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Is there any solution to this? I want to install .net framework 1.1 but I am afraid as usual it messes up the windows start up. Can anyone help me please?
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I extended your script with .net framework 1.1/2.0/3.5, windows installer 3.1, 2.0 and much more.
Just wanted to thank you and leave this link to my article.
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I just "discovered" InnoSetup, ISTool, and this very useful tool, that lets me deliver in half an hour a professional installer for a .NET application I developed in the last week.
I didn't try the installer at all, except that from my computer. My hardware is of course a development machine and it has everything installed of course, so this setup does none of course. I hope to have some poorly equipped machines in the next hours to make some deeper test.
What are the steps to make the same job, in case of a computer which is not connected to the internet or in the case it cannot access to the internet throught a large band connection? I would like to deliver an installation in a quick-and-dirty CD-ROM, that should include all the needed packages.
In such case:
1- I could save about the Download DLL dependency (although I would like to use also it, in order to detect some important information or last minute notes I could give from some page in my websites)
2- I should include the "downloaded" packages as quiet installation setup files
3- I would detach from an important weakness, i.e. the Microsoft bizarre change of package URLs. Such changes determine the failure of the some downloads and maybe the failure of the entire process (I'm not sure of that, because I need to make any test).
Marco Tenuti - www.tencas.com
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If I understand you correctly, the dependency installers simply need to be placed in a "dependencies" folder (which is mentioned in the article). The script will check that folder before attempting to download them from the internet.
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I got unknown identifier for "InstShellExec" and "InstExec".
What is wrong?
Thanks
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Replace them with ShellExec
More specifically, this is how the code I'm using looks now:
if FileExists(iePath) then begin
MsgBox('Internet Explorer 5 (or later) must be installed manually before Setup can continue.' #13#13 'Setup will now exit and begin the IE 6 installation.', mbInformation, MB_OK);
ShellExec('open', iePath, '', '', SW_SHOW, ewNoWait, nRet);
end else begin
if MsgBox('Internet Explorer 5 (or later) must be installed manually before Setup can continue.' #13#13 'Would you like to visit the download site now?', mbConfirmation, MB_OKCANCEL) = IDOK then
ShellExec('open', 'http://www.microsoft.com/ie', '', '', SW_SHOW, ewNoWait, nRet);
end;
The Inno guys changed the name.
Cheers.
-- modified at 23:07 Sunday 13th August, 2006
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Apparenlty MS likes to change the URL's for their download's periodically. This means that some of the URL's in the script don't work anymore. You should either update them, or for future compatibility, move the files to a server you operate.
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Hi Ted,
Thank you for sharing such tremendously useful code. It has saved me untold hours of frustration dealing with Jet-MDAC-.Net interdependencies! The only URL that is out of date is Jet since Microsoft released SP8. Here are the updated sections for anyone who uses it:
In the "const" section change the download URL:
jetURL = 'http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/3/9/4393c9ac-e69e-458d-9f6d-2fe191c51469/Jet40SP8_9xNT.exe';
Replace this section to update the file name:
// Check for required Jet installation
// Jet is not included in MDAC 2.5+. It will be needed on NT4 installations.
if (not exclusiveNeeded) and (not RegKeyExists(HKLM, 'Software\Microsoft\Jet\4.0')) then begin
memoDependenciesNeeded := memoDependenciesNeeded + ' Jet 4.0 Database Components' #13;
jetPath := ExtractFileDrive(ExpandConstant('{src}')) + '\dependencies\Jet40SP8_9xNT.exe';
if not FileExists(jetPath) then begin
jetPath := ExpandConstant('{tmp}\Jet40SP8_9xNT.exe');
if not FileExists(jetPath) then begin
isxdl_AddFile(jetURL, jetPath);
downloadNeeded := true;
end;
end;
SetIniString('install', 'jet', jetPath, ExpandConstant('{tmp}\dep.ini'));
end;
-- modified at 5:06 Friday 25th August, 2006
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First wanted to say thanks very much for your contribution, it's really useful.
