I don't think so, how would I know if I used the native engine? Still confused on that concept. I know there are two engines but not sure which is which and how to know if you are invoking Native Engine.

Thanks!

Yes, so when we run the uninstall from add/remove programs, the uninstall part of installaware finishes without errors. But the icon remains in add/remove programs and must be removed again, when I did that, Windows generates an error to the effect "the uninstall was not clean, want me to remov...

I am having an issue with IA 18 where the uninstall would go smoothly but the icon is still present in the add/remove programs dialog in windows, and there are still references in the regedit to the program. Is there a check list of what needs to occur for a clean uninstall? One thing that is occuri...

I have IA 18 and would look to deploy SQL Compact v 3.5 to my project. I want to add these runtimes via the installaware installer/setup program. But it gives me a web deploy error. "Extraction of installation data downloaded from the web has failed. What would you like to do: 1) Download a fre...

I am generating an installer using IA 18, and I can't get services to stop/uninstall. Do I need to add code before/after Install/Remove MSI Package $PRODUCTCODE$ If so, my installer has several branches (component tree) and installs 3 different services depending on what the user selects. How can I ...

I solved this by re-working my wrapper program to handle output to a file - this now saves the encrypted password directly to the config file. Here is the encrypt class http://stackoverflow.com/questions/202011/encrypt-and-decrypt-a-string And here is my wrapper class attached. Also here is the inst...

I am installing a .NET program that has database credentials. I want to encrypt the password within the config file for obvious reasons. I don't see a great way to do this from installaware though. I have a dialog that gets the database information from the user, and that works just fine, populating...

Set Access to "Everyone" to that folder, and try again. I suspect that the Installation Process (Service) does not have access to the folder, to write or sth.. Try putting a rule for "Everyone" and allow everything and try again. Or if you don't want to create it for everyone ma...

Yes it works. Previously I had a batch file running the script. However since I am incorporating it into installaware I am passing IA variables. Therein lies the problem. Is it possible to view the SQL output through installaware, ie through a message box or maybe write to a log file? If there is no...

Yes this is very helpful. However, when I create the MSI code and test the installer, I just get the return status instead of the full dialog from SQLCMD. What I am trying to do is generate a database with specific parameters and attach ownership to a specific user. However, it doesn't work and I do...

Hi all,

For our installer we are making database modifications that require parameters, mainly the name of the database. So far i have this working with batch files calling SQLCMD. I can't figure out how to make the SQL script portion of IA to pass parameters.

Thanks

Rob