MS describes two different values for the Release key of .Net 4.7.1 depending on the OS versions on which it is being installed, 461308 for .NET Framework 4.7.1 installed on Windows 10 Fall Creators Update and 461310 for other OS versions. They say that: You should check for a value greater than or equal to the release keyword value when attempting to detect whether a specific version is present. I do not find the capability to specify >= in the PRQ editor. Can someone please provide guidance? Thanks! Bo ... View more

I have two config files, A.config and B.config, only one of which should be installed. If installing on a regular PC, then A.config should be installed. If installing on an embedded PC, then B.config should be installed. InstallShield itself cannot determine the type of device that I'm installing on - while it can deduce the O/S, this isn't sufficient as we can run any O/S from XP to Win 10 on the embedded PC as well as the desktop PC. For other reasons, we detect the platform within the IS script itself by looking for the presence of a driver that is only installed on the embedded PC, thus, we know in the script which file we need to install from media. What is my best option for implementing this using IS 2014? ... View more

I have been tasked to investigate upgrading our IS 2011 project to 2014 - my company has licenses for versions back to 2008 or so. When I upgrade and build the project using 2014, the IS IDE crashes with the following during the "Checking string table references..." step: Exception ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at address 0x7042aa58 trying to read address 0x00000008. File : C:\Program Files (x86)\InstallShield\2014\System\isdev.exe Version : 21.0.0.289 Exception : c0000005 Address : 7042aa58 Access Type : read Access Address : 00000008 Registers : EAX=0018d038 CS=0023 EIP=7042aa58 EFLGS=00010202 : EBX=00000000 SS=002b ESP=0018cf58 EBP=0018cfa8 : ECX=703c4834 DS=002b ESI=00000000 FS=0053 : EDX=009c9038 ES=002b EDI=0018d028 GS=002b Stack Trace : 75352070 753b6c2f 0fbe4628 0fbe4840 : 0fbfd5dd 0fbcf4f6 0fbced42 0fbced3b : 0fbced3b 0fbcf5dd 0fbd043d 0fc005d8 : 0fc00533 04a13e4d 04a1374f 04a2a00d : 02341b6d 02341244 0237406d 023804b9 : 04441c2b 04ac69ce 049588b6 04959d77 : 07507e48 075056d7 074d5a07 074d6b7b : 110158b1 1102c7d0 02872a26 0042bfbc The project builds just fine using IS 2011 and 2012. Clues? Bo ... View more

SYSINFO.bIsWow64 has begun returning 0 when the installer is running on 64 bit Windows 7. I've tried it on two 64 bit machines with the same behavior. Has anyone seen this before? Suggestions? Bo ... View more