Moving over from Installshield...maybe...
Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 6:40 am
Hi guys,
I have a reasonable complex simple MSI installer that I have imported into Installaware. There are few questions I need help with.
- I have several upgrade codes for older versions of our product. Our new Installaware installer must be able to upgrade the old versions even though they were written with Installshield, how do I do this, they didn't come across with the import? I need to add all of the old upgrade GUIDS somewhere! (By the way, it needs to be a brute force upgrade, so basically I want it to detect the old GUID and just completely remove the whole install and instsall the new one).
- I need to create a small version (Silent install with only a progress bar) and a full install with dialogues...I assume I just untick the dialogues I don't want for the smaller installer? However with Installshield I could actually remove the dialogue images to make the small installer tiny, how?
- Custom actions, I have several, and it's easy to implement in Installshield but I cannot find where to do this in Installaware! I'm not a full time install op so I have to have something that is simple to use and understand. Using the simple MSI installer under Installshield it was easy for me to do this.
Thanks in advance!
T
I have a reasonable complex simple MSI installer that I have imported into Installaware. There are few questions I need help with.
- I have several upgrade codes for older versions of our product. Our new Installaware installer must be able to upgrade the old versions even though they were written with Installshield, how do I do this, they didn't come across with the import? I need to add all of the old upgrade GUIDS somewhere! (By the way, it needs to be a brute force upgrade, so basically I want it to detect the old GUID and just completely remove the whole install and instsall the new one).
- I need to create a small version (Silent install with only a progress bar) and a full install with dialogues...I assume I just untick the dialogues I don't want for the smaller installer? However with Installshield I could actually remove the dialogue images to make the small installer tiny, how?
- Custom actions, I have several, and it's easy to implement in Installshield but I cannot find where to do this in Installaware! I'm not a full time install op so I have to have something that is simple to use and understand. Using the simple MSI installer under Installshield it was easy for me to do this.
Thanks in advance!
T