Hello, Does anyone know how to change PackageCode in existing .msi file by any tool except InstallShield? I know that it is possible to modify MSI Properties by tools like Orca, or self made visual basic tool, but do not know how to change anything what is not Property. Thank you in advance. Best regards, Georgiy ... View more

Hello, I have Basic msi project and would like to change the product name shown in the control panel and GUID by using command line parameters. I found in the documentation that windows installer supports following command line option msiexec /i A:\Example.msi PROPERTY=VALUE Hence I tried the following for product name msiexec /i A:\Example.msi ProductName="my_new_name" but "my_new_name" is not shown in the Control panel. Could you please advise how I can vary name shown in the control panel if use the same .msi file? Thank you in advance. Best regards, Georgiy ... View more

Hello, My project is based on the BasicMSI Installshield project. I need to add intallation requirement for J# redistributable, i.e. J# must be installed on the computer in advance. Following registry key is created on the computer when J# redistributable is installed HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Visual JSharp Setup Hense I added new custom SW condition: What to find: Registry entry Registry Root: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Registry Key: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Visual JSharp Setup Registry Value: My installation should be continued if ther key is found. I tried to install my installer on the computer which has J# reditributables and correct registry key is created, but installation always stops with the message I specified in the requirement. Hence installer cannot find the key. Could you please advise what i'm doing wrong? Thank you. Best regards, Georgiy ... View more

Hello, I've made BasicMSI project in InstallShield 2012, and defined custom action which is called during uninstall. I notice that uninstalling from control panel is executed in silent mode. I checked uninstall command in regedit in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{MY_PRODUCT_CODE} UninstallString is MsiExec.exe /I{MY_PRODUCT_CODE} I ran UninstallString from command prompt and it launches normal (not silent) uninstall hence it seems to be correct. Please advise me what might be wrong with my project. Thank you in advance! Best regards, Georgiy ... View more

Hello, I have BasicMSI InstallShield 2012 project. The installed application depends on VC 2012 x64 redistributable, which are not available in the list of default redistributables in IS2012. I downloaded vcredist_x64.exe from Microsoft web site, and would like to include this package as the prerequisites into my installation package. Could you please advise how to do this? Thank you in advance. Best regards, Georgiy ... View more

Hello, In my InstallScript project particular value is used in many places (e.g. shortcut name, exe file name) and I would like define property/variable in some place in order that modifications would affect all corresponding places. I tried to define Property in Direct Editor as MyProperty (value for example is "abcd"). Then used it as [MyProperty] or in shortcuts, but it was presented as [MyProperty] or . I would like to have it as "abcd". Could you please advise how to solve this problem? Thank you in advance. Regards, Georgiy ... View more

Hello, I've made merge module which contains some set of files. This merge module includes custom action, and I would like make it so that custom action is always called when merge module is included into master installer. For testing purpose I've made simple InstallScript custom action which calls MessageBox, but i cannot get it called. In forum I found that I should include it to Direct Editor -> ModuleInstallExecuteSequence in merge .ism file. I added new record as: Action: MyCustomAction Sequesnce: empty BaseAction: InstallFiles After: 1 Conditions: NotInstalled (also tried as Empty) BUT I've never got my MessageBox appeared during installation. Could you please advise how to call custom action defined in merge module? Thank you in advance, Best Regards, Georgiy ... View more

Hello, I have Basic MSI Installshield 2012 project. It includes ironruby components which copies ironruby files into [INSTALLDIR]. At the moment I experience problem to install .msi installer on Win7 OS (for example target dir was c:\temp). The error message is: "Error 1907. Could not register font. Verify that you have sufficient permissions to install fonts, and that the system supports this font" I debugged a bit , and it seems that only one Chalkboard.ttf file causes the problem. There are other .ttf files in source directory and they can be included into installer without any problems Furthermore we have another installer based on InstallScript project. I can install Chalkboard.ttf without any problems, but now we must use BasicMSI projects. I would assume that default component settings in BasicMSI project differ from InstallScript. I guess in BasicMSI they set that installer tries to register fonts, but I cannot find where it is. Could you please help to resolve the problem? Best regards, Georgiy ... View more