic MSI Installer using InstallShield 2012 Spring Professional. Here I create a folder structure in application files as C:\Program files\Test Setup\Productname, Test Setup is the ...
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I am using Installshield 2012 to build a basic msi installer , Here I have a custom dialog where i get the user inputs which are then passed to a dll for validation . The dll returns 0 or 1 based on ...
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i've a dialog box SAPEnv dat has eight radio buttons enclosed under same property named SAPEnviro. what i want to do is to get that value in my installscript and set registry values according to ...
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I have an InstallScript project that I'm looking at manually recreating as a Basic MSI project. For the InstallScript project, we have several components that utilize dynamic file linking, and link to ...
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I am attempting to write a short install script to update a value in an XML file (myplatforinfo.config). I shamefully stole the code from [this post on a similar task]{http://stackoverflow.com/...
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I have a pure InstallScript project, which turns out to be problematic due to this issue. It was temporarily resolved by adding some InstallScript that wipes a particular directory before the new ...
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I'm developing installshield 2010 application but 'text file change' and 'xml file change' is not good to modifying configuration file(include app.config) because applying condition(like "if" ...
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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.
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