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[vtx]

Hi all,

Sorry im being newbie at this, i tried out installshield pro. Created a basic msi project. I want to package some exe files to msi. But when i built the msi after adding the files, and tried running it. It just installs as a shortcut to the msi file. Is there anyway i can invoke the installation to start once i doubleclick the msi file?

Thanks in advance for any help

[vijayakumar]

[vtx]

ok let me rephrase this. I have these application files,

EraserSetup32.exe
EraserSetup32.msi
EraserSetup32.res
mia.lib

I wanna package all of them up into a MSI file using installshield 2009, so i can push it down to a pc and install it silently. Somehow it only creates a directory when the packaged msi runs. I want to invoke the erasersetup32.exe directly. Can this be done? or i have to seperately use a batch file to start that erasersetup32.exe?

Thanks again

[N Thomas]

I am not sure if you are using any of the deployement methods or just installing the package manually.And not clear when you want erasersetup32.exe to be invoked.If you want it to be invoked at the end of installation, then write a Custom Action to execute this exe.But if you are not comfortable with this, just add a run key in the package.

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
"Runerasersetup32" = "<Path where erasersetup32.exe will get installed to>"

This will make erasersetup32.exe to be invoked each time the user logs in to the machine.

[vtx]

Hi, thanks for the reply.

I actually want to deploy the msi out using IBM tivoli provisioning manager. Hence i need to invoke the setup.exe file once i push out the msi package. In another words, i want the msi package to launch the setup file immediately after execution. Can this be done?

[vijayakumar]