I am working on completing an installation package, which will be able to do silent web updates. I am using the Sql Server Instance detection plugin. Whereas all the other variables set to persistant maintain their state between runs, the Sql variables (as returned from the Sql Server Instance plugi...

Michael - thanks for your response. The issue happened with my one of my testers. He said he was running the installer on a Windows XP machine. The SQL Server is on a different machine. He received the same error message as described in the original post, and the line number cooresponded with the Sq...

Please don't bump unless you have additional information which may help in the identification and resolution of the problem. Thanks :) Michael - I was bumping because perhaps someone else who hasn't posted has solved the issue. And, I have read in other threads that you had a solution for this issu...

Bump again. A beta-tester of mine had the same issue - running on an XP machine, however. But, the error corresponded with the Sql Server detection plugin.

Michael - I distributed my setup program to a few testers.

One of them reported the same error - and it corresponds to the sql server detection plug in.

What's the fix for this?

Thanks.

Thank you for this post.

I was having a problem getting the connection to work on a client computer, and forcing Port 1433 as you described solved it.

I was having the same problem a few days ago. The installer for the plug-in is somewhat buggy. Here's what I did to get it going: Completely uninstall the EditFile plugin via the control panel. Download the latest version via the link above. Close ALL windows. Run the installer. That did it for me -...

Hello. I'm very new to Installaware, but am working on my first installation project. I need to query a SQL Server database for a specific information which will be used in the install. It's simply a path name contained in a table. I have every other aspect of the install program ready to go except ...