I have an InstallScript MSI project. I know how to use /z to pass info to the CMDLINE InstallScript variable. What I'm looking for, though, is to access the entire set of arguments used when setup.exe was called. My problem starts with uninstalling from ARP - in my OnBegin I check for certain processes and if they are running they need to be shut down and the system rebooted before the uninstall can try again. I'm trying to set up RunOnce to restart the uninstall after reboot and need to pass it everything from the original commandline used by the ARP call. I know I'm probably missing something obvious, but at the moment I'm coming up empty. Can anyone enlighten me? Thanks. ... View more

How do I upgrade an InstallScript MSI project in an automated build process when InstallShield gets upgraded? I have an InstallScript MSI project. I use the automation interface to update the project file before calling ISCmdBld. I recently applied SP1 for IS2010. That requires my ISM file to be upgraded - OpenProject returns an error 1101. But the only info I have found for upgrading a project with a commandline tool is the -u switch for ISCmdBld which is flagged as "Basic MSI only". Am I missing something? ... View more

I have managed to get my InstallScript MSI project to simply 'quit' part way through due to a possible bug in (or misuse of) the new Text File Changes View functionality. I have an INI file that comes to me from the component developer that needs to have a path to another file 'corrected' based on INSTALLDIR. The original line looks something like this: param01=...somestuff..C:\Work Space\Folder1\Folder2\dist\filename.ext which is what I set up the search field to be if I set up the replace to be: param01=...somestuff..[INSTALLDIR]Folder1\Folder2\dist\filename.ext everything was OK - but the actual destination path didn't have the '\dist' folder, so I needed to fix that. When I changed the replace to: param01=...somestuff..[INSTALLDIR]Folder1\Folder2\filename.ext things went haywire. As far as I can tell, the custom action call for the replace simply bombs out and the install simply quits. No rollback, no error message - it just simply terminates. I have worked around my issue for now by manually fixing the INI file before consuming it. Changing the ini line to: param01=...somestuff..ROOTINSTALLfilename.ext and setting the search to be: ROOTINSTALL and setting the replace to be: [MYINIFOLDER] I probably wasn't using the new feature as it was intended, but having it silently terminate after a partial install because I fed it something unintended isn't cool. ... View more

Finally getting around to trying to automate updating and building an existing InstallScript MSI project. This is also my first foray into using the automation interface, so please forgive the noobiness. I skimmed the automation interface stuff in help and nothing jumped out, so maybe I missed the obvious. What I need to automate is the equivalent of going into the Component Services view in the IDE, right-clicking a currently-included complus component and choosing to 'refresh from system', then alter some of the settings back the way they were before the 'refresh', such as the 'runas' account info. This project is the server side of the complus picture. I also have a Basic MSI that has the proxy side of things that I'll want to automate. Pointers into the doc appreciated, code examples would be absolutely wonderful. Thanks, Mike ... View more

I have an InstallScript MSI project that is setting up a web site. We need it to set up a run as identity for the App Pool. This is almost working, but the password is not getting set properly when I try to use a Property instead of a hard-coded entry. In the IDE, I specified [ComputerName]\[RUNASUSER] for the username - that works fine. I typed in [RUNASPWD] in the password field, but since that field shows only dots, I checked the UserPassword column in the ISIISAppPool table using the direct editor just to make sure. When I run the install I get no errors, but I find that I have to go into the IIS manager and reset the password in order for the site to run properly. If I build the install and type the password directly into the IDE, it works. Can I use a Property for the password on the App Pool identity, and if so, how? thanks, Mike ... View more

Installscript MSI project with 6 COMplus components. For our next release, one of the complus apps was altered to add a new interface. I 'refreshed' the app in the Component Services view, which resulted in a new GUID for the component in my project. Changing the component guid meant I had to author the setup as a major upgrade (I tried it as a minor upgrade and it didn't work - when I ran the upgrade validation in the IDE it pointed out my mistake). My problem comes at uninstall. When I run the upgrade, the altered component gets updated and everything seems fine. But when I uninstall, it is being left behind (both the dll and a bunch of registry entries). I verified that it uninstalls properly if I run it as a first-time install on a clean machine, rather than as an upgrade. Any ideas why this is happening or how I can expose some clues? thanks ... View more