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Jul 29, 2016

Hi there,Better late than never, we have just upgraded our projects from IS 2013 to IS 2015.We bumped into a little issue with SprintfMsiLog.Something must have changed in IS 2015 (or maybe already in IS 2014), as our installation packages no longer ...

Sep 19, 2013

Hi there,I am working on a Basic MSI project with IS 2012 Spring.Our installation package must install a COM DLL on the target PC and register it.So until recently I only set the "COM Extract at Build" to "Yes" and it did its magic. It extracted the ...

Jan 08, 2013

Hi,We have got one customer facing a rather interesting problem when trying to install our product.Our setup is made of a Basic MSI project with InstallShield 2010 SP1.The problem is: the InstallScript custom actions (scheduled for immediate executio...

Jan 24, 2012

This rather old article describes the use of ordinal DLL binding to improve application startup time: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/bb985014.aspxIt mentions the Windows Installer's BindImage action, and its associated BindImage table.Has a...

Jul 06, 2011

Hi,I am working on a Basic MSI project and I am currently playing around with the GAC.I have 1 InstallShield project that produces 2 releases (ReleaseA and ReleaseB) for 2 different product (ProductA and ProductB).I have split 2 release specific feat...

Aug 04, 2017

Signing the Setup.exe and adding the corresponding certificate is surely the way to ensure the antivirus won't block it, as some antivirus solutions just disable to execution of any unsigned executable. So you might have to sign all your custom-made ...

Jun 07, 2017

As you pointed out, the SUPPORTDIR variable and the SUPPORTDIR property are not the same.If your DLL is added as Support file in your project, you need to access it with the SUPPORTDIR property.If I remember well, this property is not accessible if y...

Aug 05, 2016

Hi Josh,Thanks for your reply.I understood what the root cause was and it was easy to resolve, but you probably understood why I got a bit surprised to see it fail only on Vista.But yes, this error in my code suddenly being revealed might well be rel...

Jul 21, 2015

And did you implement rollback and uninstall custom actions?What about minor upgrades?

Jun 26, 2015

I think MS Report Viewer 2010 exists as prerequisite for InstallShield 2013.Open your project and go to the Application Data-->Redistributables view. It should be listed there.You can add it as prerequisite, and your Setup.exe will launch the install...

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Change of behaviour of SprintfMsiLog between IS 2013 and IS 2015 on Vista

COM Extract at Build not working if DLL is not registered on build server

Problem with InstallScript custom action (Basic MSI)

Using the BindImage table to improve application startup

Installing shared assemblies to the GAC

Re: antivirus is blocking the installation

What about the Custom Action Data

Re: Change of behaviour of SprintfMsiLog between IS 2013 and IS 2015 on Vista

Re: Copy file from CD to install directory

Re: How Do I create a "Plugin" or " Patch" - I don't even know what to call it.