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Wise from Wise Solutions, Inc. was a popular installation package creation tool for Windows. The company has been acquired by Symantec Corporation in 2007 and it's support has been discontinued in 2011.

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Wise for Windows: Advt and Non-Advt shortcuts

I have 2 MSI packages exactly the same but one has advertised shortcuts and other has non-advertised shortcuts. I have a third MSI package which needs to be upgraded with the above. Observation: When I upgrade with the "non-advt shortcuts" package…
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Wise Installer: reading registry entry

I am using Wise for windows installer 5.0 to make a MSI. My doubt is can I read the registry entry from the MSI itself under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE..\uninstall\some_program 2.0. This some_program can be of several versions like 1.0 or 2.0 or 3.0…
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Wise for Windows Installer 5.0 unable to call .exe

I am using a Win7 64 bit system. I have a 32 bit program installed in a my computer through an exe installer i.e it was not installed by msi. Let us say its version is 1.0. This program folder has a uninstall.exe file which on clicking uninstalls…
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Wise to Wix conversion

Our organization is going to replace the installer technology from WISE to WIX. I am able to create the WIX Source files using the decompiler(dark.exe).Able to make the installer working by doing a lot of trial and error.But still there are a lot of…
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Wise Installer not removing old files on upgrade

We have a legacy installer that was built with Wise, and we have a situation where some .ASP files were replaced with corresponding .INC files to deal with security concerns; so during the upgrade, those old .ASP files must be removed. It's working…
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Install file conditionally through msi (Internal Error 2732)

I want to install a plugins dll to a pre-installed application. Pre-installed application has its installed location in registry from where I can get its location. If I cannot found the registry. I simply don't want to install the plugin file. I am…
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How do you create a shortcut to a folder in Windows Installer?

I need to install a shortcut that opens one of the folders that I'm creating. What mist I do to create a shortcut whose target is a folder instead of a file? I tried making the folder the shortcut's target, but when I try to install the application,…
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What will happen if I have two msi's creating same folder?

If the folder structure X/Y/A is created by 32 bit msi first and X/Y/B is created by the 64 bit msi. What will happen to the X and Y ? Which msi id they will have?
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Can an application crash cause an installer of another product to start

Our Windows application is crashing, and when the user acknowledges the crash dialog, notices that the msi for a related product is starting, as though trying to repair some corruption caused. As I understand it from the person that encountered it,…
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Installing a shared assembly to the GAC with COM interop

Specifically, I am using Wise Installation Studio to install several shared .NET 2.0 assemblies into the GAC. These are being used by some legacy COM application files as well as other application assemblies. I have the flag for "Generate COM…
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WISE Windows Installer Editor Launch Condition By date

I want to Prevent perform the installation if it exceeds a certain date, how can i do that? any ideas are greatly appreciated. thanks! (Note: Using Wise Installation Studio version 7)
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WISE - COM Server registration option "Do not register" doesn't work?

I created an installer in wise, for a Delphi application which using an in-proc (DLL) COM-Server. I configured the DLL in the Wise project as "Do not register", but after a test installation it is registered anyway? Is this an "undocumented…
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When installing an ODBC driver, Windows Installer keeps putting it in SystemFolder

I'm working on an installer that, among other things, installs a web server. As part of the setup, I'm setting up an ODBC driver and data source. I'm trying to put a bunch of utility files, including the third party ODBC driver DLL, into a certain…
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CruiseControl Build times degrade on vmware workstation

I have a very strange problem and my last hope for help I suspect comes from this community. I have a build system that incorporates compiling three different elements of a wise installer package. The symptoms that I am seeing is that build times…
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vbscript - attempt to automate updating upgrade table at compile time gives error object required

I am trying to automate a process to update a wise for windows package at compile time to update the productcode, package code, productversion, and the update table versionmax values. I can successfully update the property table and the summary…
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