With your help from the community I have got the MSI log file turned on and I'm able to name it what ever I want. But now when I look at it I see a list of all the property valuse and this is great with one exception. I have a password dialog that stores the password in a property and ths password is in plain text in the log file. How can I hide this? ... View more

Ok here is another basic question. I'm moving my install from Installscript to a BasicMsi install. I write lots of information during the installation to a log file for debugging later if needed. In Installscript I used CreateFile, Openfile and WriteLine and this worked great. In my BasicMSI testing the Create file works about 50% of the time, I have no idea why but sometimes it works and other times it does not. So what I want to try doing now is turning on the built in logging option and then I would like to write my lines of information to that log file as needed. I have searched and found info on turing the logging on and I think how to name it and put it where I want but I have not found any info on how to write to it. I would like to be able to put short strings together and write them to the log file like using WriteLine. Is there a way to do this? If not does anyone know how to make createfile work all the time? I'm trying to create the file in commonfiles\Companyname\InstallLogs\ I can supply a sample script if needed. Thanks Brandon ... View more

I have an install I'm working on that collects some information before the copy of the files takes place. I'm storing this information in properties. I also have some hard coded info I'm putting in properties. This information is used by an installscript custom action at the end of the install. The problem I'm having is that either the properties are blank at the end or I cannot use MsiGetProperty at the end. Whenever I try to get the info it comes back blank. If I take the same custom action and call it before the copy takes place it gets all the info. So at some point do the properties get cleared out? Can this be stopped? When does it happen? Or does MsiGetProperty stop working? Does the handle to the installer change? Thanks Brandon ... View more

I have an install that has many features. Each feature has things that need to be done after the installation if they were installed. How can I check to see if a feature was selected to be installed. MsiGetFeatureState will tell me if it is installed local or going to be installed local but I need something more like FeatureIsItemSelected. So using installscript in a Basic MSI custome action how can I check to see if the feature is selected or not? Thank you Brandon ... View more

I'm creating a new Basic MSI install with many features and I'm trying to use FeatureListItems in an installscript custom action. I'm getting a return value of -132 and the list is empty. It is not getting any of the features. Here is the code from the function export prototype SelectDefaultFeatures(HWND); function SelectDefaultFeatures(hMSI) NUMBER nResult; LIST listFeatures; begin listFeatures = ListCreate(STRINGLIST); nResult = FeatureListItems(MEDIA,"",listFeatures); SdShowInfoList("Feature List","Features",listFeatures); At this point the list is empty and I cannot do anything I need to do. Any help would be great. I need this list of features so I can have features selected that the customer has purchased and have in their product key. Features they have not purchased with not be selected to install. Brandon ... View more

I am trying to convert some of my 2011 installscript project to 2012 and I'm getting errors. So I tried to create a new installscript project and when I try to add a merge module/object to a feature i get an error message, The object 'Merge Module Holder Object' could not be inserted, you may need to reinstall the object in order to use it. Any ideas how to fix this? ... View more

We have a current product out in the field version 4.30. We are working on our new version 4.40 which now has a new set of merge modules for Crystal Reports version 11.5. The version 4.30 did not have any merge modules in it. If I run the version 4.40 install as a new instance it will install the crystal reports merge modules. But if I run it as an upgrade over a previous 4.30 install the merge modules do not install. I have tried to create a new feature for just the merge modules and selecting that feature in the code to force the install but that did not work as they still did not install. How can I force the merge modules to launch and install? ... View more

I need to modifiy the dialog SdWelcomeMaint to add a forth option. How do I add the forth radio button to the group that is already there? This is for an Installscript project. I can handle the code ok just cant remember how to add the new option. Brandon ... View more