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by sbaebler
Wed May 25, 2016 3:04 pm
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: digisign.exe takes a long time to finish
Replies: 5
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Re: digisign.exe takes a long time to finish

Hi,

Thanks for the hint. We had used Windows SDK 7.0. After an update to Windows SDK 8.1 and setting the signing executable to SignTool.exe instead of DigiSign.exe, we can now successfully build the installers in a few minutes instead of hours.

It would still be interesting to know why using the ...
by sbaebler
Thu May 19, 2016 10:51 am
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: digisign.exe takes a long time to finish
Replies: 5
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Re: digisign.exe takes a long time to finish

I changed to SignTool.exe as described in the link you provided, but when building the installer, I run into an error with the signing:

When I check "Digitally sign the file" in the Properties of one of the executables (MyFile.exe), there is the issue:
[ Release ]
Building package (en): MyPackage ...
by sbaebler
Wed May 11, 2016 2:37 pm
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: digisign.exe takes a long time to finish
Replies: 5
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digisign.exe takes a long time to finish

Hi,

I have an issue with digisign.exe. I noticed that the time for AdvancedInstaller to create our installer executable went up from 5 minutes to over an hour.
After some investigation I observed that it is the digisign executable that takes so long. We have about 50 exe files that we sign. Calling ...
by sbaebler
Wed Sep 23, 2015 9:54 am
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: Prerequisites show UI even though Silent Install is selected
Replies: 3
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Re: Prerequisites show UI even though Silent Install is selected

Thank you for your help. It worked fine with the parameters you mentioned.

Because the installer appeared to be stuck during the installation of the prerequisites with the setting "Silent Install (no UI)", I changed to "Basic UI" so that the progress is visible.
by sbaebler
Thu Sep 03, 2015 2:12 pm
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: Prerequisites show UI even though Silent Install is selected
Replies: 3
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Prerequisites show UI even though Silent Install is selected

Hi,

I'm using Advanced Installer 8.1.3 and install visual studio prerequisites (Visual Studio 2010 Redistributable x64 SP 1 and Visual Studio 2008 Redistributable x64 SP 1). I try to suppress the UI for the prerequisites by selecting Silent Install (no UI) in Prerequisites, Bootstrapper UI ...
by sbaebler
Thu Jan 12, 2012 3:48 pm
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: Files in synchronized folder are added to aip file
Replies: 3
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Re: Files in synchronized folder are added to aip file

I understand the benefit of the synchronized folder in that the content is automatically updated.

However, I do not understand what the benefit of writing these files to the configuration file is. The synchronized folder is already listed in the project file and whenever the files are used, they ...
by sbaebler
Wed Dec 28, 2011 3:50 pm
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: Registry entry for dll file with increasing version number
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Registry entry for dll file with increasing version number

With my installer, I ship a dll file that contains a version number (mycomponent13.dll, mycomponent14.dll, etc.).
I need to write the path to this dll to the registry, which I do by creating a Registry Value in Advanced installer.
Whenever I update the version of the dll, I need to remove the old ...
by sbaebler
Wed Dec 28, 2011 3:30 pm
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: Files in synchronized folder are added to aip file
Replies: 3
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Files in synchronized folder are added to aip file

I have a synchronized folder that contains files from the my reference manual. These files change quite often.
I realized that when I open the project while the folder is not empty and then save the project again, references to all the files in the synchronized folder are stored.

Why is this the ...
by sbaebler
Mon Jul 25, 2011 3:52 pm
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: register a dll as user, not as system
Replies: 1
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register a dll as user, not as system

Hi,

I realized that components that are self registered with Advanced Installer do this as SYSTEM user, not as the logged in user. Is there a way to perform the registration as logged in user?

Details:
We have a piece of software that comes with it's own image file format and we have developed a ...
by sbaebler
Wed May 18, 2011 3:42 pm
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: Cannot add dll to project
Replies: 10
Views: 36874
 
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Re: Cannot add dll to project

The problem I have reported did not occur any more after we updated to Advanced Installer 8.1.3.

Thank you for your help
by sbaebler
Wed May 04, 2011 5:06 pm
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: Cannot add dll to project
Replies: 10
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Re: Cannot add dll to project

Ok, thank you. I will send our file soon.

Here is another observation. We include a file with - in the name (avcodec-52.dll). This results in the lines:
<ROW File="avcodec_52.dll" Component_="avcodec_52.dll" FileName="avcode~1.dll|avcodec-52.dll" Attributes="0" SourcePath="folder\avcodec-52.dll ...
by sbaebler
Wed Apr 20, 2011 2:28 pm
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: Cannot add dll to project
Replies: 10
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Re: Cannot add dll to project

Hi,

I have the same error and was looking for duplicate sequence entries in the aip file (I did this by comparing all the Sequence attributes of the <ROW File=...> xml elements).
This revealed that there are not two files that have the same Sequence number.
Is there another definition of 'duplicate ...
by sbaebler
Wed Oct 07, 2009 8:13 am
Forum: Feature Requests
Topic: Check return code of Custom Action but proceed on error
Replies: 2
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Re: Check return code of Custom Action but proceed on error

Oh, too bad it's not supported by Windows Installer.

But thank you for the hint. I'll implement it that way.
by sbaebler
Tue Oct 06, 2009 11:26 am
Forum: Feature Requests
Topic: Check return code of Custom Action but proceed on error
Replies: 2
Views: 4205
 
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Check return code of Custom Action but proceed on error

When using Custom Actions, Advanced Installer offers 4 options:

Synchronous and Asynchronous call of the actions and check or ignore return code in both cases.

When check return code is chosen, the installer notifies the user if an error occured during that custom action and aborts the ...
by sbaebler
Wed Jun 03, 2009 4:13 pm
Forum: Common Problems
Topic: For FileExtensions, cryptic registry entry is created
Replies: 1
Views: 2255
 
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For FileExtensions, cryptic registry entry is created

Hello

I use the File Extensions wizard of Advanced Installer to launch files with a specific extension with my application. When Advanced Installer then creates registry entries for my Application
I then find in HKCR\Application.Document\shell\open\command the two values

(Default) "C:\Program ...

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