I was thinking of modifying it work with .NET 2.0 and XP only which would simplify a bit a drop the IE requirement.
If you've done any more recent work on this please post back.
Regards -
ecards
modified on Sunday, August 24, 2008 12:20 PM
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No I haven't, but if you do come up with a port, please post it. I might switch to .NET 2.0/VS.NET 2005 in the future, but ATM I have no reason to.
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Just check the registry for v2.0 :
[Code]
function InitializeSetup(): Boolean;
var
ErrorCode: Integer;
NetFrameWorkInstalled : Boolean;
Result1 : Boolean;
begin
NetFrameWorkInstalled := RegKeyExists(HKLM,'SOFTWARE\Microsoft\.NETFramework\policy\v2.0');
if NetFrameWorkInstalled =true then
begin
Result := true;
end;
if NetFrameWorkInstalled =false then
begin
Result1 := MsgBox('This setup requires the .NET Framework v2.0. Please download and install the .NET Framework v2.0 and run this setup again. Do you want to download the framwork now?',
mbConfirmation, MB_YESNO) = idYes;
if Result1 =false then
begin
Result:=false;
end
else
begin
Result:=false;
ShellExec('open', 'http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/a/c/aac39226-8825-44ce-90e3-bf8203e74006/dotnetfx.exe','','',SW_SHOWNORMAL,ewNoWait,ErrorCode);
end;
end;
end;
Good luck!
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Hi,
I think there is an error in the script:
RegQueryStringValue(HKLM, 'Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer', 'Version', sRet);
if downloadNeeded and (sRet < '3') then begin
Doesn't this check that IE 3 is installed rather than IE6?
IE 6 is required for .NET AFAIK.
Please let me know how to fix this. I presume you can't just change the 3 to a 6 because the value it's reading is not an integer - it's a version number like 6.0.2900.2180.
Thanks,
Nick...
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Hi,
That part of the script deals isxdl being unable to download files. It needs IE3 or later installed, and yes, I have an NT4 CD that ships with IE2.
About the version string: I'm not a pascal programmer, but I'll try to answer your question. Either pascal treats the string as a number, ending at the first or second decimal, or it does a string comparison on the 3 and 6, for example. EG, "a" < "b" because a is lower than b in the ascii character table.
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But .NET requires IE6, so why not check they have that as well? I don't really understand why it only checks for IE3, since if IE6 isn't installed then .NET won't work.
Nick...
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It does check for IE6. If anything less than IE5 is installed, it installs 6. It says so in the article, but here's the relevant part in the script:
// Check for required IE installation
// Note that if IE 6 is downloaded, the express setup will be downloaded, however it is the same
// ie6setup.exe that would be available in the ie6full folder. The only difference is that the
// user will be presented with an option as to where to download IE 6 and a progress dialog.
// Most common components will still be installed automatically.
sRet := '';
RegQueryStringValue(HKLM, 'Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer', 'Version', sRet);
if (not exclusiveNeeded) and (sRet < '5') then begin
exclusiveNeeded := true;
MsgBox('Internet Explorer 6 must be installed before Setup can install the application. Setup will attempt to install IE 6 for you. After the computer reboots, please run Setup again.', mbInformation, MB_OK);
memoDependenciesNeeded := memoDependenciesNeeded + ' Internet Explorer 6' #13;
iePath := ExtractFileDrive(ExpandConstant('{src}')) + '\dependencies\ie6full\ie6setup.exe';
if not FileExists(iePath) then begin
iePath := ExpandConstant('{tmp}\ie6setup.exe');
if not FileExists(iePath) then begin
isxdl_AddFile(ieURL, iePath);
downloadNeeded := true;
end;
end;
SetIniString('install', 'ie', iePath, ExpandConstant('{tmp}\dep.ini'));
end;
Also, .NET 1.1 only requires IE 5. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnnetdep/html/NETFx1Redistreq1_1.asp
-- modified at 12:50 Thursday 27th April, 2006
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Microsoft's articles KB164539 and KB969393 shows that IE3 version is 4.70.1155, but anyway the "Version" value in that registry key only exists on IE4 and later.
modified on Thursday, May 14, 2009 2:50 PM
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Hi,
first of all an absoulutely thanks to you for this tool!!!
