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yozturk · ‎Jul 06, 2011

Hi all, I did a little a registry trick and displayed the response text box. I pasted the contents of response.xml file into that text box and clicked "Activate". Unfortunately, when I try to run InstallShield again, reactivation form opens again. Please help... -Best regards. -Yavuz

yozturk · ‎Jul 06, 2011

Hi all, I installed InstallShield - 2010 Premier Edition 1,5 years ago. I went through activation process and prepared lots of setups using InstallShield. I stopped working with InstallShield nearly 6 months before. But I need to run InstallShield again, now. When I try to run InstallShield, "InstallShield Reactivation" form opens with the following options: - (Disabled / Greyed) "Continue to use InstallShield without reactivating" - (Enabled) Reactivate InstallShield - (Enabled) Activate or purchase a new license of InstallShield - (Enabled) Configure InstallShield to get license from a license server NOTE: The machine running InstallShield has no internet connection. At first, I went through "Reactive InstallShield" and sent license.request file to InstallShield support e-mail address and received a request.xml file. My problem is, where will I paste the contents of response.xml file to reactivate InstallShield? When I select "Reactivate InstallShield" and click "next", only request text is displayed, no place to paste the contents of response.xml file is displayed. Please help me to reactivate InstallShield again. -Best regards. -Yavuz

yozturk · ‎May 31, 2010

Hi, I want InstallShield to increment the ProductVersion by 1 (i.e. change from 1.00.0000 to 1.00.0001) and also autogenerate a new GUID for ProductVersion everytime I build the InstallShield project. Is it possible? Or should I convert the InstallShield project type from binary to XML and make the necessary modifications on the XML file? -Best regards.

yozturk · ‎Apr 01, 2010

Thank you Robert, That is what I was looking for 🙂 -Best regards. -Yavuz

yozturk · ‎Mar 31, 2010

Hi, I have an executable and I added this executable to my setup project as a "support file". I want this executable to be executed right after the files in the setup package are transferred to their folders. To do this, which event should I use? OnMoved? OnFirstUIAfter? Or some other event? -Best regards. -Yavuz

yozturk · ‎Mar 31, 2010

Thank you DebbieL, That' s EXACTLY what I was looking for 🙂 -Best regards. -Yavuz

yozturk · ‎Mar 31, 2010

Hi, I included an executable in my setup project. After the installation, I run this executable. When this executable returns, I want this executable automatically be deleted by InstallShield. So, is there a way to mark a file / folder in the setup project as "Delete After Install" ? Or, should I delete these types of files using InstallScript ? -Best regards. -Yavuz

yozturk · ‎Mar 31, 2010

Thanks a lot RobertDickau, BYREF keyword is EXACTLY what I was looking for 🙂 -Best regards. -Yavuz

yozturk · ‎Mar 30, 2010

Hi, I want to return more than one values from a custom InstallScript function. For example, I calculate two values inside a function and I want to return both of them. Is there a way? i.e. function Div(dividend, divisor) begin ....// Calculate quotient and remainder ....return quotient; ....return remainder; end; -Best regards. -Yavuz

yozturk · ‎Mar 24, 2010

Hi, I created a custom action named MyFunction(HWND) using InstallScript and added this function as in "Custom Actionsand Sequences" view. MyFunction(HWND) is so simple as follows: function MyFunction(hMSI) begin MessageBox ( "Welcome to the tutorial installation !", INFORMATION); end; When I execute the resultant setup.exe from Windows Explorer, after the setup configures Windows Installer, it seems to be hunged. However, when Windows Explorer window is minimized, the message box is displayed. How can I bring the message box, that is generated by InstallScript, front? -Best regards. -Yavuz

