Jan 17, 2014
10:45 AM
Our InstallShield project is part of a much larger Visual Studio 2010 solution with many other projects in it. When we want to debug an application within the solution, we always gets prompted with a "Save As" dialog for the InstallShield project's .ism file. Why does this happen? The whole solution is under source control using SourceSafe. The InstallShield project is not even set to Build as part of the solution. But, if the InstallShield project's .ism file is ReadOnly on the machine, it always prompts us with the Save As dialog. This is becoming a major issue for us. We click Debug for any other project in the solution and get this every time...
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Jan 08, 2014
03:16 PM
cthumann wrote: My installer installs a module for an existing piece of software existing on the target machine. I need to read a path from an existing ini file on the target machine to get and set the INSTALLDIR of the module being installed. How? I did some forum searches, but didn't find anything related to my specific need. Thanks. Nevermind, I figured it out myself. Created an InstallScript file that does the following... function GetPathFromINI(hMSI) STRING svResult; begin GetProfString ( "c:\\Windows\\file.ini" , "File Locations" , "Path" , svResult ); MsiSetProperty(hMSI,"INSTALLDIR",svResult); // for testing only; make sure the INSTALLDIR gets set from the ini file //MessageBox("Location from INI: " + INSTALLDIR, INFORMATION); end;
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Jan 08, 2014
12:30 PM
My installer installs a module for an existing piece of software existing on the target machine. I need to read a path from an existing ini file on the target machine to get and set the INSTALLDIR of the module being installed. How? I did some forum searches, but didn't find anything related to my specific need. Thanks.
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- Posted IS 2013 ~ VS 2010 ~ IS Forcing "Save As" prompt for .ism file when debugging any proj on InstallShield Forum. Jan 17, 2014 10:45 AM
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