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I'm currently doing some investigation on moving off of the installation package we currently use (Wise Installer 9) and moving to something that will handle things like Windows Vista, Windows 7 ...
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I want to extract the MSI of an EXE setup to publish over a network. For example, using Universal Extractor, but it doesn't work for Java Runtime Environment.
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I am deploying a desktop application to my clients that uses the Crystal Reports API to display and print forms. I am building my installer using InstallShield 2012. I have also included the .NET 4.0 ...
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Anyone know where the elusive setup project template went to for Visual Studio 2017? Trying to update VS2015 setup projects, but their setup projects are not supported and MS has no information I can ...
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Windows Installer technology supports administrative installation. The command line for initiating administrative installation is: 'msiexec /a setup.msi'. I want to understand the purpose of this type ...
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We've got a a quite simple WinForms application. I've created an installation using InstallShield LE which works fine on the first install. I'd like that users will be able to run the installation ...
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I am looking for suggestions to an alternative setup application from Install Shield. We are currently using Install Shield and I have never been impressed with it. It's way too bulky and the ...
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My application has an installer built in installshield. But for proper working of installation process in vista Win 7 etc. the installer should be run as administrator. (Even though the user has ...
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Programmers that actually promote their products to production need an installer. (pre-emptive "programming related" justificaton.) For deploying a new suite of internal corporate apps and services, ...
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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 ...
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Is there any way to display an warning message if the user tries to install my app when the battery level is under 5%? I'm using InstallShield.
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I have an issue with building an MSI with Install Shield LE in Visual Studio. The error says "-4340: Internal Build Error", but the link to Flexera is worthless. I tried the suggestion in another ...
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Sometimes there is a PC that doesn't have IIS. Either it disabled or either it not installed. In this case I need to enable it myself according to those steps. I'm trying to create application that ...
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I've followed the instructions outlined here, but it doesn't work exactly as I need.: How to get InstallShield LE to uninstall the existing installation automatically? (apparently this has worked ...
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I am about to start a new InstallShield project. There are three choices for the project type: Basic MSI InstallScript InstallScript-MSI What are the merits and demerits of each? Which one should I ...
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I recently acquired a code signing certificate for my employer, but I am not the InstallShield developer who will sign the binaries before distribution. I know I can export the certificate along with ...
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Hello everyone and good day! Question: I had create a Basic InstallShield Project in my MSVC2010, added some files and primary outputs and press build. Project compiled normally: there was created ...
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I need to compare the windows registry data before and after install a program ?
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I have created a project in Visual Studio Ultimate 2012 and I have activated Installshield so that I can create a setup-file for my project. The deal is that InstallShield doesn't create one big setup-...
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I'm finding that when I update the manifest for my bootstrapper to support Windows 10 compatability, the InstallUISequence of the MSI will correctly set VersionNT=1000, but the InstallExecuteSequence ...
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I have to register multiple assemblies to GAC using InstallSheild and also I need the assemblies to be copied on the INSTALLDIR also. What's the best way to do it? Also I need to call regasm.exe for ...
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We have an older app from 2006 we'd like to uninstall at the command line using group policy, but I can't get a silent uninstall to work. This works. Of course I need to click Next to uninstall: "...
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We're having a weird issue with Installshield. I'm using the Installshield to install a windows service on our DEV and QUAL environment (same machine). The configuration files are identical (.isl, ....
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I have a few component MSI packages that need to installed together to form the end application. The problem is: the components that make up the package can be updated and the component relaunched ...
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Here's the situation: I have an InstallShield LE setup project (a couple actually) which have been working well for the last year. Recently I configured a new laptop, thus reinstalled Visual Studio ...
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