It seems to me, that the new edition of ISTools brings some problems:
InstExec() is no longer available
InstShellExec is also no longer available
and SkipCurPage must be chaged to ShouldSkipPage!
this was the only thing I could change succesfully!
Does anyone know how to fix the rest of it, listed below?
Or has somebody still got the old Versions files?
thanks!
Michi
if FileExists(iePath) then begin
MsgBox('Internet Explorer 5 (or later) must be installed manually before Setup can continue.' #13#13 'Setup will now exit and begin the IE 5 installation.', mbInformation, MB_OK);
InstExec(iePath, '', '', false, false, 0, nRet);
end else begin
if MsgBox('Internet Explorer 5 (or later) must be installed manually before Setup can continue.' #13#13 'Would you like to visit the download site now?', mbConfirmation, MB_OKCANCEL) = IDOK then
InstShellExec('http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/recommended/ie501sp2/default.asp', '', '', SW_SHOWNORMAL, nRet);
end;
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Here's what I did, didnt test it but compiles
if FileExists(iePath) then begin
MsgBox('Internet Explorer 5 (or later) must be installed manually before Setup can continue.' #13#13 'Setup will now exit and begin the IE 6 installation.', mbInformation, MB_OK);
Exec(iePath, '', '', SW_SHOWNORMAL, ewNoWait, nRet);
end else begin
if MsgBox('Internet Explorer 5 (or later) must be installed manually before Setup can continue.' #13#13 'Would you like to visit the download site now?', mbConfirmation, MB_OKCANCEL) = IDOK then
ShellExec('open', 'http://www.microsoft.com/ie', '', '', SW_SHOWNORMAL, ewNoWait, nRet);
end;
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I've been looking for something like this for a while now. I also want to check for the existence of JRE so I will attempt to tweak the script and see if I can get that going as well.
.:. Keno .:.
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Hi
The .NET Framework 1.1 requires only MDAC 2.6 and not MDAC 2.8.
How can i find the exact path to download it from the internet?
Also id the only change in the code I have to do is in line 118:
if (not exclusiveNeeded) and (sRet < '2.6') then begin
Instead:
if (not exclusiveNeeded) and (sRet < '2.6') then begin
(Beside of course the path change)
Thanks,
Naor
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Didn't work in my Win98SE-Ger VM. Here are the changes I made to fix it:
Line 75:
if RegQueryStringValue(HKLM, 'Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion', 'CurrentVersion', sRet) then begin
Line 89:
Insert an end;
and Change the IE Version-Check around Line 100 from
if (not exclusiveNeeded) and (sRet < '5') then begin
to
if (not exclusiveNeeded) and (sRet < '5.01') then begin
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Actually, the IE Version-Check you mention only needs to make sure the IE version is 3 or superior, in order to allow the setup to download the installers.
Microsoft's articles KB164539 and KB969393 shows that IE3 version is 4.70.1155, but anyway the "Version" value in that registry key only exists on IE4 and later.
modified on Thursday, May 14, 2009 2:54 PM
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New to this. The first line is:
#include "C:\Program Files\ISTool 4\isxdl.iss"
pray tell where is that file? It's not in the download.
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It's from other great tool for InnoSetup, ISTool
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I installed ISTool but still can't find isxdl.iss file ...
Does anyone knows where it is exactly ?
Thanks for the post, seems to be really good 
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I'm sorry, I wasn't clear. From www.istool.org you need to download "ISX Download Dll". It's important, because that article uses it. After installation you will find the isxdl.iss.
Yes, the post is great, I'm gonna use it to prepare installation of my project. Thank you, Ted!
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The ISTool link is broken - can anyone post this or email it to aaronmurray_at_msn.com ?
Thanks!
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An innosetup install script that detects which dependencies to download from Microsoft, dowloads and installs them with little user intervention.
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| First Posted | 22 May 2004 |
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