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Hello, You're welcome! This could be done by creating a Search in a Registry location created by the other application. For example, if the setup of Application A is created with Advanced Installer then, by default, the following key is created HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Your Company\Application A\...

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You are welcome! I'm glad you sorted things out. Let me know if you have any other question.

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Hello, The AI_CONTROL_VISUAL_STYLE property is responsible for the background color of your combo box. The ini code you provided has our default values for BlackSurface Theme. Please make sure you use the code you posted in your ini file. We have tested it and the combobox background of the language...

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For the predefined connection - "Microsoft SQL Server / MSDE" the "Port" field is indeed non-editable. You could specify a port in the "Server" field, after the server name, for example : [SERVER_PROP],[PORT_PROP]

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Hello Harvey, We have tested your scenario and could not reproduce your issue. We have tested numerous scenarios, including building from Jenkins using Advanced Installer Plugin or a batch, building with Advanced Installer project opened or closed. Can you give us a detailed test case? It would be h...

Hello, The problem occurs, for example, when one of the following conditions are true: -The C:\Windows\Installer cached copy of the MSI is missing -The uninstall process needs to access and installed resource which is missing; thus it will prompt you for original installation source This scenario ca...

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You could use a VBS/C++/C# Custom action and write a code which launches the exe and uses the value contained by its stdout to set an installer property. Please take a look on How to set an installer property using custom actions.

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Sorin

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Hello Yusuf, 1. Yes, Advanced Installer has this option. You need to go to "Dialogs" page and add "SQLServerConnectionDlg" predefined dialog.Some default database connection, database browse and server browse will be generated. You can configure their settings from "SQL Data...

Hello Diego, Please make sure you use "Extended EXE user interface on uninstall and maintenance" option in "Themes" page - Settings tab. This option enables EXE user interface when installing the application as well as when performing "Modify" or "Uninstall" f...

Hello Aduce, and welcome to our forum! Please send us the .AIP (project) to support at advancedinstaller dot com so we can investigate it. Also, it would be helpful if you provide a link of the installation setup which reproduces this behaviour. If you have any information that helps reproducing thi...

Hello and welcome to our forum! If you add the files by selecting "Add Project Output" in Advanced Installer project in Visual Studio, the default behaviour is exactly the one that you mentioned. The output source file path will be changed according to the build type in Visual Studio. Howe...

Hello Derrin, You could implement this by a custom Launch Condition determined by a file search operation result. If a file contained by a previous install is not found, your installation continues. Otherwise a message is displayed and the installation stops. To do this you need to take the followin...

Hello Every time you edit the default strings of the the project default language you need to close the project and reopen it, in order to load the changes into Advanced Installer. Unfortunately this is a known issue, which is triggered by a limitation of our "Default Strings" tab and cann...

Hello, The recommended method is described in this tutorial: Convert EXE(s) to MSI . This basically creates a single MSI build with resources inside it, containing one post-install prerequisite from the selected EXE file. This approach can be used for multiple EXE files. This method is available sta...

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