kevin-rf wrote: Hello, I am updating an older install (actually several) from 2012 to 2014 (A MS update broke something and they all need rework) and noticed that Microsoft Chart Control 6.0 was no longer available as a redistributable. (Yes I know MSChart is not great, I have been trying to get the dialog that uses it removed from our products since 2007, just running into marketing inertia, stubbornness). So does anyone know a way around this? Can I get redistributable added back in, download a package from Installshield to add it back? Thoughts? I realize I could go the non-kosher route of just including mschrt20.ocx to our install and it would work, but I really want to do this correctly. Thanks InstallShield 2013 deprecated and removed the following .msm merge modules: COMCAT.MSM COMCT232.MSM COMCT332.MSM COMCTL32.MSM COMDLG32.MSM DBGRID32.MSM DBLIST32.MSM MCI32.MSM MSADODC.MSM MSBIND.MSM MSCHRT20.MSM MSCOMCT2.MSM MSCOMCTL.MSM MSCOMM32.MSM MSDATGRD.MSM MSDATLST.MSM MSDATREP.MSM MSDBRPTR.MSM MSDERUN.MSM MSFLXGRD.MSM MSHFLXGD.MSM MSHTMPGR.MSM MSINET.MSM MSMAPI32.MSM MSMASK32.MSM msmask32_X86.msm msmask32_X86_ENU.msm MSRDC20.MSM MSRDO20.MSM MSSTDFMT.MSM MSSTKPRP.MSM MSVBVM60.MSM MSWCRUN.MSM MSWINSCK.MSM PICCLP32.MSM richtx32_x86.msm SYSINFO.MSM TABCTL32.MSM tlbinf32.msm VB_Control_mschart_RTL_X86_---.msm VB_Control_mschart_RTL_X86_ENU.msm Vfp7HTMLHelp.msm Vfp7Runtime.msm vfpodbc.msm vfpoledb.msm wdstddll_wim32.msm I have attached a .zip file with the MSCHRT20.MSM merge module. ... View more

surbhi wrote: Hi, I m new to writing installers. I want an installer for Windows 10, which should install my catalog (having my driver hash) On net I could find that in installshield, InstallSFPCatalogFile action installs the catalogs. Can anyone help me on how I can install a catalog via installshield 2014? Thanks No. InstallSFPCatalogFile has nothing to do with signed drivers. It was only used for the old Windows ME (Millennium Edition) operating system to install the catalogs used by Windows File Protection. I think you want to use InstallShield's "Device Driver Wizard", which will allow you to add your driver (and its catalog file) to your .msi installation. You can find the Device Driver Wizard in the Project menu: ... View more

Rita_m wrote: Hi, I am trying to install a driver using the device driver wizard in a basic MSI project but the installer does a rolling back and the driver is not installed. Is there another way to install a driver? I have another driver in my project which is installed correctly. The driver that i am not able to install is FTDI driver. Thank you, Rita Log the MSI install and carefully review the log. It probably will wind up saying that an expected driver file was missing. Microsoft's Driver Install Framework (DIFx) reads the driver's .inf file and any file mentioned in there is verified, even if they aren't used in certain scenarios. For example, your driver may have info for both the x86 and x64 flavor, but obviously it won't be using the x86 files when you install it on 64-bit Windows. But you still must include every file, otherwise DIFx will error-out and you'll experience a rollback. Anyways, log the MSI install and read it carefully (I think you can search for DIFx and view a few lines above and below it to see the error). ... View more

mika01 wrote: Hi, I'm trying out the trial version, and want to use it to repackage/convert an exe into an msi. How do i do this? I googled but didn't find the info that I was looking for. I tried creating a project of the Basic MSI Project type, but i'm not sure what files to add during the "Application Files" stage. I'm thinking that i can't just add the exe? What i'm trying to do is get an msi for Microsoft's CRM Outlook client (for which they only provide an exe), because we want to be able to set up a push of the software (and our network guys say it has to be an msi). we don't want to go with windows update because we're supposed to keep the Outlook Client as the corresponding version as CRM installed on our server, which we may not always be patching the second a new one comes out. So anyhow, hence the need for an msi. Thanks. InstallShield does not repackage software. What you need is AdminStudio. AdminStudio includes tools such as Repackager, which can be used to repackage software into the MSI format. ... View more

