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mhorowitz

Bump. Is there a way to avoid the double-run at the end of an update?

mhorowitz

A little more background:

I did some logging, and I can see that updater.exe is exiting with status 0 (which seems right), and then the mutex is signalled almost immediately after (which seems wrong). My code for the mutex check looks like this:

HANDLE mutex = 0;

while (!m_cancelled) {
mutex ...

mhorowitz

I think the best way to explain what I'm asking is to paste what my product manager said to me:

On a related note, the installer upgrade experience seems not to really understand that I'm upgrading installed software rather than doing a fresh install. In particular, I get asked questions for which ...

mhorowitz

We have integrated the updater into our application as in http://www.advancedinstaller.com/user-guide/qa-wait-updater.html. We are seeing two problems when there is an update pending:

1. When we run this code, sometimes (often on vista, sometimes on XP), the code runs through to the end while the ...

mhorowitz

In the 7.0.1 version of Advanced Installer you can try using the "Install new version first and then uninstall old version" option in the Upgrades page. Please note this works as expected only if the packages use the automated upgrade feature.

I gave this a try. It broke, but in a different way ...

mhorowitz

I am experiencing the problem described at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/905238 on Vista. I tried ordering RemoveExistingComponents after InstallFinalize, as suggested in that page as workaround method 2, but after doing an update, most of my product is gone; all that remains is updater.exe and ...

mhorowitz

Hi,

The docs do say that FilePath and RegistryKey are mutually exclusive, but the failure mode could be improved a lot (printing an error, instead of just silently doing something inscrutable).
If an error would be shown when the criteria is not met, the Updater would always show an error when ...

mhorowitz

I think I figured out the problem: I had a FilePath setting in the updates.txt file, and this was messing things up. The documentation on this is all very confusing. http://www.advancedinstaller.com/user-guide/updates-configuration-examples.html shows a "Common Configuration" which includes FilePath ...

mhorowitz

I'm trying to set up the updater, and everything is working, except that it always thinks there's an update to take. My updates.txt file has this:

[MixApp]
...
RegistryKey = HKLM\SOFTWARE\Square Products Corporation\MixApp\CurrentVersion
Version = 0.8.5

The registry key exists, and has the same ...

mhorowitz

When I create an installer and use it on my dev machine, it works great. When I install it on a more vanilla machine, the app fails to run (with the nice vague error message "This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix ...

mhorowitz

Oh, that's much better. Status output, too! I guess I didn't pay close enough attention to the docs, and since it more or less worked, I didn't realize it was my fault. Thanks!

mhorowitz

I am trying to set up a build using the AdvancedInstaller.exe /build ... command as a part of a script. It appears that this command starts the build, but exits more or less immediately and does not wait for it to complete.

If I run the build command at the command line and run dir *immediately ...

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