Please view the attached IIS website view of my project in Installshield 2010, Basic MSI. As you can see, WebSite->ApplicationName and Virtual Directory ->Content Source Path have been highlighted in red. If both these names are same, IIS website is installed correctly. However, if folder name given in Content Source Path is different from Application Name e.g. folder name is changed from "ImageServer" to "ImageServer2", Installer works incorrectly. In this case, it creates an additional virtual directory with the name "ImageServer2". So, now target system has two entries, a website with name of "ImageServer" and a Virtual Directory with name of "Image Server2" Please help me with this problem? In my view, physical path & virtual directory name should be independent. Is it a bug? Thanks. Naveed ... View more

I am trying to build Basic MSI project using this bat file: "C:\Program Files\InstallShield\2010\System\ISCmdBld.exe" -p "C:\Perforce\products\Server\Installer\ImageServerInstaller\ImageServerInstaller.ism" -l PATH_TO_IMAGESERVERPAGE_FI="C:\Perforce\products\Server\Installer\Tinderbox Builds\20091028_GA_ImageServer_1.6.102226\Build\ImageServerPageOverrides" -e Y -b "c:\" This bat file runs successfully if I remove the -b parameters i.e. -b "c:\". However with -b paramter, it gives error: ISDEV : fatal error -5006: Could not save "C:\Perforce\products\Server\Installer\ImageServerInstaller\ImageServerInstall er.ism" ISDEV : fatal error -6199: Internal build error ISDEV : error -5047: Cannot create directory Default Configuration\Release - 2 error(s), 0 warning(s) Build finished at Nov 20 2009 04:54 PM Please help. It is driving me crazy. ... View more

When I launch setup.exe, Session.Property("SETUPEXEDIR") gives the correct path of directory which contains setup.exe.However, when I launch MSI file, SETUPEXEDIR is empty? SRCDIR returns empty string in both cases. I am using Basic MSI, InstallShield 2010. Please help how I can get the current directory where setup file resides, while launching setup through MSI file? Thanks, Naveed ... View more

During the installation sequence, at what action/step the support files directory "SUPPORTDIR" becomes available to use? i.e. When it gets created and files placed in it are available to be used by custom actions? Thanks, Naveed ... View more

I want my Basic MSI installer to check if following softwares exist on target machine, before installation: 1. SQL Server 2008 2. .NET Framework 3.5 3. WSE 3.0 If they exist, setup should continue. It any of these is missing, setup should inform the user showing list of missing components and exit setup. I don't need to install prerequisites as part of the installer. Please guide me, what is the best way to do this? Thanks. Naveed ... View more

I want to include SQL Server Db installation as part of InstallShield Basic MSI installer. However, the SQL server will be installed to different server. I want to create database on remote server using .mdf files. How I can do that? Thanks. Naveed P.S I am using IS 2010 ... View more

How to presist/preserve Public Properties between Install & UnInstall? While launching MSI package, I take some input from user in public properties via command line parameters. I can get modified property values in Install phase. However, while UnInstalling these public properties don't preserve their values. They contain original unmodified values. I need, during UnInstall, the properties values that were modified during Install phase? How can I do that? I am using InstallShield 2010 Basic MSI project. Thanks Naveed ... View more