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Hello, In order to see what fails during the uninstall process, can you pleae create a log file of the uninstall process? Can you please send us the .AIP (project file) and a verbose log of the uninstall process to support at advancedinstaller dot com so we can investigate it? If it contains confide...

Hello, In case you have a subscription for Installer Analytics and need to link to your installers here's more details. In the Analytics view from Advanced Installer you can track your installations, just enable the Installer Analytics. Once the checkbox has been enabled, an ID will be generated for...

Hi Harvey, In this case, you can create a custom action that will detect if the process is running elevated or not. Also, you will have 2 custom actions of launch File custom action added as custom actions without sequence . Each custom action will launch your application when the user will press th...

Hello, In case you need to launch the application at the end of the installation in the context of the installation privileges, you can follow the below steps to implement this: 1) Create a custom action to detect if the installer process is running elevated or not 2) Launch the app based on the res...

Hello,

A much better approach is the one detailed in the How to change the background of the LicenseAgreementDlg in Surface theme and keep print functionality? article.

Best regards,
Dan

Hi Harvey, Can you please give us more details about your scenario? Is there any reason for such a behavior? If your package requires admin privileges, that means you always need admin privileges to install your application. In this case you can enable the Run as admin from the FinishDlg . Is there ...

Hello, Indeed, this seems to be a problem in our VSIX package for VS 2019. We have fixed this and the fix will be available in our next version of Advanced Installer. Until then, you can install the fixed extension from here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/kzdefftepczfib6/vs16_extension.vsix?dl=0 Please ...

Hello, I would not recommend you to use the generate instances at install time option due to its limitation. You are not able to upgrade the installed instances, you can only install upgrades as small updates. Please let me know if everything is working as expected when using static instances with t...

Hello, Note that the ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT property is set by default in an installer where you have the Override Windows Installer programs list entry option enabled. To avoid the application from being displayed in the Control Panel that has the Override Windows Installer programs list entry option e...

Hello, If you need to prevent IIS elements from being removed during upgrade, here is what you need to do: Prevent IIS elements to overwrite the existing website Do not remove IIS elements during the uninstall triggered by an upgrade An upgrade installation consists in two parts: the uninstall of th...

Hello Matt,

Indeed, the encountered behavior is correct.

Please contact us on support at advancedinstaller dot com for a special license that will let you use Advanced Installer inside a Docker image.

Best regards,
Dan

Hello,

This was fixed in version 15.7 of Advanced Installer released on February 13th, 2019.

Now you can specify the ODBC driver used for SQL Database Browse operations. In SQL connection view.

Best regards,
Dan

Hello, Note that you can export tables with Advanced Installer. However, when you need to create a new blanc MSI and import the related tables, Advanced Installer will throw an error, saying that the related tables are already defined. So, you cannot import those tables in an Advanced Installer proj...

Hello, I've tested your scenario and replicated. We will further test and investigate this issue on our end. Thank you for bringing it to our attention. As a side note, please note that even Orca.exe fails to create a transform file: orca error.PNG We'll continue investigating the MSI on our end. Be...

Hello,

Maybe there is a custom action that checks if the files are in use and close/stop the process/service. Can you please check if this is your case too?

Otherwise, I don't have anything in mind that can trigger this behavior.

Best regards,
Dan