I have a Service project within .NET using C#. I have then used InstallShield 2012 within Visual Studio to create a MSI that should install my Service, however when I run the MSI, theService never ...

Installshield will create software packages which can be in msi or rpm etc.. Will Windows installer also create msi and rpm files? or is this a tool embedded in Windows operating system which is re...

I am creating a Basic MSI Installer using InstallShield 2012 Spring Professional. Here I create a folder structure in application files as C:\Program files\Test Setup\Productname, Test Setup is the...

I am using InstallShield 2011. I have a COM object that needs registered during installation. I cant seem to find anywhere where it instructs you on how to do this. Does anyone have any ideas? Tha...

I've followed the instructions outlined here, but it doesn't work exactly as I need.: How to get InstallShield LE to uninstall the existing installation automatically? (apparently this has worked...

I have thwte certificate to sign my InstallShield setup. When we updated our certificate this year, it now depends on intermediate certificate "thawte code signing ca - g2". We fear that many of ...

I'm using InstallShield 2009 to create an installation package for a C# program that is to be deployed on many client sites, each with hundreds of workstations. When we release a patch, I simply ca...

      I have a project built in InstallShield 12. It is a Web Application that needs to be installed multiple times, and those installations need to be patched. I can...

I have an application developed using c++\cli on vs2008. As you are aware to deploy this application on any machine, i need the vc++ redistributable to be installed on the target machine. I wanted...

Install shield premiere 2009: Basic MSI from command line typing setup.exe /s /v/qn installs silently. But if its installed once before it chooses "Modify" by default and doesn't go for replacing f...

I am using InstallShield 11 and creating a basic MSI project for a 64 Bit machine. When I run my setup on a 32 Bit machine, the Windows installer shows a message that This installation package ...

How can I log only the changes causing a MSI file made by Installshield 2008 to reinstall via "self-repair"? What is the reason behind self-repair? How do I disable self-repairing of MSI using Ins...

I have an .MSI that was created using InstallShield 2008. and now I need to use WIX to create a patch. Is this possible using WIX directly or do I need to convert my Installshield .ism source to a ...

We have two install shield licenses - one for the developer of the installer and the other - for the CI server. There is often a situation when another developer moves a project DLL to another loc...

Visual Studio Installer states that it is a best practice to install each file as an installer component. The heat utility provided with Wix also seems to follow the practice of putting every file ...

I am using Installshield 2010. I made a basic MSI setup, and I am having a problem with uninstalling. Uninstalling does not remove all folders. After a complete install, I then uninstall only to fi...

I'm using Installshield 2011 to create an installer and it create an output installer whose icon is something that I want to replace one of my own. How can I do it?

What are the best practices for creating internet download bootstrappers that reference Microsoft packages? For example InstallShield has a Setup Prerequisite that can download vstor40_x86.exe fro...

I have a few component MSI packages that need to installed together to form the end application. The problem is: the components that make up the package can be updated and the component relaunche...

I recently acquired a code signing certificate for my employer, but I am not the InstallShield developer who will sign the binaries before distribution. I know I can export the certificate along wi...

My application requires the .NET Framework version 3.5. I recently ran into a customer that had the .NET Framework installed but turned off on Windows Vista (also applies to Windows 7). In this ca...

I have to register multiple assemblies to GAC using InstallSheild and also I need the assemblies to be copied on the INSTALLDIR also. What's the best way to do it? Also I need to call regasm.exe fo...

Are "Visual Studio Setup" projects suitable for complex setups in different versions? The application is rather large (> 500,000 lines of code) and is under continuous development. Eve...

Programmers that actually promote their products to production need an installer. (pre-emptive "programming related" justificaton.) For deploying a new suite of internal corporate apps and servic...

I'm using InstallShield to install my application, a driver and a service. I need to install the plug-N-play driver only if it's hardware ID was found in the device manager. The driver installation...