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msi installer does not prompt user on upgrade

I have a simple msi installer setup.exe (created via VS2010).In the first installation everything is OK,The problem is in the second installation : 1.The msi settings are : a.RemovePreviousVersions is set to TRUE. 2.I upgraded the setup…
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InstallShield File Sequence Numbers

I'm adding files to an existing InstallShield MSI project, building the MSI, and then creating an MSP from it to apply to existing installations. Problem is, when I add new files to the MSI project, the sequence numbers aren't set incrementally. I…
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How can i get Setup.rul file of an old InstallShield Installer from its exe file?

I have an old InstallShield installer which i believe was made using InstallShield 2012. I don't have the install script code for the same. I only have exe of the installer with me. I need to create a new installer containing some of the same…
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How to create Self-Sign certificate through InstallScript functions?

I have InstallScript MSI installer project in InstallShield. I wanted to create Self-Sign certificate during the installation of my product. So is there any windows APIs I can use in InstallScript code OR are there any InstallScript functions using…
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How to make Custom Dialog immovable in InstallScript?

I have a basic MSI project. In this project I have created one custom dialog (because of requirement) using InstallScript code. I want to make that Custom Dialog immovable. How can I achieve this in InstallScript code? Can we use DialogSetInfo() to…
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InstrallShield Major Upgrade not completely uninstalling previous version

I have an InstallShield 2016 InstallScript MSI project. I used the Major Upgrade option but with that approach what I see is that files of previous version gets removed, registry entries get deleted, etc. However, the uninstallation logic that is in…
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How to update the folder name in InstallShield project for Registry section by Powershell?

I have the powershell script which updates the product name, version, Product code, shortcut name etc of the installer. But i don’t know how to update the name of a particular folder which is created under Registry section which itself is present…
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Installshield Trouble uninstalling prior versions

I've searched for this topic and found many posts but none that describe the exact issue I'm having. Our product (which I inherited from another developer) had an InstallScript method (see below) that although it seemed to work for quite a while…
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How to read data from RTF file & write it to ScrollableText at the time of installation?

I'm having InstallScript MSI project built in InstallShield. I''m having Custom License Dialog in my installer. I want to read data from license RTF file and write it to ScrollableText control using InstallScript. How can I achieve this? Also Is…
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Microsoft Installer: can it upgrade a product without version number changes?

We want to use the popular major.minor.update.build_number versioning scheme. Our next product update will be version 1.0.1. Our in-house Config Management mechanism produces Release builds and Daily builds, all of which are automatically packed as…
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How to check if an application is installed (For any user) while and make it an upgrade, instead of install?

I have a product that is installed across many sites. Now we have released a Upgrade. But the issue was that in the first version the installation was per user and now we have made it per machine installation. There are custom actions in the new…
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Install Script MSI : How to install the product in Current Users Home directory when running the exe as administrator?

I have a msi which is created from an IS Installscript msi project , as the product requires elevated permissions it should be running as administrator . Everything is fine , but now the product is getting installed on Admins home rather than the…
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Can I Run Windows Installer (msiexec) from a Windows Batch File?

Ok, I'm out of my element but here goes anyway. I need to do a silent install of a vendor supplied windows program. The vendor supplied an MSI file to use with the install. I created a bat file to run msiexec that contains the following…
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MsiDatabaseOpenView returns 6 (ERROR_INVALID_HANDLE)

I have a Basic MSI project in InstallShield 2013. I am trying to dynamically insert items in a combobox using an InstallScript custom action. I am currently stuck well before actually inserting the items. When I try to open the view I get…
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Select and Disable Features in Feature Tree Dialog in Installshield

I have created an Installer using Installscript msi. I perform a custom installation installing only selective features. Now during the Maintenance Install, when I chose the Installation type to be "Custom', all features installed as part of fresh…
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