Right well this is a sorry state of affairs. It seems to me as though there are plenty more obstacles and pitfalls with writing an InstallShield Basic MSI installers. If you only need to write installers for simple hello world applications then every...
Thats all great I use feature prerequisites only. The question originally asked here was HOW do you run a custom action BEFORE these feature prerequisites are installed. For some really bizarre reason the ISInstallPrerequisites step is in the user in...
Hi Miguel,I have been trying to do something similar (also BasicMSI) but instead used a C++ MSI DLL rather than install script for the custom actions as I needed to call Win32 API functions. My attempt at a solution has wasted me a lot of time as we...
Ok so it seems that progress bars can only be used during the Install phase!!??? Well in my installer I have some progress bar worthy actions that need to run BEFORE installation. My MSI DLL hangs on MsiProcessMessage probably because it is trying to...
This looks like InstallScript so its not clear that its appropriate for Basic MSI. Why is it not clearly marked as such and where are the topics relating to Basic MSI progress bar usage?
