Installaware Vs Advanced Installer
Hi, For my application an instance of SQL Server Express 2014 needs to be installed. I use Installaware (runtimes) to install the SQL Server and my app on a Windows OS. Before installation Installaware checks if the name of the instance is already installed on the system. If not, it will be installed as a pre-requisite. As the installation of the pre-requisite (SQL Server) is done silently, there is no info about the progress. If for some reason the installation fails the PC of my customer has a partly installed SQL Server with all issues that go with that.
If installation fails it's mostly because there is already another instance of SQL Server running. This might lock certain files or it requires to install SQL Server as an update in stead of a full installation (if installed version is older then 2014). But even if there is no previous installation of SQL Server it still might give issues, like: So I'm looking for a way to smooth the installation for my customers. Jab Comix Ay Papi 17 Download. Can anyboby help me with setting things up in Installaware (add certain checks to script) or give any tips? All pre-requisites for SQL Server 2014 were installed. I currently don't have access to such logfile as this is on the customer's computer. Maybe next time when I do an install for a new customer.
After a failed installation, I tried to install it manually, and in that case the install freezes at installing the SQL Server Browser. I then uninstalled SQL Server completely, deleted all SQL Server entries from the registry, restarted the PC and then installed SQL Server manually again. Then it worked.
Removing and especially deleting registry entries takes a lot of time, so I don't want to do that. Therefore I want to solve the problem at the root.
Jun 27, 2015 InstallShield vs. Advanced Installer Head-to-Head. Advanced Installer support notified me that this currently. I think InstallAware has some.
I'm currently doing some investigation on moving off of the installation package we currently use (Wise Installer 9) and moving to something that will handle things like Windows Vista, Windows 7 and 64-bit systems. Localization of the installers would be of benefit since we do have a number of French Canadian clients as well. We currently have installations for software packages and utilities in the following technologies: • Progress 4GL • Visual Studio 2005 • Visual Studio 2008 •.NET Compact Framework 3.5 I've already looked at and, and also the for the old Wise system. I haven't played with InstallShield much at all yet, but from everything I've seen/installed it seems to be one of the industry favourites. I've browsed through some of the Stack Overflow tags relating to and I'm curious to see what the group says about it. Do I just by default go to them?
How good is WiX at non.NET stuff? How good is WiX at non.NET stuff? WiX has support for all features by design. Windows installer predates.NET.
Personally I prefer WiX over InstallShield because • the XML text format allows review of commits, merging of changes between branches • build automation should include setup generation, which is easy with WiX • wixlib files with component group definitions allow for modular setup development. No need to worry about the dependencies of the dependencies, etc. • no licensing or deployment headaches, we simply include the WiX toolset in a /tools folder of our projects in When we used InstallShield, these were all pain points. WiX does have a very steep learning curve though.
I haven't used InstallShield in a few years. At my last job we moved away from it to NSIS mainly because its binary format made version control difficult, and because a few times the source file simply became corrupted, with no hope for recovery. That might have been related to of course!
On top of that though, it was needlessly complicated. Don't get me wrong - we were doing some reasonably complicated installers, with lots of conditional paths, merge modules, and sophisticated UIs, but even for that it was far, far too complex. NSIS has a great plugin system, and you can program it imperatively using the, have generated, and lots of other things besides.
I inherited a handful of InstallShield (v12) projects. The files are all text/XML and thus there are no version control issues. We have a build machine that uses their command line tools, which works well. What I don't like is (a) the cost per developer seat and (b) bugs.
Inno Setup is very capable/flexible and there are generally multiple ways to accomplish a goal, which led to a steep learning curve. We are several versions behind their latest version (due to their upgrade cost structure). Because our products run on Widows, if we have to switch I might first research Microsoft's installer solution that comes with a MSDN subscription.