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- Tue Jun 06, 2023 2:45 am
- Forum: Common Problems
- Topic: Patching to a wrong version
- Replies: 1
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Patching to a wrong version
One of the installers we have recently seems to be patching to a wrong build number. There is no sign that any feature was not advertised properly and all the actions seem to return value of either 0 or 1 and there is no error message. Here is how the behaviour: Base version: 1.2.5 (already installe...
- Wed Oct 23, 2019 6:53 am
- Forum: Building Installers
- Topic: Building optional package for AppX/MSIX build
- Replies: 2
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Building optional package for AppX/MSIX build
How to configured optional packages that references to the MainPackage? According to the Microsoft document https://docs.microsoft.com/en-au/windows/msix/package/optional-packages Optional packages is referenced as <uap3:MainPackageDependency Name="[MainPackageDependency]"/> Tried adding d...
- Tue Oct 22, 2019 5:32 am
- Forum: Common Problems
- Topic: Installer frozen
- Replies: 1
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Installer frozen
We have a problem with running an installer on a machine being frozen in the status of 'Preparing files for removal'. Dump the verbose log and the last actions for the installer is pasted below. MSI (s) (50:5C) [10:02:54:511]: Executing op: ActionStart(Name=AI_AiRemoveFilesRollback,Description=Resto...
- Fri Jul 26, 2019 6:23 am
- Forum: Building Installers
- Topic: Problem with 'Always overwrite existing file'
- Replies: 1
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Problem with 'Always overwrite existing file'
We have a set of dlls that required an downgrade to the previous version. So in the installer project, we have switch those file to run the 'Always overwrite existing file' operation to ensure the downgrade can happen when re-deploy with a patch. However, this only works for a sub-set of the dlls, m...
- Wed Jul 24, 2019 1:58 am
- Forum: Building Installers
- Topic: Signing process for MSIX/APPX build take a long time
- Replies: 3
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Re: Signing process for MSIX/APPX build take a long time
Hi Daniel, Thanks for the reply. I believe the process of "some signing operation to detect possible incompatible PE files" happens depends on whether signing has been enabled or not? Had a test on both scenarios and found the build took less than 1 minutes when signing is disabled. Signin...
- Mon Jul 15, 2019 5:55 am
- Forum: Building Installers
- Topic: Signing process for MSIX/APPX build take a long time
- Replies: 3
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Signing process for MSIX/APPX build take a long time
The process to signing each of the individual .exe or .dll for MSIX/APPX build seems to take a very long time. After the step that says "Detecting MSIX/APPX incompatible resources" The build seems to start signing .exe and .dll behind the scene (with signing enabled) and the process take a...