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Hi Dave, Will you be adding a Start Service custom action? You're lucky :), I am happy to confirm that based on prior requests this feature has been implemented in version 13.8 of Advanced Installer. This version is now in its final testing period, it will be released at the end of March or beginnin...

Hi, Please note that this is the normal behavior. The & special character is automatically parsed to & when an XML file is created. If you want to have exactly the "/define:_MYTYPE=\"Web\"" value to be written in your XML file, you need to write it like this in the Advanc...

Hi, According to the settings you highlighted below the package should install per user. Can you please send us/attach the AIP file and a verbose log of the installation, so we can analyze it. The install type (user/machine) can also be altered during the install/upgrade time, I want to make sure th...

Hi, 1) I assume this will be included in my package at build time? Yes, you are correct, it is included in the main package. 2) I am sorry, I forgot to mention a limitation from our support for feature-based prerequisites. Basically, it all relates to a Windows Installer limitation that prevents two...

Hi Dave, Have you checked out these threads: - http://www.advancedinstaller.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=29980 - http://www.advancedinstaller.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=28543&hilit=+assembly#p74089 - http://www.advancedinstaller.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=30681 If this does not help let us...

Hi, You can bundle all the MSIs and MST inside a single MSI built with Advanced Installer. - You'll need to add them as feature-based prerequisites, so this way the main package remains an MSI. - Allow the main MSI to run either with basic or full UI - for the MST, you can go to Setup Files tab for ...

Hi, Welcome to our forums and thank you for purchasing Advanced Installer. 1) Changing those properties should allow you to customize the colors. Unfortunately there is no additional documentation, as those themes are not designed to be customized extensively (that is why we provide multiple variati...

Hi Dave, Here is what you can try, without building a custom installer for each download. Advanced Installer has a support for "File Download Operations" which allows you to point the installer to an URL from where it downloads a file, at install time. The URL field accepts a property refe...

Hi Brian, You can try something like this: - create a new AIP that builds and empty MSI. Uncheck the option to "Register with Windows Installer" from Product Details page - in this MSI add a custom action (your script/DLL) that checks for the pending restart - add an Error Message predefin...

Hi,

The following related forums thread might help.

Regards,
Bogdan

Yes, but you need to manually configure the project resources (files and registry) manually, according to Microsoft docs, available on MSDN. This can take a lot of time if you don't have experience with installers and it is error prone. The time you save ( on building the package and debugging probl...

Hi, Welcome to our forums and thanks for purchasing Advanced Installer. What your experiencing is probably because your capture filters are set to exclude the location where your application is installed. If you are using our default filters, which are read-only, you can duplicate and customize them...

Hi,

If you need the files to be placed in that folder only during the installation, and then removed, you can use our support for temporary files.

Regards,
Bogdan

Hi and welcome to our forums,

Your problem seems similar with the one from this thread. Can you try the same solution we recommend there?

Regards,
Bogdan

In the free version you can go to Registry page, double click the registry value and select the option "Mark component as 64-bit". This option is the equivalent of the option from Organization page, which is not available in the free version. The components are not set automatically to 64-...

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