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Hi, It seems this is a often-occurring event. We are having it now as well. Might it be possible for you to explain how to find the duplicate and fix it instead of taking our file and fixing it yourself? I am willing to do the work, but could use guidance. I submitted a help desk request more than a...

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Hi, Is there any way to get this to move to a faster moving "to do list"? Back in 2012, someone named Cosmin said " I added this feature on our TODO list and it will be available in a future version ". So, this has been on the "to do list" for five years now. Adding cod...

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We have a need to store encrypted passwords in config files. The product must have anticipated this need because it provided us with the ability to create a text box with the "Password" property set to "True". The problem is that when the value stored in it is used (in connect st...

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Hi, Is there a way to get AlwaysOn Availability Group listener names to show up in the list of SQL Servers along with the SQL Servers? When users take advantage of that technology, they no longer provide server names and when they create the AA group, they assign the port number to go with it. So, w...

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It appears that there isn't a facility to set up XML files differently depending on choices that users have made while answering questions in dialog boxes - or at least there doesn't seem to be an easy way to do it. For example, something as simple as connection strings for SQL Server databases... T...

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Hi, We originally did an XML import of an app.config file - it was very large because we use the Enterprise Library and have several logging sources defined and other connections. We also use it to hold many tunable parameters of our own. On installation, the installer asks the user many questions i...

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Hi, In the existing XML file, there are several substitutions (probably 150-200) - I assume that these would be lost if I did a replace? Now, "append" sounds interesting - perhaps I could isolate the new sections of the raw XML that I need to add, append them to the existing good AI file, ...

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Hi, I need to add an XML Element to an existing XML file that is almost the same as one in there - a complex element with about 30 attributes, many AI variable substitutions, and other XML elements inside it. It loosk like there is no way to copy and paste one that is almost identical and change wha...

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Hi, Thanks, I think that's the way we'll need to go. It looks like we can use these registry settings: • Last checked: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update\Results\Detect • Last attempted: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\...

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Hi, We would like to make sure that servers that use our software are kept reasonably current with Windows Updates, at least those updates related to the technologies we use. It would be nice if somehow when the app was being installed if we could check to see if the current system was up to date. W...

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Hi, I just downloaded and installed your 11.5 installer. I have a project where I didn't rebuild 3 or the 4 builds in the 11.4 edition, but now I am trying to build them. When I do, I am getting: --- Error calling MSI API: 161 Method: MsiRecordSetString Table: Icon. Build finished because an error w...

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Hi, I know about that, but all that does is attach notes to the same screen that the particular item is located on. I need something that helps me to avoid the need to go back and forth between screens about every 10 seconds because a particular item (such as a property) is defined on one screen, se...

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Hi, We had the same problem. I found that when we changed the installer and made the scripts no larger than about 1MB each, they began to work. I don't think it is a problem with AE; it is more a problem with the MSI foundation it is built on. Ours eventually got so large (we had a total of about 64...

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Hi, We do this in our installers. We actually needed the users to give us several different ports when they initially installed the system for different types of traffic (one for outside access, another for access inside the firewall, another for administrative access, etc.) We created Properties on...

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Hi, How large are your scripts? We have found that when a script gets over a certain size, it will not work. I ask because, I see from your log that you have a table called "post code lookup" or something like that and, in the UK, if you are filling that up in your script, my guess is that...

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