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aho

Hi Catalin,
thanks for your reply! I tried your solution with an new Advanced Installer Project. I ran into the same problem.
I think this is the problem:

I created a completely new Advanced Installer Project. It was created with the wizard and I have done no changes to the project. I just built ...

aho

I kept on testing.
I created a completely new Advanced Installer Project. It was created with the wizard and I have done no changes to the project. I just built the installer and ran it.

--> Here is the same behaviour: If i close my installer on the first page of the wizard, one MSIEXEC.exe ...

aho

I have done a lot of tests until now.
I have found out, that when my Installer is started, two msiexec.exe processes are started.
If I quit my Installer (on the first page of the wizard, without clicking ever 'Next' button) one msiexec.exe process keeps hanging. I see this in the Windows Taskmanger ...

aho

Yes, these are unchecked.

aho

When using the workaround with "LaunchFile":

Do I need to close my installer window in order that the Build-Tools Installer can run successfully?
What happens if I do not click the "Finish" Button on the last page of my wizard fast enough? Will the Build Tools Installer be started and fail ...

aho

Hi Catalin,
thanks for your help so far!

I tried it like you described (only difference is that I have checked "Run as Administrator" in LaunchFile Custom Action), but I still run into "another Installation is already runnging" troubles.

My installer is using an enhanced User Interface. Might this ...

aho

Hi Catalin,
thanks for your reply!
You can download the Installer from here: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/

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I run this installer with these arguments: "--add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.MSBuildTools --quiet --wait --norestart"

I hope you can help me finding a ...

aho

Hi,
I'm trying to install "BuildTools for Visual Studio 2019" within my installer.
This is normaly done by running the "Visual Studio Installer" with specific arguments.

It works inside my test VM when I run the original Installer from Microsoft with these arguments from the Windows Console:
"vs ...

aho

Hi Catalin,
thanks for your replys!

Catalin wrote: ↑Wed Nov 13, 2019 8:57 am Some trusted certificate authorities require internet connection to validate the certificate, some don't.

Can you suggest some certificate authorities which do not require internet connection for validation?

Thanks,
Andreas

aho

Hi,
in some cases I still get the error message:

Product: ProductName --Error 1939. Service 'ServiceName' '(ProcessName.exe) could not be configured. This could be a problem with the package or your permissions. Verify that you habe sufficent pricileges to configure system services

The ...

aho

Hi all,
my installer is signed.
When I run the installer on a computer which was not connected to the internet for a long time, the installation fails with this error:

MSI (s) (84:C4) [14:50:27:974]: Product: [...] -- Error 1330. A file that is required cannot be installed because the cabinet file ...

aho

Hi,
my installer needs to install the ".NET Framework 4.7.2 Developer Pack ".
Unfortunately there is no predefined prerequiste for the Developer Pack.

If I choose the 'normal' ".NET Framework 4.7.2" from the predefinded prerequisites, there is a condition which searches the registry for this key ...

aho

Any ideas?

Best regards,
Andreas

aho

Hi Catalin,
thanks for your reply. I think my explanation was not good.

I want to put information from our build server into the setup.exe file as a file attribute.
I do not want to change the ProductVersion of the MSI package.
This information from the build server can also contain characters ...

aho

Hi,
I want to change a file property of my setup.exe.

An installer property shall be changed with the SetProperty command ( https://www.advancedinstaller.com/user-guide/set-property.html ).
The value of the installer property shall be written to the ProductVersion oder FileVersion Property of the ...

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