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Jun 08, 2010

Multiple instances are critical to my installation, but support for it appears to be very lacking in InstallShield 2010. I need to be able to do major upgrades, but there doesn't seem to be any acceptable way to use them with multiple instances. The ...

Mar 31, 2010

I have a basic MSI project that (so far) has a component for installing a Windows service and a component for setting a registry key. Installation works fine for any number of instances, but upon uninstallation the registry key and Windows service do...

Jul 09, 2010

I've accepted that this is a limitation of Windows Installer, and made separate components per instance for the things that don't uninstall correctly, as per hidenori's comment in the thread he linked to.

Jun 10, 2010

Hm, you're right, I hadn't noticed it was doing that. Not quite sure what kind of installation that behavior is intended for though; I'd imagine my situation of needing multiple independent environments (e.g. testing, training, production, etc.) to b...

Jun 09, 2010

MichaelU wrote:We've got a work order tracking this enhancement request now: IOC-000076675. I don't have any timeframe for when this might be implemented.That's what I figured (the thread I linked to mentioned work order #IOC-000077274). Multi-instan...

Jun 08, 2010

Yes to both. The problem is that the instance selection dialog uses the product code instead of the upgrade code to detect installed instances, so by changing the product code for a major upgrade it doesn't present the installed instances for selecti...

Apr 09, 2010

I'm also in the exact same situation as the original poster and would really like to know what the best practice for dealing with this is. I can't imagine that it's an uncommon scenario; some way of dynamically linking support files seems like an obv...

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