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AlejandroNehring
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Unable to compile MSI action install assembly

Post by AlejandroNehring »

Hi,

I just installed Installaware 10.10 Build Moya Beta.311210
If I try to compile my projects generated by the previous version InstallAware 10 Build Mooya.rtm.51110

I get the message "Error during build: Unable to compile MSI action install assembly".

What can I do ?
giaviv
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Re: Unable to compile MSI action install assembly

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Dear AlejandroNehring,

You will need to find the specific line this fails on.
This happens because you are installing a not strong named assembly to a custom path (or the GAC).
InstallAware is trying to read the assembly information from that assembly and fails with that message.
Find the problematic Install Assembly line by commenting out some of them.
When you figure it out, if its a Install Assembly to a custom path command just replace it with an Install Files command (which is equivalent with respect to non-GAC installation of assemblies).

Thanks!
Aviv Giladi
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AlejandroNehring
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Re: Unable to compile MSI action install assembly

Post by AlejandroNehring »

Thank you,
that worked fine.

Now I see, that the localization seems to work different in the actual version.
I changed some of the texts in the start screen (in shared.translations.German, shared.translations.english: "The InstallAware Wizard is verifying the contents of this setup package. This may take a moment.", because in the german translation there are too long to be displayed)
In the last version of InstallaWare 10 this worked (I changed the text, imported the translation to the project, after that I had to import the 'normal' translations again), in the actual version this does not work.
How to change these messages now ?
Is there a list in the help, what things are incompatible with the previous versions? All other updates did not cause incompatibility problems with earlier versions.
Thank you in advance
Ali
AlejandroNehring
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Re: Unable to compile MSI action install assembly

Post by AlejandroNehring »

OK, I just tried directly via Shared Strigns and succeded. Thanks again fpr your support
Ali
giaviv
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Re: Unable to compile MSI action install assembly

Post by giaviv »

Great! Have a good week.
Aviv Giladi
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