When installshield installation ends?

[pokersard]

Hi,
i'm writing a .NET application that launch several installation.
I don't know what is the best way to recognize when an installation ends to launch the next.
Can you help me?
There is a way that Installshield can to say to .NET: hello! i'm finish to install, now you can proceed.

Thanks in advance

[Cary_R]

Hi There,

Typically, you just poll for the exit of the process you're calling.

But, in the case of subordinate processes, this might not work as cleanly. If all your setups are *.msi packages, I would just poll for the release of the _MsiExecute mutex, which means that Execute sequence will have finished. If you're running all of them silently, that will unambiguously mean that the setup is done.

For reference:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.threading.mutex.aspx

[pokersard]

Thanks Cary,
i can't poll for the end of the process because there are subordinate processes.
And i don't use MSI packages so i can't poll the release of the appropriate mutex!
Sorry but i don't understand the silently option. Can you explain better?

Thanks