bakoff wrote: Created a MSM that has an Installscript Custom Action. Everything works fine if I use this MSM with my InstallScript MSI projects, but doesn't work with a WIX based project. The files in the MSM are being installed with the WIX install but the InstallScript CA is not being called. I'm not the WIX (3.6) expert and neither is the responsible developer so we're both stuck. Any ideas why this only works with IS projects? Maybe check the Binary table and verify that a file named ISSetup.dll. has been merged into the WIX install. Your InstallScript custom action needs it. I would expect that it's already part of your Merge Module project, but it's possible that it isn't. I don't know what steps were performed to create your Merge Module, but I'm wondering if that ISSetup.dll was already part of the MSI (and therefore maybe InstallShield didn't think it needed to also add it to the Merge Module). I think if you perform a verbose logging of the failing WIX install, you should see an error message about it skipping the InstallScript custom action due to it not seeing the ISSetup.dll. ... View more

tatsmagina wrote: Dear all, I have a question about creating program version dependent shortcuts in the Windows program menu. I am using Install Shield 2014 and I am creating an MSI Basic project. After installing the program, a shortcut should be added to the Windows program menu. My problem is that there are two different program versions that need to be installable via the same installation file. Depending on which program version is installed, a shortcut with a specific name should be added to the program menu. If version A is installed, a shortcut with the version A specific name is added to the menu. If version B is installed, a shortcut with the version B specific name is added to the menu. I have tried to enter the name of the version dependent shortcuts in the command line. However, I didn't manage to create the shortcut I needed. I hope anybody can help me with this one. Many thanks in advance, Dynamic shortcut names are not supported by Windows Installer, so you may need to use a custom action to create the shortcut. And I say "may need to" because I'm not entirely clear on what your install looks like... ...it almost seems as if you have two different target files, of which only one gets installed (based on the user's choices during the installation routine). If that is the situation, then those two target files should be in separate components, each with their own shortcut (with the appropriate version specific name). You would then simply place conditions on those two components so that only the appropriate component gets installed. The following Flexera Software KB article has more information about Windows Installer's inability to create dynamically named shortcuts: h t t p s : / / flexeracommunity.force.com/customer/articles/en_US/INFO/Dynamic-Shortcut-Names https://flexeracommunity.force.com/customer/articles/en_US/INFO/Dynamic-Shortcut-Names ... View more

rojomoke wrote: If I want to preserve my Installshield projects, is it sufficient to copy the project (.ism) file into my SCM tool (Subversion), or do I need to copy the entire project folder? Note, I don't need to worry about the actual data and code files, they're already under version control. I'm just wondering about the structure of the IS project itself. If you're making use of InstallScript custom actions, you would also need to deal with the InstallScript (.rul) file too. But other than that, I think it would be sufficient to copy the .ism file into Subversion. ... View more

jgilpin wrote: Any idea when the next release will be? I had to revert to 2014 from 2015 due these errors. Thanks! Jon ...so you're saying the hotfix didn't fix the issue for you in InstallShield 2015? ... View more

TheInfamousOne wrote: Hello all, All I'm trying to do it to update an file.exe.config file (XML Config File). I have selected my feature I wanted to add it to. I added the file through Files and Folders to the directory I want. I removed the oringal file, then i added the updated XML Config File) I set the version in the File table to 65535.0.0.0 so it will always overwrite what is there. I saved the MST and it created a cab file for me. When I run the install, it does not update the file. Instead, the original xml config file is still there. Why isn't the update file applying itself to the install directory? Did I miss something? Is that .config file the Key (AKA KeyPath) of its component? Components are atomic units that install their payload in an all-or-nothing fashion. If the component that it belongs to uses another resource as its key, it may not see any reason to install. ... View more

farukhsharipov wrote: What components, have you tried steps that I listed to reproduce the issue? Windows installer requires that you have at least one component. If you add something (anything, such as a file, folder, registry entry, etc.) InstallShield will add a component, which will prevent the error message that you are seeing. When following your steps on a freshly installed copy of InstallShield 2014, the following three warnings are issued: ISDEV : warning -7235: InstallShield could not create the software identification tag because the Tag Creator ID setting in the General Information view is empty. ISDEV : warning -1527: No files are included in the project. ISDEV : warning -6122: No components are included in the build. warning -6122 is the big one. Microsoft Windows Installer does not support having an MSI without any components. ... View more

Ian Varcoe wrote: We are creating a install package through InstallShield using BASIC MSI In the Redistributables we have selected Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express R2 (x86). Does this install have a configuration ini that we can edit to set InstanceName, SecurityMode etc Appreciate your help No, I do not believe it operates in that fashion. But you can use the Prerequisite Editor to create your own variant of the PRQ that makes use of an INI. You would need to spend a little time researching on Microsoft's website to figure out exactly what command line to feed to the SQL Server 2008 R2 Express SP2 (x86) setup. Once you've figured out the correct command line options and configuration file settings, you can make your own variant of the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Express SP2 (x86) PRQ file by right-clicking on it from the Redistributables view and choosing Edit Prerequisite: This opens the Prerequisite Editor, which is where you can modify the command line options and add additional files (such as a configuration INI) which your command line options can refer to. ... View more