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kerenor

Hello We are using Advanced Installer to create an MSI installation. The app was previously set as 32-bit package (in Installation Options). As part of an upgrade, the executables contained in the app were made x64 compatible, but we left the app as 32-bit package by mistake, and several x64 devices...

kerenor

Hello, I didn't find how to make programs inside MSIX load dlls from the environment variable PATH, or from any external-to-the-msix location that isn't C:\Windows\system32. In detail, I have an program that I intend to include in an MSIX package. The program uses gstreamer, files of which are insta...

kerenor

if interested -
This behavior doesn't happen with the microsoft msix editor, which creates a package that contains a dll that is binary-same to the dll I intended to package.

Would appreciate an explanation for this

Thanks
Keren

kerenor

Hello, We've encountered an issue in which an application that worked correctly outside MSIX worked extremely slower when packaged in MSIX and launched. Debugging the issue showed us this is because it is failing to correctly load one of its dll files (that are included in the MSIX package as well)....

kerenor

Hello again ${L_SMILIES_SMILE}$

Is it possible to create the folder on installation, before the app is first launched? (The post indicates the folder will be created only when the app is started, and that is also the behavior I've seen, but I would want it to be created during the installation itself)

thanks

kerenor

Thanks for your support

just updating that it indeed runs without ShellExecute. Interesting!

kerenor

Thanks for your reply, I'm afraid it actually doesn't really help; I don't want an alias to launch to my application, I want an environment variable that I can use inside my application, like so

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string value = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("VAR_NAME");

Is there no way to set it?

kerenor

This is interesting, thanks Catalin for your response! My package indeed has fullTrust capability, and in fact we have very similar c# code, but in our case it also sets the ProcessStartInfo to use shell execution, like so psi.UseShellExecute = true; Perhaps that is the cause of this behavior. If I ...

kerenor

I set an env var to a simple string (Using the Environment tab, as explained in the tutorial here- https://www.advancedinstaller.com/msix-environment-variables.html ), and in my app I read that env var - it is still unset. Also when opening cmd in the app with Hover , the env var is unset. This is t...

kerenor

Hi, This is most likely an MSIX question and not an Advanced Installer question, but regardless I'd appreciate your help. I have a c# app that needs to start a new process that runs a .bat file. This fails with the error Unable to start C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\App.E_1.0.0.67_x64__5c1j8dm4w74ew\...

kerenor

Thanks! Worked great.

kerenor

Hi, Thanks for this guide! Almost exactly what I needed :) The one thing I need to do still is change permissions on C:\ProgramData\MyFolderOutsideVFS. I changed them in the permissions tab of the folder from the Advanced Installers "Files and Folders" screen, but they didn't pass on when ...

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