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hsc

Hello Catalin,

thanks for the quick reply. The reason I want both exe and msi installers is that, for customers who buy a single license, the exe installer usually is more comfortable (although, to be honest, I couldn't tell why). Companies who purchase 100 seats or more on the other hand, prefer ...

hsc

Hi,

I want to find a way to have an exe installer and an msi installer which are really equivalent to each other, in a sense that I could use the exe to install, and the msi to uninstall, or vice versa. When I create an exe installer and an msi installer in the same Advanced Installer project, this ...

hsc

Thank you, Liviu! I couldn't solve the problem but have some additional findings. Will follow up by email.

Best, Hans

hsc

Hi,

my installer installs the MSVC redistributables and then prompts "Are you sure you want to cancel ... installation?" Using AI 23.6.

The last few log lines read:

MSI (c) (D0:C0) [15:16:08:238]: Note: 1: 2228 2: 3: AI_ControlEx 4: SELECT `Dialog_`,`Control`,`Type`,`Parent`,`Attributes`,`Data ...

hsc

Update - the issue was fixed in version 23.6.

hsc

Hello Catalin,

I emailed the project and some instructions on how to produce the problem to support at advancedinstaller dot com. Thanks for your message!

Best regards, Hans

hsc

Hi,
I have the following problem: [|AI_AIP_FOLDER] is resolved to an empty string - in just one out of many projects. I read a forum post which indicates that there was a bug which was fixed a long time ago - can it be that it has resurfaced?

My use case is code signing. I use the "Custom" tool ...

hsc

Hi,

I am using a home-made tool (actually a powershell script) for code signing. In the aip file -> Digital signature -> Settings, I set "sign tool" to "custom", and browsed to the powershell.exe to fill in the "path" field. This now reads "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe ...

hsc

Hello Catalin, happy New Year! I removed the workaround and can now confirm that the problem is gone and AI works as expected. Thank you once more for your help!

Cheers, Hans

hsc

Hi Catalin,

thank you for the notice. I will test it as soon as I find a time slot... probably only next year!

Cheers
Hans

hsc

Hello Catalin, sorry, that was my fault. The "Save" line in your sample code line was scrolled out of view...

I integrated the workaround in our CI/CD pipeline, and after some fighting against msbuild and PowerShell syntax, I can say that it now works :)
Can you please add a message to this thread ...

hsc

Hello Catalin, thanks for the workaround. Unfortunately it didn't work for me. This may be because I have two configurations in my aip project, or maybe a SaveProject call should be inserted into the script (but there seems to be no SaveProject function).

This is the script which I am using (mostly ...

hsc

Hi Catalin, thank you for looking into this. I am looking forward to the follow-up!

Best, Hans

hsc

Hi,
in my CI/CD process, i change the required version number in the *.aip file to the version that is available on the CI/CD system. To achieve this, I use the following command lines:

advinst /edit ..\DBM_Setup.aip /UpdatePrerequisite "Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015-2022 x86 ...

hsc

Hi Catalin, thank you for your reply. This does the trick. But how do I unregister the server during uninstallation?

Best
Hans

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