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Oct 23, 2024

We are using patches for our main product. MSI has patch design.The patches are small, mostly just file updates. And they are cumulative meaning that newer patch contains all changed files compared to the RTM major version.The RTM release (full MSI i...

May 09, 2023

Hi,I create both QuickPatch and Patch builds for major releases of a product.Even though the InstallShield project offers entry fields to specify the name of the patch, it is not displayed in any GUI's which are displayed when running the updater ins...

Jun 08, 2022

I'm trying to use "Patch Design" instead of QuickPatch project to deliver a small update to an existing installation.The requirement is that the patch setup will be small and contains only those files which have changed.(With the QuickPatch project i...

Jun 02, 2022

Hi,I am using QuickPatch project (InstallShield 2020 R3 SP1 premier edition) to update a specific component (dll) from an old to newer version on a target machine. The dll is a 3rdParty .NET COM Interop component.The application which is patched uses...

May 19, 2022

We deliver our product using a InstallShield setup.exe It is a fairly complicated project which has a GUI to install components, some custom scripting and registrations of COM etc etc. The setup is huge, about 1.3 Gb and contains lots of files. We al...

Jul 06, 2023

So a bump.I did find this topic about avoiding the registry settings to be reverted to defaults.The solution given (using msp file instead of exe) and installing the patch with command line arguments works ok. But we have found out that we do not nee...

Jun 13, 2022

So for anyone having the same issues as described here info FYI. After creating a ticket I got the response that:QuickPatch does not support .NET COM Interop dll's now. The option "COM extraction" only applies to 'pure win32' COM. So when checking th...

Jun 13, 2022

Thanks for the reply.After more extensive search I found the reason why all files were added to the patch build.To limit the files you need to set the previous build info in the release settings. When pointing to the previous build when creating a ne...

Jun 08, 2022

So it seems that QuickPatch project does not support upgrading .NET COM Interop dll's which seems ridiculous. When creating a build, the build process in "normal" MSI projects takes care of the registry information as it is extracted during build. W...

May 25, 2022

So I continued and am experimenting with QuickPatch project to update the product. This is working fine. I am able to specify which wiles needs updating and the version number of the product can be changed or not, depending of the needs. Also uninsta...

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