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lubosh

What would be the simplest way to enable named instances in my installation file and what edition of AdvancedInstaller would I need to purchase for this?

I basically need the same version of my product to be installable multiple times on single machine including upgrade support just like on this ...

lubosh

Open your AIP file a modify your upgrade code directly there. AFAIK there is no GUI interface to do it within advanced installer.

lubosh

Hi, I'm using 6.4 version

This is very simple application in terms of number of executables, having only two shortcuts. One on the desktop and one in Start menu. Both shortcuts have names identical to [|ProductName] variable.

Product name is something like:

NameOfApplication [|ProductVersion ...

lubosh

I would like to use [|ProductVersion] variable in Product Name field and for some shortcuts . Product Name field resolves the variable correctly however if I use the variable as part of the shortcut name, it won't get resolved. I can get around this for a while and just manually keep changing names ...

lubosh

Hello gigi,

Any idea when this feature is going to be completely implemented? It's really important because almost all third-party assemblies on the market are strong-named and according to Microsoft if they are not in GAC, NGen will actually slow .NET applications down because of heavy I/O penalty ...

lubosh

Thanks, I've just installed the latest version with this feature included however I'm not sure if implementation is correct, because native images are supported in your product only for private assemblies.

What about assemblies which are installed into GAC?

lubosh

this is not really a feature request.

anyway, my unofficial suggestion is to manually open AIP file and make sure that GUID in <ROW Property="ProductCode"> tag is the same in both installation files.

that should solve the problem I guess.

lubosh

I have noticed that WiX 2.0 and also 3.0 support NGEN.

http://installing.blogspot.com/2006/06/ ... n-wix.html

do you plan include this feature in your product as well?

lubosh

Thanks, I'm aware of this feature however doesn't solve what I need.

NGen.exe is a tool in .NET framework which can create native images of assemblies. This is important to improve startup time of deployed application on target machine.

Basically I have around 12 assemblies and I need to execute ...

lubosh

jasonslater2000 wrote:Do you know how (or if) I could accomplish this through a manual edit of the .AIP file?

Go to .NET framework directory and there is a tool called aspnet_regiis.exe

This will register IIS with .NET framework

lubosh

I have a number of .NET assemblies which are installed into GAC. What's the easiest way to NGen these assemblies during installation?

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Named instances (like in MS SQL Server installator)

Re: Change upgrade code

Re: Variables: not working everywhere

Variables: not working everywhere

NGEN support

Recommended approach for custom actions please

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