Also make sure you request the cert from the provider using Windows XP, not Vista - if using Vista you wont be prompted to save the private key file, instead its stored somewhere in the registry and you cant export it. If its too late then reissues are usually free. Once you have the .pvk and .spc f...

Ive had maintenance since June last year, but never get any emails on new releases or anything - are announcements only made through the forums?

Dave.

There is some nice support coming in VS2008 SP1 for only downloading and installing partial .NET frameworks, say stuff to support a WinForms app but would leave out ASP.Net related files.
When does InstallAware intend to support this scenario?

TIA
Dave

We specifically moved to IA for this type of deployment. Writing pre-reqs in IA is far simpler than any other product IMHO. Ive been through Wise and IS over the last 7 years and our deployment today is a lot easier to maintain than it has ever been. The ease at which you can reuse pre-reqs is also ...

Will InstallAware be updating the .NET 2.0 runtime installer to also include SP1?

TIA
Dave

I got the invoice and serial generator emails OK so I assume my email address was fine, can you please add me to the appropriate list...

Cheers
Dave

Candice,
How do you notify customers of a new version, we purchased Studio Admin with maintenance at the end of last month and I only learnt of V7 by accident...

Think I've just worked out that you shouldnt do this!
The new .mia when running in the installer still refers to elements of the 'copied' .mia file.
Creating everything from scratch resolved my issue of seeing duplicates in the $PRELIST$ var.

Cheers
Dave

Is there any cleanup I would have to do when copying 1 project to create a new one. I have updated product GUIDS etc but I have very strange behaviour occuring with prereqs where the $PRELIST$ variable keeps displaying multiples of the same string. Even when stepping over this code in the debugger i...

When I do a build it would be nice to have it output to a directory with the version number in the path - Something like this

"#PROJDIR#\\Release\\#VERSION#\\"

Is this possible?

TIA
Dave

Update: The ComponentId I was looking for is related to Office 2003. {3EC1EAE0-A256-411D-B00B-016CA8376078} If you strip the braces and reverse the first 3 groups it turns out this ends up in the registry here: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Installer\\UserData\\S-...

Im currently eveluating IA and the first issue I hit is there doesnt seem to be a simple way of checking on the existence of a ComponentId from a 3rd party MSI. I use the Complocator and AppSearch tables at the moment in IS.
Unless there is a way to do this via the registry???

TIA
Dave

How do you do a componentid check for an already installed file. In the way that you would with the appsearch and complocator tables when using IS/Wise?

TIA
Dave