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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 Andrew,

Indeed, we have added this support recently as many clients requested it.

Are there any other solutions?

I'm afraid I am not aware of any other solutions.

Best regards,
Catalin

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 Peter,

Please note I have sent you an email regarding this.

Let's continue the thread there for now.

Best regards,
Catalin

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...

You are always welcome! ${L_SMILIES_SMILE}$

Best regards,
Catalin

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 and welcome to our forums,

Are you installing the setup using administrator rights?

If not, this might be a possible cause for the "Error opening log file" error.

Best regards,
Catalin

Hello,

Please have a look over our "How to create a .NET Custom Action" which should cover what you need.

Best regards,
Catalin

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 ...

Hello,

Please note I have replied to your other forum thread. ${L_SMILIES_SMILE}$

Let's continue the discussion there, please.

Best regards,
Catalin

Hello Peter and welcome to our forums,

This is indeed quite strange.

Could you please make sure you have passed the license in your DevOps pipeline?

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Best regards,
Catalin

Hello Mel, Based on your description, I would say some configurations are wrong. If possible, could you please forward me the entire build log so I can have a look over it? Additionally, could you pelase try the following: - build the setup unsigned - open a command prompt and run the same command l...

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