Hello, You are always welcome! Do you, perhaps, have an AV product installed that might interact and block the Windows Installer service from writing the log file? Also, are you able to reproduce this on a clean Virtual Machine, or is it happening on your dev machine only? From the looks of it, I wo...
Hello, If you schedule your custom action using the "Dialogs" page --> "ExitDlg" dialog --> "Finish" button, then that's the dialog that is executing your events. Are you encountering any issues so far? If so, please let me know what the issue is so I can assist. :) Bes...
Hello, From what I can see, we are having here the classic Windows Installer limitation that prevents two installers running at the same time on the same machine. Most likely, your setup is not uninstalled from the machine. However, if you have some custom actions that remove the IIS or anything els...
Hello, If possible, could you please provide a sample project (Updates Config File) against which I can run the above script snippets? If so, please send it by email at support at advancedinstaller dot com together with what the expected outcome should be vs what the actual outcome is. Looking forwa...
Hello and welcome to our forums, If you have added your files in the "Application Folder" in the "Files and Folders" page and want to modify that, please note that you need to set its' property - APPDIR . To do so, please have a look over the following article: Get and set a prop...
Hello, An MSI package is basically a database. The merging operations tries to merge the two databases, yours and the MSMs. It is indeed true that since the two databases are different, they can not be merged - unfortunately this is a limitation of Windows Installer. The only way this works is with ...
Hello and welcome to our forums, First of all, thank you for giving Advanced Installer a try. Now, please allow me to explain how what you want to achieve is done. So basically you want the update to be happening silently. This means two things: - first of all, the updater (which updates your applic...
Hello, Not removing the shortcut would imply not removing the entire shortcut's component - which most likely contains the EXE as well. The upgrade works like this: - the older version is uninstalled - this is when the shortcut is removed - the newer version is installed - this is when the newer sho...
Hello, As promised, I'm coming back with a followup, although it is not a positive one. :( Unfortunately, I wasn't able to overcome this (I've been testing this a lot since my last message) - which means we're left with your ps2exe workaround. Thank you for your understanding! If you have any other ...