I'm having the same issue on Windows 8.1, although I'm using IS2012 Spring. I just need .NET 3.5, no SP, but even including the prerequisite (dotnetfx35.exe) for the full installation triggers a web download. Why? Has anyone found a way around this? Many of my users are on standalone systems without internet access. The full .NET 3.5 framework appears to be there on the CD, all 200+MB, so why can't it be installed? ... View more

Just had an email from Flexera about top blog articles and the first one is a solution to the 32/64 problem from 2011!!! http://blogs.flexerasoftware.com/installtalk/2011/01/building-32-bit-and-64-bit-installations-from-the-same-installshield-project.html ... View more

OK, now I have decided to use the Merge Module for MDAC instead of a prerequisite and successfully downloaded it: Downloading 1 files. Successfully downloaded C:\Program Files (x86)\InstallShield\2012Spring\Objects\MDAC28.msm Downloading Finished. 1 file(s) downloaded successfully. 0 file(s) failed to download correctly. The build fails, however, because it can't find the merge module! ISDEV : error -4075: File not found. An error occurred merging Module 'MDAC28.E7D6BCFA_9BFA_49D4_A1EE_767B7FD61E38:1033' for Feature 'Mxxxx'. ... View more

OK, just seen that .NET 3.5 is a prerequisite for the PIAs. Now I have to change the media to DVD, but to do that I have to go through the release wizard and make a whole new release! I wonder if this could have been made any more complicated... ... View more

I have made progress. I manually downloaded Microsoft Office 2007 PIA, and the one for 2010, installed those in the (inconsistent) locations InstallShield was looking for them and then the downloader started downloading .NET 3.5, even though I hadn't requested it. In fact .NET 3.5 now gets included in my build and I have no idea why! This makes it too big for a CD and there's no way of changing the media in the release view. So when I copy the build to a USB stick it doesn't install, it keeps asking stupidly for disk 2 even when I have copied everything from the DISK2 folder to DISK1 folder. ... View more

So, is this still broken? Do I have to fork out for yet another IS update to get a fix? ... View more

I've found the following in the help system: Progress Bar—A progress bar is a dynamic bar that fills up in response to a property such as the ISInstallProgress property. Progress Circle—A progress circle is a pair of dynamic circles that fill up in response to two properties: a property such as ISParcelProgress, which indicates the completion percentage of the current package, and a property such as ISInstallProgress, which indicates the completion percentage of the overall entire installation. The outside progress circle typically shows the overall progress, and the inside progress bar typically shows the progress of the entire package. This suggest that ISInstallProgress is the correct property to use, but something is broken somewhere. ... View more

Looks like ISInstallProgress but I don't see an option for ISParcelProgress. ... View more

That's useful, thanks. Seems to be working now! ... View more

Lowercase, x64. But I've just realised I set a condition as well that specified 'Intel64' (what's the difference?) with the error message for a false condition shown before. I must have added that very early on while I was experimenting with various configurations. ... View more

From the log: Property(C): Intel = 6 Property(C): Msix64 = 6 Property(C): MsiAMD64 = 6 Property(C): MsiNTProductType = 1 Property(C): ServicePackLevelMinor = 0 Property(C): ServicePackLevel = 1 Property(C): WindowsBuild = 7601 Property(C): VersionNT64 = 601 Property(C): VersionMsi = 5.00 Property(C): VersionDatabase = 200 Anything else that would be useful? ... View more

Here's a screenshot, product name obscured. ... View more

This appears to have resolved itself as well, apart from the problem (which seems new) of the x64 install failing. ... View more