Hello, Can you describe all the steps to create this Custom Action ? Thank you. ... View more

I found that ProductCode can be modified by Orca as "click Summary Information on the View menu" and press "New GUID" , and save. Does anyone know how to change it by some scripts? ... View more

Thanks DLee. I will try your approach! ... View more

You can either look for another registry entry that contains value data if there is one, or create a custom action that determines if the registry exists and sets a property which can then be used. ... View more

As far as I know when registry entry HKLM \SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{MY_PRODUCT_CODE}\WindowsInstaller exists and is set to "1", then "UninstallString" entry is ignored and MsiExec.exe /x{MY_PRODUCT_CODE} is used instead. Recommended way to change “Add/Remove Programs” behavior is to set ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT property to 1 and manually create a set of custom uninstall registry values under your own uninstall key from your msi (for example HKLM \SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ ). ... View more

The problem was resolved by taking those VC 2012 x64 redistributables as the merge module. ... View more

When you create a script-defined var in Files and Folders, by default the name is " ". The "<" and ">" are part of the name unless you change it. When you use the string in a path (of a shortcut or component) it would be " \folder". The same syntax is used for registry keys and XML file changes. ... View more

I found useful article Q112907 at http://kb.flexerasoftware.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=Q112907 which describes very well how to include merge module custom actions. ... View more

mitchboo wrote: I have installed InstallShield Limited Edition into Visual Studio and was able to figure how to create an installer fine, but now, I need to install a font for my application to work. How do I proceed ? The program help is of no use, I could not even find the topic. Is there a detailed how-to somewhere, or am I hoping too much ? Thanks for any solid pointers and real answers. Alright. I should have read 7 times the post before that was a bit too abstract for me to understand that font installation is automatic for files added to the project. Experimenting showed me the way. Pity it does not seem to be mentioned in the help file ; the feature is great. Thank you. ... View more

Thank you for your response! I will study your proposals, but I know that we cannot substitute hard drive as we do not have such flexibility in our build system. Now I managed to resolve this problem by changing .ISM file name to shorter one. Luckily I exceeded path length a little 🙂 Cheers, Georgiy ... View more

instead of COMP_NORMAL use INCLUDE_SUBDIR ... View more

Yeah that does work too 🙂 ... View more

Yes, files might differ per installation hence they we probably provide different installation packages. Here we decided to resolve this problem just by calling .bat file which will copy all necessary file if needed. Thank you for your help and advices. Cheers, Georgiy ... View more