Greetings! My goal is to have a LaunchConditon that halts progress if some version of sqlcmd.exe cannot be found in an expected location. I'll keep my example limited to SQL 2008 for simplicity. I have a registry search to define a SQL2008TOOLSLOCATION property, and then I look for sqlcmd.exe inside this path (see screenshots for the 2 system searches). The LaunchCondition is ensuring that SQL2008SQLCMDEXE exists. On 32-bit machines, SQL2008TOOLSLOCATION is getting set to the expected C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Tools\Binn , and as sqlcmd.exe exists here, the LaunchCondition passes. On 64-bit machines however, both C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Tools\Binn and C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Tools\Binn exist, but sqlcmd.exe is only installed to C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Tools\Binn. Checking the msi log, I see this in the AppSearch section: MSI (c) (64:D8) [12:14:34:441]: WIN64DUALFOLDERS: 'C:\Program Files (x86)\' will substitute 17 characters in 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Tools\Binn\' folder path. (mask argument = 0, the folder pair's iSwapAttrib member = 0). AppSearch: Property: SQL2008TOOLSLOCATION, Signature: NewSignature1 MSI (c) (64:D8) [12:14:34:550]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Adding SQL2008TOOLSLOCATION property. Its value is 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Tools\Binn\'. So the 64-bit portion of the registry has the path that I'm after, but even though I've specified the registry search to look in the 64-bit registry, something keeps steering it toward the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Tools\ClientSetup Path value, and thus setting it to Program Files (x86) location which is no good for me. Might anyone know why the search is behaving this way, or a way to ensure the Wow6432Node is not searched in this case? Thanks much! --jdavidi ... View more

Greetings! Using a Basic MSI project. All of my features have Destination properties set to subdirectories of INSTALLDIR. I've added the DestinationFolder dialog to the front of our install, intending for users to change install dir to the "master installation directory" of their choosing. However, I want to ensure that all features get installed to the predefined relative subdirectories that I've set on their feature locations; effectively, if the user chooses a Custom install, each of the feature destinations can be overridden. Is there a setting that I'm missing that could enforce this rule, or do I need to modify CustomSetup to permanently hide the Change... button (similar to the default behavior of when this dialog shows in Maintenance mode)? Thanks for any info! --jdavidi ... View more

Greetings, I am piecing together an msbuild file to build my installer (for eventual use by TFS & TeamBuild), and for the most part everything is working, with the exception of the InstallScript compile. I receive one error during the build: ISDEV : error -7132: An error occurred streaming ISSetup.dll support file N:\TFS\Infrastructure\Installations\InstallerProjects\CostGuard\Script Files\Setup.inx When I build via IsCmdBld.exe, everything is fine, and I can see in the build output that one of the first steps the build does is compile setup.inx, and then moves on to build the MSI tables. When I build from msbuild, even at the diagnostic logging level, I see no evidence of the setup.rul (or other .rul file) compiles--immediately the MSI tables start building. I'm uncertain as to if the Build="Compile" parameter of the InstallShield task is meant to compile the rul files, but when run it completes quickly with 0 errors & 0 warnings, yet there is no setup.inx. I tried compiling setup.inx via the GUI and putting it in the scripts folder,but as soon as the InstallShield task begins, it gets deleted, presumably due to the Clean target. So my questions: Should the msbuild InstallShield task compile setup.inx, and assuming so, what is the trick to doing so? Thanks much! --jdavidi ... View more

Greetings! I'm installing a set of services, some of which MAY require additional configuration within our installed application before they will start properly. I have ServiceControl entries set for all of my services, but when it goes to start one of the ones requiring this post-install configuration, the installation halts with a 1920 error, indicating that the service failed to start, presenting only a Retry or Cancel option. Assuming there is no way to add an "Ignore" button to this popup, can anyone think of alternatives to acheiving the desired behavior? I was thinking some sort of component Condition, but couldn't come up with a catch all (e.g. I was thinking !FeatureRequiringService=3 , but I'm thinking that could get the installation into a bad state where it would fail repeatedly on a Repair or Modify if the configuration work hadn't yet been completed. Any info appreciated! Thanks much, --jdavidi ... View more

Greetings! My installation needs to add a few virtual directories, and rather than gather requirements about the website at runtime, I just wanted to install them to a pre-existing site (most of the time which is Default Web Site). I have implemented a VBScript custom action that a few other postings linked to, and can successfully capture in a dropdown the user selection. However, I just want to add the virtual directory to this site--I don't necessarily want to modify any of the site's pre-existing configurations (such as read/write access, authentication, session timeouts, etc). Is there any way to do to instruct InstallShield to effectively ignore any of the web site's properties? I wouldn't want to overwrite something an admin has set for their environment by leaving the default options. Thanks much! --jdavidi ... View more

Greetings! I'm installing 10 .NET services in our basic MSI project, and was hoping to utilize ActionData to inform the user as to progress beyond the "Installing Services" that already displays. To my surprise, the Windows Installer help says "There are no ActionData messages." However, under ActionText in Custom Actions and Sequences view, there is an InstallServices item and it lists Service: [2] as the template. Is there any way to utilize this, or is this a typo in the editor? Thanks much! --jdavidi ... View more

Greetings! In my aim to stop and start the World Wide Web Publishing service during my install, I used the component wizard to set up a service control component for W3SVC. I selected the stop and start actions for both install and uninstall. However, I noticed in the designer that this component got created with 2 service events: NewEvent1 to handle the Install Stop/Start and NewEvent2 to handle the Uninstall Stop/Start. I was just curious if there was any particular reason that the wizard splits the events this way? Is there anything wrong with a single event with the 4 values set to "Yes" (i.e. a single entry in the ServiceControl table as opposed to 2)? Thanks much! --jdavidi ... View more