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Christoph · ‎Nov 24, 2017

How long will this annoying popup dialog... popping up? (see attachement) I'm not interested in Installshield 2016! Is there a way to disable this?

Christoph · ‎Mar 18, 2016

MichaelU wrote: If you specify a SHA1 certificate, InstallShield will generate a SHA1 signature. The most you should have to do is ignore (or disable) the warning. Is this the only solution I have? Builded and signed installers with SHA-256 signature after January 1st, 2016 doesn't seem to work on Windows 2008 Server SP2(32-BIT). In the middle of the installation I receive this error: Error 1330. A file that is required cannot be installed because the cabinet file ..\..\data1.cab has an invalid digital signature. This may indicate that the cabinet file is corrupt. Error 24592 was returned by WinVerifyTrust. The same installer does work on Windows 2012. Has this for sure to do with the SHA-256 certificate and the fact that this not supported on Windows 2008 SP2? Is there a workaround possible?

Christoph · ‎Jan 14, 2016

Click on the redistributables icon in the left pane of the installation designer. Select the .NET Framework version of your choice. The .Net Framework will be installed(if not present yet) as a setup prerequisites, meaning before your actual installer starts.

Christoph · ‎Jan 06, 2016

DLee65 wrote: You can create your own prerequisite file for any executable / msi you want to distribute with your application. 1. Download the redistributable file from Microsoft. 2. Create your new prerequisite file. For items like the VS2015 redist, you can just make a copy of the existing one and update the conditions to check for eligibility. 3. Add the newly created prerequisite to your project. Thanks for the info... I already did it like that. Off course you cannot play that short to the ball for every new version of redistributable that comes out 😉 But... what is actually the redistributable downloader for? It seems not to be updated for a long time? Just wondering...

Christoph · ‎Jan 04, 2016

Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 at the end of November. This goes with new 2015 runtimes => Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86) and Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 SP1 Redistributable Package (x64). These have version 14.0.23506. How do I retrieve the latest prerequisites or does Installshield not bring updates for these? Also... the installlshield redistributable downloader, when you run this, you get a status message telling 'Last Updated 10/14/2008'?!?!

Christoph · ‎Aug 24, 2015

The "GOLDEN" tip. Thx!

Christoph · ‎Aug 20, 2015

Is the remote debugger supposed to be working with an installer builded using the evaluation version of the IS2015? I'm doing some quick verifications with the evaluation version of IS2015 Premier, with the intention to upgrade from our old IS2008 Premier copy. I converted one of our projects and I'm trying to debug this project remotely. I copy the builded (network image, as this is the only option with the EVAL version) installer into a folder, together with all the script files of the project + the isdbg.exe version delivered with IS2015 + scilexer.dll. I open a command prompt with admin rights and do these commands: => isdbg.exe /regserver => setup.exe /v"ISSCRIPTDEBUG=1" The installer starts in debug mode and the isdbg application pops up asking me to point to the folder with the installer script files. When I point to the folder and click ok a messagebox popup saying "Failed to create empty document!". When I click open from the debug app, to straightly open a scriptfile, I got the same message popping up. What is going wrong here? The version of isdbg.exe is 22.0.0.284 and the version of scilexer.dll is 3.4.4.0.

Christoph · ‎Aug 19, 2015

For the FTDI driver, which files do you include in your project? When you download the FTDI Driver from their website, they deliver a complete setup package(with their installer). I call their installer from my installer project to be sure the driver(s) is(are) correctly installed. I download the drivers from: http://www.ftdichip.com/

Christoph · ‎Aug 19, 2015

See http://blogs.flexerasoftware.com/installtalk/2011/01/building-32-bit-and-64-bit-installations-from-the-same-installshield-project.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+InstallTalk+%28Blog%3A+InstallTalk%29

Christoph · ‎Aug 07, 2015

Question: I see always, when there is a new Installshield version released, as part of the new features list something like: Windows 8 ready, Windows 8.1 ready, Windows 10 ready. What does this actually mean? I can also install my software package developed with Installshield 2008 on Windows 8.1, Windows 10 etc. without problems.... Can someone explain me what Installshield really mean when saying eg windows 10 ready?

Christoph · ‎Aug 07, 2015

I'm currently developing with InstallShield 2008 Premier(rather old, I know) and we're thinking about taking the move to Installshield 2015 Premier. I was wondering if: a. I can run both Installshield versions next to each other on the same development system? Without having to fear that it overwrites some files in a system folder somewhere so that it breaks the working of the older Installshield? I maintain > 10 different installer projects and it would be nice that I can convert them step by step without the pressure to delay our release schedule. b. I have currently a license for Installshield 2008. When I buy Installshield 2015, I get a license for Installshield 2015 and the one from IS2008 keeps active I suppose? c. We have 3 or 4 build systems with an instance of the IS 2008 standalone builder running. The same question like point a: can I install the IS 2015 standalone builder next to the IS 2008 standalone builder without the fear that they break something from each other? Thanks!

Christoph · ‎Sep 19, 2014

I have a parent msi installer where I call a vbscript that calls a silent install of a child msi. Both msi installers are written by me... The vbscript looks like: call objShell.Run(strPath,0,true) where strpath = msiexec.exe /i "child.msi" /qn /norestart /L*v . If the child msi fails at some point, it rollbacks and the parent process continues... without informing the user that something went wrong. Is there a possibility to pass a returncode from the child msi to the calling vbscript (and from the vbscript to the calling parent msi)? Is some property is setted when during a silent install a rollback has been initiated or something else...? Thanks!

Christoph · ‎Aug 07, 2014

Thanks for your answer. I was able to return the license back to the activation server but when installing installshield 2008 again on my new system... the re-activation goes wrong. So I sended the request text to installshield. Hopefully they answer soon. However... currently I see some 2 more 'problems'. The project I tried to open with my new fresh installation contained several languages: Czech, French, Spanish, German, etc... When I open up the project with installshield(trial mode ;-), I got a message that all these languages will be disabled. :confused: When going to Project - Settings - Language TAB... I see that all these languages, except English, are disabled. No way to add them again. Any idea what I need to do to add them back in? When I open up the ism with an editor, I see that all the German, Spanisch,... strings are still there so it should be something on product level...? Another thing I encounter... on my previous system I had source control integration for all my projects. Now I see that all source control menu settings are disabled and nothing is checked out anymore when editing a script file or whatsoever. I use Perforce => Perforce Visual Client of July 1th, 2014. I used this same perforce version on my previous system and perforce integration worked here fine. The perforce version was upgrade towards this latest version on my previous system. Now it is a clean install of Perforce. I installed Perforce BEFORE installshield... Could this be a problem?

Christoph · ‎Aug 04, 2014

Due to no installshield 2008 product thread anymore, I post my question here. We still use installshield 2008 premier at the moment, as it does everything what we need for the moment. I want to reinstall installshield on a new system. Normally, uninstalling installshield from my old system and reinstall it on my newer should handle the deactivate-activate process... but I experienced some problems with it before. Can someone confirm me that the uninstall - reinstall procedure works without any problems OR can someone explain me what to do to go through this process flawlessly? Thanks!

Christoph · ‎Feb 06, 2013

LJHarris wrote: We did have to buy licensed StandAlone builds when we upgraded to IS2009. We need these noded-locked licenses for our build servers. We do not upgrade every new InstallShield version so I do not which version forces you to buy the SAB license. Thanks for the answer. We're still using IS 2008 Premier and there you can install the SAB on as much systems as you want. So their licensing policy has been changed starting from IS2009. Good to know that it the SAB lic is not downwards compatible. Which is a flaw off course.

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