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shodhan · ‎Dec 23, 2014

Hello everyone, I am trying to register TLB files from installer. For that, i am using the InstallScript LaunchAppAndWait function, that calls regtlibv12.exe to register TLB files. But, even though i have used LAAW_OPTION_HIDDEN, still I am getting the cmd popup (though momnetarily). Any idea on how can I suppress this prompt from appearing? Thanks in advance, Shodhan

shodhan · ‎Dec 09, 2014

Yes it works with %d and %s. thanks

shodhan · ‎Dec 05, 2014

jay0804 wrote: In the first argument of Sprintfmsilog(), you have to specify Format specifier like as below SprintfMsiLog("LAAW_TEST: %d ", LaunchAppAndWait (szProgram,szcmdline,WAIT|LAAW_OPTION_HIDDEN)); Okay. I'll try that. Btw, is %d for INTs and %s for strings? If yes, is it ok if I put %s instead of %d, or is it so that LAAW returns only an INT ?

shodhan · ‎Dec 05, 2014

Hello, How can I log the output of LaunchAppAndWait to the default log file that is created after every installation? I tried this: SprintfMsiLog("LAAW_TEST:", LaunchAppAndWait (szProgram,szcmdline,WAIT|LAAW_OPTION_HIDDEN)); But it didn't print any thing except this: "1: LAAW_TEST: " Any help about this? Its a basic MSI project btw.. Thanks! 🙂

shodhan · ‎May 28, 2014

Hi, I have an installer, which, after either successful or unsuccessful or aborted installation, does not show the "Show the Windows Installer Log" message along with its check-box. What's strange is that it is not observed always, but only sometimes..! Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Shodhan

shodhan · ‎Feb 12, 2014

Thanks DebbieL for your inputs! It really helped me! Best Regards, Shodhan

shodhan · ‎Feb 06, 2014

You can probably add a major Upgrade item in your new installer and give Upgrade Code of the old installers, thereby, your new installer will uninstall both the old installers while installation. Or else, as a last resort you can also run a simple batch script (that would uninstall the previous installer) before starting the installation of new installer.

shodhan · ‎Jan 07, 2014

Hi all, Normally, if we create a Component, its entry goes in the Component table. Here, I have come across one ism file in which, I can see few entries in the Component table but the corresponding components are not seen in Setup Design. So how did those entries get in the Component table? Will the files in those Components go on the system? Thanks in advance, Shodhan

shodhan · ‎Dec 18, 2013

Hi, I have not used InstallAnywhere, I use InstallShield 2011. But i did face similar problem some time back. It may happen that the files that are delivered may have the "Shared" attribute set to YES. Normally, if Shared=YES is kept, then the installer increments the count of that file in the registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SharedDLLs Check if that count is zero (if its not zero, that file will not be removed while uninstallation). As a work-around (in InstallShield), we add the entry of files and folders that we want to remove, in the RemoveFile table. I dont know what's there in InstallAnywhere, but this is what we do in InstallShield. Hope it helps. Thanks

shodhan · ‎Aug 01, 2013

Hi, Just found few links related to that error code: Please refer these links http://www.wiki-errors.com/wiki-errors.php?wiki=0x8007007B http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929826 Hope it helps.

shodhan · ‎Aug 01, 2013

Thanks for replying. The older MSI isn't broken, its just that a CA in it runs during uninstallation, that doesn't allow any higher versioned MSI (of same Upgrade code) to uninstall it. That's why major upgrade fails. Your steps 1 to 3 would help, no doubt, but, if we make another build of the old msi, we'll have to run 2 MSIs (the newly built older one and the newer one). But we just need to run the newer msi and it should take care of uninstallation of older MSI. As of now, we are running batch script to uninstall older MSI separately and then installing the newer MSI. I am looking for a something that I would do in the newer MSI itself that would take care of uninstall.

shodhan · ‎Jul 22, 2013

I want to uninstall a lower version of a MSI while installing newer version. The problem here is that the newer MSI cannot perform an Upgrade as the older MSI has a custom action to that doesn't allow it to be uninstalled using Upgrades. Hence, I wrote a simple script to uninstall it: msiexec /x {Product Code} /qn Now, when I include this script in a Custom Action of the newer MSI, it throws an error saying that Another program is being installed. Please wait until that installation is complete, and then try installing this software again As a workaround for this, I did the following things: 1) Run the custom action in UI sequence, after Cost Finalize. But this wont work in case of silent installations. 2) When the custom action is run in Asynchronous mode, the 2 processes (viz., installation of newer MSI and uninstallation of older MSI) run independent of each other and it may happen that newer installer may finish installation first and then older will be uninstalled. This is also not expected. Please advice as to what can be done in this case. Thanks in advance, Shodhan

shodhan · ‎Jul 22, 2013

Try keeping Shared = YES

shodhan · ‎May 24, 2013

Thanks TsungH...

shodhan · ‎May 20, 2013

Thanks TsungH for that response. But would you elaborate more on your statement: "Component reference count was most likely incorrect". I would like to know what you meant by "incorrect".

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