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Hi Mitch,

Can you please give me more details about this? What version of Advanced Installer are you using.? What OS are you testing on?

Please send the AIP to support at advancedinstaller dot com so we can investigate this problem?

Regards,
Ciprian

Hi Joe, This behavior is caused by a Windows Installer bug which sometimes manifests during an upgrade. Here is a workaround: Go to the "Files and Folders" view, and select the updater.exe file. From its context menu choose the "Properties" option. In the displayed dialog select ...

Hi Vinh, Thanks for the info. However I was not able to reproduce this behavior with none of my test solutions. If it is not too much trouble, could you please create a test solution which reproduces this issue and mail it to us. We would greatly appreciate it. This might be a bug and we are very ca...

Hi Vinh, Could you please provide more details on this. What version of VS was used to create the solution file? What version of VS do you have installed on your machine? Also, if you can, please mail that solution file to support at advancedinstaller dot com so we can investigate this. Best regards...

Thanks for your suggestions. We will consider them in the next revision.

Regards,
Ciprian

Hi,

Please contact me to support at advancedinstaller dot com and I shall provide a sample script and project.

Best regards,
Ciprian

Hi, Yes you can achieve what you want using Advanced Installer's XML support. 1. Import the XML file in Advanced Installer and open it in the XML editor. 2. Select the "add" element and switch to the Attributes tab. 3. Edit the "value" attribute and instead of %COMPUTERNAME% ente...

Hi, I need a VBS script that will append some text to two existing text files name acad.pat and acadiso.pat on computer systems installed with AutoCAD any version In order to detect the files on the target machine you can use searches (like you previously did). Creating the VBScript that modifies th...

Hi,

Thank you for your suggestions. We have added these improvements on our TODO list. They will be implemented in a future version.

Regards,
Ciprian

Hi, Yes it is possible to pass properties. However the value that will end in the configurable field depends on whether that field is formatted or not. For details on formatted fields please see: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368609.aspx To better understand this let's consider two exam...

Hi, Yes you can achieve this. Advanced Installer offers a command line option that allows you to synchronize a folder from the project with one from the disk. You can use this command line to set the source path for your folder. http://www.advancedinstaller.com/user-guide/new-sync.html Regards, Cipr...

Hi,

Yes please send the AIP and DLL to support at advancedinstaller dot com.

Regards,
Ciprian

Hi, I am constantly creating new installers -- which vary just with branded information (company name, program names, product names)... You can use the File->Duplicate option to achieve this. By using this option a new project will be created which will be similar to the original one but will have d...

Hi, Note that the Source Path for a custom action is not a formatted field. It can contain an identifier, external key into another MSI table etc. depending on the custom action type. So making this path per build configurable is not possible. Also note that this type of custom action has been depre...

Hi, Would it be possible to include the ability to modify the columns that are visible in AI when looking at the Files and Folders section? Currently AI shows the filename included, type, size, version, and path. I wanted to have it show the "date modified", but I can't customize it (add/r...

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