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- Sat Apr 01, 2023 7:01 pm
- Forum: Feature Requests
- Topic: Merge updater projects with normal MSI projects
- Replies: 7
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Re: Merge updater projects with normal MSI projects
Yes, that looks helpful. At least they will be easier to access together. Maybe one day your devs will merge the two tabs into one project.
- Sat Apr 01, 2023 6:57 pm
- Forum: Common Problems
- Topic: How to do useful work while waiting for updater.exe
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6130
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How to do useful work while waiting for updater.exe
I have this code about 25 lines after the start of my Windows Forms app to automatically upgrade users if they want to upgrade. Checking for upgrades on a local disk takes about 350 ms of time at the front of the application boot cycle. Naturally, the 350 ms will expand to multiple seconds when upgr...
- Wed Feb 15, 2023 11:36 am
- Forum: Common Problems
- Topic: Updater says invalid file
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10682
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Re: Updater says invalid file
Hi Liviu, thank you for your response. I know that I had not changed the URL or file location for the updater file. They had been unchanged for days. Something weird happened in the project file(s), so eventually, I just abandoned them and recreated them from scratch. That fixed the issue immediatel...
- Wed Feb 15, 2023 4:26 am
- Forum: Feature Requests
- Topic: Merge updater projects with normal MSI projects
- Replies: 7
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Re: Merge updater projects with normal MSI projects
Forwarding it to the dev team is all that I can ask. :-) Thank you. I'm sure they have thousands of feature requests and bugs to work on, especially for enterprise customers. But I think this addition would *immediately* cut down the complexity of making update installers, by at least half. For the ...
- Wed Feb 15, 2023 4:21 am
- Forum: Building Installers
- Topic: Why use pre-install vs feature-based prerequisite for NET 6 desktop runtime
- Replies: 7
- Views: 25625
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Re: Why use pre-install vs feature-based prerequisite for NET 6 desktop runtime
Hi Catalin, I am not sure what you mean by more modern themes for EXE installers. I found out that even with MSI installers I can choose from a huge list of fancy themes and colors. (I used to think I was limited to a dozen or so, but as far as I can see, I can use anything from the big list.)
- Wed Feb 15, 2023 4:13 am
- Forum: Common Problems
- Topic: How to get code to call updater on every app boot
- Replies: 9
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Re: How to get code to call updater on every app boot
I agree the -minuseractions option is documented in the list with all the other options (I saw it there). And the doc also says, "this option can be used with /checknow." But my point was that there is no documentation on How to Check For Updates on Every App Boot Without Flickering Dialog...
- Mon Feb 13, 2023 5:56 pm
- Forum: Common Problems
- Topic: AI lost the Preinstall and Feature dialogs display
- Replies: 3
- Views: 14884
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Re: AI lost the Preinstall and Feature dialogs display
Hi Liviu, thank you for your response.
Sorry to say, but I deleted that broken project file. If AI loses the elements somehow, I don't want to waste another minute of my time hacking registry settings. I deleted the file long ago and made a whole new project from scratch.
Sorry to say, but I deleted that broken project file. If AI loses the elements somehow, I don't want to waste another minute of my time hacking registry settings. I deleted the file long ago and made a whole new project from scratch.
- Mon Feb 13, 2023 5:54 pm
- Forum: Feature Requests
- Topic: Merge updater projects with normal MSI projects
- Replies: 7
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Re: Merge updater projects with normal MSI projects
I understand that they are currently two different projects. I am just suggesting that they don't have to be. You could keep the separate Updater project type if you liked. I made the suggestion because I ran a software development company for 25 years with 25 programmers. We had 1M lines of code in...
- Mon Feb 13, 2023 5:45 pm
- Forum: Building Installers
- Topic: Why use pre-install vs feature-based prerequisite for NET 6 desktop runtime
- Replies: 7
- Views: 25625
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Re: Why use pre-install vs feature-based prerequisite for NET 6 desktop runtime
Just a follow-up to my earlier statement that I was going to use EXE installers. I tried them and had FOUR dialogs that flickered up before the main Welcome dialog. Ugh! I switched back immediately to MSI installers once I figured out that MSI installers could install feature-based prerequisites jus...
- Mon Feb 13, 2023 5:41 pm
- Forum: Common Problems
- Topic: How to get code to call updater on every app boot
- Replies: 9
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Re: How to get code to call updater on every app boot
Hi, yes, you are correct. I am now using "/checknow -minuseractions" to check every time the app boots. In case your devs are looking for extra things to do, the magic sequence "/checknow -minuseractions" is NOT described in the documentation anywhere. And setting the check frequ...
- Mon Feb 13, 2023 1:04 pm
- Forum: Feature Requests
- Topic: Let me import an INI/XML file of pathnames/URLs for projects and updater
- Replies: 1
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Let me import an INI/XML file of pathnames/URLs for projects and updater
I've spent a couple of weeks part-time working with v1, v2, and upgrader projects (MSIX, MSI, EXE) to define reliable sequences and project values to upgrade a simple app from v1 to v2. It's been a big headache! I am constantly forced to change among v1, v2, and updater projects to manually check va...
- Mon Feb 13, 2023 6:56 am
- Forum: Feature Requests
- Topic: Merge updater projects with normal MSI projects
- Replies: 7
- Views: 36247
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Merge updater projects with normal MSI projects
I have spent at least the past two weeks (part-time) trying to work out the right settings to get AI to update my simple app from a disk location and a web location. That means I have gone through the v1, v2, and updater project sequence hundreds of times. It's a big headache! I was constantly switc...
- Sat Feb 11, 2023 8:45 pm
- Forum: Common Problems
- Topic: Updater says invalid file
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10682
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Re: Updater says invalid file
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- Sat Feb 11, 2023 8:45 pm
- Forum: Common Problems
- Topic: Updater says invalid file
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10682
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Re: Updater says invalid file
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- Sat Feb 11, 2023 8:43 pm
- Forum: Common Problems
- Topic: Updater says invalid file
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10682
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Re: Updater says invalid file
To try to help you investigate (I'm hoping you will), I have attached - a Failure Notes.txt file - the v1, v2, and v2Update.aip files that protested a malformed Update.txt file on the web and did a side-by-side installation - the new created-from-scratch v1 and v2 files that worked instantly. - AFAI...