The .NET 4.6.1 pre-requisite is available here. ... View more

You can use the following code to set Windows Installer property value during UI Sequence and Immediate Execute Sequence. Session.Property("PROPERTYNAME") = "PropertyValue" ... View more

You could probably figure out how to get IS_SQLSERVER_CONNECTIONS_TO_VALIDATE to work as desired, but I can tell you that having two separate installers might have been better for me (for other reasons) so that sounds like a reasonable design choice. Good luck! ... View more

Robert Dickau, thanks for the clue, I did not find anything in Direct Editor, but in the String Editor, search for 27502 and you will find: English (United States) IDS_ERROR_27502 Could not connect to [2] '[3]'. [4] Here I can add to the error message as I wish. I do not see a method to change the title of this message box. This does help. Robert ... View more

Thanks Debbie Landers, it did help. I also found the anwser in the Release notes. In you IntallShield IDE, be at the Installation Desinger tab, in the first column expand Media, select Releases. In the second column select your current release you are building, in the third column select the setup.exe tab, there is a Minimum Initialization Time you can set so your SplashTime gets this value. All the Help I quoted was from my IS2008 install. Thanks... (IS2008 Release Notes) Ability to Specify the Minimum Initialization Time InstallShield includes a new Minimum Initialization Time setting on the Setup.exe tab for a release in the Releases view. Use this setting to specify the minimum number of seconds that the installation should display the initialization dialog when end users run this release. InstallShield uses the value that you specify for this setting as the value of the SplashTime keyname in the Setup.ini file. This enhancement resolves issue IOC-000005571 Thanks for Robert Dickau’ sticky : Migrating Projects from pre-InstallShield 12 ... View more