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- Fri Jan 13, 2023 5:14 pm
- Forum: Building Installers
- Topic: Installing over previous installs (MSI) - clarification
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Installing over previous installs (MSI) - clarification
Our customers would like our MSI installers to install over the top of previous versions thus removing the need to uninstall any earlier version. I have read some of the postings on this forum and I think the following is correct but would appreciate confirmation so that I don't make a silly mistake...
- Wed May 04, 2022 6:23 pm
- Forum: Building Installers
- Topic: Calling ServerRegistrationManager.exe to register a shell extension DLL in Windows
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Re: Calling ServerRegistrationManager.exe to register a shell extension DLL in Windows
All thanks to Liviu, I now have this working and would like to share it for the benefit of others. Despite many attempted to register my DLL using REGASM alone, I just couldn't get it to work, but thankfully the ServerRegistrationManager.exe that comes with SharpShell does it all fine as long as you...
- Wed May 04, 2022 9:21 am
- Forum: Building Installers
- Topic: Calling ServerRegistrationManager.exe to register a shell extension DLL in Windows
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Re: Calling ServerRegistrationManager.exe to register a shell extension DLL in Windows
BTW, I didn't want to mention this before as it felt like it would just complicate the whole picture, but when I was first experimenting with Advanced Installer I followed some advice on this forum to use the "Launch File" custom action and I was pleased to find that the installation AND r...
- Tue May 03, 2022 9:41 am
- Forum: Building Installers
- Topic: Calling ServerRegistrationManager.exe to register a shell extension DLL in Windows
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Re: Calling ServerRegistrationManager.exe to register a shell extension DLL in Windows
Thanks Liviu, it didn't work so I have emailed the files to you.
- Mon May 02, 2022 3:12 pm
- Forum: Building Installers
- Topic: Calling ServerRegistrationManager.exe to register a shell extension DLL in Windows
- Replies: 10
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Re: Calling ServerRegistrationManager.exe to register a shell extension DLL in Windows
Hmm, I tried that but whilst the MSI runs happily the shell extension is not registered. BTW whilst I'm happy to use the ServerRegistrationManager.exe, I pretty convinced that it's not required as running REGASM from the command prompt works fine. So I still suspect it's something to do with either ...
- Mon May 02, 2022 12:23 pm
- Forum: Building Installers
- Topic: Calling ServerRegistrationManager.exe to register a shell extension DLL in Windows
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Re: Calling ServerRegistrationManager.exe to register a shell extension DLL in Windows
Many thanks for the advice. So I have deleted my Custom Action and at the same time I realised that your built-in methods to invoke REGASM rendered the calls to ServerRegistrationManager.exe redundant. So with renewed hope I followed the guidance on registering a DLL and: Doubled-clicked on the DLL ...
- Sun May 01, 2022 12:55 pm
- Forum: Building Installers
- Topic: Calling ServerRegistrationManager.exe to register a shell extension DLL in Windows
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Calling ServerRegistrationManager.exe to register a shell extension DLL in Windows
I am just trialing Advanced Installer so I'm a novice with this tool and also a novice developer. I have created a shell extension for Windows using SharpShell. The creators of SharpShell recommend using their ServerRegistrationManager.exe to register the DLL and that works fine when run in a CMD wi...