I assumed you figured this out? This forum doesn't let you know when someone posts again apparently so I didn't see your reply. You could test for the framework folders, again 3.0 and 3.5 will have folders in addition but I was merely pointing out they are add-ons for Framework 2.0. Attached is what you'd see in the WINDOWS directory for frameworks. If your product is targeting a specific framework you might want to use a pre-req set option (in IS select the pre-req's) or test for those folders. or use the reg as you said for the key. Also watch the version of the framework they do get updated so that might be important for you if 2.0 goes from 50727 to newer. ... View more

.NET 3.0 and 3.5 are add-ons to .NET 2.0. You can't have 3/3.5 without 2.0. The first major revision change since 2.0 was to .NET 4 which is in fact different/stand-alone. So: Framework 1.0 Framework 1.1 Framework 2.0 add-ons; 3.0, 3.5 Framework 4.0 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_Framework Version Version Number Release Date Visual Studio Default in Windows 1.0 1.0.3705.0 2002-02-13 Visual Studio .NET 1.1 1.1.4322.573 2003-04-24 Visual Studio .NET 2003 Windows Server 2003 2.0 2.0.50727.42 2005-11-07 Visual Studio 2005 Windows Server 2003 R2 3.0 3.0.4506.30 2006-11-06 Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 3.5 3.5.21022.8 2007-11-19 Visual Studio 2008 Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 4.0 4.0.30319.1 2010-04-12 Visual Studio 2010 And IS2010 doesn't do 4.0 well at all (i.e. test and deploy framework). the solution I was given was get IS2011. ... View more

Has he checked his spam folder? Sounds like he is not allowing reciept of the emails. Can he check the mail logs on the mail server? Or contact his mail provider. They might also be using a proxy mail server stagging the email, like a filter device, waiting for approval of the email, etc. Or the email address he is using is incorrect, or the name resolution is incorrect (i.e. the mail account can't be resolved). That can be checked by Installshield forum admin to see if mail is bouncing back. ... View more

why are you checking for installed frameworks? Would it be easier to just require the one you wish to use as a prereq? Then it will handle the logic and allow for options like install from location, etc? And another issue would be if the user does this on Windows 7, 64 bit, or the old 64 bit XP version. You would need to test for those in addition to get the proper reg values, etc. Thus, making requring pre-req's a better solution. The only thing I don't like about IS2010 is that they don't manage Framework .NET 4 very well. Why wouldn't it not find the registry everytime, that seems weird (i.e. different OS's, etc). Or you'll selected the wrong registry values to check (i.e. their not always installed). You could check the folders?? C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework They have to be there for it to work. ... View more

Thanx, I took me a while to find/see that. ... View more

Not sure if this is helpful but when I first started I also was using the file/olfers view to add. Then realized that this kept adding misc components, etc. So I started using doing this: - Create feature first. - Then on the "set-up design" option, select that feature, the add components. This allowed me to properly create my components, within the feature, and control their containers, etc. Then this created the folder and file structure. Doesn't make a lot of sense not to use the folder and file option does it.... Deleting those "stray" components could hurt your package. It depends on what was matched to them. When I first started I would delete them and then find items disappearing.... What I hate is that you can delete/alter items, feature, components, controls, etc and the product keeps fragments of it through-out incorrectly. I find this product to be buggy and difficult to use. After 10 years, for me anyway, they haven't improved upon that. ... View more

duh, I now see the Component setting on the website parameters. ... View more

Can you please tell me how to set up a IIS website as a feature? I have all my componetns and features well defined but when I use the Server Configuration>Internet Information Services option I don't see it in my conponents to set to a feature, etc????? I'm using Basic MSI project, thanx! ... View more

Ok, I think I figured it out. There are NEXT dialogs set in maintenence that I can alter the dialog order, etc. I'll giev that a try. It looks like I'll scrap most of the basic dialogs and retool some new ones creating my own user flow. ... View more

well after trying many combinations it appears that that IS 2010 is just as buggy as it has ever been (back 10 years of use). The only way I've been able to stop features is to leave the INSTALLLEVEL at 100 and set all features to 1, and 0 to NOT install. The documentation and forum responses all state INSTALLLEVEL and below will get installed. Well, setting INSTALLLEVEL to 100 and features to 105 doesn't work to prevent installation. Zero seems to be the only way to accomplish this. And on top of that, the checkbox property is so screwy that I have to default the property to 1 (True) or no matter what condition I provide to set the feature to get installed the property is NEVER changed. Testing checkbox name doesn't work, only property works if ONLY set to 1 prior via the property table. So on the dialog the checkbox gets selected and I then require the user to uncheck (which I wanted start unchecked but doesn't work)! ... View more

Maybe this is helpful. I tried using the XML File changes option in System Configuration but found that since I was using dynamic, user dialog set values, that those were not being used at XML alter time. If you are not doing that then try that option, or: So I approached this via custom action, which has script running options. I'm running this action after my global values are set via the user dialog I created. NOTE: Then set custom script to run only on install. Using VBScript in the custom action option, I wrote this (launched after Install finalize): (you can see I'm updating an XML files customers number via the value entered on my users dialog) Dim xmlFile xmlFile = Session.Property("INSTALLDIR") + "\xxxxxxx\" + Session.Property("CUSTOMERNBR") + "\xxxxxx\xxxxxxx.xml" DIM fso Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") If (fso.FileExists(xmlFile)) Then set xmlDoc = CreateObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument") xmlDoc.Async = False xmlDoc.Load(xmlFile) Set node = xmlDoc.documentElement.SelectSingleNode("application_meta/NODENAME") node.Text = Session.Property("xxxxxxxxx") Set node = xmlDoc.documentElement.SelectSingleNode("./@targetnodename") node.Text = Session.Property("xxxxxxxxxx") xmlDoc.Save(xmlFile) End If For different situations, remove, uninstall, etc, run different scripts. ... View more

On a MSI package you can always go to the Installation designer tab and on the left Nav area select Media>Releases. Then on your release, highlight Product Configuration has the setup.exe naming area (setup file name), and on the Release itself make sure you have the selection Compression = 'Compressed". ... View more