yozturk · ‎Mar 24, 2010

Hi Lurean, The dll' s of "Developer Express" are copied to the local folder when CopyLocal is set true as expected. However, the dll' s of "Microsoft Enterprise Library Ver. 4.1" are not copied to local folder even CopyLocal is set to true. Anyway, currently I found a way to include dependencies in the setup project as I explained earlier. Now I have a different problem. When I want to set the name of a RadioButton in a custom dialog, Visual Studio crashes and restarts. At the end of 4 hours and nearly 25 restarts of VS, I decided to manually code the custom dialog using InstallScript. After these incidents, I doubt InstallScript compiler works fine... -Yavuz

yozturk · ‎Mar 23, 2010

Hi mumbles, Even if I set CopyLocal properties of Enterprise Library dll' s to "true", they are not copied to the local folder. This is a problem. As I said earlier, our software package is still under development and references of the projects are still changing. So, when a setup is needed, the solution you mentioned should be applied to all setup projects. In my point of view, preparing a new setup project (copying all files into setup project manually) every time is not feasible. I expect more comfort from a $ 4000 software rather than a buggy feature. But if it is the only way, I accept your solution, at least it is working. Thank you for your attention mumbles. Thank your for being a medicine to my illness 🙂 -Best regards. -Yavuz

yozturk · ‎Mar 23, 2010

Hi mumbles, Unfortunately, the trick you mentioned (CopyLocal) didn' t worked as I expected. Still, "dependency scanner" lists lot' s of "*** missing file ***" s and some dependencies are not included in the list at all. If the dependencies are listed as "missing" or are not listed at all, how I supposed to put them in [GAC] folder? I use a free tool called "RedGate Reflector" and it lists the dependencies perfectly. So, I' m adding the dll' s that "Reflector" lists to [GAC] folder one by one. When I am adding a dll to the setup, InstallShield asks if I want to search for the dependencies of this dll. When I press "ok", "dependency scanner" works and then says: "No new dependencies found" !!! But "Reflector" says that the dll that I am adding to the setup depends on lots of dll' s belong to Enterprise Library 4.1. What a shame??? Adding dependencies one by one is not feasible to me. I am sure that "static dependency scanner" has some bugs in it. Please show me a way, without using any kind of dependency scanners in InstallShield, is there a way to list the dependencies of "project output" s and put them in [GAC] folder? -Best regards. -Yavuz

yozturk · ‎Mar 23, 2010

Hi mumbles, Unfortunately, the trick you mentioned (CopyLocal) didn' t worked as I expected. Still, "dependency scanner" lists lot' s of "*** missing file ***" s and some dependencies are not included in the list at all. If the dependencies are listed as "missing" or are not listed at all, how I supposed to put them in [GAC] folder? I use a free tool called "RedGate Reflector" and it lists the dependencies perfectly. So, I' m adding the dll' s that "Reflector" lists to [GAC] folder one by one. When I am adding a dll to the setup, InstallShield asks if I want to search for the dependencies of this dll. When I press "ok", "dependency scanner" works and then says: "No new dependencies found" !!! But "Reflector" says that the dll that I am adding to the setup depends on lots of dll' s belong to Enterprise Library 4.1. What a shame??? Adding dependencies one by one is not feasible to me. I am sure that "static dependency scanner" has some bugs in it. Please show me a way, without using any kind of dependency scanners in InstallShield, is there a way to list the dependencies of "project output" s and put them in [GAC] folder? -Best regards. -Yavuz

yozturk · ‎Mar 23, 2010

Hi mumbles, Thank you for your detailed reply. You are right, it worked. But unfortunately, the development phase of our software package has not been finished yet, the package is still under development. So, the dependencies of our software packages are changing continuously. Note: If using "Add Project Output" button is not recommended, in which conditions should I use that button? Before making the setup of a software, how can I list which dll' s the software package is dependent on, so I can remove unnecessary dependencies from the setup and then add the necessary dependencies to the setup? Any help from the "Install Shield development team" is also appreciated. Because, I believe that, instead of refreshing the dependencies manually every time before preparing a setup, there should be an easy way to refresh the dependencies of the EXE file, automatically. But how? -Best regards. -Yavuz

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