I'm using SPC/PVK just fine on Windows 7 x64 to create/sign installations...both manually through IA, and from our build automation program.

I packaged my own of the latest download available from Microsoft, because it supports both in one without doubling the file size. Just an idea. Basically, take the latest install file from microsoft, package it into your own 7z file. Add that 7z file to your installer as one of the WEB MEDIA blocks...

I have this problem on Windows XP x64 (my previous build machine), and have it on my current Windows 7 64bit box. On each box, I had/have latest (sometimes even trying beta) drivers hoping to get it to go away. It's more of an annoyance than anything, as I've figured out ways to work around it for n...

We still have problems with this, even though I took the same approach you did. I have an additional step as well, and that's to use MsiZap to forcefully uninstall the "bad" version/installs of MSXML6 and let SQL install it itself. However, there is more than one of these bad MSXML install...

Oh, you could have just used "Check File Version" on the cmd.exe or something system like that as well, just another thought as another way to do it if you have a single easy check like that.

I took the easy, lengthy, but overly verbose route of using a massive nested if checking highest to lowest. Once the very first condition is met, you know that's the OS they are on. Example: Declare all your variables, "ISWINDOWS7", "ISWIN2008", "ISVISTA", "ISXP&qu...

Very true, it's up to the T-SQL you write. Just remember, you can issue T-SQL commands to remote SQL servers, but that machine may not have the database to restore/attach physically available (i.e. running install from current machine point to remote SQL server)...so for this reason, we create the d...

I was unaware it was possible to change the tab order on the installer message box system. I suppose I could make my own form to mimic the message box and do that as a temporary work around...but for now, I'm just using the MessageBox built in.

Personally, I've included the latest Crystal Runtime (2008 SP2) into my setup and install it myself if needed. Works great on EVERY OS, 7 included. If that's an option for you, I say try it.

Is it possible currently (and if not would it be possible in the future) to get the ability to set the default button on a message box when it's displayed? This is a very useful feature in terms of helping a customer select the right option by defaulting them to the logically correct button in cases...

Just because you can run a 32-bit .NET application on a 64-bit OS has nothing to do with installing the native 32-bit only .NET Framework. It has to do with the fact that the 64-bit install of the .NET Framework puts both on for you, correctly, using SxS (side-by-side) and correct registry entries a...

I've done a bit of investigation from this end, and it really hosed it bad. It truncated some 25k+ from the project (.mia) file itself starting somewhere near the end of the MSI code, so it removed all the GUIDs, the details of the shortened MSI, the comments, etc. There is absolutely no way to reco...

I just got this error this afternoon while working in the MSIcode as well. I can no longer open my project at all. Oh, and of course, my backup is a few days old...sigh. I was inserting commands, copying/pasting commands, and all of a sudden I started getting a weird error saying something about &qu...

Sure. IA9 has built in capability for 7zip compressed files, and so therefore from within MSIcode I can extract a specific compressed 7zip file. I'm not sure if IA8 (your version) has this or not...you could get around it though if not I'd guess. I 7zip'd it for ease of redistribution and inclusion ...

Not sure if you ever figured this out or not, but since I searched, and had the same hassle of "how do I end up with those two required files when I only have a PFX"...here's some input from me. Useful site - http://www.matthew-jones.com/articles/codesigning.html First, I had to get the ce...