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3. July 2008

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InstallShield 2009 SP1 released

Acresso Software has released SP1 for InstallShield 2009 in a bid to support Windows Installer 4.5 (full version) with the product. InstallShield 2009 sans SP1 only supports the beta version of Windows Installer 4.5. In addition to above, Acresso has also released an updated version of Standalone Build and InstallShield MSI Tools (MSI Diff and MSI Query). As [...]

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23. June 2008

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Windows Installer 4.5 Released!

Microsoft has finally released the long awaited version of Windows Installer 4.5 that will support pre-vista Operating systems such as Windows XP and Windows 2003. In addition to features packed in MSI 4.0, MSI 4.5 also includes the following enhancements - Multiple Package Transaction Embedded UI Handler Update Supersedence resiliency Shared Component Patching resiliency during uninstall Custom Action execution on [...]

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23. June 2008

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InstallShield 2009 Released!!!

Acresso Software has announced the release of their latest version of Windows Setup Authoring tool InstallShield 2009. InstallShield 2009 includes beta support for Windows Installer 4.5 and many of it’s new features are directly related to new features in MSI 4.5 e.g. Managed Code Custom Action support, Installation Chaining, and Installing Multiple Product instances. In addition [...]

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4. June 2008

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Setting MSI Properties via vbscript Custom Actions

How to Set/Get a property via a VBScript Custom Action? You can either use the Session object or simply use the ‘Property’ keyword to set a property via  a vbscript custom action: e.g Session.Property(”ARPNOCOMPONENT”)=”1″ Property(”REINSTALL”)=”ALL” To get the value of a property, you can use the following e.g. dim myvar myvar = Property(”INSTALLDIR”) MsgBox(myvar)   How to Set ‘INSTALLDIR’ property via a VBScript CA? You will not [...]

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1. May 2008

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ClickOnce Versus Windows Installer

ClickOnce is a new deployment technology created by Microsoft to ease the deployment of applications over the web. This new deployment technology was first unleashed in 2004 and has quite a fan following. ClickOnce was first shipped with .Net Framework 2.0 and has close integration with .Net applications. Windows Installer Service is a system level component [...]

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1. May 2008

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MSDN Webcast: Adding ClickOnce Deployment to Visual Basic Applications

The Visual Basic 2005 team put out a hands on Web session on Deploying a Visual Basic Application with ClickOnce Technology. The session consisted of creating a sample Visual Basic Application, creating a deployment project for ClickOnce in Visual Studio to deploy this application and finally hosting it for download via IIS. The session concluded [...]

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28. April 2008

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Vmware Acquires Thinstall

Vmware acquires San Fransisco based Thinstall Inc, a software company that specialises in Application Virtualization. For more information visit www.thinstall.com.

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3. May 2007

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New Properties in MSI 4.0, closely tied to Windows Vista & Longhorn

Microsoft has released Windows Installer Service 4.0 with Windows Vista. This new version of msi engine introduces some new properties which are exclusively available to msi based installations targeted for Windows Vista & Longhorn. MSIARPSETTINGSIDENTIFIER - The MSIARPSETTINGSIDENTIFIER property contains a semi-colon delimited list of the registry locations where the application stores a user’s settings [...]

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8. April 2007

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Is your Repackaged msi Foul-Proof?

The art of converting legacy installation into a windows installer package is known to many and accepting the Vendor Repackaging tool’s output, a standard practice. While we create an msi package through the reverse engineering process of Repackaging, we are often content with making sure the application works and passes the User Acceptance test. But [...]

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19. March 2007

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How to Create Application Catalog in AdminStudio 8.x?

Starting with AdminStudio 8.0, Macrovision has droped Access Database support for creating application catalog. The default application catalog in AdminStudio 8.0 is SQL Server. If you don’t have access to SQL Server, AdminStudio allows you to install SQL Server 2005 Express edition & creates the Application Catalog for you. When you launch AdminStudio 8.0 for the [...]

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