A Word About Seemingly Hung COM Extraction Processes

COM extraction was originally created to be a tool for populating Windows Installer COM/registry table data without having to manually determine and populate data by hand from a given COM server. Over the years since COM extraction was first provided, InstallShield has updated COM extraction functionality to provide more accurate extraction and useful functionality. A few customer reports of COM extraction hanging during build (IsRegSpy.exe does …

July 9, 2013 Josh Stechnij

Introducing the Installer Cheat Sheet Series

Cheat sheets serve as great references, offering fast help in different areas of life. A great resource for our development team has been http://www.cheat-sheets.org/, which covers most major programming languages. Recently, the Revenera team took the opportunity to develop cheat sheets for a few software installer related tasks to help you get your job done better and faster. Below are topics of the cheat sheets we will share with you throughout…

April 11, 2013 Revenera

InstallShield 2012 Spring Service Pack 1 is Now Available!

Revenera released Service Pack 1 for InstallShield 2012 Spring on Thursday, September 13. InstallShield 2012 Spring Service Pack 1 includes changes that offer support for the final released versions of Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012, as well as: Support for Sideloading Windows Store Applications through Suite Projects– InstallShield 2012 Spring Premier now lets you sideload enterprise Windows 8 .appx packages through Suite projects, enabling …

September 18, 2012 Revenera

Validating User Input in a Suite Project

Just as sometimes you want to let your users configure the software, sometimes you need to limit the choices they can make. Maybe you’re checking if they’re up too late by asking them to solve a trivial arithmetic problem. Or maybe it’s a matter of allowing them to continue only if they have a valid serial number. In this article, I’ll show how to do the first in a custom wizard page, using a custom DLL I create with Micro…

March 7, 2012 Michael Urman