I can only agree with chrislynn5, but I think Flexera would rather make more money by charging you for support. I think it is a bad idea to force users to pay for either a support plan or per-incident support. Mind you as InstallShield is rather unreliable and new releases don't contribute to make it a more reliable product, the support department must be rather busy and profitable. What Flexera should remember is that free alternative are getting more and more competitive, and support forums do allow to solve most daily issues one can encounter when using such free tools. Anyhow, we will be migrating our setups to WiX soon! ... View more

Thanx, I took me a while to find/see that. ... View more

Ok, I think I figured it out. There are NEXT dialogs set in maintenence that I can alter the dialog order, etc. I'll giev that a try. It looks like I'll scrap most of the basic dialogs and retool some new ones creating my own user flow. ... View more

I was able to get the self-extracting .EXE to execute only when feature A is installed by using &[FeatureName]=3 in my condition. So, in my case &FeatureA=3 was used. http://files.cnblogs.com/dulvyizhihu...conditions.pdf ... View more

Thanx! I also added to my vbScript is no file don't attempt .... You have to love the documentation on this (and just about everything else), it could be a little clearer and more accurate. I.e. is says I can place in any sequence my action is vbcsript in action, well it only runs after InstallFinalize even though all I'm doing is parsing out some XML and replacing nodes on a file that I'm deploying, and by then is on the target machine. I've tried after InstallFiles, all the way up to InstallFinalize but all else errors. ... View more

Yea, I guess just altering the registry will work. Too bad the ODBC area doesn't have that flexibility. I did find placing into registry manually is easy, I just create a new feature, add a registry component to that feature, and the key entries are so easy for DSN's (at least that is :)) ... View more

Never received a response but was able to do this (in case someone esle needs the help): Created custom action, use wizard, create directory action, find directory name in dropdown that you want to alter, for Directory value put full path including property, then place action right BEFORE 'CreateFolders' action. On uninstall it leaves the custom structure but I'm sure I can figure out how to remove it. ... View more

Setting aside the issue of getting the data that goes into a list control, populating a list control at run time involves modifying the in-memory MSI database. For the general technique, perhaps see this old newsletter tip (PDF) http://www.flexerasoftware.com/webdocuments/PDF/msiaccess.pdf and the InstallShield help topic "Windows Installer API Functions Example". The topic is also discussed at length in our advanced MSI training course. ... View more

It looks like even though the service password field is hidden *********, that you can still put in a property string, i.e. [TESTME] and it works..... ... View more

Boy, didn't realize how something that should be so simple was made difficult. The notes in the help state that in a Installscript MSI project you can just "delete" that setup type. Why in a Basic MSI project is that not the same? Shouldn't the software understand that all features are required, and that their level is all set to 1 (1 being the only level), and that the set display is set to NOT display. isn't that enough... ... View more

I really need some direction on this. It's a show stopper. I'm not trying to get around Windows security, but applications must be added to the exclusion list in DEP to work. Especially Legacy stuff. Installshield allows registry changes, etc so I can't see this being a security issue. Does anybody have a custom script, etc? Thank you. ... View more

Does anybody know how to set the service User Name and Passward dynamically, i.e. I'm using a custom dialog for user entry???? The password is a masked field in the Service Install options area. I guess I'd like to use Property's to set those. Thanx ... View more

Ok, I just rebooted and found that I can create all other controls on my dialog, but a radio button? That control will not add to my custom dialog. ... View more