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To my great chagrin, I must use VBS to write an InstallShield 2010 LE custom action. I have no VBS experience so I'm basically putting together code snippets that I find. I need to get a hold of the Common Documents folder (CSIDL_COMMON_DOCUMENTS). It's not defined in WScript.Shell.SpecialFolders (although All Users Desktop is). I found some example code that tries to link to a system DLL: Private Declare Function SHGetFolderPath Lib "shfolder.dll" _ Alias "SHGetFolderPathA" _ (ByVal hwndOwner As Long, _ ByVal nFolder As Long, _ ByVal hToken As Long, _ ByVal dwReserved As Long, _ ByVal

I have InstallScript Project created with InstallShield X (Version 10.5) When I run mt.exe from Windows SDK v7.1A with the following manifest: MySetup.exe.manifest <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> <assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0"> <trustInfo xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v2"> <security> <requestedPrivileges> <requestedExecutionLevel level='requireAdministrator' uiAccess='false' /> </requestedPrivileges> </security> </trustInfo> </assembly> using the following command: # wrong file! MySetup.exe will be truncated! mt.exe

In an InstallShield project I have a VBScript custom action that conditionally needs to execute a certain file packaged with the install. Normally I get the current directory of a vbs using code such as sCurPath = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject").GetAbsolutePathName(".") Which, if it returned the location of the Setup.exe that initiated the install, should work. However when running the install, the current path (on XP) is C:\Windows\system32 instead of the location of the Setup.exe file I was expecting. Assuming the output of my InstallShield build looks like the following Disk1 -

I'm using InstallShield to install my application, a driver and a service. I need to install the plug-N-play driver only if it's hardware ID was found in the device manager. The driver installation is done using DPInst.exe. My problem, is that a user can sometimes manually uninstall the driver (After it was installed or even uninstall the "Unknown driver" under "Other devices" ) and then I can't find the hardware ID in the device tree, although the device is plugged. If I rescan the device tree during installation using CM_Reenumerate_DevNode_Ex (The code equivalent of "Scan for new hardware"

I have a requirement where I have to pass 3 parameters to the c# code for managed code custom action in installshield. Cant give the code. Please someone help me out even with basic way of doing so. Thanks in advance. Since you mention a custom action, refer to Specifying the Signature for a Managed Method in an Assembly Custom Action . Specify values, or properties that store the values, that you need to pass to the parameters in the function. Note that if this is a deferred custom action, you will need to pass them through CustomActionData as mentioned in the third paragraph "Using a Custom

We have around 8 different programs each with its own MSI / EXE installer. What is the best way to create a single installer that will give users a list of the 8 different programs and then based on the apps the user wants to install they will start the installer one by one. The installer can run and just launch the app installers one by one and don't need to automatically install all the apps behind the scenes. Thanks I'd use the free InnoSetup for that. It also comes with Pascal scripting and is able to "temporarily" install your MSIs into a temp folder and execute them. Some scripting may