That shouldn't be a problem when comes to uninstalling with WMIC. WMIC will override such parameters when uninstalling. Not sure what might be causing the problem. Maybe you can run a batch file which will trigger the uninstall string before the actual installation begins? ... View more

if you edit the SQL server 2008 prerequisite using the prerequisite editor , you can see that there will be a dependencies tab where the windows Installer 3.0 prerequisite will be mentioned. Remove that and it shouldn't be a problem anymore. ... View more

It looks like there is some issue when uninstalling since it is throwing 1603. Are you able to uninstall it manually? ... View more

Well. There might be one more try. Going out of the box. Have you tried WMIC to uninstall an application? something like the below command line wmic product where "Name like '%ABCD%'" call uninstall I have tried this out.It works for regular installers(windows Installer and Installshield).I am not sure how it would react to other Installers. May be we can use this as a prerequisite? Hope this helps. ... View more

Prerequisite should execute during the silent mode. What I would suggest is to create a batch file which would uninstall the older version before the actual MSI runs. This way we can avoid the scene where the two MSI wont run together. For example: Create a batch file which would execute the below command line msiexec.exe /x {Product Code} Create a new prerequisite which would run this batch file which in turn will uninstall the older version before Install Shield would initialize the MSI engine. Hope this helps or provides some help to you. ... View more

Could you please let me know on which operating system is this exe run on? ... View more

JP Lee wrote: I know I've posted this in the ISLE subforum, but I've installed the trial of InstallShield 2012 Spring Express to see if that would resolve the issue, but it hasn't. Basically, as setup projects have been deprecated from VS2010 to VS2012, we're looking for something to replace setup projects. I've installed the trial of 2012 Spring Express, and added a new express setup project to my solution. The current solution contains the main application exe, and about 80 odd dll projects that the main exe's are dependent on. When I build my solution, it builds and the application runs. I can see in my bin folder all of the required dependency dlls. However, I create a setup project in InstallShield, in my files view, I add the primary output and the content files into my install directory. However, when I install the produced setup.exe, about 10 dll files are missing, most of them being DLL's being compiled in the very same solution. Some of the missing files are directly references in the main application's reference list. I've checked my references and copy local is configured correctly (also the fact that the projects runs in VS2012 also means they are there), and I've also checked my project dependencies for my main application exe and I'm the files I'm missing are ticked in that screen. The perform static scan function does not pick up the additional files. What am I missing? try using Dynamic linking so that it captures all the files from the required directory. ... View more

I guess SQL server 2008 is not supported in windows 8 It stops at windows 7. You need to install SQL server 2012 redist. I too tried the same and then installed 2012 and it went through fine. ... View more