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tlentine

I recently experienced a hard disk failure, and while my installer projects were safe and sound in a source code repo I did not realize that the custom dialogs I had created were not being backed up.
Is there a way to restore those dialogs from the MSI itself?

When I attempt to open the aip ...

tlentine

I encountered a very odd error in one of our installers today that I have not seen before. The msi in question was authored about a year ago and has been used for over 100 installations without issue, so this particular error today really puzzles me. I've included a screen shot of the error dialog ...

tlentine

My understanding is that if I use the predefined launch conditions for both Office 2003 and 2007 application (in my case Microsoft Access) the resulting behavior is that if either the 2003 version or 2007 version is installed my installer is allowed to continue as described in this post:
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tlentine

I'm attempting to track down the root cause of an install error a client is experiencing with an MSI that I authored and I am not having much luck. The install has worked on a variety of machines (XP, Windows Server 2003, 2008, Windows Vista and Windows 7) so I am not sure why it is failing on this ...

tlentine

I really like the PseudoFormatted Type fields & Smart Edit Control features in Advanced Installer. I was wondering if you've thought at all about including support for these functions in the Folder path on the Media tab?

What I would like to be able to do is have the Build output go to a different ...

tlentine

We typically define at least two builds for our applications, one for a CD Image and one for a compressed "Single Exe" image. For the most part the details of each build are the same with the exception of the media and some prerequisites we define.

For complicated reasons, we typically must change ...

tlentine

Great! Thanks for confirming.

tlentine

In AI (v. 7.0.1), is the Windows Installer Minimum version 4.05 = Windows Installer 4.5?

I want my MSI to take advantage of Chained Packages, which I understand to only be available using Windows Installer 4.5 or greater.

Will specifying 4.05 as the minimum Windows Installer version prevent my MSI ...

tlentine

Thanks, capitalizing APPDIR did the trick.

tlentine

I am trying to port one of our installers from an InstallShield project to a new Advanced Installer project. The project in question uses a number of VB Script files to perform custom actions. Most of these rely upon knowing the AppDir (InstallDir in the original InstallShield project).

For some ...

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