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Oct 18, 2008

Looks like I found an interesting issue in Installshield 2009. I have a DLL custom action which dynamically adds new entries to the MoveFile / RemoveFile tables at runtime.However, when I build an MSI Basic install project which contains my custom ac...

Nov 03, 2008

I encountered this problem when building a release that had the following criteria:[LIST=1]Several components which contain shortcuts installed under different Start Menu program folder. (This by default creates Localized entries for the Start menu f...

Oct 20, 2008

I agree with Chris. It's much easier to control/debug the build environment then it is to rely on (now) several custom actions to fix something the build environment should do, especially when the item in question is something as trivial as including...

Oct 20, 2008

I'll assume you are doing this from an Installscript only project.Instead of using "LaunchAppAndWait", use the MSI API "MsiInstallProduct" and check for the return value.Here is a snippet of code that I use to install MSI files silently from an Insta...

Oct 18, 2008

We encountered the same problem. In older versions of our software, I'd have two separate projects, but with Installshield 2009, I really wanted to leverage multiple Release/Product configs in one single Installshield project. And for us, it wasn't j...

Oct 18, 2008

Christopher Painter wrote:I did mean that as a hack. Copying the xml would seem simpler to me. Eitherway, I'd reccomend you look into C# and DTF for build automation tasks requiring interacting with the MSI API and/or ISAuto automation layer. Pa...

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